I hardly know where to begin with the restaurant that is rhubarb and I mean that in the best way possible! While this is of no consequence in terms of accessibility or quality of food, I even love the “rhubarb” font they chose for the front of their establishment.
While there are a couple of steps to get up to the front door from this vantage point, you can go around the side of the hedges and use the ramp if you need or prefer to.
Other important things to note:
- The restaurant has its own dedicated parking lot so you won’t have to park very far from the entrance.
- There are two bathrooms inside. One is wheelchair accessible and one is not (the latter is down a flight of stairs).
- Aside from the stairs down to the one bathroom, the rest of the restaurant is on one level.
- The chairs were very sturdy and they did not have arms (no pinched hips/thighs!).
- The chairs and tables can moved if you need to make more space or pull a wheelchair up to the table.
- We arrived on a Sunday at lunchtime and they had some live jazz-type music going on. While the performers were certainly talented the volume made it difficult to have a conversation but they finished up around the time our meal was arriving so we got to enjoy the music and then enjoy some quiet conversation.
- The service was really excellent. Prompt but not pushy, our water glasses were kept full and I was going through a lot of water because I was dehydrated from all the flying, and genuinely friendly.
Now, the food…oh, the food. First, I waffled back-and-forth about whether to have a bowl of seafood chowder or the dish that I eventually settled on. “Settled” is the wrong word, though, because I think I made the right choice. If I was ever going to be requesting a last meal, this would be it!
This is the pan fried haddock with chick pea salad! It doesn’t look particularly special but it was spectacular in the flavour department. The haddock was crispy without being over cooked and the seasoning was perfect. The real star of this dish, though, is that chick pea salad. To be clear, I enjoy chick peas well enough but I’ve never been excited about them until now.
It’s a combination of cucumber, tomato, pickled red onion, parsley, chick peas, and a delicious, light honey mustard dressing. The real magic, though, is that about 1/3 of the chick peas are deep fried! I didn’t say this was health food but I promise you it is tasty food. My cravings for this have been so fierce that I’m going to attempt making it at home but will use roasted chick peas in place of the deep fried ones and see how that turns out. I’m even going so far as to try pickling red onions for the first time. I’ll document the results in the recipe section sometime next week.
For good measure, here are a few pictures of Peggy’s Cove. If you get the chance to visit it is a beautiful landscape, both times I’ve visited there has been someone playing the bagpipes, and there is a great gift shop on site. I highly recommend a stop at rhubarb and that you try their haddock with chick pea salad!
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