👩‍🍳 Enjoy the best food Barrie has to offer at Top Cheflicious

Join in on the fun with 10 of Barrie’s Top Chefs competing in the ultimate showdown. Taste the food and vote who you want to become Barrie’s Top Chef. The event is a standing, mix and mingle event - so come dressed to impress!

⌚️ Saturday January 11th - Tastings are at 4:45 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.

📍 Liberty North. Barrie.

🛷 Get in on the fun with a family sleigh ride

Take the family on a beautiful sleigh ride through the snow followed by some delicious farm fresh craft beer and yummy food in the brewery.

⌚️ Sunday January 12th - 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

📍 Quayles Brewery. Coldwater.

🪨 Book a Play Pass in the Kid Zone @ Alt. Rock Climbing Gym

Alt. Rock is a gym for climbers of all levels to explore the sport of bouldering. For first time climbers between ages 5 and 10 years old, book a play pass in their Kids’ Zone.

Kids’ Zone Play Passes are for 90 minutes and can be booked for $18 online and Kids Day Passes can be booked for $22.

⌚️ Alt. Rock Inc. 445 Dunlop Street W. Barrie.

🥘 Recipe of the Week: Sheet-Pan Miso Chicken & Sweet Potatoes

This meal is hands off, hassle free and full of flavour. Pick up some bone-in chicken thighs, sweet potatoes and shallots. Top with a miso-chili sauce and sprinkle after baking with chopped cilantro (or basil if you’re one of those people who hates cilantro 😁)

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🗞️ Local Good News Stories

🏒 ‘Cool job’: Mother, daughter find common ground on the ice. Read more.

🏅 Area volunteer ‘hooked’ on helping Special Olympics grow. Read more.

🏒 Barrie Sharks’ Amelia Wilkinson backstops Canada to win at U18 worlds. Read more.

🥖 Looking for some kid-friendly restaurant options? Here are 5 Barrie establishments with kids-eat-free deals on the menu. Read more.

👩‍🚒 What’s going on here? Construction continues on south Barrie fire station expected to improve response times in growing area of city. Read more.

🎳 What’s going on here? Bayfield Mall renovations spur Barrie’s Sir Games-A-Lot to move back to shopping centre’s lower level. Read more.

🎸 Rising country star returning to Barrie for Valentine’s Day show. Read more.

 🌆 What’s Happenin’

Friday

🎥 Friday Flicks @ The Barrie Library Painswick Branch - 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Movie: The Tiger’s Apprentice. Learn more.

🗺️ Barrie Bash Scavenger Hunt @ The Wired Owl - multiple times over the weekend. Learn more.

🎸 Live Music @ Quayles Brewery - 5 p.m .to 8 p.m. Learn more.

🥁 Comedian Carla Collins Live @ Donaleighs - 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. Learn more.

🎵 Bootlegged Classic Rock Cover Band @ The Rec Room Barrie - 8 p.m. Learn more.

😆 Sin Bin Comedy Show @ Perfect SZN Barrie - 8:30 p.m. Learn more.

Saturday

⛷️ Apres Ski Saturdays @ Horseshoe Resort - 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. Learn more.

🪔 Barrie Mosaic Lamp Making Workshop @ East Bayfield Community Centre - 11 a.m. Learn more.

🎸 Live Music @ Quayles Brewery - 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Learn more.

🎼 Sydney Riley Cover Band @ The Rec Room Barrie - 6 p.m. Learn more.

🏒 Kitchener Rangers at Barrie Colts @ Sadlon Arena - 7:30 p.m. Get tickets.

🎵 Lakeside Groove Live @ Donaleighs - 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Learn more.

Sunday

🛷 Sleigh Rides @ Quayles Brewery - 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.

🥇 Women’s “Reset Your Goals” Conference 2025 @ Holland Marsh Wineries - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.

🌨️ ☁️  Barrie Weekend Weather

Friday -14° 🌡️ -6° l 🌨️ l 1 to 3 cm ❄️ l 15 kmh 🌬️ 

Saturday -8° 🌡️ -3° l ☁️ l ~1 cm ❄️ l 11 kmh 🌬️ 

Sunday -8° 🌡️ -4° l ☁️ l < 1 cm ❄️ l 10 kmh 🌬️ 

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