Sometimes It’s Just About the Food

 The Smallest Places Sometimes Have The Biggest Surprise

On Friday July 15th we headed off to Picton Ontario which would be a 32 mile cruise from Kingston which was half way to Trenton which is the beginning of the Trent Severn Heritage Canal system. We were on a high from getting over a major hurdle. We arrived at the town marina around 1 pm. Sue took advantage of some down time while I explored the town.

It turns out Picton is a small quiet town that is beginning to boom from many moving out of Toronto discarding city life for a quieter pace. On my ride I found a local butcher shop which was loaded with shop made sausages, stuffed chicken breast and pea meal bacon. For those of you who have never had peameal bacon you are mossing out. It is another Canadian thing. It is a cured pork loin rolled in cornmeal. You slice it about 1/8” thick and pan fry it in a bit of butter. You then do one of two things with it.

You eat it like bacon with your eggs or you make some toast and slice up a garden fresh tomato and lettuce for a BLT the likes of which you have never tasted. It has a salty porky flavor that is to die for. So we loaded up with protein provisions and headed back to the boat to begin happy hour. We got a tip on a local restaurant that we stopped at earlier and were lucky enough to score a reservation at the bar. The restaurant was called Barcados, a Spanish tapas restaurant. We sat down and were immediately greeted by a friendly bartender.

He asked the appropriate questions about what we liked and quickly got us some drinks. He offered to order us a flight of food from the menu  that he promised would wow us. We cut him loose and the gastronomic adventure began. Let remind you Picton is a small rural Canadian town. We went from Tapas to dessert. When finished we both said it was easily on of the top five meals we have ever had. This place without a doubt is a Michelin Star quality restaurant. We learned that up till 2022 Canada was not included in the prestigious restaurant  rating company. This one will surely make the list in short order. 

White anchovy toast

This was the main which was some type of heritage pork

Sushimi tuna

Yes we even had dessert!