Petrolia: A Heritage Town on the Sarnia Route
Petrolia, in Lambton County, is the birthplace of the North American oil industry, tracing back to the 1860s Oil Springs and Petrolia oil boom, and is now a heritage Victorian town. Its restaurant and hospitality scene is sized to a smaller heritage-tourism market rather than an industrial or institutional one. A stop in Petrolia is worthwhile largely because it sits on the same Lambton County route as Sarnia, letting a smaller-town account share a route day with a larger anchor stop nearby. Petrolia’s restaurants can order our full range of beef, chicken, pork and seafood on the same Lambton County route as Sarnia, sized to a smaller heritage-town account rather than a large standing minimum. A standing weekly or biweekly order is the most common pattern for Petrolia accounts.