Taste Winnipeg

A unique, blindfolded, multi-sensory dining performance.

In 2016 One Trunk Theatre, teamed up with renowned Winnipeg Chef Ben Kramer and Calgary’s innovative theatre company Ghost River Theatre to create an unique blindfolded sensory dining performance, TASTE WINNIPEG.  Audience members were blindfolded for an intimate performance/tasting experience that weaved the imaginary with the sensory, tantalizing audience members with a unique story that was based on the secret tasting menu specifically crafted by Chef Kramer.

Originally devised for the 2015 Beakerhead in Calgary in collaboration with the River Café and Vertical City Performance, Ghost River Theatre Artistic Director Eric Rose brought this one-of-a-kind experience to the centre of the continent: Winnipeg, home of some of the country’s most inventive chefs, and an exploding, endlessly creative culinary scene.

At the heart of this movement Chef Kramer sits perched, focused on locally sourced and high quality ingredients. Kramer is a chef behind a number of unique food experiences from farm-to-table dinners situated at the farms themselves, to RAW Almond, Table for 1200 and is the annual caterer for the slew of Winnipeg Folk Fest Artists.

Directed by Eric Rose

Written by Andraea Sartison

Menu by Chef Ben Kramer

Featuring Jason Hooper, Claire Friesen, Leigh Anne Parry, Chris Sabel and Liam Zarrillo

Photos by Caroline Wintoniw