Artisan Inn and Twine Loft Restaurant - Trinity

06/07/2026

❣️Artisan Inn and Vacation Homes has a few June accommodation openings in historic Trinity.
🛏️We have a handful of one-night stays available across our nine properties in the heart of historic Trinity.
Whether you’re planning a quick getaway, adding Trinity to a Bonavista Peninsula road trip, or looking for a last-minute night away, these dates are currently available at the time of posting (June 7th): 📆
Friday, June 13 – Campbell House
Saturday, June 14 – Cove Cottage
Sunday, June 15 – Lighthouse View
Saturday, June 20 – Trinity Room & Campbell House
Thursday, June 25 – Hill House
Friday, June 26 – Nathaniel House & Campbell House
Monday, June 29 – Hill House

Visit our website to book online!

06/05/2026

With iceberg season in full swing, I thought an iceberg themed throwback would be timely. In the summer of 2014, not long after winning Olympic gold at Sochi, Canadian curlers Jennifer Jones and Jill Officer came to Newfoundland and Labrador to live out a bucket-list dream.

Their team had just made history, going undefeated at the Olympics and becoming the first women’s curling team ever to do so. For their bucket-list experience, Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism helped arrange for Jennifer and Jill to go kayaking with icebergs in Trinity Bay.

They finished the day with dinner at the Twine Loft.

We knew it had been a special day for them both, and we wanted to help them end it with something to commemorate the experience. When I found out our cook was making blueberry lemon torte for dessert, I got an idea in my head and spent the entire afternoon sourcing the perfect images, printing, laminating, and cutting out tiny pieces by hand. Yes, sometimes running an inn means a day of arts and crafts.

The goal was to recreate their bucket-list moment on their final course. When the dessert was brought out, the table erupted with cheers and laughter.

We ended the night with drinks on the Twine Loft deck under the stars, one of those evenings that reminded us how special it is to be part of someone’s Newfoundland story.

Marieke Gow - Co-Owner Artisan Inn & Twine Loft 

06/04/2026

Visit our Menu of the Day & Service Hours page to stay up to date on our breakfast, drink service and evening dining times. We also post our 2 main course options (typically 1 day prior) on this page!

Twine Loft hours of operation: Breakfast, Dinner, Bar Service and Artisan Inn & Vacation Home Registration in Trinity Newfoundland.

06/01/2026

05/29/2026

In 2014, I was contacted by a production company filming a French cooking show called Goûts du Pays. They were in a bind: they were filming episodes across Canada and needed a francophone chef for the Newfoundland episode.

I am not a chef and have never been known for my cooking. But I owned a restaurant, spoke French, and apparently that was the absolute best they could do island-wide.

I very much wanted to say no, but they were not going to take “no” or “non” for an answer.

The filming took place over two days in late May. The first day was spent with Kris Prince from Sea of Whales as he free-dived for scallops; this was in my comfort zone.

The second day was devoted to the cooking segment. Luckily, Chris Sheppard, an instructor at the Bonavista Culinary Institute, agreed to do the episode with me since our cooks were too camera shy. Trying to follow along in the kitchen, remember my French, hit my marks, and look like I knew what I was doing all at the same time was a challenge. Chris generously did me the solid of making it look like he was assisting me as I described to the host, Quebec actor Vincent Graton, what we were doing. Chris didn’t understand a single thing being said. When they say “the magic of television” it is no understatement. The crew were incredible from start to finish. 

The last scene we shot was of a party with our staff on the Twine Loft deck, where I fiddled and my friend Justin Cooper dropped by with his accordion. At one point, the camera operator opened his camera to change the battery, and somehow the camera card, with all the footage, popped out and fell through the slats of the deck. I remember staring in horror, thinking, “I do not have it in me to do this all over again.”

By some miracle, the card landed on a crossbeam below the slats instead of in the water.

I still think about that experience when I feel myself wanting to say no to something scary. Working in Newfoundland tourism never stopped challenging me and it is always incredible to discover who is willing to show up to help you succeed when you have no clue what you are doing, but you are doing it anyways. 

-Marieke Gow Artisan Inn & Twine Loft Co-Owner

05/22/2026

Rising Tide Theatre launches its season of new performances this coming weekend, so a Rising Tide throwback feels fitting.

Rising Tide Theatre’s New Founde Lande Trinity Pageant was the creative child of Donna Butt and Rick Boland. In many ways, it was born out of the same difficult moment that shaped the restoration of our Campbell House.

After the collapse of the cod fishery, communities like Trinity were forced to imagine new ways forward. The pageant was about more than theatre. It became an economic driver, a source of employment, and a way for people who had suddenly had the rug pulled out from under them to earn a living in a new way, without having to leave home.

The cast brought together professional actors and local residents. For some, it offered a chance to step into work they never would have imagined before the moratorium. There was no physical theatre in Trinity at the time, so Trinity itself became the stage.

Back then, the Lester Garland building existed only as the foundation ruins of the grand house that once stood there. It was a place where we played as kids, and it also served as the stage for the final scene of the show.

This photo shows my oldest sister Francie, who worked as the fiddler for the first two years of the pageant, standing by the ruins either just before or just after her scene.

Newfoundland artist Diana Debinnett later gifted my mother this watercolour of Francie performing in the show. It captures both a moment from the pageant and a time when Trinity was beginning to imagine a different future.

05/21/2026

I often hear a friend say, “I wish people would stop putting Newfoundland on their bucket list.”

Why? Because bucket lists are for things you do once, places you visit once, and then move on from. But this is not that kind of place. It reveals a different side of itself every time you return.

I have lost count of the number of times I have hiked Gun Hill in Trinity, but there always seems to be a new angle on the view, something unexpected on the horizon, or a different shade of season changing the landscape.

05/15/2026

Campbell House came with the purchase of a dug well located between Campbell House and Gover House, our original family cottage in Trinity. My parents’ first idea was not to restore Campbell House at all. They were mainly interested in securing the water source for Gover House, and at first considered taking the old house down.

But once they began looking more closely, they discovered that Campbell House was historically significant. That changed the direction of the project.

To say the house was in rough shape when they bought it around 1990 would be an understatement. The carpenters approached for the restoration were once overheard saying about my mom, “Missus must have more money than brains,” after sizing up the job.

Unfortunately, she didn’t have more money than brains. But because of Campbell House’s historical significance, my parents were able to access a modest amount of funding from the Newfoundland Historical Society. The grant was helpful, but it was not nearly enough to properly restore the house. The larger grant came later, in the wake of the collapse of the cod fishery, through funding connected to job creation.

Luckily, the incredible skills of the carpenters were a match for my mom’s incredible vision. At a time when many communities were facing enormous uncertainty, the restoration of Campbell House became not only a heritage project, but a way to create work and help build something new in Trinity.

Campbell House became one of the early restoration projects that helped shape what would eventually become Artisan Inn. Piece by piece, the building was brought back to life, preserving its historic character while creating a place where visitors could live the history of Trinity, not just learn about it.

Over the decades, we have come to understand that property restoration is not just about saving physical structures or architectural features. Preserved within their walls are the stories of the residents who once lived there, the people connected to them, and the community life that unfolded, and continues to unfold, around them.

-Marieke Gow Co-Owner of Artisan Inn and Twine Loft

05/12/2026

One of our favourite places to shop on the Bonavista Peninsula opens this weekend ❤️

05/12/2026

This evening we will be serving a new dish!
Beef Bourguignon Served with Garlic and Chive Whipped Potatoes.

The Beef is locally sourced from Riverbend Farms in Lethbridge, NL.

Dinner is served at 7pm tonight by reservation.