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Black Johnnie's Kitchen

5.0 (2 reviews)
Closed • 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

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3 years ago

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5 years ago

Food is always amazing and fresh, courteous and friendly staff make it a joy to visit.

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Maple Cedar - Chicken shawarma wrap

Maple Cedar

4.5(6 reviews)
87.0 km

From the outside it just looks like a plain store amongst other small stores in a little strip…read moremall. Inside is also not that impressive. You can see the partial kitchen through the front counter and a man was busy cooking, with a large doner kebab slowly spinning. For me, this was all promising. There were enough people coming in for take outs, mostly doner I'm guessing it's easier for people to eat when they are running around or busy. There was a young man manning the counter and he also was a server. He was polite and helpful. We really enjoyed the food! I am from Philadelphia, and we go crazy over a Lebanese restaurant, Saad's (esp in West Philly). I am going to say something that will get me attacked. This Maple Cedar exceeded Saad's! The flavour was spot on, nothing was greasy, everything tasted fresh. If I lived here I would probably eat here often.

One of the benefits of living in your hometown for the first time in basically 20 years is that you…read moreget to try out the restaurants you don't have the chance to on quick visits when you're mostly hitting hold favourites (re. stuffing my face full of Pictou County-style pizza). When my wife and I found ourselves looking for a quick dinner on early on in the week when fewer restos are open, we made our way over to Maple Cedar. Having come from Ottawa, which in addition to being the national capital of the country is also the shawarma capital, it was a bit weird how few shawarma places there are in the area. The menu leans in a mostly traditional Middle Eastern direction, although they do have pizza, donairs and garlic fingers too. We went with the shawarma ($15) and falafel platters ($15) for dine-in. It was nice to see a flow of customers, despite it being a Tuesday, and our food was in front of us in good time. My shawarma platter had thick pieces of chicken on top of a bed of savoury rice. I would have liked to see a mix of white and dark meat and some crispy bits, but it still had a nice, rich flavour and was moist and tender. Of note, the garlic sauce had more of a aioli-like texture than toum normally does. It tasted fine, but this would anger Lebanese friends of mine. The falafel platter had a generous serving of eight of the crispy chickpea fritters. The platter's composition made it a sort of build-your-own wrap, with sides of tomato, shredded romaine, pickled turnip and tahini with pita. We found the tahini a bit bland, but the falafel were spot on and not at all greasy. A container of baklava ($10) that we took home was flaky, savoury and sweet, and had the most noticeable flavour of orange/rose water I've ever had in baklava. On a return visit, I went for something quick and easy to-go, the large shawarma wrap ($11). After a short wait after a few others, I had my shawarma and classily ate in my car. It had a lovely and crisp exterior from the griddle/sandwich press, plus more traditional ingredients than most shawarma places - chicken, toum, pickled turnips and the clincher - fries. No salad in these bad boys! If they had a better toum, it would be a front runner for the best shawarma wrap that I've had in the province. Maple Cedar may have a broad menu to appeal to a smaller customer base that's less familiar with Middle Eastern food than big markets, but they're still doing right by their culinary origins.

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Maple Cedar - Chicken shawarma platter

Chicken shawarma platter

Maple Cedar - Falafel platter (pita not pictured)

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Falafel platter (pita not pictured)

Village Square Takeout - Beautiful view from this spot under the late afternoon sunshine.

Village Square Takeout

5.0(2 reviews)
112.4 km

Fantastic fish and chips hand made! I would recommend highly to anyone. clean and capable of groups…read moreas well. It's licensed too!

This spot was reco'd to me by a server at a bar/restaurant in nearby Sackville when I snuck out of…read morelockdown to enjoy a beer and 'za in the depths of the pandy. She said, "Call ahead to make sure she had 'em", which I thought was good advice, especially since Village is at the corner of two roads in the middle of nowhere, New Brunswick. What were we talking about? Lobster rolls, that what! The NB specialty and something to be asking about wherever you go in Canada's only bilingual province. When I visited again in April of 2022 I didn't forget about Village, although I didn't have a chance to phone ahead, I went anyway. "I only serve them on Sundays", was the reply to my question about the cute little sammies, and it wasn't Sunday unfortunately. So I had the next best thing, their signature two pieces of fish and chips. It was delightful! Nicely battered fish was tender and flaky. Perfect! They have a cute little dining area inside the building where you can look out over the intersection with plenty of blue sky to be seen and very little else, quite the relaxing place to eat. There is also a patio at the back and plenty of parking too!

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Village Square Takeout - Menu. This place was reco'd to me for the lobster rolls. The fish and chips was amazing! Lobster rolls only available on Sundays.

Menu. This place was reco'd to me for the lobster rolls. The fish and chips was amazing! Lobster rolls only available on Sundays.

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