Places to Eat: Gojis

As the weather starts to warm up, people are starting to look for cold, sweet treats. For anyone looking for something delicious and fun, Gojis is the place to go!

There are several places to sit and enjoy your frozen yogurt treat. There's a bar and stools facing out the window, couches next to a mounted fireplace on the wall and tables with comfortable chairs placed close by the yogurt.

                                                                   Bar stool seating.

                                                              Couches by the fireplace.

                                                    Chairs and tables by frozen yogurt.

A new addition to the area, located in the Bridgeview Plaza as part of the strip mall, Gojis is a frozen yogurt bar where customers can sample flavours before picking their ideal type of frozen yogurt. There are fruit options like fruit punch or boysenberry and fun sweet flavours like wedding cake and marshmallow.

                                                                Some of fruity choices.                                                              

                                   Marshmallow frozen yogurt and fruit punch sorbet.

                                            Wedding cake and Punchy Pistachio.

                                                            Choose your flavour.

After picking the frozen yogurt of your choice, fro-yo lovers move on to the toppings bar where they can choose from healthy options like strawberries, blueberries and blackberries or candy options like Oreo cookie crumble, gummy worms, and chocolate brick candies.

                                                                Choose your topping.

                                                      Fruit and crumble topping options.

                                                              Candy topping options.

Then there's sauces and sprinkles. Nutella, marshmallow, chocolate, caramel and more can be chosen to top off the perfect frozen yogurt treat! Once your yogurt masterpiece as been created, it gets weighed to determine the price. Gojis-goers are encouraged to provide a phone number at the cash to rack up points for deals later.

                                                               Toppings bar.

                                                          Weighing frozen yogurt to pay.

In addition to making your own frozen yogurt, they also sell smoothies as wells as pies and frozen yogurt to go in their mini freezer.

                                                                     Smoothie menu.

                                                    Pies and frozen yogurt to go.

Kristyn is one of the friendly staff members at Gojis who is helpful with getting you frozen yogurt samples, suggesting frozen yogurt flavours and giving you a hand with your purchase.

                          Kristyn welcomes customers to Gojis with a big smile.

Kick off the summer weather with a delicious and nutritious treat from Gojis!

Marshmallow, wedding cake and chocolate frozen yogurt, topped with cheese cake squares, Oreo crumble and melted Nutella.

Boysenberry and Key Lime frozen yogurt topped with strawberries, blackberries and blueberries.

Places to Eat: Pita Pit

Do you like healthy food choices? Do you like fast food? Do you like stuffing things in pitas?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, then head over to Pita Pit for a healthy, fast, sandwich wrapped up in a delicious pita.

Pita Pita, a recent addition to restaurants in Miramichi, is located at 2347 King George Highway. They have a great space set up with several tables set up indoors and a patio outdoors for people who want to enjoy the nice weather and look out at the river while doing so.

                                                              Indoor seating.          

Their friendly staff is eager to cater to your sandwich needs with fresh pita chips available on the counter while you wait for your meat to be cooked. They have an extensive menu with both vegetarian and meat options for pitas and healthy fruit smoothies to pair with your food. They also have chips and freshly baked cookies to make meal deals.

                                       Inside where customers line up after ordering.

                                                       Pita chips while you wait.  

Pita Pit offers two different pita sizes and a slew of vegetables, cheeses and sauces to choose from. They also toast the pita once it's assembled, which keeps everything warm and delicious. The price is a bit higher than your regular fast food, but the quantity and quality of the food far exceeds the price you're paying. 

                                                        Vegetables, cheeses and sauces.

                                                         Vegetables for your pitas.

For a healthy choice that's fast and tasty, check out Pita Pit today!

Small whole wheat pita with falafel and grilled mushrooms, feta cheese, lettuce, tomato, black olives, cucumbers, teriyaki sauce and tzatziki.

Small Pomberry Detox smoothie - rapsberry, pomegranate and frozen yogurt.

Festivals and Events: Miramichi Fusion Festival

This is the first post in the Festivals and Events segment.

The Miramichi Fusion Festival is an annual festival that unites the community and encourages youth participation in community while raising money for Autism Resources Miramichi.

The festival originally started as a slow-pitch tournament and evolved into a full-day event with activities for everyone. There are carnival games, live music, skateboarding and video game clinics and competitions, basketball, a food tent, and much more!

                                                 The Food Tents at the Fusion Festival.

                        A jumping castle was one of the fun activities at the festival.

                                                          Carnival games at the festival.
    

                                                              The teen room activities.

                                                             Video game competition.

                                                             Live music by local bands.

Unfortunately, this year's festival took place on a rainy day, forcing the organizers to switch the slow-pitch tournament to a floor hockey tournament.

                                                          Floor hockey tournament.

Despite the bad weather, the festival had a great turn out and everyone enjoyed themselves.

Thanks to Logan, one of the many festival organizers, the day was a great success!

Places to Eat: Chez Raymond

As part of the travel experience this summer, I will be doing different segments. This is the first installment in the Places to Eat Segment.

Chez Raymond is a little restaurant in Neguac, which is about 40 minutes out of the city of Miramichi past Douglastown. They are located 486 Main St. and can be reached by calling (506) 776-9000.

The restaurant has a friendly staff, a nice atmosphere and delicious, well-priced food. The decor is modern chic and the space is quite expansive with three separate eating places to choose from. The restaurant is open daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. with breakfast served until 11 a.m. If you don't want to sit in the restaurant, they also do take-out.

                                                                 The main dining area.

                                                                The booth section.

               
                                                             Seating in the back area.

                                                          The dessert counter.

They offer a breakfast menu and a lunch and supper menu. The choices available range from seafood to burgers and steaks, escargot and french onion soup to salads and club sandwiches. They also feature several different types of poutine and an extensive alcohol menu.

 Escargot and mozzarella sticks are two of many selections that are served on the appetizer menu at Chez Raymond.

Smoked meat poutine is one of their specialty poutines. Some of the other ones include pizza poutine, Italian poutine and mess poutine which consists of fries, cheese, gravy and peas.

On the high-end side of the menu, they offer cordon bleu, served with coleslaw, vegetables and rice.

One of the seafood dishes available is the fisherman's platter, served with haddock, scallops, lobster, coleslaw, vegetables and the choice of rice, potatoes or french fries.

A buffet is available for lunch every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and a breakfast buffet from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Sundays. If you're looking for special events, Tuesday is wing night, Wednesday is spaghetti night and Friday is rib night.

Chez Raymond is a great place to eat, they speak both French and English and the quality and quantity of the food is worth the price you pay. In addition to the restaurant there is also a motel connected in case you're looking for a place to stay while passing through the area. For more information, check out their website at www.chezraymond.ca.

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Introducing Kelsey Marie

Hi All!

My name is Kelsey and I am a journalism student at Ryerson University in Toronto.

I have always loved to travel and plan to be a travel writer in the near future. While I'm in school I won't necessarily have the opportunity to travel to far away places, so instead I intended to make the most out the places I am.

This summer I will "travel" around my hometown and make the most of the tourism opportunities and travel experiences that people can have if they visit. I also hope to check out some of New Brunswick and paint the picture of beauty I've lived in for most of my life.

As soon as the trees get their leaves and the weather warms up, expect to find me out and about snapping pictures.

Until then, keep well and travel!