Chez Charmanda offers Garden Delacicies

Your intrepid restaurant reviewers recently had the pleasure of dining at Chez Charmanda. Located among the pines and sumac of the Roberts homestead in picturesque Caradoc township, the cosy rustic log timbered eatery opened just this morning. Propreitors Charlene Roberts and Amanda McCartney have created a fine dining experience in a charming rural setting.

As we were led to our intimate windowside table we could not help but admire the artistically arranged native sunflower leaf and deep pink petunia table arrangement. We were first served a delicious bread balls on mint leaves appetizer, by charming hostess Amanda. The next course, served in an antique cast iron saucepan with wooden stirrer, was a delicious wild rice and Queen Anne's lace petal stew, adorned with a wide variety of native flora. Not a strictly vegetarian dish, since it also includes flowers.

During our meal, hostess Charlene displayed for us one of the region's more interesting fauna, an adolescent Monarch pupa. Miss Roberts then returned the pupa to its milkweed residence adjoining Chez Charmanda.

Dining at Chez Charmanda is by reservation only. The seasonal menu varies but can be counted on to provide a unique and stimulating dining experience. Your reviewers enthusiastically recommend Chez Charmanda and thank the Misses McCartney and Roberts for allowing us to be their establishment's first guests.

Bon Appetit!

August 1, 1999
Carol and Ken Roberts