Dining
Real food, a set table, and good company
Meals are often the best part of the day, and sometimes the only time a person eats well. We take them seriously: soup from scratch, plates that look like food, and tables where people know your name.
How meals work
Three meals, two snacks, no rush
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Breakfast, 7:30 to 10:00
Served as people wake, not at a bell. Eggs, oatmeal, toast, fruit and good coffee.
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Lunch, noon
The main meal for many residents. A soup, two hot choices and a lighter plate.
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Dinner, 5:00
A sit-down dinner with table service. Independent living residents join here.
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Snacks, any time
Mid-morning and afternoon snacks, plus a fridge on every floor for night-time hunger.
A sample week
This week's lunch and dinner
Menus rotate every four weeks and change with the seasons. A lighter choice is always on offer, and residents can ask for a simple plate any day.
- Monday
- LunchSplit pea soup, ham and cheddar on rye
- DinnerRoast chicken, mashed potatoes, glazed carrots
- Tuesday
- LunchSalmon cakes with dill sauce, green salad
- DinnerBeef stew with a biscuit, steamed greens
- Wednesday
- LunchTomato basil soup, grilled cheese
- DinnerBaked cod, rice pilaf, garden beans
- Thursday
- LunchChicken pot pie, coleslaw
- DinnerPork loin with apples, roasted squash
- Friday
- LunchFish and chips, house tartar sauce
- DinnerVegetable lasagna, Caesar salad
- Saturday
- LunchBrunch: eggs your way, pancakes, fruit
- DinnerShepherd's pie, peas
- Sunday
- LunchLight lunch: soup and sandwiches
- DinnerSunday roast with Yorkshire pudding
The kitchen
Every diet, still plated with care
Marco Lindqvist, our head chef, cooked in restaurants for 15 years. Now he plans menus with a residents' food committee, and our nurse shares each person's diet needs with the kitchen before move-in.
- Diabetic-friendly
- Low sodium
- Soft and minced textures
- Pureed, still plated with care
- Vegetarian
- Gluten-free on request
- Cultural and faith-based meals on request
In The Orchard, meals are served family-style in each household's own kitchen, with finger foods and coloured plates that make food easier to see and eat.
Meals with family
Guest meals, $14
Family and friends are welcome at any meal. Let the front desk know by 10 a.m.
The private dining room
Seats twelve. Book it free for birthdays, anniversaries or a quiet Sunday lunch.
Lunch on your tour
Every in-person tour includes lunch for you and your parent, as our guests.
Plan a visit
Taste it for yourself. Lunch is on us.
Tour in person and stay for lunch as our guest, or take a 30-minute video tour from wherever you are. No pressure, no sales pitch.
Hospital discharge or a fall this week? Call us. Claire will tell you honestly what we can do and how fast.
