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Summer Savoury will add some flavour to The Guardian every Friday. Bob Gray welcomes comments from readers. He can be reached at bgray@pei.sympatico.ca or can be found ...

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• By popular demand
  Civilization has at long last come to Charlottetown.Civilization in the form of the widely acknowledged best pizza on Prince Edward Island, that ...
• A meal that tastes just right
  As the days dwindle down to a precious few (how maudlin!) and summer prepares to bid adieu (uh oh, a rhyme, even worse), it’s a scramble to try ...
• Gluten-free goodness at the Kitchen Witch
  So, what’s with all of the “gluten-free” notation on menus across the Island these days?It’s all about celiac disease, which is a condition that ...
• Great meal for a great price at Brehaut’s
  With all the hoopla over the Stanley Cup paying a P.E.I. visit, courtesy of Cornwall’s (and the Boston Bruins’) Adam McQuaid, we got to thinking ...
• Go where the Islanders go
  It’s all well and nice to have all these wonderful restaurant choices for the tourists in the summer, but visitors often have a question after ...
• Make it a point to land at The Landing Pub
  Short version: The Landing pub in Tyne Valley is alive and well after being reopened by two sharp young local owners, it serves good food at ...
• Seoul Food good for the soul — and appetite
  What a difference an ‘e’ makes.There I was, heading for Seoul Food and thinking the only soul food I know is fried chicken, hush puppies, ...
• Sandals an unexpected gem-of-a-restaurant
  Hummus as a starter, sautéed bananas in phyllo pastry with chocolate cream as a dessert, and beautiful light chicken pasta dish in between. ...
• The Pearl Café a true gem
  North Shore denizens know all about The Pearl Cafe, a classic Island farmhouse nestled innocuously on Route 6, halfway between Cavendish and ...
• Superb food on the menu at new Daniel Brenan Brickhouse
  Once upon a time, starting in the 1980s, Charlottetown’s Off Broadway was the trendiest restaurant around. If you wanted a quiet and ...
• Savour the flavour
  You’re sitting in your hotel room in Charlottetown on a quiet morning. Or maybe you’re in your downtown office and wish you weren’t.Where do you ...
• Asian food grabbing foothold in the Charlottetown...
  Ah, Island cuisine. What could be better?And is there a better great-restaurant-per-capita place in the country than Charlottetown?Scallops, ...
• The real deal
  There I am last week in an official Culinary Institute of Canada apron and chef's hat, with a dozen enthusiastic people who appear to actually ...
• One thing is for certain, have your wallet at the...
  As Summer Savoury wraps up for the year, there have been some consistent trends appearing in the Island dining scene. Probably the one which ...
• Go for the Gusto
  There are worse things to do than to sit in the big comfy leather easy chairs at Gusto, gazing out on the streetscape on a glorious late summer ...
• Ship to Shore still a terrific choice
  Ship to Shore in Darnley had one heck of an opening season last year — glowing reviews all across the region and crowds every night for ...
• ‘One of the better values of the season’ at the...
  The Stanhope Beach Resort has had a definite resurrection in the last couple of years, and their food service is no exception.The famed resort is ...
• Plenty of food for thought
  In an effort to improve our minds as well as our bellies, the other day we gathered up a couple of pre-teen nieces and headed off to the 18th ...
• Carr's Oyster Bar a place to have fun
  Let's get one thing clear right at the beginning - if you can't have fun at Carr's Oyster Bar, you can't have fun. We wandered into the ...
• Globe World Flavours enjoy prime city location
  For me, four factors go into evaluating a restaurant experience. In order, they are food, service, location and price. Price, even though last ...
• Savour the steak at Sims Corner Steakhouse & Oyster Bar
  We paid a visit to Sims Corner Steakhouse & Oyster Bar in Charlottetown recently to check out the impact of some changes there. First, Ross ...
• Sir Isaacs Restaurant serves great chowder
  We have an early leader in this year's quest for the best chowder on the Island - Sir Isaac's Restaurant (and Mister Gabe's Pub) in Montague. ...
• Fresh peach pie and so much more
  As I gazed into the face of the first luscious piece of peach pie poised on my fork, I had reason to pause. Georgia? Florida? California? From ...
• Delicious choices at Sutherlands
  All good things must come to an end, and this is the final Summer Savoury column for this season. All summer we've been wanting to try ...
• Tasty seafood served up right around the corner
  I am always being asked to recommend a place to go in Charlottetown for a good seafood dining experience. Really, it's a tough town to go wrong ...
• Definitely worth doing lunch at Leonhards
  It used to be in Charlottetown that the fire horn went at noon time every day so people would know when to knock off and go eat dinner. That's ...
• Shaws Hotel retains all the charm of the past in 2009
  Driving up to Shaw's Hotel in Brackley Beach is like going through a time warp. The farther you go down the lane, the farther back in the past ...
• Moving right to dessert
  Let's see now. What's my favourite part of a meal? After a period of deep introspection and plumbing my inner soul for a glimmer of an answer, ...
• A delicious surprise in Darnley
  "I'm sorry, we've had a very busy day, and we are out of the trout, the Oysters Rockefeller and the hake, but we have some great fresh halibut ...
• Dig into some great food at Clam Diggers Beach House...
  So, this is all about two things - snow crab and chowder. There are lots of other goodies on the menu at Clam Diggers Beach House and Restaurant ...