Food & Drink
Medicine Hat Breweries & Distillery
Brewed, distilled, made, and canned in Medicine Hat.
Brewed, distilled, made, and canned in Medicine Hat.
Step inside this new speakeasy lounge in Medicine Hat, using the secret password to enter. Find a full drink menu from specialty highballs to extravagant cocktails, and a food menu with delicious shareables and made-from-scratch flatbreads, with Grit City’s liquor highlighted throughout the menu. Spot the telephone door, and step into the prohibition era, where every spirit has a story.
680 South Railway St.
Medicine Hat Brewing Company originally served lager, ale, and stout in 1912, but when the Temperance Movement picked up this popular brewery was forced to close. Over a century later, the name was dusted off by the Vancuren family. The dining room honours the name’s historic charm, the impressive food menu sources local Southern Alberta ingredients, and with over 20 beers on tap this local spot focuses on flavour from the food to the brews.
1366 Brier Park Dr. NW
Indulge in everything beer: slushies, cocktails, on tap, and canned. Revolutionary American and traditional European ales with a twist are brewed in small batches inside the historic building in downtown Medicine Hat. Serving a chef curated menu, Travois Ale Works often hosts lively events, like Name that Tune, Bingo, Trivia Night, and their Taproom Dinner Series.
612 3 St. SE
Find fermented beverages filled with healthy probiotics, vitamins, and minerals from this nano-brewery in Medicine Hat. With community collaborations, try olive oil infused kombucha from The Hat’s Olive Tap, and exclusive flavours at Nosh. Your Preference Kombucha also makes water kefir and kombucha gummies.
Sparkling hop water, made with local hops by Medicine Hat Brewing Company.
Sparkling cucumber water, made with local cucumbers by Big Marble Farms.
Carbonated BCAAs and Electrolytes by Tru Me Whole Health.
Kombucha and Water Kefir distilled by Your Preference Kombucha is alcohol free.
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My name is Linda Hoang, and I’m a Canadian blogger and social media strategist based in Edmonton, Alberta.
As an ethical blogger, content creator and social media influencer, I primarily write and photograph travel, lifestyle, and food. Over the years, I’ve had my fair share of great Medicine Hat experiences and I know if you replicate them, you’ll have a great time too!
I got to explore Downtown Medicine Hat in southern Alberta, and truly think it is such a cute (and actually fairly large) small city downtown that should be on your list to visit!
Gas lamps line the streets with big, beautiful floral pots hanging from its posts. There’s endless, charming, old brick buildings, many with new murals on their side walls, or in their alleyways. There’s historic buildings, including one of the oldest, still in-service movie theatres in Canada, pop-up parks, a growing number of boutique stores, coffee shops, pubs and restaurants. And downtown is also home to several parks along with the city’s art gallery, museum, and public library. Medicine Hat’s downtown is a mix of old and new. It’s lively, full of culture. And it’s super walkable!
Which is how I explored downtown Medicine Hat this July 2020 with my dear friends Jack and Nicole, who are locals to ‘The Hat’ (what the locals call the city).
We spent a full Saturday walking all over downtown, visiting shops, taking in arts and culture, soaking up the sun (Medicine Hat is considered one of the sunniest cities in the country) and of course—eating!
Tour Canada's sunniest city in Southern Alberta
From guided city tours, to observatory and dinner tours, cafe & market tour, art tours, and more, aboard the Sunshine Trolley and experience Medicine Hat at local spots.
Hop on Medicine Hat’s Sunshine Trolley for an in-depth and personal guided tour of Medicine Hat from a long-time ‘Hatter’. See the most prominent landmarks in Canada’s Sunniest City, from the World’s Tallest Saamis Tepee, to National Historic Site Medalta in the Historic Clay District, and Alberta’s oldest brick residence Ewart-Duggan house. Learn the history of neighbourhoods and streets along the way, with an invite to hop off and briefly explore the prominent areas.
*Children 12 and under ride free thanks to the Medicine Hat Mavericks! *Pick-up for the Sunshine Trolleys is at the Visitor Information Centre, 330 Gehring Rd. SW.
Both Sunshine Trolleys are accessible and can assist those with wheelchairs, walkers, and any other mobility needs for getting in and out of the Sunshine Trolley. Please book a wheelchair-specific seat on our ticket booking site. If no seat is available that means we have sold out for that ride.
Anyone booking a wheelchair seat is asked to arrive 15 minutes early to ensure easy boarding.
Weddings, reunions, private sightseeing tours and so much more. The Sunshine Trolley can be booked privately and is a great way to experience Medicine Hat.
For updates and information, follow @sunshine.trolleys on Facebook and Instagram.
A 2008 Supreme Trolley purchased from a vintage vehicle collector in Newfoundland. Thus Trolley is propelled by a 5.9L diesel Cummins engine that was newly-built in 2019, by Cummins in South Carolina. Tourism Medicine Hat purchased this unit in 2022.
A 2011 Supreme Trolley purchased out of Arlington, Texas. This larger Trolley was put on a flatbed truck and transported from Arlington to Medicine Hat in 2025. It needed a full engine rebuild when it arrived, and hit the road in November of 2025.
Being a hop, skip and a jump away from ‘The Greenhouse Capital of the Prairies’ has fantastic perks.
Self serve huts offering a variety of eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, carrots, radishes, lettuce, garlic, eggplant, beans, peas and goat milk soaps can be found at multiple locations across the city. Ruben’s has recently expanded across Southern Alberta to Lethbridge, Calgary and Okotoks.
3158 Dunmore Rd SE and 2360 Division Ave. N, Medicine Hat | 703 Broadway Ave. W, Redcliff
Westland’s always rotating selection of products can be purchased right at their greenhouse. Keep an eye on their social media to find out what’s newly stocked, since they often switch it up with different varieties of kale, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, herbs, peppers and more.
22 - 6 St. NW, Redcliff
Alongside fresh, crisp vegetables, you'll find sauces and salsas made fresh with the garden-grown ingredients.
860 Broadway W., Redcliff
Recently changing their name from RedHat Growers, Big Marble Farms is hands down the largest grower in the Cypress County area, with 1.5 million square feet of greenhouses. They are also the only grower on this list that runs year round, supplying much of Canada with tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants and lettuce. Their greenhouse is not open to the public, however, they supply Sobey’s and Safeway across Canada.
If you head to Redcliff and can’t find the specific greenhouse you are looking for, not to fret! Just keep an eye out, you will most likely drive past many more open to peruse.
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