SAIT Alumni Business Directory holiday guide

Make memories and find unique gifts for your friends and loved ones while supporting SAIT alumni entrepreneurs this holiday season. 

Season’s eatings

Treat yourself or someone by dining out or level up your at-home entertaining skills with the help of these culinary-based businesses.

Culinary curious

• Alex Edmonson Chef Services
• Ernest Meats
• Fungi Akuafo
• GR8 Thai sauce
• Preserved
• Soffritto Oil & Vinegar Bar 

 Chef-driven pickles, jams and preserves by Preserved

📷: @preserved.yyc

Dining out

• Charbar
• CHARCUT Roast House
• Chix Eggshop
• Cilantro and Chive (Lacombe and Red Deer, AB)
• Expat Asia
• JinBar
• Klein/Harris 
• Purlieu Bistro
• Trullo Trattoria
• Y93 Sushi Crave Japanese Cafe

Tiger cauliflower and pork belly by Expat Asia

📷: @expatasia

Sweet tooth

• Black Dog Bakery
• Butter Block & Co.
• Those Chocolates
• Sidecar Sweets 

Chelsea Radke of Black Dog Bakery

📷: @blackdog_bakery 

It’s the most wonderful time…for a beer

Stop in for a pint or grab a pack for the craft beer lover in your life.

• Establishment Brewing
• Fitzsimmon’s Brewing

Craft beer and glassware from Establishment Brewing

📷: Stephen Chow (@estbrew)

Spruce up your home

From designing your next renovation to solar panel installation — check things off your ‘to-do’ list before your guests arrive for the holidays.

• ACS Plumbing and Heating
• Calgary Aluminum and Custom Fabrication
• CalgaryEVCharger.com
• Denning Enterprise
• Ellergodt Design Inc.
• Godor Appliance Repair
• Handyman Calgary NW 
• Haven IAQ
• Kevin Gray Interiors
• McIntosh Living
• Zeno Renewables

Zeno Renewables are offering an exclusive discount for SAIT Alumni this holiday season. Check the Alumni Connect newsletter for details.

📷: @zenorenewables

Don we now our SAIT (alumni) apparel

Turn any resting grinch face upside down with unique art pieces, custom woodwork and apparel.

• Erasmus Apparel (Yellowknife, NT)
• Legal Hustle Clothing by Myles
• Michelle Atkinson
• Project Clothing (Calgary, AB)
• Range Woodworks
• Slack Country Living (Golden, BC)
• Stone Mountain Projects
• Turkeys & Pistols

Soapweed (Yucca) window hanger made of recycled glass by Michelle Atkinson.

📷: @matkinsonyyc

Merry moments and activities

From a virtual racing experience to biographical story writing services — make memories that will outlast the season.

• Cat’s Eye Face Painting
• Meaningful Little Books
• Peridot & Poppy Digital
• Silver Quill Legacies
• TracksVR

Photography session with Peridot and Poppy Digital

📷: @peridotandpoppydigital

Stocking stuffers

Move over socks and razors — these businesses’ stocking stuffer game is strong.

• Canadian Shield PPE
• Clean 02
• Crafternoon

 

Colouring posters made by Stacey Robins of Crafternoon.

📷: @crafternoonyyc

Tis the season for self-care

Remember the “me” in merry.

• Auburn Bay Physio Chiro Massage
• Parent’s Survival Resources & Connection Society
• Yogadotcalm

 

Auburn Bay Physio • Chiro • Massage

📷: @abpcmyyc