While looking up things to do for our 1000 Islands getaway last weekend, Aline and I discovered that the Kingston Symphony Orchestra would be playing an outdoor concert featuring a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with cannons fired by the Fort Henry Guard and a fireworks finale at the Fort Henry National Historic Site July 21-22. That sounded pretty cool to us especially since it gave us an excuse to check out a stone house for sale near Brockville on the way down and to eat at Chez Piggy in Kingston prior to the show.
Located downtown in a complex of renovated 19th-century stone buildings, Chez Piggy’s came well recommended to us as a best of Kingston restuarant.
It lived up to its billing.
Aline tried the daily special pasta which had spicy calabrese sausage in a light cream sauce while I tried the table d’hote which featured succulent barbecued jumbo shrimp with carrots and pasta. It went down nicely with a Pinot Grigio wine and they didn’t skimp on the dessert either.
Rain cancelled the concert shortly before it was scheduled to begin but the trip down didn’t seem like a waste because of the meal. And we can always come down again next year!
Making monsters is Dr. Nutt’s specialty. Her best creations are the Yummy Mummy, the Boogie-Woogie Man, and her masterpiece, Dracula-la-la! who loves to sing Opera music. It’s music to Dr. Nutt’s ears, but the villagers don’t like the idea of singing vampires roaming around their town. When they storm her laboratory they are in for a pleasant surprise.
