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enRoute Canadas 10 Best New Restaurants Advertisement enRoute Travel InspiredVisit aircanadacom Franais Home Magazine Destinations BlogsFlight DeckUltraportableFlightgeistThe GetawaySandwichNews & DealsThe Toronto ListThe Montreal ListThe Calgary ListThe Vancouver ListInflight Entertainment RSS Twitter Facebook Food & DrinkCanadas 10 Best New RestaurantsWe weigh in on the top openings of 2009 By Chris NuttallSmith Photos by rainawilson Share This Print No7Ship to Shore MALPEQUE BAY1 Fresh local oysters with cocktail sauce and white wine and apple vinegar at Ship to Shore 2 Ship to Shores Buffalo mussels served with a side of bluecheese sauceHow do you like them clams Its the chef Carl Ruiz talking a goateed grinning Brooklynite kitchen ninja (his resum shows a turn at NYCs Le Bernardin) who appears to prefer hanging out at the oyster bar instead of the stove Amazing I say And they are Theyre softshelled steamers voluptuous insides cookoutattheseashore taste Well I didnt make them Chef growls God made them I just put them in the potWhich aptly describes nearly everything they do at this salty lounge up on PEIs oysterjammed Malpeque Bay Ship to Shore a 1970s roadhouse was rescued from oblivion last spring and refurbished by a shellfish fisherman Stephen Stewart and a champion oyster shucker John Bil They do seafood the way it was before longhaul refrigeration and Mrs Dash got in the way The vibe with retro beer ads on the wall and a company van with a giant metal lobster on its roof is relaxed But Ship to Shore dishes some of the freshest local shellfish (the mussel salad is incredible) that most of us will ever eat Sit up at the bar if youre smart and save the question of whether God is to thank for another day2684 Rte 20 Darnley PEI 9028365475 shiptoshoreloungecom (Open May to midOctober) No8Pizzeria LibrettoTORONTO1 The crispy buttermilk calamari with romesco sauce at Pizzeria Libretto 2 Enjoying Pizzeria Librettos Pingue prosciutto and arugula pizzaThe guys who run this tiny cheap and perpetually jampacked place are pizza hardcases The wood oven was built by a thirdgeneration oven maker in Naples It fires at about 900F The tomatoes in the sauce were grown at the foot of Mount Vesuvius and the pizzas are a little chewy and slightly blistered which is how the Neapolitans and more specifically the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana insist that real pizza must be (This is the only place in Canada to bear the pizza polices stamp of approval) The pies are exceptional The Margherita with fior di latte mozzarella and a kiss of wood smoke is a model of delicious restraint antipasti grilled sardines fennel salad buttermilk calamari are every bit as good The antipasti arent certified exceptional though The Associazione hasnt yet branched out from pies221 Ossington Ave Toronto 416...