On Friday nights, the Hotel Newfoundland's chef Steven Watson puts on a Jiggs Dinner which is popular with tourists and residents alike. The wonderfully flavored vegetables are served with some of the cooked beef. Some foods enjoyed by Newfoundlanders would be new to American palates. Caribou and moose are popular game meats. Newfoundland pea soup is made with yellow split peas.
Bread pudding is a mainstay for the frugal Irish descendants.
Nature lovers flock to Newfoundland, and a favorite trip to take is a boat tour through Witless Bay Ecological Reserve. Guides from Wildland Tours can drive you 31 km south on Highway 10 to Bay Bulls. The following recipes are from O'Brien's Landing, a cozy restaurant in Bay Bulls adjacent to where the wildlife tour boats leave to visit the bird sanctuaries. He made a second trans-Atlantic voyage the following year, sailing as far south as perhaps the Chesapeake Bay of modern day Virginia. He turned back toward England but failed to make it home, probably perishing off the coast of Newfoundland in 1498 or 1499.