Savour Owen Sound — All month long | 11 participating restaurants

If you haven't tried Savour Owen Sound yet, you've got one week left. Eleven local restaurants are running specially curated menus for the whole month of March, and it wraps up at the end of the month. Dine at any of the participating spots, scan the QR code at your table, and you're entered to win a $1,000 foodie basket. Your scan also counts as a vote for your favourite restaurant. Look for the Savour sticker in the window
and check out the full list of restaurants in the link below.

Rocklyn Country Theatre: 'Til Beth Do Us Part — Thursday-Sunday, March 26-29 | 8 PM (2 PM Sunday) | Rocklyn Community Hall

Rocklyn Country Theatre is back with a new show running four nights this week. If you've never been to a Rocklyn production, it's one of those only-in-Grey-County things. Community theatre at its best, in a little hall in the middle of nowhere, and it's always a good time. Shows at 8 PM
Thursday through Saturday, 2 PM on Sunday.

Floydium: Canada's Premier Pink Floyd Show — Saturday, March 28 | 7:30 PM | Meaford Hall

If you're a Pink Floyd fan, this one's for you. Floydium is bringing their full tribute show to Meaford Hall on Saturday night. These guys are known as Canada's premier Pink Floyd experience, and Meaford Hall is the kind of intimate venue where a show like this really hits different. Grab tickets before they're gone.

There's a bakery on the east side of Owen Sound that locals have been quietly hoarding for years.

The European Bakery Cafe does fresh-baked breads, gourmet sandwiches stacked on house-made bread, all-day breakfast, and butter tarts that will genuinely wreck you for all other butter tarts.

They've got a gluten-free menu too. If you've got an event coming up, they cater everything from sandwich platters to full dinners. Go once, and you'll wonder how you didn't know about it sooner.

Our Community Calendar covers Grey & Bruce Counties. It’s a large area, so if we missed an event we are sorry, we will do better next time!

Our Community Calendar was getting a bit too enthusiastic. Turns out stuffing a week’s worth of local fun into one email makes for a very long scroll.

So we’ve given it its own space! Click the button below to check out the full lineup of events this week.

There's a fire hall in Markdale (what is with these fire halls?!) that hasn't put out a fire in years. These days, Chef Brandon Bannon is using it to do something way more interesting.

Marilynne is named after Brandon's grandmother, a local antique dealer who moved her family from Toronto to Dundalk in the late '60s to livecloser to the land. The restaurant is filled with pieces she collected over the years. It's personal. You can feel it the second you walk in.

Brandon grew up in the area, trained in Toronto kitchens, and kept noticing something funny: the best ingredients his city chefs were raving
about came from Grey County.

So he came home, bought the old fire hall, and opened a farm-to-table restaurant that takes local comfort food and
elevates it without losing the soul.

Think French onion soup made from veal stock. Steak frites. A 36-ounce "Big Steak" with fresh-cut parmesan fries that feeds three or four. Fried chicken with house-made hot sauce and buttermilk aioli. Weekend brunch that books up fast. Everything made from scratch with ingredients from small local farms.

It's the kind of place where you show up for dinner on a Thursday and wonder how this exists in a town of 1,200 people. Dinner runs Thursday to Sunday. Brunch on weekends.

There's a 150-acre sheep dairy farm near Proton Station, just south of Owen Sound, that most people in Grey-Bruce have never heard of. And it
might be one of the coolest food experiences in the county.

Secret Lands Farm raises over 400 East Friesian sheep on pesticide-free pasture and makes everything on-site in their own creamery. 25 different
cheeses, kefir, yogurt, butter, lamb charcuterie, and more.

They're the only farm in Canada using authentic kefir grains as a starter culture for their cheese. It's an old-world technique that most producers don't bother with, and the result is cheese with more character and more good bacteria than anything you'll find at a grocery store.

People who've tried the halloumi and the aged pecorino-style wheels say they've never tasted anything better.

You can order online, but the real move is booking a farm tour. It's a three-hour experience where you walk the pastures, visit the barn and
creamery, peek inside their cheese aging room, and finish with a tasting in one of their gazebos while the owner Sophie walks you through
everything on your plate. They also run a Sunday brunch on the farm.

This is one of those places that makes you proud of what's happening in Grey-Bruce.

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Catch you next Tuesday with a fresh batch of local events, hidden gems, and small-town surprises.

Stay curious,
— Cody & The GB Buzz Team