Rich C. wrote: >While this is not asking about food in NE, it is asking ne.foodies for >their recommendations. So I declare it on-topic :) > >We'll be going to Cape Breton Island later this month. Any particular >dining recommendations there (think good as opposed to >fancy/atmospheric)? A good seafood place would be a particular plus. > >Thanks! my wife and i spent a few weeks in NS 4 years ago - we spent 5 days on Cape Breton with base camp so to speak in Baddeck, we stayed at the Lynnwood Country Inn just across the water from the A.G.Bell Home. We ate at the Lynnwood 3 nights (chef/owner was formerly a sous-chef in Toronto) - (we basically ate their whole menu, so on the last night, we went to one of the several touristy fish restaurants in the area. During a tour on the Cabot Trail (a must-do), we had lunch in a little place near Cheticamp - great, simple food - too far in the past to remember the name or location, but I remember it being north or Cheticamp (probably about 20 miles or so...) and right on the trail..
Nova Scotia, Canada
Recommendations in Cape Breton Island, NS
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:09:06 EDT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu ne.food:21682 Hi Rich, Here's a link to the towns on the western side of Cape Breton that I found when I was looking for information on the Celtic Colours Festival: http://www.sea-trail.com/index.shtml We've been to the Mull in Mabou for light meals. My Mom and her friends go for birthday lunches and the like. I think there's a German restaurant in Port Hood, but we've never been because trying to fit in all the family visiting takes most of our time. The Glenora distillery (between Mabou and Inverness) now operates an inn, I think with a restaurant. My husband has only been to the pub for a concert, so no knowledge of what the food might be like. Cheticamp is loaded with small places to eat, including an Acadien dining room associated with a gift shop/museum that prepares all kinds of Acadien specialities -- rapie pie (not a dessert), butterscotch pie ( most definitely dessert!) and likely poutine -- but I think we tried that further on into the town. A number of people have recommended Le Gabriel (towards the north side), but again I've no first-hand knowledge. Baddeck has a wide variety of restaurants, including Indian. Aside from the Lynwood which someone mentioned, there's the Telagraph House (where Marconi sent the first telegram), a Victorian inn with a dining room that was decent. The Bell Bouy is on the main street down towards the Bell Museum and had good seafood as I recall. There's at least one or two other inn/auberge places in the village that are supposed to be quite good. The Keltic Lodge in Ingonish should be another possibility. I wish I could remember more, but as others have noted, restaurants tend more towards servicable than spectacular. But then the Island itself takes care of that department hands down! Hope you enjoy the trip! Regards, Bonnie Myers (leaving for Margaree next Wednesday!!) PS -- I can let you know about a wonderful German restaurant if you're driving up and crossing the border at Houlton Me/Woodstock NB. Rich C. wrote: > We'll be going to Cape Breton Island later this month. Any particular > dining recommendations there (think good as opposed to > fancy/atmospheric)? A good seafood place would be a particular plus. >
Well, we've returned, and since I asked here, I think it's only fair to mention a few places... * We had supper at The Mull in Mabou. Had probably the best seafood chowder we ate on the island. There was seemingly more "stuff" than broth, and it's not like the potatoes were the majority of solids. :-) It was advertised as having lobster, and it actually had a darned good amount of it. * We had lunch at Highwheeler's Cafe/Deli in Baddeck. Neither the sandwiches or the soup were anything to wrote home about. Definitely over-rated relative to what I've seen in some guidebooks. * We had supper at the restaurant at the Glenora Distillery (in Glenville -- about 9km north of Mabou). Definitely the best meal we had on the trip (and in quite a while in general). The roasted garlic rack of lamb was superb (quite tasty and very, very tender). [Afterwards we went to see Beolach's Mac Morin and a 20 year-old fiddler named Ian MacDougal play a red hot set at The Red Shoe Pub back in Mabou, but that's another newsgroup] * We had lunch at the Co-Op Artisanale Restaurant in Cheticamp. The meat pie was good, though not great. We really liked the butterscotch meringue pie. Nice to have meringue with something other than lemon. :) Another neat bit -- the salad dressing tasted very much like a New Orleans remoulade sauce, though a couple of the waitresses we talked to hadn't heard of the term. Given the ethnicities involved, I wouldn't find the similarities surprising :), assuming it wasn't "backported" from NO. :) * We had lunch at The Rusty Anchor in Pleasant Bay. Wonderful fried scallops and fried sole! Some of the best french fries I've ever had -- came out lightly battered and burning hot and not at all greasy. * We had lunch at Coastal Waters in Ingonish. Was tired of seafood so had a bacon cheeseburger. Pretty good, though it was done a bit more than I would have liked. * During the looooong drive from Cape North to Halifax, mostly through a pounding rainstorm, we had supper at the most pathetic, incompetant Subway (in New Glasgow) I've ever been to. * While not Cape Breton, I had a good cheap (CDN $3.50) 2-egg + sausage + homefries breakfast at Mediterraneo Cafe in Halifax. The blueberry pancakes were disappointing, though (too doughy and dry), and the service was horrible, even though there were very few people in the restaurant. * Also in Halifax, I had a surprisingly good charbroiled salmon (tender and tasty) at the Harbourside mini-mall complex down on the waterfront. The marlin was a bit dry and chewy, though. Watch out for the starlings! :-)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 01:59:36 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 01:59:36 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu ne.food:21702 From my journal of our N.S. trip in 2000: ...Turned right up to Cheticamp where we visited the charming hooked rug museum, gassed up at an Irving (CDN $45) and ate at the Driftwood Cafe, a centerpiece of the 300' boardwalk,where Pat had chowder and lemonade and I had excellent mussels, garlic bread and iced tea (Cdn $20, including a generous tip!). ... After the park we went into Baddeck, to the Yellow Cello Cafe, where Pat had a small BBQ Chicken pizza to folk fiddle muzak. - Larry Rich C. wrote: > While this is not asking about food in NE, it is asking ne.foodies for > their recommendations. So I declare it on-topic :) > > We'll be going to Cape Breton Island later this month. Any particular > dining recommendations there (think good as opposed to > fancy/atmospheric)? A good seafood place would be a particular plus. > > Thanks! > > -- > Rich Carreiro [email removed]