amazing craft beers and vodka seltzers to-go so you can enjoy them once you reach your destination. There is also an in-house golf simulator that offers a unique experience for both locals and visitors. Guests can enjoy golf indoors in a virtually simulated golf environment and play any golf course in the world while enjoying the amazing food, beverages, and service from the Lone Oak taproom making it a unique experience for locals and visitors to the Island. For a lot of the breweries and distilleries we visit the craft beverages are the headliners of the experience, however, like the Sommo Festival, local island products and cuisine are spotlighted. Their taproom kitchen offers a rotating seasonal menu with weekly features that showcase the best of PEI’s culinary offerings with high-quality food, and friendly service in a fast-casual setting. Their nachos, with the house sauce and roasted chicken club, are both next- level culinary experiences, and though simple dishes are the best that we have ever eaten. So, whether you’re arriving on the island or seeking a great meal paired with quality craft beer, Lone Oak Brewery and Taproom is the perfect stop, but if you miss it, you are in luck because there are three more locations throughout the island, each with their own unique menu and culinary offerings, so check them all out as you tour the island. With our stomachs full and a 6-pack or two of Lone Oak Light and Raspberry Vodka Seltzer in the Chilly Moose cooler we were back on the road to Sommo. Our next stop was a quick 20-minute drive up the PE-10 South toward Victoria. In the late 1800’s the Victora was prosperous with three wharves
and many thriving businesses. Because of its sheltered harbour and strategic location, Victoria became an important seaport with a significant amount of trade with Europe, the West Indies, and other East Coast ports. A wide variety of products including potatoes, cattle, grain, and eggs, were shipped by schooner from Victoria until the early 1900’s. In the days of the steamboats, Victoria was a regular stop for ferries, in particular the SS Harland, dropping off visitors from Charlottetown and places further away, to spend a day or two relaxing in the beautiful ‘village by the sea.’ While today the schooners, steamboats, and ferries are long gone, visitors still are coming to take in the breathtaking coastal scenery, beautiful sand beaches, and local restaurants, shops, and inns of this seaside paradise. After exploring Victoria by the Sea, we headed East PE-116 to the Trans-Canada Hwy/PE-1 for another
20-minute drive to North River located just outside the City of Charlottetown. We will be honest, we set the navigation system for the North River Causeway because we all wanted a Cows Ice Cream and knew that was the closest of the six island locations on the Island. If you have never had a Cows Ice Cream, well you don’t know what you are missing. If you have, then you know if was worth the drive. Since its creation in 1983, the Cows brand has been using the same old-fashioned ingredients in the production of its delicious ice cream and other premium dairy products. My go-to favorite is usually Gooey Mooey, a burnt sugar ice cream (vanilla ice cream mixed with English toffee), English toffee marble, caramel cups, and chocolate flakes. However, this time I just had to try the Cowconut Cream Pie, a coconut cream pie ice cream with graham cracker crumbs, which tasted like a coconut cream pie in a waffle cone.
Borden-Carleton has been a stopping place for as long as I can remember, for us to gas up or take a break, as we drove to one of the many winter hockey tournaments on the Island or in more recent days when we are on our way to Cavendish for a music festival. But this was the first time we took the time to look around and we are glad that we did because the town is amazing with lots to offer and not just a place to top- up your fuel and stretch your legs. Other than being an amazing place for epic pictures of the Confederation Bridge, located in the heart of Gateway Village just off the bridge in Borden-Carleton, is a must-stop for anyone coming to the Island, called Lone Oak Brewing Company, a locally owned and operated brewery. The Lone Oak Brewing features a spacious outdoor patio, welcoming taproom, and restaurant. This and every location offer a retail outlet stocked with loads of Lone Oak merchandise and their
After a quick tour of the facility, we bumped into Kyle Powers and Sam Bow- ness of the Charlottetown, Islanders of the QMJHL who were enjoying a Cows ice cream of their own but were happy to take a picture with Chilly. They may or may not have tried to convert him into an Islanders fan, but he’s a die-hard Halifax Mooseheads fan, after all, he is a moose, and you have to go with the home team.
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