There are a lot of festivals not to miss this summer, and if you’re a meat lover, then this is definitely one of them. A halal barbeque festival in Toronto is taking place this August and is Canada’s largest one! The three-day event, Halal Ribfest BBQ and food truck festival, will have various food vendors and market vendors as well.[https://www.halalribfest.com/](https://www.halalribfest.com/)
by Samad_khan977
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This event is on our radar, and will be added to the weekly food festival pinned post at the end of the month.
Please keep your vendor listing updated — there seems to be only two food vendors so far!
Very mixed feelings about the $11 admission fee. Will be a huge barrier to a lot of families, but also understand the costs involved with running a festival, esp w kids’ attractions, music, venue fees, etc. It looks like you’ll be charging the vendors, which means they will need to bump up their food prices also.
The list of “rib” vendors and admission fees makes me laugh at this event. Remove the word rib from this event.
Halal rib fest. You serious?
Why?
Traditional BBQ ribs are pork. Always have been, always will be.
Halal food culture has kebabs. And they are muthalicking delicious. They have their versions of BBQ and slow cooking. They do whole lamb and even whole camel. They slow-cook in the sand. Way ahead on grilling than your typical BBQ. They have a whole gamut of different ways of cooking meat on fire, and I personally probably do more kebabs in our family than whole hogs…..
So, why call it a rib fest to mimicry the regular rib fests? And now having to add « halal » to make it clear there will be no pork and no alcohol there. Call then Kebab fest, for crying out loud and you don’t have to do mental gymnastics. I would also love to have a curry fest at some point.
That’s probably also why you don’t have many food vendors signed up yet. They just go: « what the hell you want me to do? Cook ribs? Sure, but have you any idea how much rack of lamb goes for these days???? ».
Felt scammed by the ribfest. Paid extra for a VIP pass and it advertised “skip the lineups”, upon arriving, the only lineup we got to skip was the entry line where they check your ticket. Waste of money and it was a scam. All the vendors had singular lines with no VIP lines at all and we waited over an hour and a half to get dry and meatless ribs. Why are they selling VIP tickets and advertising it a certain way when VIP members are having to wait in the general lines. Scam. Avoid if you can.