Chez Piggy is a restaurant in downtown

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History

Chez Piggy was opened in 1979 by

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of the 1960s pop group

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and his partner Rose Richardson, who were both avid travellers who enjoyed good food and wanted to create a restaurant reflecting those traits. The restaurant is located in a formerly abandoned limestone horse stable that was built in 1806. Now a popular culinary tourist attraction, the restaurant is recognized as a local landmark. Zoe Yanovsky took over as operating owner of both Chez Piggy and Pan Chancho when her father died in 2002. The current Member of Provincial Parliament for

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, Ian Arthur, served as the

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at Chez Piggy until his election to the provincial legislature in 2018.

Awards

In 2015 it was named Kingston's best-known restaurant by the

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. In 2016, it received the Ontario Hostelry Institute (OHI) Gold Award.

References

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