Driven to discover more tasty rural eats

Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 18/05/2019 (2644 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Last summer, my Arts & Life colleague Erin Lebar and I embarked on a dream assignment: exploring the food scene in rural Manitoba.

For three days we hit the road, wandering our way from the city.

We drove a lot and we ate even more. Kielke with schmaundt fat gravy in Plum Coulee. High tea in Rosenort. Pickerel in Gimli. Mordenite Perogy Soup in, um, Morden. And we both still dream about that banana cream pie in Beausejour.

We published the story on the August long weekend. And you ate it up.

We could not believe the response to this story, nor the deluge of rural recommendations that flooded our inbox afterwards.

In fact, you loved it so much, we’re doing it again.

As with last year, we’re enlisting your help. Tell us about your favourite drive-ins, diners, food trucks, coffee shops and bakeries in small-town (or small-city) Manitoba. What places are worthy of pullovers and pilgrimages? What are the flavours that evoke summertime Prairie drives under wide-open skies, the meals you can taste before you even get there?

Email us your picks and tell us what (or who) makes them so special, and they may be featured in the print story as well as on our podcast, Bury the Lede. You can reach us at the email addresses below, or at burythelede@freepress.mb.ca.

Rural Eats 2: The Belt Buster. Coming this summer.

erin.lebar@freepress.mb.ca

jen.zoratti@freepress.mb.ca