The towns and surrounding areas of east Manitoba are filled with hidden gems,
quaint places to eat and lots of fun activities making it the perfect weekend getaway.
We chose to stay at Moon Gate Guest House which is a really cool property
near Whitemouth and Elma it's right on the Whitemouth River which offers
lots of different options for getting out and exploring the natural surroundings.
Very relaxing out here. It's nice to be able to just kind of sit and we can hear all the
birds and it's nice to sit by the river it's not something that we're ever able to do in the city.
It's just very peaceful
The guest house itself is also amazing it has a few different
options for rooms and it's just super peaceful and
relaxing.
We wanted a space where people could come and disconnect from their busy lives, and
come and feel that timelessness here. And
so, put their phone away, connect with themselves, connect with each other, and just enjoy the space
One of Moon Gate's can't-miss experiences is their artisan pizza night on Fridays.
They have a great selection of wood-fired pizzas to choose from as well as many other fresh from
the garden food options. Hi, how are you? Good, how are you? I'm good thank you. We would like
to order two pizzas. So we want to order the Hang Loose and the Coop du Jour. It's a salad
made with fresh lettuce from my garden and some feta cheese and tomatoes. And I made a homemade
greek salad dressing. Then the dessert is rhubarb platz, which is a fresh rhubarb for my garden and
it's kind of like a coffee cake. Yeah I think we'll do it all. And you don't have to be a
guest to enjoy pizza night; people come from all over, including Winnipeg, for these yummy pizzas.
It's amazing. It's like super hot and cheesy and the chicken is super juicy which makes me feel a
little bit bad because of... you know, this guy down here. But man is that good. I got the Hang
Loose, which is essentially pineapple, ham, feta cheese and there's some jalapeno peppers in there,
locally grown. Honestly one of the best pizzas I've had in a long long time so so good.
And
no chicken!
So this is a fresh salad. Seriously I think they listed it on the menu as
one of the freshest salads around. It's pretty accurate. Oh so good
All right, platz going in.
I like the crunchy sugar, I guess that's brown sugar maybe or raw sugar.
The fresh rhubarb; so tasty. And I feel like there's some shortbread
vibes in the crust or something it's got that butteriness. Really the perfect summer cake.
The main thing is every single bite of food I've had so far has been amazing.
Will this be a you break it you buy it situation. Or will it be a you break it you build it
situation. In which case we're in deep deep trouble.
The next morning we got up and had an awesome breakfast in the guesthouse kitchen. Staying
at Moon Gate means delicious local foods for breakfast, you get wood fired sourdough baked on
site, homemade jams and Trail's End coffee beans which are roasted nearby in the town of Elma.
You'll find other goodies in the fridge as well and of course you can bring your own food too.
Going tubing! We ARE going tubing. Two and a half hours of sitting our butts in water.
Nice and clean. No trip to the area would be complete without a tubing
adventure and there's plenty of water to float on. including the Whitemouth River
very close to where we stayed. We chose the Pinawa Channel, which is a two and a half hour,
mostly leisurely, journey and a perfect way to spend a summer afternoon with your friends.
You can bring your own tube and lots of people do, but we recommend renting if you can.
You'll get a high quality, tough tube; it's relatively inexpensive and a super
easy experience. There are several places to choose from. We went with Wilderness Edge.
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After our day of tubing and fun on the river we were starving. There are lots of options
to eat right in Pinawa, but we opted to drive 15 minutes to check out The Dam,
a little restaurant we'd heard about in Seven Sisters Falls and we were very happy we did.
I think it's just tomato, bacon, cheese, pickles, lettuce, mayo. It's a classic.
There's a nostalgic flavor here. It's like you're growing up burger.
Yeah this is very very very tasty with your classic delicious taco salad with all sorts
of good veggies and spicy tasty beef. It's really really good. I love that. Right now
we are on the Seven Sisters Falls trail, we are just wandering through the woods hoping
we don't get eaten by a bear and hoping that we will see something cool at the end. We just had
a great bite to eat at The Dam Restaurant in Seven Sisters Falls; very very delicious lovely little
place to have a bite to eat. So we're hoping to find falls but no guarantees. No guarantee.
We're now in Whitemouth Provincial Park and we are still hoping we will see some
falls. We passed the generating station, which was really neat, and yeah it's a lovely evening
The trail ended exactly as we'd hoped with an absolutely gorgeous view.
What a great way to end our day. After waking up and having a nice slow morning we decided to
check out another local gem before wrapping up our trip. The Spicy Radish is an amazing
cafe right in the town of Whitemouth and we'd heard rave reviews about it.
That's great. I don't think there's anything better on a really really hot day
So it's an open-faced I think it's a piece of maybe sourdough or some kind of bread,
but it's got sliced chicken, melted brie cheese, spinach, and then a cranberry sauce,
and i feel like there's oh there's also caramelized onions underneath.
It's delicious. The caramelized onion spread I think makes like, really makes
the sandwich. It's really really tasty and the chicken is also like really tender and juicy.
Can't go wrong. Delicious. So this is a crispy chicken burger. Just your classic ingredients,
tomato, lettuce, probably a mayo maybe a spiced mayo, the bun feels extra fresh and soft.
That's so good. Very savory, salty. Chicken is very tender and fresh. So good. Okay, so the beet
salad has golden beets, cranberries, feta cheese, and then it is a vinaigrette dressing of some kind
and fresh greens.
And that is also a huge win.
We were on a bit of a quest for ice cream yesterday and unfortunately it didn't work
out just because we were a little bit late in the day and things were closing up. So,
lo and behold, today we noticed a freezer here and just like a gleaming beautiful prize
in the freezer we found these delightful ice cream sandwiches.
Oh my god.
Oh my god that's the best.
Last but certainly not least we popped into
Sophie's in Hadashville to grab some traditional Ukrainian perogies for
home.
We've got 12 potato and cheddar, potato and cheese
I assume it's cheddar, perogies. I'm super excited to have these later.
We loved our time in east Manitoba and can't wait to get back as soon
as we can to explore more of this beautiful part of the province.
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