What a day!!!
LP/JL picked us up from the KOA and toured us around the town. It is really quaint with lots of churches, old period homes that really set the historical feel of the town itself. We then parked the car at their place and walked into town with JL giving us the background on the commerce and industrial history of Gananoque. It was a great tour!
Then off to the family restaurant, the Pistachio Cafe. The history of the building we will describe shortly, but the interior of the cafe, designed by the family, was really great. The colour scheme of the exterior and interior are all colours of the pistachio nut. Exterior the colour of the shell. Interior the colour of fuchsia (that little hint of fuchsia on the nut itself) and of course the green. They are a vegetarian cafe serving soups/sandwiches for lunch. They also have a great selection of gelato and sorbet’s. We sat outside on the best patio in town! Food and company were both excellent!
We strongly suggest a visit there if you are in town. Their website is www.pistachiocafe.ca.
The history of the building, sorry JL I am not going to get your story perfect here, is really interesting. When they purchased the building had a store in front and an apartment in back on the first floor. The second floor had 2 apartments, which they have fully renovated. They decided to gut the main apartment to make a kitchen for the cafe which would be in the front, and when they did they discovered that the building exterior was in fact a separate exterior from the original building. In other words someone had built a whole knew building and roof around the original, and not right up against it! It was around 4-5 feet away from the original building! Picture below showing you the space.
As you can see we had a really nice time visiting and enjoying what Gananoque has to offer. GREAT DAY!