6 Best Fine Dining Restaurants in Old Québec

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Now located in historic vaults, restaurant Tanière3 has reopened in a new place, with a new chef. This restaurant offers an immersive gastronomic experience into Québec’s culinary landscape. Whether it is a mushroom, a root or venison, everything is local and elaborated with great finesse by young chef François-Emmanuel Nicol. Every dish has its own story and tailor-made tableware inspired by Québec’s history. 

Chez Muffy is the home of a creative cuisine. The chef composes flavourful melodies with Old World European techniques, using local flavours handpicked from the restaurant’s garden on Île d’Orléans. The modern décor contrasts in beauty and in style with the 19th century maritime warehouse it sits in.

Chef Raphaël Vézina orchestrates a deeply structured experience in the form of acts where theatre-like symphonies of flavours of Québec’s terroir succeed one another. The Laurie Raphaël offers a truly unique, subversive encounter with food, which has taken me on a highway of pleasures for the eyes and palate. Every service reveals familiar flavours in a deconstructed presentation that sometimes leave only taste as a reference. A cuisine inspired by family travels, trends and techniques where almost every ingredient is used from the root to the leaf.

Légende’s bistronomie is orchestrated by chef Fredéric Laplante and fuelled by molecular curiosity. All condiments are transformed in house where every root, leaf and grain is from Québec’s land, forest or sea. Here, no food comes from abroad, not even a lemon. The results are unconventional yet accessible dishes. Recognized by Air Canada’s EnRoute magazine as one of the top 10 Best New Restaurants in 2014, Légende is the most genuine boreal experience you’ll come across in Québec City.

Chef Jean-Luc Boulay’s restaurant is where you’ll indulge in a unique Canadian, yet very European-inspired culinary journey. Every perfume, colour, flavour and texture is offered as an experience through love. Simplicity and authenticity is definitely Saint-Amour’s key to success. Among my favourite dishes, the most sumptuous, melt-in-your-mouth duck leg I have eaten. I recommend a seat in the charming vintage dining room where a skylight offers a natural flow of light.

Chef Stéphane Modat’s cuisine is contemporary art synthesized amid some worldly inspirations: Asian, Indo-European, and South American. The result: expressive food art assembled as highly seductive dishes. His architectural passion for flavours is featured in a carefully selected blend of local flavours and ingredients that harmonize with daring presentations. I recommend you to enjoy an adventurous feast under the grand crystal chandelier featuring a unique menu inspired by the chef’s stream of consciousness.