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Eight railway cars restaurant since 1972 open year round for lunch and dinner
This place has it and says it ambiance, character food, atmosphere. Too many words and not many people there the evening we were there however it was storming so that might be the case. Truly a hidden jewel and I hear that from many that have been there before, Great experience in history and dining all in one. More people would always be nice as the owner says in the winter months it is slower.
Stephen Leacock's "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" described dining on the train to Mariposa. Now you can on the various rail cars from the 1800's which are permanently located on the Orillia waterfront.
From the dining cars in the summer, you can watch the boats at the port of Orillia and the crowd enjoying the boardwalk. During the winter, you can enjoy the ice castle built every year...
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Truly an experience like no other. Excellent, excellent service and delicious, beautifully presented food at an extremely fair price.
WE really like the Place beats some of the places we have bee too in the city, character this place has, ...go relax and enjoy the feeling of an era gone by!!!!!
The comment that it Lacks Charituristc, well what more ambience woiuld you like these are truly antique railway cars, Check out the luggage racks actully are brass, the light fixtures many of then are from the era and refitted. Truley you you have to appreciate what Dining in rail cars was all about. The cars are of a Victorian era and kept as such, it is not an ordinary restaurant that is set... more
What a quaint and unique place out of the ordinary, in actual train cars, now they don't move but Wow this place is one of a kind, its too bad more people don't know about it.