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Sugar Moon Farm
Categories: Local Flavour Restaurants Breakfast & Brunch Local Flavour, Breakfast & Brunch [Edit]
221 Alex MacDonald RdEarltown, NS B0K 1V0
(902) 657-3348
- Hours:
Sat-Sun 10 am - 4 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
5 reviews for Sugar Moon Farm
5 reviews in English
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Review from Philip Y.
3/16/2012 3 photos
If you're looking a short getaway from the city just for the day without putting up a night and you are pretty sick with going to Peggy's Cove, you should give Sugar Moon farm a try.
For me and my wife, we waited till near the end of winter and before the start of spring - just about the right time where the maple sap is being drawn from the trees.
Sugar moon far is an ideal place for the family to enjoy a warm breakfast during the cold winter in a rustic like wooden cabin. With giant sized pancakes and 3 varieties of sausages, you'd probably would want to keep your stomach half empty on the way there. However, its a bit pricey for my liking but since I only go there once in a blue moon, I guess its ok.
But most importantly, do not miss the sugar maple on snow and a walk through to the maple tree (following the sap line) -
Review from Sara M.
Williamswood, NS
3/26/2012
Expensive, rushed, dried out sausages, stingy on coffee refills, meh beans, meh pancakes, poor service and short/simplistic tour . Overall, we had a bad experience and regretted driving all the way from Halifax. Will try a smaller operation next time.
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Review from Sue A.
4/24/2011
A visit to Sugar Moon farm, about 90 minutes from Halifax, is a relaxing, country getaway adventure. Sugar Moon is a family run business, making maple syrup and serving delicious meals in the rustic, log cabin style restaurant.
I've been trying to visit Sugar Moon Farm for the past four years and managed to make it out there last Friday. I don't know why I didn't try harder to get there before now. Sap season which is only four to six weeks was over when we finally managed to get there, but that didn't hinder our enjoyment.
I visited with my family and my parents and our first focus was food. The restaurant is a large open room with large tables that will seat groups of eight or ten on two benches. You can see the pancake grill and the wait staff grabbing your meals. The adults had the Sampler plate which included the signature red fife biscuits with maple butter (I could eat a jar of that for lunch and be happy), red fife pancakes, locally made sausages, and baked beans. The kids had pancakes and sausages. The best part as the freeflowing maple syrup.
The restaurant does not take reservations. Even though it was a long weekend when we visited, the wait for a table was only fifteen minutes. I have a friend who goes every year and has experienced waits of an hour and a half to be seated. The best advice is on the farm's web site which advises that you check in with the hostess upon your arrival to make sure your name is on the list. Once you know how long the wait is, you can entertain yourself with all the other fun things there are to do.
You can stock up on all things maple to take home--syrup, butter, and those cute maple leaf sugary candies--all made on the farm. And a couple of times of years, local chefs (that guy from Chives for example) organize chef's night dinners which sound amazing.
After we had filled our bellies, we went out to sample the taffy on the snow for $2 a stick, had a tour of the maple syrup centre which explains the history of maple syrup making in Atlantic Canada and a tour of the evaporator used to make syrup, and then tramped around the field on the way to the sugar bush where the sap is actually collected.
The farm is open all year round and depending on the season, you can go for a horse and sleigh ride or a hike on the local hiking system. We had a seven year old and a four year old with us so we choose to skip the 6k hike.
So no matter what the season, feel free to pop in and enjoy delicious local food and all things maple in the great outdoors.
A quick word of advice, this is the country. And the country can be muddy in the spring. It's wise to wear your winter boots or Bogs if you plan to be tramping around up to sugarbush. I saw a lot of people wearing bright white sneakers gazing longingly at the trail. -
Review from Kelly K.
7/6/2011
I really enjoyed having a yummy breakfast at Sugar Moon Farm. It was worth the drive out from Halifax. Delicious baked beans, sausage and pancakes in a very casual atmosphere.
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Review from Ruth D.
Halifax, NS
1/2/2010 5 photos
Obviously one of the best times to visit Sugar Moon, an hour or so outside of Halifax, is when the sap runs. It depends on the weather, but typically falls anytime between March and April, depending on the temperature. You get to watch the sap collection and see how that's turned into the most glorious elixir on earth - maple syrup. And what would a trip out be without some maple syrup poured onto snow and magically turned into sticky candy.
What would be better? Well, perhaps their awesome brunch - pancakes with maple syrup, maple brown baked beans, maple in your coffee, maple granola, salads with maple vinaigrette.
But there's more...one special thing I love about Sugar Farm is that they support local agriculture and community. And no matter what time of year you go there's always something wonderful going on. Like the awesome Chef nights where Nova Scotian chefs like Craig Flinn from Chives in Halifax and Michael Howell from The Tempest in Wolfville all take turns whipping up awesome dinners using local ingredients and showcasing local farmers, livestock producers and artisan cheese makers, to name a few.
And before you leave, don't forget to pick up some of your own maple favorite treats...maple syrup, of course, but what about some maple mustard, maple cream, maple candy, maple...you get the idea.
