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.
A selection of fine restaurants
Several restaurants retrieved by the search engine belong to one of the following three categories:Winners of the Grands Prix du tourisme québécois
Award-winning restaurants from the past two years at the regional and national Grands Prix du tourisme québécois competitions.
Four and Five Diamond restaurants
Restaurants that have earned a Four Diamond or Five Diamond rating from the CAA (Canada) and AAA (United States) automobile associations.
Relais gourmands
Restaurants classified as Relais gourmands by the international Relais et Châteaux chain.
Sugar shacks—family dining establishments that serve maple products and meals made from these products in the spring, and sometimes year-round—can also be queried via the search engine.
