Jack’s Restaurant (Capital Hotel)
If you have been longing for the goodness of a home cooked meal, look to Jack’s Restaurant and enjoy not only a great menu and fabulous prices, but the best of Newfoundland hospitality as well. Join us for breakfast, mingle with colleagues over a light lunch or sit back at the end of a hectic day and enjoy a fulfilling meal with family and friends. An experience you will not soon forget.
It's a Fact!
- Cabot Tower (on Signal Hill) was built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's "Voyage of Discovery".
- Newfoundland has its own time zone - 1.5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. This is where the sun first rises in North America.
- There are more than 29 varieties of marine mammals in the water surrounding the island of Newfoundland.
- Newfoundland is the world's sixteenth largest island, and the area of Labrador is over twice that of Newfoundland's.
- In 1919 a British aircraft departed from Lester's Field, in what is now the west central part of the city, and landed in Clifden, Ireland, less than 17 hours later, marking the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
