Wine & Culinary
Wining and dining in Chatham-Kent is a delicious experience for the visitor interested in sampling local flavours.
Steak and seafood houses, authentic ethnic restaurants, and traditional eateries accent quality cuisine with the area’s bountiful harvest, supporting the initiative to ‘Buy Local, Buy Fresh.’
Creative chefs add their flare to fresh fish caught from surrounding lakes and bays at waterfront restaurants like Molly and OJ’s in the Village of Erieau. Restaurants also utilize locally grown vegetables and fruit to accent their dishes at eateries such as Italian-inspired Rossini’s Restaurant and the Breakfast House and Grill restaurant, also known as Churrascaria, featuring Portuguese flavors.
Many of Chatham-Kent’s dining destinations also highlight the fruitfulness of the region’s local award-winning winery, Smith & Wilson Estate Wines.
Wine connoisseurs can sip wines and enjoy the stunning view of the 50-acre vineyard that leads down to Lake Erie. Smith & Wilson wines are made from the grapes grown at the vineyard, providing local authenticity in every bottle.
Smith & Wilson Estate Wines is located in the middle of the Lake Erie North Shore wine region. They have been producing and supplying grapes to wineries for over 25 years. In 2005, they opened our own winery. As a small family-owned winery, their philosophy is to prepare small batch, quality wines to be enjoyed with family and friends. The vineyards are grown on a third generation century farm, with the vines growing on a gently sloping gravel ridge that falls to meet the north shore of Lake Erie. With these wonderful conditions Smith & Wilson are able to produce vintages of exceptional quality.
http://smithandwilsonestatewines.ca/