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27 Feb, 2024
WinterDine, A Celebration of Charlottetown’s Culinary Landscape, returned for its 19th year last month. Featuring twenty-six of Downtown Charlottetown’s distinguished fine dining restaurants, over three consecutive weeks. Participating restaurants offered three-course meals, exclusively curated for WinterDine by some of Charlottetown’s top culinary artisans. The ‘People’s Choice Menu Award’ , an online contest held during the event, allows the public to vote for their favorite WinterDine menu. The Chef’s Creation with the most votes receives the 2024 WinterDine People’s Choice Menu Award. 1st Place People’s Choice Menu: Claddagh Oyster House Chef Landon Thaxter created three different WinterDine Menus this year featuring entrees of Island beef and seafood. We are pleased to award Claddagh Oyster House’s fourth WinterDine People’s Choice Award this year, as they have also won in 2022, 2019, and 2018. 2nd Place People’s Choice Menu: Taste of India Charlottetown This year’s award goes to Taste of India, their first time wining a WinterDine People’s Choice Award. Chef Harry Singh created a unique menu this year featuring a Chef’s Tasting menu. We are excited to welcome Taste of India to the list of distinguished past winners. WinterDine Lunch People’s Choice Menu: Redwater Rustic Grille This is the first year, we hosted the WinterDine Lunch ‘People’s Choice Menu Award’ contest. We are pleased to announce that the inaugural award is presented to Chef Pepper McLean of Redwater Rustic Grille. Chef Pepper created not one but three different Winterdine Lunch Menu’s. Congratulations to the winners & thank you to all our participating restaurants.
13 Dec, 2023
For Immediate Release
By DCI 12 Oct, 2023
THANK YOU to all who Donate to our 2023 Coats for Kids Campaign! Charlottetown, PEI – The collection of gently used or new winter coats, (snowsuits, snow pants, hats, mittens, gloves, scarves and boots) for families is under way; infant through teen sizes are needed. Coats for Kids 2023 event is organized by Downtown Charlottetown Inc in partnership with The Salvation Army, The Confederation Court Mall who provides a Drop off Depot, Sterns Laundry who clean all the collected clothing and the Guardian – our Media partners. “Island Winters are long and cold, and there are many Island children who don’t have adequate winter clothing. We collect hundreds of coats each year and they are always all picked up, so we know the need is there, especially during pandemic times. The cold weather is quickly approaching so it’s important to get coats to families in need as soon as possible. Let’s fill up those bins in the drop off depot and make this winter a little warmer for Island children” Says Dawn Alan Executive Director of DCI. Donations can be dropped off until Saturday October 28th at our Drop off Depot in The Confederation Court Mall – at the base of the escalators on the main level. Depot is open Monday to Saturday 9am-5pm. Salvation Army will open the “Free Shop” on November 6 - 9th : 9:30am - 12pm & 1pm - 3pm . They welcome all families to come and pick out what they like from racks of clean winter coats and snow suits. There will also be lots of hats and mittens to choose from. If you have any questions about distribution, please contact the Salvation Army at 902-892-2281. “For an ever-increasing amount of island families, putting on a coat, let alone a choice is simply not an option. Their children may have outgrown or outworn their coat from last year and purchasing a new one is out of their budget. We are so THANKFUL to be a part of this opportunity to partner again this year for campaign and look forward to seeing everyone at our Free Shop Days”, says Justin Able from Family Services, Salvation Army Charlottetown. “Supporting Island kids in keeping warm during the coldest months is a tremendous cause Confederation Court Mall is honoured to support. Seeing the generosity of Islanders supporting Islanders in filling the bins is a beautiful thing, and we look forward to contributing to the continued success of the program” says Keri Charlton, General Manager, Confederation Court Mall We encourage local businesses and organizations to get involved and do an office wide collection to bring in to the drop off depot. For more information; Dawn Alan 902-368-8636
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