Just outside of Picton, on highway 49, is the new-since-spring Blumen Garden Bistro, a remake of the Hidden Bistro, but blessedly stripped down and now operated by Swiss chef Andreas Feller. Lunch was a bowl of soup – black bean and butternut squash with a coriander crème fraiche – and a chicken pot pie, with oyster mushrooms and double smoked bacon in the mix along with roasted peppers, and perfect peas. The extensive garden in the back is a real summer draw, now being readied for winter, but with giant pumpkins still colouring the back field.

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