Restaurants In Quebec
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Aspara
I'm in Québec, so why would I want Asian food? Because since 1982 this has been one of the best, tastiest and most consistently good places in town. The mix of Cambodian, Thai and Vietnamese plates utilizing lemongrass, spicy peanut sauces, rice and delicate noodles is outstanding. The upmarket room with soft Oriental music suits the kitchen's high standards. Try the poulet oudong (chicken sautéed in ginger) or the shrimps sautéed in lemongrass.
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Aux Anciens Canadiens
Housed in the historic Jacquet House which dates from 1676, this place is all about robust country cooking and typical Québécois specialties. Wait-staff in historic garb serve dishes like caribou in blue berry wine sauce, duckling in maple syrup sauce, or Lac St-Jean meat pie served with pheasant and buffalo casserole. Lunch is by far the best deal: around C$15 gets you a main course, soup, glass of wine or beer and dessert.
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Aux Vieux Canons
The staff are friendly, the menu spills over with hearty eastern European fare, it has a terrific location on a bustling section of Grand-Allée, but the reason to make a bee-line to this place? The spectacular beers on offer and the glasses they're served in - glasses so tall, so narrow, so precariously filled, they come with a wooden brace to support them. Camp out here with a tall one after a long day of sightseeing.
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Buffet de l'Antiquaire
Tucked in among the bistros and the galleries, this frenetic little diner complete with chefs in pointy paper hats and 'don't-screw-with-me' waitresses sporting whiskey voices and plenty of swagger. Take in the atmosphere while scarfing down the uncomplicated, comfort food from spaghetti to fish fillets on offer daily.
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Café Krieghoff
This brilliant little resto is a city classic, with a varied bistro menu and some of the best coffee in town. There's an extensive breakfast menu and they'll let you substitute veggie pâté for the bacon and sausage in most dishes. The dining room is decorated with reproductions from one of Québec's master painters, Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-72), who lived just down the street from here on Grande-Allée.
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Café Le Sultan
This warm cozy café is head and shoulders above the normal, soulless Lebanese fast-food restaurant. There's hookah pipes in the windows, music playing in the background, oriental tapestries and petit, tiny tables set up to eat from. The service isn't particularly friendly but the atmosphere is terrific. Try the mergez or salad plate.
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Carthage
This BYO Tunisian restaurant offers couscous, meat and vegetarian specials, all lightly spiced. Tables and chairs fill the colorful room while at the tables by the windows, patrons kneel on cushions in traditional style.
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Casse-Crêpe Breton
Tiny and unassuming, this find specializes in hot, fresh crêpes of every kind starting as low as around C$4 . Some diners like to sit at the counter and watch the chef at work.
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Chez Ashton
You will have to eat at this Québec City fast-food institution at least once. There are dozens of stores all over town all serving up what people from Québec City swear is the best poutine in the province (Montrealers, of course, usually don't agree). Classic poutine is on offer along with Ashton specials like poutine with peas or sausage.
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Chez Temporel
This no-frills, out-of-sight café on a quiet side street has got heaps of attention from France heavyweights Voici and Guide du Routard to the New York Times . The breakfast fare is definitely worth the trip: they cook their own croissants and serve up perfect (yes perfect) café au lait. Service is generally disinterested but efficient. The sandwiches, soups and salads served the rest of the day are good, but not worth a trip in and of themselves.
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Conti Caffe
Recently opened on the busy rue St-Louis drag, this is a wonderful addition to the many area tourist traps (ie locals come here too). With exposed brick walls and simple white table clothes it still manages to look urban and modern but with a terrific warm and welcoming wait-staff. The menu has a great range of prices and dishes such as good pasta (from around C$14 ), veal dishes (from around C$20 ), seafood or game like duck with herbed crust ($21).
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Downtown
Fun, relaxed and reasonable, this place is especially popular for lunch during the week. All the usual suspects are featured on the menu including salmon and beef tartare with fries and salads, along with pasta dishes and all-you-can-eat mussels (around C$16 ). Inside it's cozy with exposed brick walls, and there's none of the nervous energy of a lot of other bistro-type eateries in town. A children's menu is also available.
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L'Ardoise
This place just keeps racking up the praise, and it's easy to see why. Not only does it have a mouth-watering bistro menu with beautifully turned out classics like confit de canard , along with tantalizing twists like caribou medallions, horse steak and duck with blueberry sausage. To top if off, the setting is stunning; tiffany style lamps hang from the ceiling, along with all manner of greenery. It's cluttered, cosy and bright.
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L'Échaudé
A classic little bistro with a refreshingly relaxed and non-stuffy wait staff. This is one of the nicest bistros in the Old Town. It's steak and salmon tartares have won a loyal following making l'Échaudé one of the odd places in the Old Town where locals regularly outnumber the tourists. It also has a terrific wine list favoring bottles from France. The lunch table d'hôte is often around C$15 , while the evening table d'hôte starts at around C$25 .
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L'Utopie
The loyalty of Québec City locals to Le Saint Amour may seem inviolable, but l'Utopie is winning their affection slowly but surely. It's got a focused menu highlighting tuna, stag and deer dishes. The wonderful lunch table d'hôte includes classics like confit de canard and pavé de saumon . Everything is served in a bright, open space with an exposed wine cellar. Bunches of slender birch trees separate the tables and reach towards the ceiling.
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Largo Resto-Club
The bouillabaisse (around C$25 ) is one of its most popular dishes but the Mediterranean-inspired menu offers up everything from Moroccan dishes to salmon tartare. Besides being an enthusiastic promoter of jazz music Largo also does gallery duty, showing off the work of local painters and sculptors.
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Laurie Raphaël
Laurie Raphaël isn't just a restaurant. It's an experience. The dining room is bright, modern and simple, letting the food take center stage. The menu keeps its focus on produits du terroir , or local Québec produce. Chef Daniel Vézina keeps menu descriptions to the minimum saying he wants to 'leave room for imagination and discovery.' There's also a chef's menu that's decided at the last minute 'for those that like to be surprised.'
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Le Café Du Clocher Penché
This café serves classy, classic bistro fare and proudly shows off local products like Québec cheeses. What sets it apart are the one-of-a-kind weekend brunches. Brioche comes with caramelized pears, home-made crème fraîche, caramel sauce and almonds. An English muffin is served with veggie pâté, poached eggs, cheddar cheese, pesto vinaigrette, roasted potatoes and vegetarian chili. Brunch reservations strongly recommended.
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Le Café Du Monde
This Paris-style bistro is the only restaurant in town directly on the St Lawrence River. Bright, airy and casually elegant (no need to dress up) it has been a local favorite for years, swearing by bistro classics like steak frites and saucisse de Toulouse . The menu is extensive and authentic and there's a magnificent choice of dishes like escargot with pernod, confit de canard , pasta and local cheeses. The accent is on local Québec products.
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Le Cochon Dingue
Serving visitors and locals straight-ahead French standbys since 1979, this is an ever-popular people's choice. From café au lait en bôl to croque monsieur (around C$12 ), sandwiches, salads, mussels or quiche, it's all good day-to-day food and a kid-friendly place to boot. There's outside seating in warm weather for watching the crowds shuffling by.
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Le Commensal
An endless choice of terrific vegetarian dishes, with vegan and organic options, are served caféteria-style in this huge and bright location. Interesting pickings to consider include casseroles with seitan, millet or soy protein, and vegetarian twists on Québécois standards like pâté chinois . It's all sold by weight, so if you load up the plate the first time around, the final bill may shock. If maple sugar pie is on offer be sure to try it.
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Le Grain De Riz
Emerging as a foodie favorite, this Western-Asian fusion restaurant offers a range of 'modernized' Vietnamese and Chinese dishes, but it's the chef's inspiration menu where things get interesting. Try the chicken with Earl Grey cream sauce served on curried couscous (around C$26 ) or crispy coconut shrimps served with spicy mango salsa (around C$27 ). The dining room is cozy and approachable staff give good tips on navigating the complex menu flavors.
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Le Lapin Sauté
Look for the rabbit-crossing sign as you make your way down the street. This tidy, appealing restaurant specializes in country cooking. Though its equally adept at salmon, duck and chicken the stars here are the rabbit dishes like rabbit pie and rabbit in maple syrup. There's also a lovely little patio open during warm weather.
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Le Marie-Clarisse
Arguably the best seafood restaurant in town, the wait-staff is fantastic, the atmosphere dark, cozy and tucked off the climbing stairs on rue du Petit-Champlain. All fish is fresh, and the menu changes daily depending on what seafood is available in the market, but the marmite (fish stew) at around C$31 is their best known and classic dish.
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Le Panache
Accolades for this restaurant and chef François Blais's new takes on Québec cuisine haven't stopped, but diners reactions are mixed. With flavor combos like guinea hen and duck foie gras served with honey emulsion, Le Panache will nevertheless be on hard-core foodies' 'must' lists. Experts will go into raptures over the wine list. The dining room is done up like a huge, luxurious log cabin.