Senior residents having a pleasant conversation at the dinning table while enjoying a cup of coffee with croissant

The Dining Experience at Chartwell Lansing in North York

At Chartwell Lansing, we do everything we can to provide you with a pleasant dining experience. Dining starts with our conscious approach to planning meals that take into consideration the best-tasting seasonal produce, resident preferences, wholesome nutrition, and dietary restrictions.

3 Plates of food -one with a pie, one with fish and one with salad. 3 assiettes de nourriture - une avec une tarte, une avec du poisson et une avec de la salade.

Freshly prepared meals and snacks are then made in-house by our food service team and can be enjoyed in the dining room or in the bistro. Themed dinners bring everyone together to celebrate seasonal events or different cuisines, and your friends and loved ones are welcome to join you for a meal or family dinners.

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Service is just as important to us as the quality of our meals at Chartwell Lansing.

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The food and dining room energy help shape the wonderful dining experience at Chartwell Lansing. In the dining room, you’ll be greeted and served by the welcoming food service team. You can count on our servers to be attentive to your dietary restrictions, preferences and requests. Additionally, you’ll get to meet our Food Service Manager who invites feedback and looks forward to providing you with the best possible dining experience every day. Our menus feature everything from comforting homestyle favourites and freshly prepared salads and soups, to themed meals and homemade desserts. Residents can choose a feature dish from the ever-changing menu or from the à la carte menu. You might order cream of cauliflower soup with pulled pork on a bun for lunch and a garden salad with pan-fried haddock for dinner and pecan pie for dessert. No matter what you order, your meal will be seasoned with love and care.

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Get a taste for Chartwell’s dining experience

What makes dining in a retirement residence special? It’s a combination of service from friendly staff who come to know your name, the delicious food on your plate, and the social connection that comes from gathering around a table to share stories over a good meal. Don’t forget fun themed meals, the chance to celebrate cherished traditions with family, and the opportunity to enjoy homestyle menu favourites as well as something new you mightn’t have tried if you were on your own. Watch our series of dining experience videos to understand what you can expect in a Chartwell retirement residence!

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Explore our eye-catching seasonal menus

Did you know? Chartwell changes their menus to reflect all four seasons of the year! We have more than 750 tried-and-tested recipes that we reflect on our menus throughout the year, many of which incorporate seasonal ingredients that have you looking forward to your dining experience each day. Browse our sample seasonal menu to get a glimpse of what you can expect—including food photography of the meals you’ll see at our retirement residence!

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Front page of Chartwell's seasonal menus document

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Learn some fun facts about dining at Chartwell

There are so many assumptions out there about what retirement living food is—and most of the time, they couldn’t be more wrong! Explore our interesting infographic for true facts and figures about the dining experience at Chartwell—you may be surprised by what you learn.

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Fact Image: We serve over 28, 000 cups of coffee per day - that's 10 million cups per year. We crack over 7, 500 eggs per day - that's 2.5 million eggs per year