
Epic two-day pickle festival returns to Toronto next month
Phoebe Knight, Dished
created: Aug. 8, 2025, 2:04 p.m. | updated: Aug. 10, 2025, 5:34 a.m.
Canada's largest pickle festival returns to Toronto next month, and we've got the details on everything you should get excited for.
Pickle ice cream, pickle pizza, and even pickle beer, if you can reasonably conceive of merging the flavour of pickle with any given food.
Taking over the Junction Triangle's Henderson Brewing Co. for an entire weekend this summer, Picklefest — Canada's biggest pickle festival — is back this September, spreading the scent of pickle juice far and wide across Toronto.
Amateur pickle-makers are invited to enter their creations for consideration in one of six categories: Best Dill Pickle, Best Kosher Pickle, Best Sour Pickle, Best Spicy Pickle, Most Creative Lacto-Fermented Pickle and Most Creative Vinegar Pickle, and they'll be judged in the four categories of flavour, texture, appearance, and creativity.
For the Toronto festival, the creator of the top pickle in each category will walk away with a cash prize of $500, on top of some major bragging rights, while the best pickle overall will win $1,000.
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