Fishers Loft Inn - Port Rexton Canada

A labor of love and exquisite attention to detail by the Fisher family and staff make this a most lovely respite and portal into Newfoundland's warm welcoming folk and wildly wondrous landscapes.

This place is on everyone 's list of must do while in Port Rexton , so we added it to our eating agenda this past weekend. To it 's credit, the restaurant uses all fresh and local fare. As you gaze out the window toward the ocean, you also overlook their garden full of tasty lettuces and edible flowers. Dinner is served as a 4 course prix fixe menu, starting with a little amuse bouche of smoked mussel. Fresh and delicate salad leaves with a hint of EVOO/red wine vinegar dressing is the next course, and if you let it last, you can eat some of the absolutely spectacular sourdough bread with a bit of butter and sea salt with it. The bread appears at the table pretty quickly, and it is pretty irresistible. There was a choice of two mains pork tenderloin with apricot chutney, or blackened salmon, paired with lemon couscous and some steamed green beans. Dessert was a lovely panna cotta. On the whole, dinner was nice. The setting is stunning, restaurant intimate. I guess I wish that the food would have had more flavour and complexity from the mussel, to the salad, to the pork tenderloin. Likely the salmon was the highlight (and that bread! it was delicate, flaky, fresh... but was missing some of that true blackened flavour that should have been there. With the variety of food options popping up around Trinity/Port Rexton/Bonavista these days, Fishers ' Loft has some tough competition to contend with and might want to think about how to step up its food game just a bit.

Ever since I read that the cast of The Shipping News 2002 stayed here during filming in the Bonavista Peninsula, I have yearned to be a guest. My Newfoundland journey in July was everything and more than I expected. The Inn is comprised of several buildings built on a hillside overlooking Ship Cove. The 12 coastal villages outports between New Bonaventure and English Harbour are referred to as the Trinity Bight. There are several price ranges, from moderate to luxury. This is an inn not a B B so meals are a la carte. Cold breakfast gourmet hand made cereals, yoghurt, porridge, fresh fruits, and baked goods is $10 CAD and hot breakfast made to order is $16 CAD. The dining room and living room are large open and welcoming. There is a guest computer and a library of books as well as wide porches and art work on the walls that is catalogued for sale. I enjoyed a cold breakfast each morning and one dinner. The dinner menus change daily and are posted on chalkboards and in the public rooms all for a set $55 CAD. The interior dining area includes a small bar and it is open until 10 ish. The food is locally sourced or grown in their extensive gardens. Very good value for the area, too. While I must give this property 5 stars, there are a few things that need mentioning. As elsewhere in NL, there is a paucity of information offered one must ask. There was very little info in the rooms. On the second morning, I asked if I could have coffee earlier than 8 am, the start of breakfast service. I learned that if you are having breakfast, they will bring you a thermos a coffee with cream and sugar and a mug to your room at your requested hour. I asked if I could have items laundered there was a bag in the closet and learned it was $13 CAD a load and delivered the next morning. I made a few visits to the Reception Area the Mansard building only to find a paper sign on the door that they were closed there are no hours posted. But calling 0 would also bring a response. I found that hotels and B Bs in NL may not even have shampoo, just a bar of soap. Fishers ' has L 'Occitane products but no Q tips or cotton balls. There is no signage re: towels but I left those to be changed on the floor and they were taken but not replaced .. there were extras in the room. The pillows were feather .. I have learned to pack my own IKEA support pillow when I travel. The inn is adjacent to the Skerwink Trail named by Travel Leisure Mag among the top 10 hiking trails in Canada but I had to ask for a map at Reception and it is rudimentary. The whole experience of being a guest at Fishers ' is so enjoyable and unique that I overlooked these minor things. There are trails that wander up through the wild plantings to the main buildings. The Skerwink is the most amazing and accessible trail I have ever walked. I did it three days in a row with a packed bag of fruit, muffins, water and a book. This is a place where you cannot help but slow down, observe, listen, smell, and just be at peace. The only lodging place I will re visit on the Bonavista!

Flawless experience. Knew of the inn restaurant through an acquaintance who is building a cottage in Port Rexton. All he said was It 's good. I called for a reservation for dinner that night, but they were booked, but said they would call if there was a cancellation. Five minutes later, we got the call. We were on. Once there we were struck by the beauty of the property and buildings. It looked like the architecture was from the 19th Century. We subsequently learned the oldest building was from 1997. But you can read about the inn and see pretty pictures on Google. This review is about the restaurant, which overlooks the town. The choice was fish (cod) or meat. I chose the cod but asked if I could substitute for the mashed potatoes. No worries. Got delicious small boiled potatoes. Everything was farm and sea to table. Service was impeccable and not at all pretentious. Good wine selections. Sinful desert. All done by local girls trained by chefs. Hard to find a meal more satisfying in its simplicity and setting.

I want to live here. The staff were all so kind, from the gardener to the cleaning lady. The decor, the views, the in-room amenities were all super...even the walking sticks behind the door and the binoculars on the windowsill. We had breakfasts and a dinner here. Could have been Michelin starred.