Great butcher. Very nice people. The best, beautifully…read moremarbled steaks that I have purchased in years.

If you love a great steak, Big Daddy's is the place to go!…read moreStopped in our way to the cottage and what an amazing selection of fresh cut meats. The ribeyes are amazing! The chicken is better than any I've had from others. Love their chicken pot pies. We ended up getting our whole week's worth of meat there. Couldn't resist the hamburger patties and the back bacon. We even picked up a few items to keep frozen for when guests come up. This butcher shop is hands down the best in MUSKOKA!

Similar to the metro in liberty village Toronto reviewed by me. However this time there is food…read morestains linoleum and a pervasive sense of cold that probably is a test of your hardy Canadian-ness. Regardless the food selection is expansive as usual, of good quality and easy to find

Surprisingly good…read more Not many places are open Sunday evening in the area and this is clearly the best available. That being said it's not really settling as it's solid on its own. Calamari had an Indian twist with tandoori whole wheat flour & soya roasted sesame seed sauce was surprisingly good. It's rings only which is a shame since tentacles are better. Also shows that these are previously frozen. Butter Chicken with steamed rice & wilted spinach, served with pickled vegetables & garlic naan was excellent and authentic. The chefs are Indian and we were told this was their personal recipe from home. Risotto Button & shiitake mushrooms with fresh parmesan is apparently a dish that has been on since they started and it was definitely good. Slow Roasted Lamb Shank with red pepper jelly, mustard seed, roasted vegetables & red-skin smashed potatoes was surprisingly a touch sweet and one of the best lamb shanks I've had. Overall great meal. Ambiance is casual.

This was a neat piece as the kitchen was open and you can see all 3 guys by the stove making…read moredelicious food for us. I also went here for my birthday dinner and quality was good and staff was also kind.

Located close to Sir Sam's Ski Hill, this quaint country market has popular brands and delicious…read morehomemade meals, too. We loved their fresh savoury pies. Definitely recommend their chicken curry pie-- it's mild, so don't worry about it being too spicy. The prices aren't exorbitant, and the some of the brands are surprising -- we even found Slovenian chocolate! The market also has a liquor store and a post office and a liquor store where you can get their own brand of fresh Eagle Lake beer. The staff were super friendly, happily giving us local restaurant recommendations. Check this place out if you're in the area!

It is a cozy ice cream spot in the Huntsville visitor area. It is definitely a nice place to stop…read moreby, especially on a sunny summer day. Just a heads up though the pricing is a bit on the high side. That said, when you are on holiday and feeling good, it is totally fine to pay a little extra for a good ice cream with friends and families.

Sweet baby Jesus, this place is good. Affogato Café and Gelato makes the perfect combo, something…read morewe never had back in Texas. The coffee's strong, the gelato's creamy, and together they're pure heaven. Yeehaw!

A remarkably great bakery. Be prepared for a wait when you come because this place is popular and…read moreeveryone seems to get at least 17 different things when they are here, with good reason. The baguette was dreamy - light as a feather and sturdy at the same time, the perfect foil for an afternoon steak sandwich. The streudels - oh dear lord, were they heavenly. Don't choose between the ones with cream cheese and the standard fruit varieties, just get both. The butter tarts. Dear HEAVENS the butter tarts. Were they ever incredible. We have two gorgeous pies awaiting a visit to friends tomorrow and more treats for breakfast tomorrow. This is a destination bakery worth traveling for if you are in the Lake of Bays area. You won't find anything fresher with more variety and more delightful than this one. Just don't be impatient: you and everyone else will need loads of time to pick it all out!

Henrietta's Pine Bakery has been open for longer than I've been alive, and it's easy to see from…read morethe quality of their baked goods why it has stood the rest of time. This location is the newer of the two locations, and accommodates larger parties than the original Dwight location. Locals and tourists come here for the great selection of bread, sticky buns, cookies, and other baked goods. They also have a great selection of beverages including coffees and teas. We stopped at this Huntsville location on the way home from Algonquin Park as the Dwight location didn't have the pie I wanted. It turns out their apple pie is hugely popular as it was sold out at this store too. Staff were friendly and helpful, and suggested calling ahead or pre-ordering the apple pie as options in the future. Highly recommend stopping here if you're in the area.

This is an amazing store with an exceptional staff…read more Catherine Cole is a tremendous resource who is always willing to help.

I love this place. The people are amazing and so in the ambiance…read more I buy clothes (reasonable price), I buy health foods and supplements (also reasonable); always visit when I'm in town.

AMAZING place! I'm super fussy about ice cream. If I'm gonna take in those calories I want it to be…read moreworth it and along with that being high quality ingredients it means as little (or preferably zero) binders.... And they only have a bit of organic guar gum to keep the ice cream all silky smooth. Many other ice creams including Kawartha have carageenan in them which is not good for us at all. After speaking with the lovely owner who is a chef (all ice cream made ON PREMISES) we learned that a few shops carry this ice cream (2 places in Scarborough ON and also The Royal York hotel). After an absolutely terrible and underwhelming and laughably overpriced lunch at Local this was a great reward.

Belly was located across the street from our Air Bnb during our weekend stay in Huntsville. And…read moreeach night we looked covetously over at Belly as we pulled into our driveway, arriving too late from dinner to get there before they closed. It was a priority of mine to finally visit Belly our last evening but then the time started slipping away from us. We thought all was lost after it turned 8, but then we serendipitously looked over our brochure for Belly again and noticed that on Saturdays they closed at 9. We hustled over, only to have the doors close on us at 8:59. The manager told my daughter she'd already started putting covers on the ice cream. And then I begged and said it was our last night and she responded that she couldn't say no. So of course we each got lots of samples. Kidding! The Kiddie scoops followed the usual trend in Ontario of ridiculously large scoops of ice cream. At Kawartha Dairy where we ate the day before, a Kiddie was like a large where we live in the San Francisco Bay Area. This time the Kiddie was more like the size of a Medium. (A Medium at an artisan creamery in the Bay Area is $8.50 American compared to this Kiddie $3.50 Canadian.) The two Kiddie scoops were a bargain and easily fed the four of us. My daughter earlier had pored over the Belly brochure we had at our Air Bnb, and requested the Blueberry Lavender. Even though it wasn't in the case, the manager had a container just behind her! (Unfortunately they didn't also have the Sticky Toffee Pudding Flavor I also saw in the brochure.) My son got the Chocolate Dipped Strawberry, which was more like strawberry with some chocolate chips than what I'd imagined by the name. Maybe there's a better way to make it actually taste like it sounds? These are all minor quibbles. The ice cream was excellent and both were better than the flavors we got at Kawartha Dairy. The blueberry lavender was really good and my favorite of the two. I'm sometimes skeptical of floral notes in food but this worked. The strawberry in the Chocolate Dipped Strawberry was easily better than Kawartha's strawberry. This one had real strawberry flavor and actual strawberry pieces in it. I felt like the chocolate taste didn't come through in the chips, which often happens with chocolate chips in ice cream. My daughter (absorber of the Belly brochure) filled us in on the founding of the store while we ate. She said that the name came from a mom who had a big pregnancy belly while carrying twins. As a fellow twin mom I relate. If this was 14 years ago I'd come here to eat for three. Best tastes of Huntsville trip 1) Farmer's Daughter (pierogies) 2) Farmer's Daughter (berry scone) 3) BELLY (blueberry lavender ice cream) 4) Allora (papardelle with short ribs) 5) Farmer's Daughter (lentil wrap) 6) Farmer's Daughter (mac and cheese) 7) Farmer's Daughter (chocolate chip cookie) 8) Farmer's Daughter (iced chocolate chai) 9) BELLY (chocolate covered strawberry ice cream) 10) Farmer's Daughter (bean avocado edamame salad)