Via Rail The Canadian… Culinary Tour Part 1, Vancouver to Winnipeg

The brochures and the websites rave about the food,  here is a photo tour of our meals on board.  White tablecloths and real China are part of the meal experience, included with your train fare if you are in the sleeper class accommodation part of the train. Passengers that just ride in the regular seats have a little train Cafe they can buy food from, but otherwise are not allowed into the fancy dining car.

We boarded the train in Vancouver on a late Monday night evening, so there was no dinner service upon departure.

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Scene from the dining looking to the outside

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Cream cheese stuffed French toast

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Lunch menu, day 1

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I went with a chicken sandwich

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Lisa went with the pulled pork

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For dessert, your choice of a black cherry ice cream

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Or a delicious, to-die-for chocolate brownie

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Wine list

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Dinner menu, day 1

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Chicken with wild rice soup

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We both ordered the grilled salmon

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For dessert, white chocolate raspberry cheesecake or a slice chocolate cake

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Continental breakfast, day two

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We went with the oatmeal and toast

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Brunch, day 2

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They ran out of the "brown" bread (Multigrain), so I got stuck with the white bread

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Eggs Benedict

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This tomato and herbs omelette was much better than I thought it would be

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Feta, tomatoes and herbs

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Dining room

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Dinner setting

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Dinner, day 2

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Starter salad

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We both went with the halibut

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Dessert, lemon layer cake, delicious

And so concludes our culinary tour of our meals for our first two days on the train.  All the food was done very well the portion sizes were perfect. Desserts were definitely a strong suit!

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