New date! One of Harbourfront Centre’s most popular festivals, the Hot + Spicy Food Festival serves up diverse hot food and flavours from around the globe, occasionally pairing a spicy dish with hot sounds of the region.
6:00pm –12:00am
Shopping
Shop for delightful treasures from the four corners of the globe!
6:00pm –12:00am
Food
Waterfront's summer food hotspot offers delicious cuisine from around the world.
6:00pm –12:00am
Food
Shopping
The Red Hot Marketplace is a place to sample and purchase an eclectic variety of spices, sauces, marinades and dips - all with a hot and spicy flair!
6:30pm
Film
Learning
This film follows an activist farmer as he struggles to continue providing his “farm fresh milk” while battling authorities, preparing for his trial and attempting to find a political solution to legally provide raw milk in Canada.
7:00pm
Music
Food
Bill Wharton a.k.a the Sauce Boss mixes his own spicy original music, Florida Slide Guitar Blues, and adds his famous Liquid Summer hot sauce right into the cooking demonstration of his own gumbo recipe.
8:00pm
Music
Experience the vibrant and lively mix of contemporary Afro Latin Roots music, with its traditions in NuYorican Salsa & Cuban Guajiro Culture.
8:30pm
Literary Arts
Food
Lectures
Join us for a book reading and conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, renowned British author of The Settler's Cookbook: An Immigrant's Memoir of Food and Fusion.
9:00pm
Theatre
A blend of fire, dance and circus in a new breed of spectacle arts for the masses.
10:00am – 9:00pm
Family
An interactive discovery walk for kids around the Harbourfront Centre site!
12:00pm –12:00am
Shopping
Shop for delightful treasures from the four corners of the globe!
12:00pm –12:00am
Food
Waterfront's summer food hotspot offers delicious cuisine from around the world.
12:00pm –12:00am
Food
Shopping
The Red Hot Marketplace is a place to sample and purchase an eclectic variety of spices, sauces, marinades and dips - all with a hot and spicy flair!
1:00pm
Food
Four talented culinary schools square off for the glory and the title of Emerging Chef. The winner and guest will go to the BREEZES RUNAWAY RESORT, JAMAICA for seven nights.
1:30pm
Food
Three hot fire fighter calendar models turn chef and cook up some hot treats.
1:30pm
Learning
Come hoop away with Sadie "Spins" Yancey, Hoop Toronto's founder.
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Food
We team up with Toronto ŕ la Carte, giving you the opportunity to get street-wise in the global kitchen!
2:30pm
Food
Chef Winlai Wong of The Spice Route skillfully delivers the most appetizing plates from the kitchen to dining table.
3:00pm
Learning
Come hoop away with Sadie "Spins" Yancey, Hoop Toronto's founder.
3:00pm
Food
Four talented culinary schools square off for the glory and the title of Emerging Chef. The winner and guest will go to the BREEZES RUNAWAY RESORT, JAMAICA for seven nights.
3:30pm
Food
Three hot fire fighter calendar models turn chef and cook up some hot treats.
4:00pm
Food
Learn the secret of making delicious Thai Salad Rolls and Ginger-Lychee Dip from one of Toronto's top chefs.
5:00pm
Food
Chef Christopher McDonald is one of Canada's most respected chefs, known for a creative, first-principles approach to cooking and an exceptional knowledge of the intricate relationships between food and wine.
5:00pm
Food
Four talented culinary schools square off for the glory and the title of Emerging Chef. The winner and guest will go to the BREEZES RUNAWAY RESORT, JAMAICA for seven nights.
5:30pm
Food
Three hot fire fighter calendar models turn chef and cook up some hot treats.
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Food
We team up with Toronto ŕ la Carte, giving you the opportunity to get street-wise in the global kitchen!
7:00pm
Food
Join this diversity loving “foodie” Chef Christopher Pinheiro for a demonstration on making Moros y Cristianos (Moors & Christians in English), more commonly known as black beans and rice.
7:00pm
Lectures
Join us for a conversation with Sauce Boss himself, Bill Wharton!
8:00pm
Music
Food
Bill Wharton a.k.a the Sauce Boss mixes his own spicy original music, Florida Slide Guitar Blues, and adds his famous Liquid Summer hot sauce right into the cooking demonstration of his own gumbo recipe.
9:00pm
Theatre
A blend of fire, dance and circus in a new breed of spectacle arts for the masses.
9:30pm
Music
Perhaps the best contemporary New Orleans ensemble working in vintage marching band style.
10:00am – 9:00pm
Family
An interactive discovery walk for kids around the Harbourfront Centre site!
12:00pm –12:00am
Shopping
Shop for delightful treasures from the four corners of the globe!
12:00pm –12:00am
Food
Waterfront's summer food hotspot offers delicious cuisine from around the world.
12:00pm
Music
Learning
A one of kind performance workshop in which new music is created and existing material is restructured and renewed, all in a real time performance using hand and baton gestures.
12:00pm –12:00am
Food
Shopping
The Red Hot Marketplace is a place to sample and purchase an eclectic variety of spices, sauces, marinades and dips - all with a hot and spicy flair!
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Music
Learning
Family
Creole for kidz – Play the Rubboard with Terrance Simien!
1:00pm
Food
Learn how to use beer in delicious and flavorful recipes with Chef Donald Williams
1:30pm
Food
Four international chefs compete in the Semi-Finals for the 6th Anniversary Iron Chef Title!
2:00pm
Food
Learn more from the woman who showed Toronto's top chefs how to make REAL curry in the '70s.
2:30pm
Food
Learning
Learn how to make a hot sauce and why a hotness scale from nearly 100 years ago is still used to test a pepper's hotness at this cooking demonstration and discussion with Chef Jay Calvert.
3:00pm
Family
Featuring Indigenous Zydeco music of the French speaking Creoles of south Louisiana.
3:30pm
Food
Learn how to use beer in delicious and flavorful recipes with Chef Donald Williams
4:00pm
Food
Ryan Smolkin's goal is to bring this authentic Quebec classic through Smoke's Poutinerie to the rest of the world in this original and unique way.
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Food
We team up with Toronto ŕ la Carte, giving you the opportunity to get street-wise in the global kitchen!
4:30pm
Food
Four international chefs compete in the Semi-Finals for the 6th Anniversary Iron Chef Title!
4:30pm
Family
Featuring Indigenous Zydeco music of the French speaking Creoles of south Louisiana.
5:30pm
Food
We team up with Toronto ŕ la Carte, giving you the opportunity to get street-wise in the global kitchen!
6:00pm
Food
Judith Finlayson shows you how delicious and convenient it is to prepare food with a slow cooker.
6:30pm
Lectures
Join us for a conversation with the "Soul Queen of New Orleans”, Irma Thomas, whose incomparable career spans over five decades and includes a recent Grammy award.
7:00pm
Music
Perhaps the best contemporary New Orleans ensemble working in vintage marching band style.
8:00pm
Music
Join this one man blues, hip hop, beat box, and spoken word troubadour for this unique musical fusion.
8:00pm
Lectures
Join us for a conversation with Grammy Award winning American Zydeco musician Terrance Simien, one of Louisiana's most dedicated cultural ambassadors and champion of Creole culture.
9:00pm
Theatre
A blend of fire, dance and circus in a new breed of spectacle arts for the masses.
9:00pm
Food
Watch and learn from one of Toronto's premier chefs and host/co-creator of the Food Network series, Everyday Exotic.
9:30pm
Music
An American music icon at the peak of her creative and interpretive powers.
10:00am – 6:00pm
Family
An interactive discovery walk for kids around the Harbourfront Centre site!
12:00pm – 8:00pm
Shopping
Shop for delightful treasures from the four corners of the globe!
12:00pm – 8:00pm
Food
Waterfront's summer food hotspot offers delicious cuisine from around the world.
12:00pm
Music
Learning
A one of kind performance workshop in which new music is created and existing material is restructured and renewed, all in a real time performance using hand and baton gestures.
12:00pm – 5:00pm
Food
Shopping
The Red Hot Marketplace is a place to sample and purchase an eclectic variety of spices, sauces, marinades and dips - all with a hot and spicy flair!
12:30pm
Food
Meet Chef Igor Milijanovic of I Feel like Crepe, the newest addition to College Street.
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Music
Learning
Family
Creole for kidz – Play the Rubboard with Terrance Simien!
2:00pm
Food
Four international chefs compete in the Finale for the 6th Anniversary Iron Chef Title!
2:00pm
Music
Dance
Join members of Capoeira Camará as they perform this traditional Brazilian Martial Art that fuses acrobatics, dance, music, and song into one exciting show.
2:30pm
Food
Meet Isam Kaisi of 93 Harbord, an upscale yet warm and inviting Middle Eastern restaurant.
3:00pm
Music
A hypnotic blend of Zydeco-roots-New-Orleans-funk-reggae-flavoured-Afro-Caribbean world music.
4:30pm
Music
Dance
A high energy music and dance performance using traditional Brazilian instruments and household objects like garbage cans.
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