04/25/2019
WE STILL HAVE 2 ROOMS AVAILABLE FOR Ontario’s Best Butter Tart Festival is Canada’s original and largest butter tart festival.
Join us in the Town of Midland, on the shores of Georgian Bay, for all the sweet fun.
At the inaugural Butter Tart Festival in June 2013, the festival sold out of the 10,000 butter tarts available for sale by 11 a.m. The number of butter tarts available for sale increases each year (we are now up to 150,000 to 200,000 butter tarts available for sale) as does attendance (65,000 butter tart lovers visited us in 2018).
The festival includes a contest to award the prize for the BEST Butter Tart in Ontario. The contest is open to both professional and amateur/home bakers. The contest features both Traditional and Wild Style categories. Our judges include celebrities, chefs, food and travel bloggers, local dignitaries all with one thing in common – a love of butter tarts!
Our downtown core and our waterfront parks host 200 vendors and food trucks. Vendors sell everything from butter tarts to unique, hand-made items. And the variety of butter tarts you’ll find at our festival includes plain, raisin, pecan, walnut, skor, maple, bacon, coconut, chocolate covered, PB&J, s’mores, gluten-free, vegan, nut-free, cheesecake, pumpkin...and many more.
And while you are here, visit our downtown merchants and their unique shops. Some will be will be offering butter tart festival sales, deals and sweet treats.
The festival also includes free, family-friendly entertainment, a kids zone, free shuttles, a butter tart trot (pre-registration is required) and much more! Mark your calendar to join us for the sweetest day of the year!
Saturday June 8, 2019
Downtown Midland, Ontario
Sweet things to do at Ontario’s Best Butter Tart Festival. More information will be posted as we get closer to the festival.
9 a.m. – Official opening of Ontario’s Best Butter Tart Festival including the Piping of the Tart with Midland Pipes and Drums
All day - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
200 vendors – King Street and David Onley Park
Downtown merchants and their unique shops are open for business
Food Truck vendors
Buskers and entertainers
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. – Judging of Traditional category for Professional and Amateur/Home Bakers, Rotary Hall, Midland Cultural Centre
1 to 3 p.m. – Judging of Wild Style category for Professional and Amateur/Home Bakers, Rotary Hall, Midland Cultural Centre
3:15 – Judging of Best in Show, Rotary Hall, Midland Cultural Centre
3:30 – Announcement of Best in Show Best and all Butter Tart Contest winners
Free, live entertainment
The Rotary Club of Midland will be hosting free, live entertainment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Town Dock. Their area will be transformed into Party on the Dock, a ticketed, 19+ event with live music, for the evening. Ticket information will be posted when available.
