This is the second of two articles on Canadian ingredients. This piece explores some of the contemporary foods that have flourished more recently and have been adopted kitchens from coast to coast. It’s adapted, along with a few of the referenced recipes, from Anita Stewart’s CANADA: The Food, The Recipes, The Stories.
If you’re in the Ottawa Valley or the Outaouais and you mention the concept of regional cooking in Quebec, Les Fougères will be named. Chefs Charles Part and Jennifer Warren Part are completely and utterly dedicated to serving forth the
In 2008 I had an incredible book tour….and one stop was Montreal. I love the Hotel Queen Elizabeth and headed to the legendary Beaver Club for dinner. Chef Alain Pignard rolled out the culinary red carpet and I can’t think
This is what a ‘local’ looks like in Montreal. Stylish, great food and very, very comfortable ! Monkland Taverne is an institution in Notre Dame de Grace (NDG) and owner Barbara Leslie has been focused on the great ingredients of
First and foremost, Tuck Shop is a neighbourhood restaurant . Owner Jon Bloom writes “We are proudly located at 4662 Notre Dame Ouest in the heart of St-Henri. Historically, the neighbourhood is known for its working class residents, leather tanning
One of the neatest restaurants in Quebec, Les Jardins Sauvages, is owned and operated by Chef Nancy Hinton and forager/farmer François Brouillard. Aside from being a country eatery, they create and sell a line of products derived from wild plants
Let’s face it, the real cuisine of Quebec began in the back woods and the rivers. It was, and still largely is a hunting and fishing society that LOVES to dine well. Before the current trends in wilderness cuisine hit
Named after the railway baron and industrialist Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, Van Horne is one of my favourite new restaurants in this marvellous edible city. Located in the very real community of Outremont it’s worth spending a bit of
When you finally find Le Bremner, it’s almost as though you’ve joined a secret club. Nearly at a dead end of rue Saint Paul East and hidden down an ancient hewn stone stairway with only the number 361 atop the
As Sooke Harbour House is to Vancouver Island, Manoir Hovey is to Quebec. On the banks of Lake Massawippi, near North Hatley in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, this inn and Chef Roland Ménard, have been harvesting the region and serving it
As of October 10, 2012, Derek Dammann, the well-tattoed chef who, with his business partner, Alex Cruz, built a stellar reputation for Montreal Restaurant DNA, has created the sort of restaurant he is all about…democratic and fun, delicious and fresh,
Les Jardins de Métis is a magical place and a testament to a dream that has spanned generations of the Reford family. In the summer of 1926, Elsie Reford began transforming her fishing camp on the Metis River into a garden.
About a decade ago, Fairmont Hotels gave Le Manoir Richelieu (c. 1899) a $170 million make over. In it’s very early days it was constructed to emulate a French castle and, today, it really is a grand hotel on one
Danny St. Pierre is one of the new generation of Quebec chefs who are poised to take all of Canada by storm. They are celebrating their French roots with passion and style and extraordinarily good taste. Last year he personally hit
When I first met Chef Daniel Vézina he had just opened his restaurant and named it after his two his two children, Laurie and Raphaël. Even then, in the 1980s, he was starting to set up micro supply networks so
From the creators behind fellow Food Day restaurant Toque!, also in Montreal, comes Brasserie T!, a similarly enthusiastic take on fresh and accessible food. The menu keeps it simple, with a focus on ingredients instead of on adjectives. Christine Lamarche from Restaurant
When we first met in 1999, Chef Alain Labrie was creating some of the finest dining experiences Quebec has ever seen at the iconic inn, Auberge Hatley. When that inn was not rebuilt after a fire in 2005, he and
Every time I head to this region of Quebec, I marvel. Firstly because the landscape, almost adjoining Gatineau Park, is so spectacular but also because it is so close to downtown Ottawa. No where in North America is such wild,
The Boucanerie Chelsea Smokehouse is legendary in the Outaouais region near Ottawa. But under the relatively new ownership of Line Boyer and James Hargreaves, it is now a full fledged culinary destination that can rival any in Canada. Period. The
We are leaving this post up for a few months in a tribute to the brilliance of Chef Derek Dammann. Sadly DNA closed its doors on June 2nd, 2012, a dark day for gastronomy in Montreal. Such creativity is
Chef Geneviève Filion was one of the marvellous team of Auberge Hatley who was determined to stay in the area after the inn’s fire. Chef Alain LaBrie of La Table du Chef was the other. Her cooking is contemporary and
Chef Normand Laprise and business partner, Christine Lamarche have been regaling dinners and promoting their suppliers for as long as they’ve been in business. Normand hails from the southeast shore of the St. Lawrence River in the very French, very
From Quebec, with love. Chef Jean-Pierre Curtat actively promotes Québec’s products and specialities both here at home and on his many trips to the United States, Spain and Japan. His is elegant cuisine. When we first met, he was cooking on
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