With a simple menu leaning on bountiful local ingredients, Longfellow brings destination dining to the Annapolis Valley’s newest boutique hotel.
“In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas/ Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pré/ Lay in the fruitful valley,” wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his epic poem, Evangeline. A story set amidst the Acadian mass deportation from Nova Scotia in the 1700s, the poem’s young heroine, Evangeline, is still a big name in the Annapolis Valley, where her statue keeps faithful watch over the Grand Pré National Historic Site, a few kilometres east of Wolfville...