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Sooke Harbour House Rated Number 2 in CANADA! T is year Travel and Leisure Magazine
Readers’ Poll has dedicated a category exclusively to Canadian properties for their World’s Best Awards. In the last decade Sooke Harbour House has been rated close to the top several times in this poll for continental North America. Today, Travel and Leisure has recognized Sooke Harbour House as Canada’s #2 best resort for 2012, and on its list as one of the World’s Best Hotels and Resorts. T is recognition comes with a “budget” annotation signifying that resort off ers rooms under $250. Vancouver Island was selected as their best island travel destination. Co-owners, Sinclair and Frederique Philip
(a friend of Sheila’s) are very excited about and grateful for this recognition for both their restaurant and hotel. “It is very satisfying to know that our guests
value the quality of our services, comfort and atmosphere. Whether it is the local art work, our romantic, intimate oceanfront guestrooms, our certifi ed organic gardens and farm or our regional, seasonal cuisine, everything here at Sooke Harbour House is a celebration of Southern Vancouver Island,” says Frederique. “I am extremely happy with this
recognition for our hotel and for our Chef, Robin Jackson and his kitchen staff , and for our wine staff for having created an internationally recognized wine cellar with a wide selection of British Columbia wines. I hope that people from across the world will come to Sooke Harbour House to relax and experience the stunning, natural year-round beauty and peaceful, pristine coastal setting of our area. We still enjoy the luxury of being
surrounded by unspoiled nature, marine mammals and seabirds, and the view of the towering, majestic mountains across the Pacifi c”, says Sinclair. In a previous edition, Travel and Leisure
Magazine described the 28-room Sooke Harbour House as a “charming clapboard inn overlooking a dramatic Pacifi c beach and the Olympic Mountains, 45 minutes from Victoria.” T e cutting edge, as stated in the T+L 500, is the “inventive Pacifi c Northwest cuisine that has made this a legendary food and wine destination.” Two of the highlights mentioned were “bald eagle-spotting on the nearby protected Whiff en Spit” and the “Blue Heron Room, for its large balcony and panoramic ocean views. At Sooke Harbour House, meals are savoured in a candlelit dining room warmed by a wood-burning fi replace with spectacular views of the ocean and Olympic Mountains. Aſt er dinner you can spend the night in one of their 28 rooms featuring stunning ocean views, wood- burning fi replaces, soaker or jetted tubs and steam showers for two. Our guests can observe wild life from
their balconies or right on the beach and in our gardens. Our cool, clean waters yield a harvest of nourishing seaweeds, which are used in our kitchen as well as in spa products. It is the admiration, respect, harmony and understanding of our natural surroundings that we hope to convey to our guest and visitors through room décor, art, and food. Sooke Harbour House has earned a
reputation of one of the best Art Galleries on Vancouver Island, featuring works of over 200 local artists and craſt smen. Artwork is displayed throughout the inn gracing the rooms, gardens, restaurant, and hallways with impressions of our coastal surroundings, local wild life, and native motifs. During the past year, the Sooke Harbour House Restaurant has been recognized
by numerous publications for providing outstanding quality food and holding fast to its original philosophy of sustainable, local, seasonal, organic cuisine. Under the leadership of Head Chef Robin Jackson, the Sooke Harbour House kitchen team continues its creative development of use of wild indigenous foods of Vancouver Island and a Farm-to-Table and a Fishing Boat- to-Table approach that garnered them a Food Innovation Award from University of Guelph in 2011. Sooke Harbour House has participated in the Oregon Truffl e Festival of 2012 featuring Robin Jackson as an International Guest Chef. T is year Conde Nast placed the Inn on
their Gold List for the World’s Best Hotels and Resorts. Zagat recognized Sooke Harbour House as the number 1 most popular restaurant on Vancouver Island and Vancouver Magazine once again named the Sooke Harbour House Restaurant as the best restaurant on Vancouver Island for the 23rd consecutive year. During her retirement interview on CBC’s T e Current in June 2012, Joanne Kates, long time and highly respected, restaurant reviewer for the National Globe and Mail chose the Sooke Harbour House as one of her two favourite restaurants in Canada. T e other restaurant mentioned was Eigensinn Farm, run by former Sooke Harbour House Chef, Michael Stadtlander, and former Pastry Chef, Nobuyo Stadtlander. If you want a break from RVing, and need
more information on the Sooke Harbour House, contact Sinclair Philip at 250-642-3421 ext. 203
sinclair@sookeharbourhouse.com www.sookeharbourhouse.com Sooke Harbour House 1528 Whiff en Spit Road Sooke, British Columbia Canada, V9Z 0T4
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