Quebec
Cabane à Sucre Au Pied De Cochon
Temporarily Closed
Bourdain ate: Tower of maple desserts (Sponge maple toffee, maple doughnuts, beaver tails, maple cotton candy, almond croissants, whip-it biscuits, nougat); lobe of foie gras with baked beans on a pancake cooked in duck fat, cottage cheese and eggs cooked in maple syrup; salad with sautéed duck hearts, gizzards, and pig’s ear, topped with a heaping pile of fried pork rinds; calf brain and maple bacon omelet; panko-covered drumsticks with shrimp and salmon mousse and maple barbecue sauce; Tourtière du Shack (meat pie with cheese, foie gras, calf brain, sweetbreads, bacon, arugula and black truffles); local ham with pineapple and green beans amandine; chicken with foie gras pumped with lobster bisque; tire d’érable (maple taffy); maple meringue cake and maple ice cream with chocolate shards
Vinet Park
Park · Little Burgundy
Tony watched a game of "shinny hockey," a pickup game of street hockey played on the ice. Meanwhile they ate Choucroute garnie a l'alsacienne (lots of meats and sausages piled on a plate).
Gare Centrale
Train station · Downtown Montreal
Tony, along with chefs Fred Morin and David McMillian, traveled by train to Quebec City. The chefs brought along a gourmet meal including foie gras and truffles.
LE CONTINENTAL - Cuisine Francaise - Fruits de Mer / Homard / Steak - Flambé
French restaurant · Old Québec
Old style restaurant. Lots of tableside service including caesar salad, beef tartare, and shrimp cocktail. David McMillian had the filet mignon, Fred had the Scampi Newberg, Tony had the Dover Sole.
L'Affaire Est Ketchup
Restaurant · Saint-Roch
The restaurant name means "Everything's Cool" in local slang. Bourdain ate: Razor clams with burned noisette, cream of haddock roe, coquille St. Jacques (creamy seafood dish served in scallop shell), terrine of foie gras, head cheese with cassis mustard, truffled sweetbreads, goose hearts persillade, salt cod
M sur Masson
Permanently Closed
Tony met with journalist Patrick Lagacé at this restaurant (closed in 2016). They discussed "pastagate" which is the scandal that happened when a restaurant got in trouble for using the word "pasta" which is Italian.
Wilensky's Light Lunch Inc
Family restaurant · Mile End
Open since 1932, Tony had the "special,” a beef bologna and salami sandwich with mustard heated on a sandwich press, an egg cream.
Liverpool House
Canadian restaurant · Little Burgundy
Bourdain ate: Choucroute garnie à l’Alsacienne (Salted meats with sauerkraut)
Temple de la Renommee des Canadiens de Montreal
Ice hockey club · Downtown Montreal
Tony went with the chefs to watch the Montreal Canadiens play the Carolina Hurricanes at the stadium