Our story
We call what happens here elevated fun: food taken seriously by people who decline to take themselves too seriously.
A pharmacist’s house. Dosithé Guéguin commissions a three-storey house on Main Street: Gothic Revival, disguised as a humble family home.
A monastery, for the Frères de l’instruction chrétienne, then the Rogers family home for nearly fifty years, then a French boulangerie run by a Parisian couple.
Sébastien Després and Heather Wright take the keys and rebuild: a commercial kitchen, a well-stocked bar, and, later, a pâtisserie upstairs. The bistro opens on 15 September.
Défi des Chefs, Grand Prize, eight months in, for a Bouilli de Cochon Cotchiné made Séb’s grandmother’s way, with heritage summer savoury from the family garden.
Condé Nast Traveler comes to Shediac and writes about us.
Ten lobster dishes, a house beer, a 240-bottle cellar, and more than five thousand games. The clocks still read 6:05.
Close to home
Most of what reaches the plate has a name and a road behind it.
The ecosystem
A B&B in an 1896 villa, a chocolatier, a drive-in under the stars, a smokehouse, a Friday market, and three festivals, all a few minutes apart.
