If you asked local restaurant owners in Moncton, they would tell you it wouldn't be an Acadian celebration in New Brunswick without a show of pride through traditional food and drink. That's why, in honour of National Acadian Day Thursday, Moncton's Acadie Rock festival rolled out the red tablecloth for this year's Backyard Menu. Nineteen local restaurants, cafés and micro breweries are offering their take on Acadian cuisine as part of the culture and music festival in the city's downtown.
Available until Aug. 18, the Backyard Menu is all about the food locals love. Not your grandma's meat pie.
Actually, it just might be For Dominique Ratté, one of the owners of Café Archibald, adding Acadian flare to her restaurant's French-inspired offerings came naturally. The Ratté family own both Café Archibald locations in the Moncton area. Dominique Ratté says she hopes the restaurant's take on an Acadian meat pie will live up to family recipes locals might have tasted in their own homes.
(Shane Fowler/CBC) The café is featuring meat pie, or pâté à la viande, which is a mixture of ground meat inside a flaky pie crust. "We have Acadian roots so we want to encourage the Acadian heritage and feature that in our restaurant," she said. "The pâté is inspired by the French but it's also been adapted by the Acadian culture and even across Canada.
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