If itsa国际传媒檚 fine dining you request, itsa国际传媒檚 a Ucluelet restaurant TripAdvisor suggests.
TripAdvisor recently unveiled its Best of the Best Awards for 2022 and Pluvio Restaurant and Rooms tops the list of Best Fine Dining Restaurants in Canada.
Warren Barr and Lily Verney-Downey opened the intimate 24-seat culinary experience in 2019 and have been delighted to see their creation quickly become a TripAdvisor darling with a 5-star rating based on 553 reviews. The restaurant has also as long as its reservation list, with the recent fine dining award joining an already crowded trophy cabinet that includes a spot on Air Canadasa国际传媒檚 enRoute magazinesa国际传媒檚 list of Canadasa国际传媒檚 Top 10 Best New Restaurants, www.canadas100best.com Best New Destination Restaurant list, and a fourth place spot on TripAdvisorsa国际传媒檚 Best Date Night Restaurant in the World.
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Verney-Downey said they had not heard about the Best Fine Dining award from TripAdvisor before her phone started buzzing with messages from excited patrons and supporters congratulating them.
sa国际传媒淭hat really comes from our team making that connection with the guests. It makes it all worth it to have that relationship with the guests and have that personal connection and for our team to have that personal connection with people and to make that level of impact that people are choosing to go online and write reviews,sa国际传媒� she said. sa国际传媒淲e donsa国际传媒檛 solicit reviews. We donsa国际传媒檛 do any rewards for reviews, so this really does come from people wanting to share their experience and that comes down to the work that our team does here.sa国际传媒�
She added one of the first people to congratulate them was Richard Norwood,
Barr noted Norwoodsa国际传媒檚 had also cooked up a long list of awards in its day.
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He added he and Verney-Downey are sa国际传媒渧ery hands-onsa国际传媒� and work hard to ensure the restaurantsa国际传媒檚 staff is as happy as its guests.
sa国际传媒淲hen we first conceived Pluvio in our brains, the focus was always going to be on the team. If the teamsa国际传媒檚 happy then the guests are going to be happy as well. A miserable server is not going to deliver a really happy, positive experience. So, we wanted to focus on a positive team environment,sa国际传媒� he said.
Verney-Downey explained the 17-member crew is vital to the restaurantsa国际传媒檚 success.
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Barr added the communitysa国际传媒檚 welcoming and rustic charm provided a hearty foundation to build the restaurantsa国际传媒檚 menu around.
sa国际传媒淲esa国际传媒檙e definitely trying to deliver a world class experience to the best of our ability here, but we also want to make sure you know yousa国际传媒檙e in Ucluelet and on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. So, wesa国际传媒檙e trying to marry those two things,sa国际传媒� he said. sa国际传媒淎s thought out and meticulous as it is, we try to keep a bit of a rugged edge to it because thatsa国际传媒檚 just what I think about the coastline here. It is a little rugged along the waterfront here and theresa国际传媒檚 that feeling when yousa国际传媒檙e walking along the Wild Pacific Trail; everything is beautiful and magnificent, but itsa国际传媒檚 pretty raw still and untamed, so we try to carry that feeling through the food program as much as we can.sa国际传媒�
Verney-Downey added the communitysa国际传媒檚 support has been palpably robust since day-one.
sa国际传媒淭hat warm welcoming service and that connection that our team makes is a reflection of the community here,sa国际传媒� she said. sa国际传媒淔rom the moment we opened our doors, we felt so supported by the community. We had people that wesa国际传媒檇 never met showing up at the back door to drop flowers off for us that theysa国际传媒檇 grown in their garden, people reached out to us and said, sa国际传媒榃esa国际传媒檝e got an abundance of redcurrants. Do you want to come down and pick some for the restaurantsa国际传媒檚a国际传媒heresa国际传媒檚 a lot of guests that we see quite regularly and then theresa国际传媒檚 guests that we see once or twice a year to celebrate those really big special occasions and thatsa国际传媒檚 so wonderful to be able to have that here. We feel very supported.sa国际传媒�
andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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