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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 CanadaB次元官网网址檚 enRoute magazineB次元官网网址檚 list of CanadaB次元官网网址檚 Top 10 Best New Restaurants, www.canadas100best.com Best New Destination Restaurant list, and a fourth place spot on TripAdvisorB次元官网网址檚 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.
B次元官网网址淭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,B次元官网网址� she said. B次元官网网址淲e donB次元官网网址檛 solicit reviews. We donB次元官网网址檛 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.B次元官网网址�
She added one of the first people to congratulate them was Richard Norwood,
Barr noted NorwoodB次元官网网址檚 had also cooked up a long list of awards in its day.
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He added he and Verney-Downey are B次元官网网址渧ery hands-onB次元官网网址� and work hard to ensure the restaurantB次元官网网址檚 staff is as happy as its guests.
B次元官网网址淲hen we first conceived Pluvio in our brains, the focus was always going to be on the team. If the teamB次元官网网址檚 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,B次元官网网址� he said.
Verney-Downey explained the 17-member crew is vital to the restaurantB次元官网网址檚 success.
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Barr added the communityB次元官网网址檚 welcoming and rustic charm provided a hearty foundation to build the restaurantB次元官网网址檚 menu around.
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Verney-Downey added the communityB次元官网网址檚 support has been palpably robust since day-one.
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andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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