Eatdrink #78 July/August 2019
The LOCAL Food & Drink Magazine serving London, Stratford & Southwestern Ontario since 2007
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eatdrink: The Local Food & Drink Magazine<br />
Division is Dutch Boys Chocolate, the collaborative<br />
dream of Henry Noestheden and Cor<br />
Boon, award winners in their respective fields<br />
as sculptor/designer and professional woodcarver.<br />
Both men — charming and dapper in<br />
their black caps and aprons — are now in their<br />
seventies, yet completed much of the store<br />
renovation themselves and when highly specialized<br />
machinery proved costly, they designed and<br />
assembled their own. Everything is made on<br />
site, by hand, and with “a great deal of love” Cor<br />
says. Kingsville has shown them much support<br />
since they opened two years ago, when they also<br />
won a “Jimmie Award” for the Best Chocolate<br />
in Canada. Boon’s diverse selection of carvings,<br />
which ultimately become silicone moulds for the<br />
chocolate, are often inspired by Point Pelee wildlife,<br />
and are truly art forms themselves. Truffles<br />
are made daily and there are 24 different kinds.<br />
Local<br />
ingredients<br />
are<br />
often<br />
featured<br />
although<br />
Henry<br />
confides<br />
the butter<br />
Dutch Boys Chocolate<br />
is from<br />
Normandy.<br />
The lavender<br />
sample I enjoy is a little square of shining<br />
bliss. Visitors are encouraged to watch production<br />
through a large window. 2 Main Street West,<br />
Kingsville, dutchboyschocolate.com<br />
The Grove Brew House is an awardwinning<br />
microbrewery. A hotel of the same<br />
name is next door and both have enjoyed<br />
plenty of positive buzz since opening in<br />
2016. Previously a historic landmark, The<br />
Grove building has since been re-imagined<br />
as a boutique hotel. It recently placed in<br />
TripAdvisor’s Top 25 Small Hotels in Canada,<br />
and attracts such famous guests as Margaret<br />
Atwood and Gene Simmons. At the Brew<br />
House we sample a tender crusted wood<br />
oven pizza simply adorned with tomato<br />
sauce, a slick of garlic oil and some fresh basil<br />
skittered over buffalo mozzarella and it is<br />
one of the best I have ever had. Beers I enjoy<br />
include the Clubhouse Stout — an assertive<br />
glass of treacly darkness — and the aptly<br />
named Paradise Lager, which is just that.<br />
Both The Grove Brew House and The Grove<br />
Hotel have been decorated with a distinctly<br />
funky but pleasing juxtaposition of old and<br />
A KINGSVILLE STAPLE SINCE 1989...<br />
from the house<br />
that JacK built.<br />
CELEBRATING 30 DELICIOUS YEARS<br />
Check in to one of our three distinctive inns and enjoy our<br />
town’s generous hospitality. Visit the Kingsville Concierge<br />
Desk to plan your culinary exploration.<br />
Join us for lunch or dinner at Jack’s Gastropub to experience<br />
our farm-to-table menus recreated each season.<br />
Start your day at Bean15 Coffee Lounge before setting out<br />
on an EPIC Wine Route Adventue.<br />
Finish your day with us at Banded Goose Brewing Co. with a<br />
pint of beer made in house. CHEERS!<br />
KINGSVILLE CONCIERGE — 15 MAIN ST. E., KINGSVILLE,ON<br />
519-733-5070 | INFO@KINGSVILLECONCIERGE.COM<br />
KINGSVILLECONCIERGE.COM | STOP IN AND PLAN YOUR TRIP<br />
DRINK. EAT. REPEAT.<br />
Open Daily at 8am<br />
70 Park Street, Kingsville ON<br />
519-712-9335<br />
beachhousegrillkingsville.com
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