Restaurants in Niagara Peninsula
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Escabeche
Arguably the best restaurant on the whole Niagara Peninsula, the fine-dining room at the opulent Prince of Wales Hotel takes its food seriously. The contemporary menu offers taste inventions like a tart of locally cured prosciutto, cacciatore sausage, tomato and mascarpone, followed by roast lamb with fine mustard, fingerling potatoes and baby amber turnips in ice-wine-braised shank jus. Leave room for dessert (you’ve been warned).
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Epicurean
By day this fare-thee-well cafeteria dishes up fresh, tasty sandwiches, salads, pies and quiches. The ambience ramps up at night with a bistro menu offering the likes of crispy-skin chicken with steamed rice, scallions and shiitake mushrooms in Thai coconut curry. The street-side patio is always full.
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Flying Saucer
For extraterrestrial fast food, you can’t go past this diner on the Lundy’s Lane motel strip. Famous $1.59 breakfasts are served until noon (eggs, fries and toast), but heftier meals in the way of steaks, seafood, fajitas, burgers and hot dogs are also on-board. Take-out is in the saucer to the left.
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Pie Plate
Simple but delicious lunches (we devoured the pear and brie sandwich) at reasonable prices. It wouldn’t be an Ontario bakery without butter tarts, but there’s also thin-crust pizzas, meat pies, salads and a few beers on tap. A great place to fill up your belly while touring the wine country.
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Mama Mia’s
There are plenty of quick-fire Italian eateries and pizza joints around town, but this one has been serving tasty and authentic pastas, seafood and carnivorous feasts since the ’60s. The Brooklyn/Brando atmosphere is relaxed and friendly – a good place to bring the kids.
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Flying Saucer Drive-in
For extraterrestrial fast food, you can’t go past this diner on the Lundy’s Lane motel strip. Famous 99¢ breakfasts are served until noon (eggs, fries and toast), but heftier meals in the way of steaks, seafood, fajitas, burgers and hot dogs are also on-board.
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Edwin’s
Born in Jamaica and trained in England, the illustrious Edwin blends Caribbean and Mediterranean cuisine at this little spot near the train station. Jerk chicken, fried plantains, curried goat and salmon salad are all on offer, as is a weekend breakfast buffet ($6.99).
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Simon’s Restaurant
Readers rave about Simon’s, a family-run diner near the Whirlpool Bridge that opens pre-dawn. Surrounded by a clutter of miniature statues of buildings and piled boxes of God-knows-what, hungry locals chow down on burgers, grills, pancakes and all-day breakfasts.
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Guru
Alternate sips of cold mango lassi with forks of red-hot curry at the Guru, an unexpected gem in Clifton Hill. Dark-wood wicker chairs and Ganesh-skin tablecloths set the scene for smooth vegetable curries, tangy chicken masalas and a surprisingly global wine list.
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Daily Planet
Downtown Daily Planet is the perfect place to escape the crowds and grab a chunky meal: pub grub pronounced with a Mexican accent, soaked in as much Molsons as you can manage. There’s a nightclub out the back, but don’t expect too much of a small town.
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Fans Court
A menu graced with Cantonese, Szechuan and pan-Asian dishes distinguishes this place from its neighbors in this most Anglo of towns. The best part about Fans, however, is not the mango pork (though that’s delish), but the wonderful flowered courtyard.
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Second Bowl
If all the steaks, subs and burgers are inching you toward a coronary, Second Bowl offers some Southeast Asian respite. Close your eyes and jab at the 188-item menu – stir fries, spring rolls, fried rice and noodle soups aplenty.
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Taps on Queen Brewhouse & Grill
Does a mix of stuff, from shepherd’s pie to ancient grains curry (quinoa, couscous, adzuki beans, mung beans and veggies). All dishes are, naturally, best when paired with one of the brewery’s tasty beers.
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Basell's
Go hungry to Basell's, where the rule of thumb is that grilled cheese is the only meal served at a normal size. Breakfast is served all day (but is 20% extra after 3pm).
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Suishe Gardens
Teppanyaki and teriyaki, sake and soba: Suishe does it up. Wide leather lounge chairs surround a central fireplace, while more private booths cozy up in the corners.
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Irish Tea Room
From a 'proper cup of tea' to a steak & Guinness pie to barm brack, this tea room serves more than a little taste of Ireland.
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Olde Fashioned Family Eatery and Bar
Signs warn customers that this isn't fast food; homemade sandwiches and burgers this tasty take time to make.
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Niagara Home Bakery
For Cornish pasties, Scotch meat pie and fresh berry pies cooked in an original stone brick oven, stop here.
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Remington's of Montana
This steak and seafood restaurant stands out from the crowd of the tourist area's unalluring eateries.
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Buttery
This pub-style place puts on a thoroughly kitschy Henry VIII–style dinner theatre feast.
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