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Canada is a leading nation in protecting nonsmokers.
Provinces and territories which ban smoking in the workplace, including restaurants and bars: BC, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan. Quebec adopted a similar law which goes into effect May 31, 2006. Ontario casinos go to smokefree by end of June, including First Nations casinos.
Submissions are still welcome; change does not happen overnight. Venues which lead by example deserve our business.
August 2001: Ottawa, Ontario banned smoking in workplaces and public places (including bars, bowling alleys & other fun places).
June 2001: Toronto banned smoking in restaurants and bowling alleys. Bars, bingo & billiard halls, casinos and racetracks get three years to phase in a ban.
COBOURG
The Woodlawn Inn
420 Division Street 905 372-223
Totally smokefree hotel. Contact info@woodlawninn.com
DUNNVILLE
Reader's Cafe
132 Queen Street 701-1919
Bookstore, restaurant and music space.
GANANOQUE
Trinity House Inn
90 Stone Street South tel (613) 382-8383 fax (613) 382-1599
1000 Islands area. Voted one of the ten best Canadian inns of 1999 by
Canadian Country Inns B&B Magazine.
KINGSTON
Smoking ban passed on May 1, 2003.
Update May 2004, thanks to Dave McWilliam of the KFL&A Health Unit:
A year has now gone by and we're at probably 99% compliance. Generally, the process/transition went smoothly. Clearly all those places in Ontario and elsewhere who went smoke-free before us made our process that much easier. Over the past ten years in Ontario there has been a concerted effort to create smoke-free municipalities at the same time as restricting access to tobacco by underage youth as well as providing some level of cessation support to the community. Comprehensive tobacco strategies are a necessity to hope to achieve a healthier community. OCAT (Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco) deserves special recognition for their expertise and support in achieving smoke-free places in Ontario (http://www.ocat.org/) Also the OTN (Ontario Tobacco-Free Network) - www.theotn.org
[Virtually all public places and workplaces must be totally smoke-free. The only exemptions are:
1. Bingo Halls: they can provide a 50% Designated Smoking Room only if it is separate and ventilated, and employees do not service the room, and
2: Long-term Care Facilities/ Resthomes: can provide a DSR that is separate and ventilated.]
KINGSTON
Famous King Restaurant
505 Princess Street tel 613-5495464
Restaurant serving Lebanese home-style cooking. Donairs, shawarma, pizza.
MINDEN/HALIBURTON HIGHLANDS
MUSKOKA
Port Carling Tap & Grill
In downtown Port Carling tel (705) 765-6983
Quiet, family-friendly restaurant serving breakfast lunch and dinner.
Fully licensed, i.e., drinks available.
Summer: 9am-11pm every day
NIAGARA FALLS
Casino Niagara
5705 Falls Avenue, off Hwy. 420 off Q.E.W. Niagara
1-888-946-3255
Featuring 2700 slot machines & 144 gaming tables.
Many hotels within walking distance.
Our kindly correspondent says the casino "had an entire smoke-free floor!!!
The casino is three levels, and the second level is a non-smoking floor.
I have visited many other casinos in the US, and while they have smoke-free
tables
or perhaps areas, I don't know any that have an entire floor as non-smoking.
Incidentally, it was just as busy!"
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OTTAWA
Smoking was banned in Ottawa's bars, bingos & billiard halls on August 1st. 2001.
Coffee Revolution
115 Rideau, (613) 562-5678
Restaurant/cafe.
Flying Piggy
1665 Bank Street (613) 526-4900
Italian restaurant. Casual, pleasant, good prices.
Good Morning Vietnam
323 Rideau Street (613) 789-4080
Go for the food (good) not the glamor. No credit cards.
The Green Door
198 Main Street (613) 234-9597
Vegetarian restaurant with buffet.
Hava-Java
41 William (613) 789-3098
Coffee shop.
Juniper Restaurant & Wine Bar
1293 Wellington Street (613) 728-0220
Highly-rated bistro in Westboro.
Lapointe's Seafood Grill
55 York Street (Byward Market Square) (613) 241-6221
Excellent seafood restaurant under the Fish Market.
Mick's Pub (formerly Cock Robin)
56 Byward Market
Smokefree pub and music spot, inexpensive meals. Occasional folk and Celtic jam sessions.
New Delhi
683 Bank Street (613) 237-4041
Excellent Indian restaurant.
Rasputin's Folk Cafe
696 Bronson Avenue (613) 230-5102
Folk, blues, bluegrass and jazz. Also a restaurant. Drinks available.
Roses Cafe
3710 Richmond Road (613) 820-4651
523 Gladstone Avenue (613) 233-5574
Indian cuisine. There is another Roses on Dalhousie Street, to our knowledge it is not completely smokefree.
Steaming Bean Cafe
135 Besserer (613) 562-4623
Smokefree espresso bar.
Trattoria Zingaro
10 Beechwood Avenue (613) 744-6509
Italian cuisine from Tuscany. Great seafood.
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PORT PERRY
Haugen's Barbeque
In Manchester Food Services, Highway 12 between Scugog and Durham Road (905) 985-2402
Chicken and ribs, burgers and dogs, sides, wine, beer.
Plus check out their web site for information on classic car shows.
Mid March-December, 7:30am-9:30pm
SARNIA
Northgate Bowl
429 Exmouth Street (519) 336-9331
The youth leagues are nonsmoking.
STRATFORD
Erie Street Bed & Breakfast
297 Erie Street (519) 271-0068 or Toll Free: 1-888-271-ERIE (3743)
eriestbb@orc.ca
Well-appointed B&B in a turn of the century home near Stratford Festival
theaters.
TORONTO
A comment from Cher: "... Toronto, where the smoking ban has been effective for years, ... is really fantastic. We have the smallest percentage of smokers per capita in the developed world (about 15% only) and smoking is forbidden EVERYWHERE!! Including bars, pubs and even outdoor patios-- and no businesses can complain, if the ban is uniform, obviously no one is taking their business elsewhere, and since non smokers are the vast majority, MORE people are estimated to be going out than before. If you smoke in Toronto, it is considered EXTREMELY anti-social ... the government supports the ban, as it has saved millions in health care costs."
Bistro On Avenue
1678 Avenue Road (416) 783-1928
Smokefree bar with pub food.
Cafe Des Artistes
82 Avenue Road (416) 926-0616
Cafe and performance space in a beautiful restored house.
Sandwich and salad type lunch and dinner menu.
Jazz and classical music on weekends.
Crazy Ates Restaurant
127 Jefferson Avenue (416) 588-0108
Dining, take-out and catering.
Le Sélect Bistro
328 Queen Street West (416) 596-6405
Un authentique bistrot parisien au coeur de Toronto. Choisi Meilleur
Restaurant français et Meilleure Carte de vins par plusieurs magazines et
station de radio. Prix d'Excellence du prestigieux Wine Spectator.
Environnement garanti 100% sans fumée, y compris au bar (un vrai zinc!).
Très belle terrasse fleurie en bordure de la rue Queen. Salles privées pour
réception d'affaires. Ouvert du déjeuner au dîner.
A genuine French bistro in downtown Toronto. Voted Best French Restaurant
and Best Winelist. Wine Spectator's Award of Excellence. 100% smoke free,
including the bar ("un vrai zinc"). Private dining-rooms for special
functions. Great sidewalk patio. Serves lunch and dinner. Hosts performances
the last week of June during the International Jazz Festival.
Smokeless Joe's Pub
125 John Street (416) 591-2221
Smokefree pub, very good, small and often very crowded. Good beers (not cheap).
Stork on the Roof
2009 Yonge Street (416) 483-3747
A small (approx. 15 tables), friendly spot that's popular with locals and also enjoyed rave reviews from local media. The two chef/owners are Canadian and Dutch, and benefit from their experience preparing meals aboard a private, Indian-owned, yacht that sailed the seas of southern and southeast Asia. Creative ("fusion") combinations of spices and ingredients make for great halibut, rissotto, lamb and more. Entirely non-smoking.
thanks Peter Lebensold!
Peter's update, August 2005:
After 8 glorious years, Jenny and Michael decided to take a rest, so this restaurant is now closed. But - as you already know - all Toronto bars and restaurants are now totally smoke-free!!!! (Smokeless Joe's - always smokefree - which you have already listed, has over 300 beers from all over the world, great jazz on the sound system, a great meatless chili, and wicked mussels!)
Times Square Fish & Chips
140A The Esplanade (416) 861-1267
Casual smokefree sports bar with TV, live entertainment and karaoke.
Full menu (steak, burgers, seafood, salads). Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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WATERLOO
A January 1, 2000, bylaw banned smoking in all indoor public areas including bars and restaurants. A resident reports: "...most bars disregard the by-law on a regular basis, however smoking has decreased there. However, it has been my experience that every restaurant I've been to in Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge (in Ontario, Canada) is completely smoke-free.
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Thanks Greg Uebele!
OTHER ONTARIO RESOURCES
SmokeFree Dining in Lambton County, Ontario
Sarnia, Petrolia, Forest, Brigden, Wyoming, Grand Bend.
Compiled by the Lambton Health Unit, a non-profit organization.
Not sure how current.
Smoke-free Public Spaces in the Kenora/Rainy River District (Ontario)
A service of the Northwestern Health Unit
Toronto SmokeFree Restaurants
This list uses the City of Toronto public health department criteria:
100% smokefree, or a completely separate, ventilated smoking room.
Tordine
This Toronto restaurant database includes smoke free as an express search term.
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