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Love You, Mean It
Peterborough’s downtown district may be small but its bar and restaurant scene is mighty and Love You, Mean It has had an active part in it since 2024. Owned by Peterborough veterans Owen Walsh and Sam Sayer (Sam’s Sandwiches is…
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Farm-to-Table Dinner with the Cheeky Duck of the Kawarthas
The Cheeky Duck Vineyard is a classic farm-to-table restaurant with a wood-fire smoke and Mediterranean penchant, complete with a converted barn restaurant and sprawling patio, actual functioning barns, a vineyard (of course), a pig yard, and fluffy free-roaming yellow ducklings…
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100 Acre Brewing Co.
If you find yourself in Peterborough, make sure to make a stop at the German beer-garden styled 100 Acre Brewery, run by Bentley Vas and his family. Bentley’s dad used to rent the front of the building for Jack &…
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DL Chicken
I’m taking bites of the Nashville-style OG Chicken sandwich and hanging off Doug’s every word when the extra hot sauce starts to kick and I start to imagine what it might feel like to be on the Hot Ones set.…
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The Foreign Affair Winery
Inspired by a love of decadent Amarone, this winery is one of the few in Niagara to specialize in the small-batch appassimento method, where grapes are partially dried before fermentation to concentrate flavor and structure.
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Hello Nori
Front-row sushi bar seating, ultra-fresh ingredients, and minimalist wood-sculpted trappings keep diners coming back for these briny hand rolls and raw sashimi boats. The secret is a nori “humidor” that keeps seaweed sheets in a perfectly dry and crispy condition.
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The Chase
On the fifth floor of the historic Dineen Building, overlooking the Financial District, the Chase’s marvelous lighting fixtures, solarium dining room, and floor-to-ceiling windows are a glamorous setting for the surf-and-turf-focused menu.
Jesse Ship
Journalistic Omnivore
Misha von Shlezinger
Photographic consumer
