Review for Lobster Gables Restaurant in St. Andrews, Canada

For dinner, we went to the restaurant Lobster Gables on Main Street.

Lobster Gables entry

We sat out on the patio with a beautiful view over the bay.

Most times, I only order seafood or clam chowder, because my traveling companions tend to order full platters. Supersize me, everytime…. dinners tend to be big, especially the side of french fries. When I asked the waitress about it, she said, “People pay a lot for their food, so they expect a lot of food.” Remember this as a guideline: the side dishes mentioned in very fine print tend to be the biggest part of your meal.

Anyway, back to the restaurant. The service and menu were very good. We had seafood chowder, a BLT sandwich, a fish platter, and shrimp.

seafood chowder

seafood chowder

There are quite a few restaurants on Main Street, most of them facing the water. But this one you can’t miss if you look for their sign.

Lobster Gables in St. Andrews

Lobster Gables in St. Andrews

The entryway to the back patio is lined with typical maritime knick-knacks such as lobster buoys.

lobster buoys

The best part of the dinner though was my suggestion to have a pitcher of Sangria! I saw two ladies at a neighbouring table having one and they looked very happy. When I asked them about it, they immediately toasted to us, so I knew I wanted that stuff too.

Sangria

My husband was not too keen on it and I learned, after having been married to him for 23 years, that he had never even tried Sangria. I have to admit, I’m a bit of a late bloomer myself, because I had Sangria on Mallorca (November 2012) for the very first time myself.

The end of the story is – we ordered a pitcher of Sangria and we ended up looking as happy as the two ladies at the other table. My husband liked it so much, I’m beginning to think I should make it myself on hot summer nights on our balcony in Germany.

 

So if you stop by the Lobster Gables, try their pitcher of Sangria (27 CAN$).

On the Road in Canada – St. Andrews

This is our fourth move in four days, so yes, we have the tendency to leave our suitcases unpacked. Just give me a chair to hoist my suitcase on, and I’ll take it from there.

St. Andrews is a quaint little town and a bit touristy. It’s a busy place on the weekend, but the roads and sidewalks are quite deserted by Sunday evening when the last of the tourists have left.

This is St. Andrews on a lazy Saturday afternoon, right around lunch time.

St. Andrews Main Street

St. Andrews mural

Sunday morning, I had the wonderful idea for all of us to walk around town a bit in 33 C temps. After 2 1/2 hours of treking, we finally reached the eatery “The Clam Digger”, where we stopped to have lunch and rest our tired body and semi-fried brain.

According to the family, this was the best seafood they’ve had so far. For once, I tried something different from seafood. I had a BBQ Pulled  Pork Burger, which I had not had for almost 30 years.

BBQ Pulled Pork sandwich

BBQ Pulled Pork sandwich

When I ordered the food, I also asked the server if she could call us a cab. Neither one of us was able nor willing to walk back to the inn. “This will cost you an arm and a leg!”, she said. Just then, a customer behind us offered us a ride back into town.

What a relief! I mean, I would have gladly paid an arm and a leg if I thought I had any extremities left. But it was the kindness of the man to take complete strangers into his car, which restored any tired thoughts I might have had earlier.

Then the gentleman asked his friends to split up our group in two cars. My daughter and I ended up with a lobster fishing couple for very good company.

We were so glad to see our inn again. So were our feet when they saw the bed.

For dinner, we went to the restaurant  “Lobster Gables” on Main Street. What a treat! More about that in the next post.

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