Open Hours
Thursday - Sunday: 11 - 7
Monday - Wednesday: Closed
Note: Closed Thursday, September 10. Happy Labour Day Weekend!
Open year-round
Covid-19 Update for Fall 2020:
Now in our 7th year open in New Ross!
Thanks to your support, we have stayed open throughout the provincial state of emergency. Restaurant requirements to prevent the spread of Covid-19 have not changed. To best continue our efforts to keep you and our team healthy, our dining room continues to be closed.
Despite Covid-19, our commitment to quality and consistency is unchanged. Our full menu is available for take-away, as well as our full range of specialty meats. Weekly specials and news can be found on Instagram and Facebook @peasantspantry.
Calling ahead with your meat and menu orders reduces your wait and allows us to stagger pickup times, however we are also open for pop-ins. We appreciate your patience as we serve customers in person and by phone.
To order and pay by phone for parking lot pickup:
- Provide Visa or Mastercard
- We will bring your order out to your vehicle's trunk (if open) or hood
To order and/or pick up inside:
- Respect 6 ft (6 floor tile) physical distancing
- If there are already 2 customers inside, please wait outside to the right of the glass doors until someone leaves
- Wear a mask (unless exempt)
- Pay with cash, Interac, Visa or Mastercard
- Do not come in if:
- You have Covid-19 symptoms such as cough, sneezing, fever
- You have been outside Atlantic Canada in the past 14 days
- You have been in close contact with a confirmed Covid-19 case within the past 14 days
Thank you for your cooperation in trying to keep our customers and team safe and our business open year-round!
Now Available for Mail Order
Air Dried Salamis:
- Castellano (Spanish style, paprika, medium heat)
- Tuscan (fennel, garlic)
- Fennel + Orange
- Saucisson Sec (French style, garlic)
- Cider (NS hard apple cider)
- Herbes de Provence (floral French herb mix)
- Farmer's (classic salt + pepper)
- $33.09 lb / $72.80 kg (approx. $4-$9 per stick) no tax
- also available on-site
Hats
- 100% cotton
- Navy with whiteembroidered Peasant's Pantry logo
- Adjustable back
- $19.95 + HST
- also available on-site
Cutting Boards
- Solid wood, long grain (slight natural variations in color)
- 12" x 6" x 7/8"
- Peasant's Pantry logo
- Handmade by Ashwurks in NS
- $44.95 + HST
$20 tax incl. flat rate shipping. Fill the box up to 5 kg max.
Order by email with your name, mailing address* and desired items and quantities. We will email you an invoice to pay online with Visa or MasterCard.
Notes:
Air dried salamis are shelf stable and therefore mail-friendly. Our other meats are not available for shipping.
*Air dried salamis available within NS only due to government regulations. Hats and cutting boards available for shipping within Canada.
What We Do
Our team works hard to prepare our menu and charcuterie from scratch:
Restaurant
The menu features our specialty meats in classic deli fare, comfort foods and internationally inspired dishes. Emphasis is on high quality and local ingredients.
Visit us to try one of our two-hand, two-napkin sandwiches, old-fashioned burgers, and famous hand-cut fries. Watch as we bake our buns and pizzas to order in our new wood-fired oven.
+Deli
We use traditional methods and locally sourced meat to make our own raw and ready-to-eat specialty meats. All cutting, curing and smoking is done in-house. We don't use fillers, giving our products a better taste and texture and resulting in most items being gluten-free.
Grab items for the bbq, easy meals and charcuterie boards:
- Pâtés
- Raw Sausages
- Smoked Sausages
- Sliced Smoked Meats
- Bacon
- Air Dried Salamis
Selection varies as we make and sell items daily - give us a call or pop in for today's assortment!
LOCAL CONNECTIONS
We use high quality local ingredients from:
Bar M Ranch
Benjamin Bridge Winery
Blue Harbour Cheese
Bulwark Ciders
Ciro's Roma Cheese Ltd.
Cows Cheese
Grand Pre Wines
Jost Vineyards
Klayhurst Farm
Martock Glen Farms / Oulton's Meats
OH Armstrong
Roundway Farm
Tanner & Co. Brewing
That Dutchman's Cheese Farm
additional local farmers and producers
Look for us on the menus and shelves at:
Five Girls Baking, Liverpool
Mother's Pizza, Halifax
Planters Ridge Winery, Port Williams
Stirling's Farm Market, Greenwich
OUR STORY
Joseph has been building his career in the Nova Scotia food industry for over 20 years, beginning with culinary training at NSCC Kingstec and Holland College. After working on the line at the original Acton’s in Wolfville, he went on to help run the kitchen of Halifax restaurant Fid, focusing on classic French cuisine with Asian influence, The Halifax Club, and Domaine de Grand Pré’s fine dining restaurant Le Caveau.
In fall 2011, he started his own business based on his interests in high quality local ingredients and classical charcuterie recipes and techniques. As chef and owner of Peasant’s Pantry, he built a small processing facility and began using local meat to produce over thirty types of charcuterie himself, selling them at the Wolfville and Tantallon farmers' markets and to restaurants in the Valley and HRM.
In spring 2014, it became clear that more space and staff were needed to keep up with the growing business. Joseph purchased and renovated the former location of The Highwayman restaurant, which had been vacant on Highway 12 in New Ross for several years. The vision for the relocation and expansion was a traditional deli: continuing to produce specialty meats plus butcher cuts and a menu for eat-in/take-out all under one roof.
The deli opened in time for Canada Day weekend 2014 and it was an exciting year as the vision became a reality. The menu offers casual, high quality food. Like the specialty meats, the menu features variety and is made in-house from scratch with emphasis on local ingredients.
At home in the welcoming and supportive community of New Ross, Peasant's Pantry is continually growing and improving. In 2019 we stopped selling at markets, increased our dining room seating and became licensed. Now offering NS wine, beer and cider all the time, we celebrated with a special sold-out multi-course dinner New Year’s Eve. A brief closure in January wasn’t a vacation - Joseph built a wood oven and re-opened with an updated menu with all the favourites plus some new items, including made-to-order wood-fired buns and pizzas. Joseph, his family and his team at the deli look forward to many more successful years of business in our little A-frame shop built on quality, consistency and taste.
