Restaurant Acadien

Authentic Acadian home cooking inside Les Trois Pignons heritage centre in Chéticamp. The menu reads like a Chéticamp grandmother's kitchen — chicken fricot, meat pie, fish cakes, rappie pie — and the room serves it in costume.

What to expect

• A bright, casual dining room inside the heritage centre
• Servers in traditional Acadian dress
• A menu of regional classics most visitors won't have tried before
• A patient, welcoming attitude toward first-timers

Don't miss

• Chicken fricot — the Acadian comfort dish
• Meat pie or fish cakes done the Chéticamp way
• A slice of sugar pie for dessert

Good to know

• Open seasonally with the heritage centre, roughly June–October
• Wheelchair accessible
• Family-friendly
• Free parking

Pair it with

• The Élizabeth LeFort hooked-rug exhibit upstairs
• The Coopérative Artisanale a few blocks away
• A whale tour from the Chéticamp wharf