10oz Striploin
$46.00Ontario beef, cast-iron seared, with confit garlic butter, roast carrot and hand-cut fries.
BARRIE · KEMPENFELT BAY
Dinner at the end of the portage.
A seasonal kitchen and cocktail bar on the water, in the spot where the old nine-mile portage route met Kempenfelt Bay. Ontario ingredients, a wood oven, and a bar that takes its time.
Tonight · Kitchen until 10pm, bar until midnight
Find us · 84 Lakeshore Drive, Barrie, ON
Call · 705-555-0117
THE NAME
Nine miles from the bay to the creek
Before there were roads here, there was a portage — nine miles overland from the head of Kempenfelt Bay to Willow Creek, and on to Georgian Bay. Everything that moved through this part of the province moved on somebody's back along that trail.
We took the name because we liked what it stood for: a stopping place at the end of a long haul, where you put the load down and someone feeds you properly.
The kitchen is seasonal and stubbornly local — Georgian Bay trout, Simcoe County beef and produce, cheese from within a two-hour drive. The bread and pasta are made here. So is most of what's behind the bar.
FROM THE MENU
What people come back for
The Portage Board
$34.00Ontario cheeses and cured meats, honeycomb, pickles, grainy mustard, house crackers and warm bread.
Georgian Bay Trout
$34.00Pan-roasted with brown butter, capers and dill, over crushed new potatoes and spring peas.
The Nine Mile Burger
$24.00Two smashed patties, aged cheddar, house sauce, bread-and-butter pickle, on a milk bun.
Take it home instead
Most of the menu travels. Order ahead, pick a time, and it'll be boxed and waiting at the host stand — no queue, no guessing.
- Pickup windows every 15 minutes
- Build your order exactly how you want it
- Pay when you collect
PRIVATE EVENTS
The back room seats twenty-eight
Rehearsal dinners, small weddings, company nights. Set menus from $65 a head, and the room is yours for the evening.
Enquire about the room
SUNDAYS
Brunch, ten until two
Benedicts, buttermilk pancakes and a short list of morning cocktails. Walk-ins welcome, but the window seats go early.
See the brunch menu