A few years ago when Nash and I were underemployed, we’d walk past Actinolite and joked that one day we would go there when we could afford it. Though we’ve had just as fancy meals already, I finally remembered to actually go here so we did it for our Christmas dinner date.
We chose to do the full Chef’s Menu and the wine pairing. The first was a beautiful apple salad.
Then there was a snack of salmon and capers.
I couldn’t stop eating the perfect sourdough bread and butter from the town of Actinolite, a town in Central Ontario.
This dish of root vegetables (beets, pickled onion, turnip & more) was flavourful and delicious
Jerusalem artichoke sat delicately above oysters.
Hen of the woods in elderberry and pine butter was probably our favourite dish.
This was a duck dish, but I ate it before I took a photo. It was just that good!
I did not know carrots could be elevated so much until I had these blackened ones.
This ice cream with butternut squash and toasted lichen was a lovely complex dessert.
Finishing off the night were these biscuits with marshmallow.
This meal was definitely worth the wait and our years-long excitement of going here!
Tiana Feng 