(FORTUNE Magazine) – I make it a practice never to pass up a meal in a converted mobile home, so the moment I laid eyes on the HALIBUT AND CHIPS sign outside the Roadrunner's Place I knew exactly where I was having lunch. And what I was ordering. The ethos at this oasis in the Muskoka region of Ontario, three hours north of Toronto, is clear: Halibut is the fish of choice, and all other flat fish, like turbot, are inferior. You can even get a halibut burger.

Not that Mary and Bob Funston don't have anything besides halibut on the menu. They serve, for example, a sandwich stuffed with peameal bacon--which is real Canadian bacon--and covered with cheese. Or pickerel, which you probably don't have for lunch very often. Bob also runs a sign shop out of the back half of the mobile home. A guy's got to make a living.

All meal prices are in Canadian dollars; caloric intake, alas, is the same on both sides of the border.

--David Shribman