MOAU 1 Places

Cold Lake Marina

We had Dinner Friday night at Clark's General store in the Cold Lake Marina which is the center of the North Cold Lake Area.

Here's what the picture from the Marina Website says it looks like. I guess that was taken during the summer/fall, those 2 days in August. I continue to fervently hope that we get finished and that winter is the only season I see in

Here is what it looked like Friday Night. The brick sidewalk was pretty cool and reminded me of some of the older areas of Vicksburg.

It was pretty good, but with the normal very slow service that we've come to expect. The menu is Cold Lake standard, with a few twists that made it nice. The Cold Lake standard menu has shrimp, fish 'n chips, steaks, 'french dip' - type sandwiches and burgers. What made this special (believe it or not), was that they had malt vinegar for the fish 'n chips (every other place I've seen this so far has regular white vinegar). And they had blue cheese dressing for the salads. We had come to assume that blue cheese was banned in Canada. Fries are very good here. And they have them with every meal. The salad always comes on your plate with you main course, never before unless a salad is your meal. I find this annoying.

Here is a (not very good) picture of the inside of the restaurant and our server.
She had the Bo Derek braids going, which you can't see in the picture, but which seemed odd on someone her age and size. But she was nice and like every server we've met so far pleasant to talk to and far busier that she ought to be give how long the service takes.

I was going to make her part of the upcoming people post, but we've only seen her once.

The inside of Clarks really is the old General store, which was established in 1931. The building itself is one of the oldest in the area having been built in 1922. The lunch counter in the picture was taken from the Lakeview hotel which was established in 1925 and burned down in 1993. The chrome stools at the lunch counter are also from there, also originally from the 20's, but I couldn't get a good picture. They were pretty busy that night and I guess it is fairly unusual for an American with a camera to be prowling around this time of year.