Getaway Bar and Grill

Getaway Bar and Grill exists for the evening when nobody at Sherkston Shores wants to cook. It is the resort's main sit-down restaurant and bar — indoor tables, a patio, the Funplex stage close enough that the two share an evening — and it takes the dinner traffic a lakeside resort generates. Families come off the beach. Groups come in from a day outside. Tables of mixed ages arrive needing to find one meal that everyone at them will actually eat. That last problem is the one the kitchen was built around, and it shapes the menu more than any single culinary idea does. Getaway took its current form under the Sun Retreats banner in 2023, cooking American bar-and-grill food across a range wide enough to solve it.

The menu leads with Nashville Hot Chicken, the sharpest thing on it. Heat-led fried chicken is a deliberate step away from resort-restaurant convention, and it gives a first order somewhere to go past the obvious. The Bacon Burger sits beside it as the dependable centre — the plate a table orders when it does not want to think. Behind those two the board runs long. Fish & Chips is the classic pub counterweight. Classic Poutine, Craft Pulled Pork and Mozzarella Sticks cover the shareable middle. The Gorgonzola Burger and the Sun Burger give the burger section somewhere to go, Mucho Meat Pizza and Veggie Delight Pizza split the pizza board between the maximal and the meatless, and Chicken Tenders keep the youngest diners fed. Apple Crumble finishes. Specialty cocktails, beer and wine run alongside all of it.

A menu that long is usually a warning — a kitchen trying to be everything at once. Here it reads as a specification. A resort dining room does not get to choose its guests; whoever is on the property that week is who walks in, and they arrive in groups spanning three generations and every appetite in between. Burgers and pizza handle the children. Poutine and pulled pork handle the hunger a day outdoors produces. Nashville Hot Chicken handles the diner who is tired of eating the safe thing. Breadth is not a lack of focus at Getaway; it is the focus.

Dinner is only half of the evening. Live music is Getaway's clearest draw away from the menu, and the patio puts the food and the entertainment in the same stretch of the day, which is why the outdoor tables are the ones to ask for when the weather cooperates. The cocktail list carries its own specialty section, and the effect on a music night is closer to a night out than to a meal taken between activities. Diners who want the quieter version of the restaurant are better off eating before the music starts — the same tables, a different hour, a considerably calmer soundtrack.

The practical shape of the place is worth knowing before arriving. There is no online table booking, so a group turns up and gets seated rather than planning around a reservation window; larger parties are better off calling the resort ahead than assuming a long table will be free. Takeout runs alongside dine-in, which covers the nights when everyone would rather eat back where they are staying. Prices sit in the mid range, and the menu's structure — one main, one shared starter — keeps the bill predictable. Dietary accommodation is the one thing not clearly established, so anyone with an allergy or a strict diet should ask the kitchen directly.

The comparison that matters is not to a destination restaurant. It is to the alternative — cooking for eight after a day in the sun, or driving into Port Colborne and back with tired children in the car. Measured against that, a room with a patio, a menu nobody has to negotiate over, and a band playing while the plates come out is a straightforward result. The food lands, the music starts, and the only planning anyone did was deciding to walk over.