The Springwood Whitby

We are hiring!

We are looking for a part-time bartender to join our team. We are a small, tight-knit team so attitude is more important to us than experience, but some experience is necessary. Our commitment to sourcing local and making everything from scratch extends to our bar program so a passion for local beverages is a must and just a general curiosity towards spirits and cocktail culture. This is an opportunity to join an upcoming restaurant that is only growing. If this sounds interesting to you or someone you know then please send your resume along with a brief note about why you feel you would be a good fit to [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers🥂

3 years🍾

Today marks 3 years of The Springwood. 3 years of showcasing the best of what Southern Ontario has to offer. 3 years of serving our community and meeting the most amazing people. 3 years of Smoked Trout Dip!

We are truly grateful for Whitby and everyone who has walked through our doors in the last 3 years. Opening a restaurant is already very risky, even for 2 people with as much experience as we had. When we told people the concept and what we wanted to do, almost everyone said we were crazy or it wasn’t going to work.

But we had a vision and we felt like we had a story to tell. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for the support, thank you for continuing to let us tell our story and thank you for coming over for dinner.

Come Over for Dinner™️

Come Over for Dinner™️

It’s more than the tagline for the restaurant, it’s an invitation. We love hosting and now we do it for a living. It’s an invitation to relax, ignore troubles of the outside world for a bit and just let us take care of you. We really do try to evoke the feeling that you are dining with us in our home.

Tue-Sat open at 5pm. Reservations through OpenTable and walk-ins available every night at the bar.

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Ontario Wine 🍷

We are a Canadian restaurant whose focus is on expressing the terroir of Southern Ontario. This means not only sourcing our proteins and produce exclusively from Canada, but the wine too. Unfortunately this is still a hard thing for some guests to wrap their heads around.

For us it’s simple, we want to work with farmers, and what are wine growers, but essentially grape farmers. We live 90 minutes from the largest wine growing region in all of Canada, it would be crazy not to serve wines from there. Our mission statement for 2026 when it comes to our wine program is “Loud & Proud”! We are starting to pour all our wines at the table and make a focused effort to show the bottles, to tell the stories of the wineries, the growers, the wine makers and what makes them special.

The assumption that we would be so overly meticulous when it comes to sourcing our food and then just slap together a wine list is almost offensive. This isn’t an LCBO shelf wine list, this is curated collection of wines from places that share a similar ethos to the restaurant.

We like to pose this question, would you travel to Italy and ask for California wine? If you were in Spain would you ask for German Riesling? There’s nothing wrong with those wines, in fact a lot of them are spectacular, but that’s just not what we are about.

We grow cool climate wines here. If you like California Cab that’s great. We grow some Cab here too but if you go into expecting the same thing, you will be disappointed. It will be a different wine but that doesn’t make it inferior. We try to celebrate it for what it is, instead of complaining about what it isn’t.

Canadian wine has come a long way and we are excited to share that with our guests. There are amazing winemakers right here in Ontario if you know where to look. Tell us what you like to drink at home and let our staff guide you into something we think you will like. And if you’re still not satisfied, we have corkage and you can drink whatever you like.

In the picture is a list of the wineries we currently work with and we couldn’t be more proud to be able to share their hard work with all of our guests.

Springwood Provisions Hot Sauce 🌶️

Something we have been working on for a while now is our line of Springwood Provisions. After the success of our holiday market we were very close to securing a 2nd location that we unfortunately lost out on to another business. But everything that was made here and sold there was going to be sold under the Springwood Provisions line. That project is unfortunately on the back burner for now but we still went ahead with the design for our house fermented hot sauce.

Enter He crushed this design for us, after learning a bit about each other and what we were looking for, he just nailed this one. IYKYK.

So for now if you get hot sauce in the restaurant it will come in these and you can also buy them to go. Then someday down the line if we find another space that works for us, Springwood Provisions we be re-born so to speak.

Also thank you to Randy, Sherin and the whole team over at .pickering for always helping us sort out our printing needs.

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