Soup’er tasting TLC fund raiser

WINCHESTER – Twenty-four restaurants from across the region, including many of last year’s winners, will be back for the second annual Soupfest, Mar., 6 at the Winchester Community Centre.

TLC Soupfest challenges area restaurants to prepare from scratch soup for judging in three categories; Best Soup, Best Creative Soup and Best Presentation. The winners in each category are awarded a soup spoon plaque. Second and third placed winners receive a framed certificate.

The soups will be judged by celebrity judges and the public.

Among the celebrity judges, TLC (True Love in Christ Ministries) has recruited Pam Collacott, teacher and director of Trillium Cooking School, and a regular on CTV Ottawa, and Michael Dunn, former chef for the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

At last year’s inaugural event, The Village Antiques & Tea Room’s soup was selected best entry in the people’s choice category and won for best display. The celebrity judges’ award for best soup went to Sandy Row Restaurant and Golf Club and The Branch Restaurant in Kemptville won for best creative soup.

Ninety people attended the inaugural event to taste the soups, and nearly $1,000 was raised to assist TLC Ministries with its community work in Mexico.

Tickets, which give people the chance to taste 24 soups are $10 per adult, $8 per senior and $5 per child. For more information contact Lynn Ford at 613-989-3042.