Day 42 A Gastronomic Delight

Tuesday July 23,2013

In order to head to the western side of Nova Scotia, we had to pick up and move on once again.  This time to Highbury Gardens Family Camping Campground, in Kentville, located at approximately the midpoint of Nova Scotia.  This was one of our longer drives, taking about 5 hours.

Our route from July 12th to July 25th 

  In the recently purchased  guidebook “ Exploring Nova Scotia – 400 Unique Adventures and Activities” we learned that this area, Wolfville in particular, has some really wonderful restaurants.  It had been quite a while since we have had a meal out, and not since we left home had we had a true “dining experience”, so we were more than thrilled.   After consulting my ever-dependable website Trip Advisor, we sought out the #1 restaurant in the area which was Front and Central in Wolfville. 

The delicious scallop dish at
Front and Central, Wolfville, NS

We were in heaven!  I started off by having my first alcoholic beverage in over two years which was a gin concoction with beet juice, orange nectar, and a few other strange ingredients I had never heard of.  Beets?  It had to be good for me, right? 

What made this lovely little place special was that they specialized in smaller plates, and suggest you share and order several so you can experience the many exotic flavors.

I had a Spring Vegetable Salad.  Sounds ordinary enough, doesn't it?  Well, it had asparagus, carrot, turnip, peas, goat cheese, parsley, mint, pea tendrils? Crispy quinoa, carrot top, almond pesto and lemon vinaigrette. Gluten free, too.

Norm had the Chive Gnocchi with oyster mushrooms, kale, truffle oil, ricotta, maple and ginger gastrique ( I don’t know what that is, but it sounds like it might hurt ).  We also shared the mussels, scallops pictured above, and finished it off with Vanilla Ice Cream with blood orange infused extra virgin olive oil, pomegranate balsamic vinegar, ( these were from the Liquid Gold oil and vinegar company I previously told you about ) with Malden sea salt.  It sounded very strange, but folks on Trip Advisor raved about it, and we were interested because we had tried these oils in a store.  We certainly wished we bought them, now! It was soooo very good. Worth the spare tires we are now sporting around our tummies!

We talked with the people at the table next to us for quite a while, and the manager spent a lot of time conversing as well.  We had a great time, and a fabulous meal. Three hours later, we headed back, very contented!