Beautiful views, with amazing decor. Extremely friendly staff and attentive to our needs. Wine sampler was a perfect way to try their selections of wines. Three different pizza’s, crust was nice, crisp and the stone fire style is nice. However; the pizza’s could have had a tad more flavour and spices. Hence the reason for four stars. In addition, the summer Apple pick is a favourite for our family.

Bent Ridge Winery (& Bent Nail Brewery & Fuego Restaurant & Daniel's U-Pick apples & pears) has taste in more than their brews & cooking! Delighted to have discovered this treasure, an hour from our home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Even the toilet bowls & sinks in all the washrooms are in highly coloured porcelain with elaborate coloured images. Enjoy a pee, after a glass from the fine beer & wine menu. in the bagno with its huge classical poster for Taormina [jewel of a breathtaking & heart-warming clifftop tourist mecca in NE Sicily]. Everything is imaginatively designed in this operation. Yet, it remains a “working” vineyard, orchard, winery, brewery. It is beautiful without totally screening-off the work behind it all. Staff are excellent. The menu is very creative, from appetizers to entrées (including – besides lovely pasta etc. - an array of superbly crafted gourmet pizzas). The way restaurant prices are accelerating everywhere, the cost here is very decent, especially given the high quality of the place. And, in our opinion, partner Connie (daughter of immigrants from a southern Italian hill town) gave it the highest compliment of all, as soon as we pulled in: “JUST LIKE ITALY”. (But they are not purists: they dip comfortably into Spanish terminology on the menu, & even the restaurant part is called – as mentioned - "Fuego" [Sp. "fire"]. Go before word spreads so far & wide that it gets turned into a slickly dumbed-down Peggy's Cove, which is the fate of way too many "finds" of the kind. (Yes, I know, posting this review on this site might contribute to said problem, but they deserve the revenue!) Footnote: If you happen to have Acadian ancestry (as I do), this place lies within the bounds of the area known as “Pisiquid” (with a variety of spellings), until the British organized the Expulsion to the eastern seaboard of the present USA, starting in 1755, then reallocated most of the land to Brit elite men & resettled this beautiful river valley with land-hungry New Englanders.