An annual Saskatoon event featuring food and entertainment kicked off in Kiwanis Park on Tuesday.
The 22nd annual Taste of Saskatchewan features 30 restaurants, including five brand new to the festival.
“Each year for Taste of Saskatchewan we’ll actually drop our weakest performers,” Scott Ford, a coordinator of the festival, told CTV News.
“And we fill those openings from our waiting list we’ve gathered, and which restaurant we think will be a good fit for our program.”
Octopus meatballs, deep-fried Mars bars and s’mores donuts are some of the menu items that have made the cut this year.
During the six-day event there will be a chef competition, in which 14 Saskatoon chefs must create a dish with surprise Saskatchewan-produced ingredients.
“The head chef gives them a black box, so the chefs don’t even know what they’re cooking,” Ford explained.
The finalists will compete on Sunday, the last day of the festival, to decide who will take the Chef’s Series title.
