I know of two food dishes that Calgary can lay claim to:
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Originally Posted by Ginger beef
Ginger Beef (Geung Ngao Yuk, 薑牛肉) was already a common Chinese menu item in the San Francisco Bay area as early as the 1960s, but it still appears on menus there.
It later became a popular Chinese food dish in Western Canada. Though its origins may have been in China, a version of it was invented in Calgary, Alberta in 1974 by a chef in Chinatown's Silver Inn restaurant. [1] Ginger beef was a must-have there whenever eating chinese food throughout the eighties and nineties, and although its popularity has since declined, it can still be ordered at most any Chinese restaurant in that region.
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Originally Posted by Caesar (cocktail)
The cocktail was invented by bartender Walter Chell at the Owl's Nest Bar in the Calgary Inn (now Calgary Westin Hotel) in Calgary, Alberta in 1969, to accompany the opening of a new restaurant, Marco's.[2] In its original form, it contained tomato juice and mashed clams; Clamato had only just been released (with the assistance of Chell) by the Mott's company that very year, and was not yet widely known or available.
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And yes, in Calgary, it's all about the beef!