Our Maine Street's Aroostook Issue 14 : Fall 2012 | Page 72

Canterbury Royale’s Story
Award-winning Canterbury Royale, open year-round – A
touch of old-world Europe in The County.

Upon the entrance to Canterbury Royale, one
is first greeted by an evergreen lined driveway, opening
upon a gingerbread cottage manicured with a gardener’s
green thumb. It is a replica of a little cottage in the French
Alps. Once inside, visitors are whisked into a Victorian/
Edwardian world, surrounded by ornate carvings, antique
silver and décor from an era gone by. In the hand-carved
dining room, one is under the observance and keeping
company with the likes of Shakespeare, Venus de Milo and
Michelangelo’s David. But wait there is more – the Food!!!!
Ah, the food, Roasted Cherry Squab on Cress, Pan-Roasted
Lobster fired with Cognac, Filet Mignon and Prime rib that
King Lear himself would nod approval. The French-trained
Chefs, Barbara Boucher and Renee O’Neill, are the creators
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of the magnificent feasts put on nightly for their patrons.
Canterbury Royale is celebrating its ten years in operation,
and not just surviving – Canterbury Royale is thriving here
in The County.

Canterbury Royale offers nightly seven-course,
French Haute cuisine dinners, brunches, and teas. Our
bakery is open on Saturday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., with
offerings of the finely baked breads and pastries such as
those offered from their evening pastry cart. Also this year,
the creation of new two-potato products; potato and meat
pie and a decadent golden mashed potato which at present
meetings are being set-up and held with distributors and
manufacturers throughout Maine, Canada and California.