To a scene that will mesmerize your eyes, Hayes has added the tantalizing aroma of baked bread and pungent tomatoes, making tiny Amherst Cove, out here on the edge of the Bonavista Peninsula, one of the most extraordinary places to enjoy something universally adored: a slice of pizza. It’s a bakery and pizza joint, boasting “the only commercial wood-fired bread oven” in the province.
What Hayes and her husband, Shane, have opened up is wonderfully accessible to everyone, making it oh-so Newfoundland. The Bonavista Social Club could be many things opulent. In other parts of the world, the setting would be home to something grand - a country manor, or a French Laundry-style multi-diamond retreat, or a luxury boutique property that can double as a film set in a Hollywood minute. In late spring and early summer, whales and icebergs are among the distractions between you and the horizon. UPPER AMHERST COVE, NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR - The view alone makes a trip to Katie Hayes’ new establishment in rural Newfoundland worth the drive.įrom the terrace of the delightful restaurant called the Bonavista Social Club, you can watch the waves of the Atlantic Ocean lap along in an endless rush past the rugged cliffs of the province’s eastern coast.
