For the first time this summer, Kincardine will host a festival honouring a unique pairing of flavours.
The Municipality will welcome the Cheesecake and Taco Fest in June. The two-day event at Victoria Park is the creation of Kate Bonneville, an event planner out of Kitchener-Waterloo.
She said the odd-sounding idea has been well-received in other towns so far.
"I do a lot of different food festivals and I like to pair two things together," she told CKNXNewsToday.ca. "I was doing cheesecake festivals and people loved that, and I really wanted to try doing a taco festival, so I was like what if we do a cheesecake and taco combination? I told my mom this and she thought I was absolutely crazy, but I did it anyways and people just went nuts for it."
Bonneville, who originally studied psychology in university, found event planning through vendor markets organized on Facebook during the pandemic. Now she's overseeing expos all throughout Paris, Woodstock and the regions south of here.
But this summer, she's taking Cheesecake and Taco Fest to some new places, including to Bruce County.
"I try to go to places that have a lot of cottages, where a lot of different people vacation," she said. "Especially with doing seven of the Cheesecake and Taco Fests this year, I had to expand out of my usual area that I do so I was looking for some venues that were a bit further away."
The festival will also go to Fergus in July and Collingwood in August.
Bonneville is familiar with Kincardine, having organized an indoor Christmas Market there in November. As for what attendees can expect at this event, she says there will be a lot of great options.
"We have all different types of cheesecakes and tacos, everything and anything that you can imagine. There will be a margarita bar, we'll have a kids zone, live music, there's always a large vendor market with different artisans you can shop with," said Bonneville. "We'll have different activities and performances and the first 30 people each day get free swag bags."
The festival runs June 13 and 14 at Victoria Park. Children ages 12 and under get in free, and admission is $5 for everyone else.
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