Cafe l’Acadie

Specialties

Homemade traditional Acadian cuisine and other Soul Food, including Fricots, Meat Pie, Rappie Pie, Club Sandwich, Fishcakes, Poutine, Pan Fried Haddock, Fish and Chips, Seafood Chowder, Creamed Chicken and Creamed Haddock on our homemade Waffles that are specially made for these dishes. All our dessert are homemade, including the traditional Acadian Molasses Cake with a warm lemon sauce, Maple Bread Pudding, Blueberry Buckle (after all, we are the Blueberry Capital), Apple Crisp and the list goes on.

We are lisenced and serve wine, beer and a limited number of liqueurs.

We serve the traditional Chicken Rappie Pie every Sunday. It comes out of the oven at noon on Sunday. We try to make enough to have some left over for Monday; for all those who prefer it the day after it’s made but that’s not always possible. Some Sunday’s we sell out quickly so we suggest that people pick up their stash of Rappie Pie on Sunday and hold it in your fridge until Monday. Poutine Rappee is coming in the near future.

History

Established in 2012.

Café l’Acadie’s owner Gary Le Blanc was born into a large Acadian family where both parents hail from the Acadian village of Cheticamp Nova Scotia area and with an enormous extended family, Acadian food, music and culture were the heartbeat of our family life. Our home was the ‘gathering place’ for friends and relatives. My mother loved to cook and growing up, I could sit for hours and listen to her sing all the old traditional Acadians songs as she scurried about the kitchen cooking. On special occasions, I would watch in amazement at the fiddlers, mandolin and guitar players sitting around the kitchen table, while the rest would sing out loud and strong, Acadian songs of old. With Fricot on the stove, Rappie and Rabbit Pies in the oven and desserts galore, it all fed the soul. Café l’Acadie brings many of these Acadian culinary treasures from my family’s kitchen to our dining room to share this rich history of delicious food.

Meet the Business Owner

Gary L.

Business Owner

One of 8, Gary was raised on traditional Acadian food. «We were taught by the best». Isn’t that what most people say about their mother’s cooking? Returning to Halifax after years of living outside the province gave me a whole new appreciation for my culture and roots. So much so that when it became more challenging for me to enjoy the cuisune of my youth strictly because of dwindling accessibility to this food, I knew that I couldn’t be the only one. So in 2012, I opened Café l’Acadie and it’s been both rewarding and equally challenging. There is such passion around traditional Acadian food. How these dishes are prepared in various regions of the Maritimes are near identical in ingredients and yet quite diverse in terms of texture. It’s definitely an interesting journey, to please the pallates of transplanted Acadians to the HRM from all corners of Acadie. I am equally passionate about this cultural anscestral cuisine that I grew up on and look foward to sharing the tradition.