Local gems among 150 top eateries

Advertisement

Advertise with us

Seven Manitoba restaurants glitter among the 150 best neighbourhood gems in Canada, according to a list compiled by online-reservation service OpenTable Inc.

Read this article for free:


or

Already have an account? Log in here »

To continue reading, please subscribe:

Subscribe and receive a limited-edition Free Press branded hat or tote.

Digital Subscription

One year of digital access for only $205*

  • Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
  • Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
  • Access News Break, our award-winning app
  • Play interactive puzzles

*First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST every 52 weeks (10% off the regular annual price of $259.35). Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.

To continue reading, please subscribe:

Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional

$1 for the first 4 weeks*

  • Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
  • Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
  • Access News Break, our award-winning app
  • Play interactive puzzles
Start now

*Your next Brandon Sun subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $17.95 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $24.95 plus GST every four weeks.

Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 05/04/2017 (3416 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Seven Manitoba restaurants glitter among the 150 best neighbourhood gems in Canada, according to a list compiled by online-reservation service OpenTable Inc.

Winnipeg eateries Café Carlo (243 Lilac St.), Chaise Café and Lounge (271 Provencher Blvd.), Corrientes Argentine Pizzeria (137 Bannatyne Ave.), Peasant Cookery (283 Bannatyne Ave.), Pizzeria Gusto (404 Academy Rd.) and Promenade Café and Wine (130 Provencher Blvd.) and Pineridge Hollow in the RM of Springfield made the list “for serving up delicious food, warm hospitality and friendly atmosphere that keeps the community coming back for more,” OpenTable said Tuesday in a release.

The top 150 (created to help mark Canada’s 150th birthday this summer) reflects the combined opinions of more than 480,000 reviews submitted in 2016 by verified OpenTable diners for more than 2,000 restaurants in Canada, the San Francisco-based service said.

Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files
Shawn Brandson says a 'neighbourhood gem' is exactly what he wants his restaurant, Promenade Café and Wine, to be.
Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files Shawn Brandson says a 'neighbourhood gem' is exactly what he wants his restaurant, Promenade Café and Wine, to be.

It is the sort of accolade Shawn Brandson, owner of Promenade Café, said he’s happy to receive.

“To be in the top 150, based on the positive reviews… it is great to get that recognition, because it is from our customers,” said Brandson, who has been using OpenTable since 2006 (with Promenade signing on in 2011).

“We want to be a restaurant in St. Boniface serving the community of St. Boniface, as well as Winnipeg and tourists… a ‘neighbourhood gem’ is exactly what we want to be.”

Ontario had the greatest number of representatives on the list of Canada’s 150 neighbourhood gems, with 68. Alberta was next with 37, followed by B.C. (22), Quebec (15), Manitoba, Saskatchewan (two) and Nova Scotia (one).

“The restaurants highlighted on this list illustrate the variety of local tastes across the country as neighbourhoods in Canada become more diverse,” Ziv Schierau of OpenTable Canada said.

According to its website, OpenTable (which was founded in 1998) provides reservation services to more than 40,000 restaurants in more than 20 countries, linking them to some 21 million diners a month.

Report Error Submit a Tip

More Stories

Judge dials up two years’ probation for ‘prolific’ 911 harasser

Dean Pritchard 3 minute read Preview

Judge dials up two years’ probation for ‘prolific’ 911 harasser

Dean Pritchard 3 minute read 5:33 PM CDT

A “prolific” 911 caller has been sentenced to two years of supervised probation after admitting to calling emergency services nearly 200 times when there was no emergency.

Kenneth Jarvis, 53, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of making repeated harassing phone calls between November 2021 and April of this year.

“Mr. Jarvis is a prolific caller to emergency services, generating numerous unfounded calls for service and this was causing a strain on Winnipeg Police Service officers tasked to attend to determine what was going on,” Crown attorney Nancy Fazenda told provincial court Judge Robert Heinrichs.

Jarvis was arrested in April and released on bail, then rearrested and taken into custody June 21 when he again called 911 without cause. Jarvis was arrested in possession of crack cocaine.

Read
5:33 PM CDT

Manitoba-made technology earns faith of investors across Canada

Gabrielle Piché 4 minute read Preview

Manitoba-made technology earns faith of investors across Canada

Gabrielle Piché 4 minute read Yesterday at 2:00 AM CDT

Blue light flashed as a robotic arm welded the metal in front of it.

Unlike other robots of its kind, this one uses artificial intelligence. It’s supposed to see and adjust its movements if a part it’s working on doesn’t match the standard piece.

It’s Manitoba-made technology that investors across Canada are betting on. TetraGen Robotics, the technology’s creator, announced it had raised $1.8 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round.

It announced the funding Monday afternoon. Jim Richardson, from the family behind Richardson International, is among the investors listed online.

Read
Yesterday at 2:00 AM CDT

Winnipeg couple feels flush after highway porta-potty scare

Nicole Buffie 3 minute read Preview

Winnipeg couple feels flush after highway porta-potty scare

Nicole Buffie 3 minute read Yesterday at 5:29 PM CDT

Talk about a crappy situation.

Two Winnipeg seniors were driving on the Trans-Canada Highway Monday afternoon when they collided with an unlikely projectile: a porta-potty.

Ed and Helen Toews were driving to their cottage in Sioux Narrows from Kenora, Ont., when a portable toilet came loose from the bed of a passing truck and launched into their car.

Ed Toews, 87, was sitting in the passenger seat when a flash of green came into his line of sight.

Read
Yesterday at 5:29 PM CDT

A Winnipeg home with a mountain view? You won’t find a real one, but AI-generated visual suggests otherwise

Gabrielle Piché 6 minute read Preview

A Winnipeg home with a mountain view? You won’t find a real one, but AI-generated visual suggests otherwise

Gabrielle Piché 6 minute read Yesterday at 6:03 PM CDT

Manitoba’s mountain range peeked out behind a Scotia Street home.

At least, it did in a photo attached to a real estate listing for 232 Scotia St. in Winnipeg’s (flat) Seven Oaks neighbourhood.

Another picture — now removed — showed a cartoon cityscape viewable from the bungalow’s front porch.

Both photos had tags in their bottom left corners: “AI-generated content.”

Read
Yesterday at 6:03 PM CDT

Teen in former police vehicle menaces car enthusiasts’ event, earns home visit, warning from police

Morgan Modjeski 4 minute read Preview

Teen in former police vehicle menaces car enthusiasts’ event, earns home visit, warning from police

Morgan Modjeski 4 minute read 5:00 PM CDT

A 17-year-old who attached red and blue flashing lights to the back window of a former police vehicle Sunday night got a visit from real city officers Monday who gave him a warning, as well as a $174 ticket for having illegally tinted windows.

The Winnipeg Police Service was advised on Monday of a video circulating online that showed a white Ford Explorer with the flashing in its rear window in a parking lot on Sage Creek Boulevard Sunday night.

Investigators were able to identify the vehicle’s owner.

The teen said he did it on a dare from his friends.

Read
5:00 PM CDT

Missing pet tortoise found at Oak Hammock Marsh

Zoe Pierce 3 minute read Preview

Missing pet tortoise found at Oak Hammock Marsh

Zoe Pierce 3 minute read Yesterday at 6:58 PM CDT

Nobody at Oak Hammock Marsh expected to find an African spurred tortoise wandering through the wetlands. Least of all one that had travelled more than 20 kilometres from home to get there.

Read
Yesterday at 6:58 PM CDT