Restaurants

Culinary arts and pleasures

Québecers are wild about culinary pleasures and take great delight in enjoying a good restaurant meal among family or friends. The choice and type of cuisine is vast: local or ethnic, self-serve health food or gourmet establishment, fast food or family restaurant … there’s something for every taste and every budget. But one thing all Québec eateries have in common is the warmth of their welcome!

Québec restaurants

Québec has thousands of food service establishments that hold permits and are subject to sanitary controls under the law. The range of cuisine is particularly broad in large urban areas that are home to sizeable cultural communities. In the regions, menus tend to feature local specialties, promising tasty surprises to curious palates!

Professional hotel and cooking schools are training a new breed of chef, one that skilfully adapts the secrets of Québec’s culinary tradition and blends with it foods that reflect the major trends in today’s fine cuisine.

Sugar shacks are family dining establishments that serve maple products and meals made from these products in the spring, and sometimes year-round.

A selection of fine restaurants

Several restaurants retrieved by the search engine belong to one of the following three categories:

- Award-winning restaurants from the past two years at the regional and national Grands Prix du tourisme québécois competitions.

- Restaurants that have earned a Four Diamond or Five Diamond rating from the CAA (Canada) and AAA (United States) automobile associations.

- Restaurants classified as Grands Chefs by the international Relais et Châteaux chain.