New Foods
K-Days New Foods Contest
Date: Friday, July 19
Judging: noon – 1:30 p.m. (Midway Grounds) Thank you to our judges!
Winners announcement: 1:30 – 2 p.m. (Tim Hortons North Stage)
New Foods Map: map (PDF)
Congratulations to our top 3 new midway winners!
1st place: Butterbeer Soft Serve (Summerland Soft Serve)
2nd place: Dragon’s Breath Ice Cream (Dragon’s Breath)
3rd Place: Pizza Perogies (International Perogies)
For many people, the best thing about K-Days is the food! Featuring your choice of gourmet delights, beloved comfort foods and exciting new culinary innovations, it’s impossible to leave the fair hungry. Stay tuned for K-Days new foods! There’s going to be something for everyone on the Midway—from the traditional to the extraordinary to a few items you’ll have to be dared to try.
Get ready for food overload because the list of this year’s K-Days New Foods items are here! Take a look at the exciting new items vendors are offering and the ones you just gotta try!
K-Days New Foods:
Artisan Mini Donuts
The King
Fresh and hot Mini Donuts topped with banana pie filling, banana chips, a peanut butter glaze and real chopped bacon!! This is seriously amazing!!
Corndog King
Cheesy Ramen Corndog
Summerland Soft Serve
Butterbeer Soft Serve
The Peanut Butter Cupbard
Giant REESE Cake Pops
Giant REESE Cake Pops are no ordinary deep-fried dessert. We start with REESE cups that are double their normal size, load them with extra chocolate and chopped peanuts, dip them in strawberry cake batter and deep fry them to ooey, gooey, golden perfection. Nothing else is REESE.
REESE Peanut Butter Cup Trademark and trade dress are used under license.
Cheese Curds + Mr. Vegetable
Beer Battered Buffalo Style Cheese Curds
We’ve taken our classic Canadian cheese curds and kicked it up a few notches! Dipped in our own homemade beer batter, fried to golden crispy perfection and tossed in our secret buffalo sauce. Served with a side dip of ranch or blue cheese, this new fair special is sure to be a crowd pleaser!
International Perogies
Pizza Perogies
These mini perogies are topped with juicy sliced double smoked sausage, sautéed onions and drizzled with our zesty marinara sauce. All finished with shredded marble cheese, a sprinkle of parmesan & good ol’ Italian herbs, and as always a side of sour cream.
Wiggle Chips
The Chana
Crispy taters topped with sliced chicken tossed in homemade chana masala sauce, green chili, diced tomatoes, chickpeas, and sliced onions, garnished with fresh coriander and fresh ginger.
Big Coco's
Snickle Dog
Do you love hot dogs and pickles? How about with an added Snickers bar, wrapped in a tortilla and deep-fried to golden brown? It’s hot, it’s crispy and it’s oozing with chocolatey goodness.
Drink a Fruit
Coconut Avocado Ice Cream
Dragon's Breath
Dragon's Breath
Ice cream and dragons cereal cooked in liquid nitrogen. When people eat our snacks they can “breath like a dragon”.
Chicky's
Flamin' Cheetos Corndog
CandyTime
Cotton Candy Taco
A fresh, crisp waffle taco and organic maple cotton candy, topped with a marshmallow drizzle, Oreo chocolate crumble and two pokey sticks!!!
Tin Lizzy
Deep-fried Chicken Skins
We’ve taken everyone’s favourite part of fried chicken and deep-fried it to perfection. These Deep-fried Chicken Skins are served with your choice of dipping sauce. We know you’ll love it!
Brad Smoliak
The man behind KITCHEN – a culinary studio with cooking classes, private parties & catered meetings. Located in the heart of downtown Edmonton, KITCHEN and Chef Brad Smoliak offer an unparalleled culinary and dining experience. Brad has quite the Chef resume including, Hardware Grill, Vancouver Winter Olympics and has even cooked for Queen Elizabeth II (just to name a few)!
Jason Roberts
Weekend host
Keeping those monitors cranked on the weekends, host of the Jason Roberts Show, Jason Roberts! Catch him weekends from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Edmonton’s Best Rock 100.3, The Bear.Lydia
Take an aspiring accountant, mix with a full-time foodie and sprinkle some passion in writing and you get LYDIA. She says she is NOT a professional food critic nor claims to be BUT she loves to explore Edmonton’s best eats and documents all her discoveries. Lydia explores new local favourites or finds those old hidden gems!
Yukon Jack
Yukon, McCord & RyMy's Worst Show Ever
Wake up on the wrong side of the bed with Yukon, McCord & RyMy’s Worst Show Ever weekday mornings 5:30 – 10 a.m. on Edmonton’s Best Rock 100.3, The Bear.
Pam Kirby
Weekend host
Add a mix of conversation and great rock tunes and you get Pam Kirby. She Rocks your evenings from 7 p.m. to midnight on Edmonton’s Best Rock 100.3, The Bear.