Elevate your summer entertaining with beach town classics from Heydays at The June Motel.

Located on the shores of Lake Huron in beautiful Sauble Beach, Ontario, Heydays at The June Motel is a retro-inspired restaurant that offers guests a chance to experience the good old days of summer. Serving reinvented coastal classics and elevated comfort food, Heydays is a place to come together with friends and family over a glass of rosé and fresh oysters while the sun goes down and a warm breeze blows in off the water.

This collection of over 120 recipes offers home cooks a delectable range of mouth-watering dishes to savour and share—from their signature buttered Hot Lobster Rolls and Charred Broccoli Caesar Salad to Old Bay Fried Chicken and béchamel-covered Classic Mac and Cheese. Written with humour and warmth, and filled with absolutely stunning photography, Heydays at The June Motel: Beach Town Classics invites readers to take home the beach and create summer memories that will last a lifetime.

FREDDY LALIBERTÉ opened numerous food concepts in Toronto prior to relocating to Sauble Beach to open Heydays. He researched and developed recipes for the hard-hitting classics that customers keep coming back for, and specializes in sourcing excellent products and keeping quality high in all our Heydays dishes.

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EVAN BAULCH is an operational mastermind in charge of pulling all the pieces of complex restaurant operations together and keeping things running smoothly day to day. His vast experience in high-end hospitality establishments in Toronto and the Guelph area helped him to develop the practices that weave rhythm, routine, and consistency in all that we do.

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KATIE LALIBERTÉ spent weekends in 2020 working the Heydays patio and leverages her day-job skills to support all the tech systems that make up a busy restaurant. She’s a writer and sometime bookseller, and is currently working on a restaurant romance!

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EMMA BAULCH has long been known for her tastemaking culinary prowess and is now responsible for finding and hiring our staff, creating the best hospitality teams in Bruce County. She is our queen of desserts and our forever HR expert.

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"the perfect summer cookbook." — The Globe & Mail

“Heydays at the June Motel: Beach Town Classics is more than just a cookbook—it’s a love letter to summer and all the joys that come with it.” — Canadian Cookbooks