Sooke Harbour House | T+L 500 2008 | Travel + Leisure

Sooke Harbour House

Art-filled clapboard inn on the edge of the Pacific, overlooking the Olympic Mountains.

Score 86.39
Stats 28 rooms; 1 restaurant.
Competitive Edge Chef Edward Tuson's regional West Coast cuisine.
Rooms to Book Sea Song, for its balcony overlooking the harbor and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Don't Miss A stroll through the organic kitchen gardens.
Cost Doubles from $395, including breakfast.
Contact 1528 Whiffen Spit Road
800/889-9688 or 250/642-3421

www.sookeharbourhouse.com

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“Many of Canada's top chefs were trained at Sooke Harbour House, an hour's drive southwest of Victoria and home to one of the country's best restaurants. Having heard so much about the Harbour House, I am taken aback to find the white clapboard inn tucked at the end of a residential street. But when I settle in, I discover that it's as far from suburbia as you can get. The wind-whipped grounds lie on an exposed promontory facing the Strait...” MORE»

—Kimberly Seely
“Making Waves” in Travel + Leisure, Jun 2003