Sugar time | Occasions to celebrate maple

With the early flow of sap, the sugaring season gets off to a flying start! There are many establishments and events that promise to keep your mouth watering this month of March. May the maple be with you!

House of Soma

The inspiring Maison de Soma project, in Mont-Tremblant, is offering a pop-up gourmet sugar shack menu until the end of April. Maple sugar and honey, emblems of our region, are celebrated in a brunch formula in a revisited menu combining tradition and daring. Services at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, $75 per adult and $35 per child.

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Oma

Recently, chef Hakim Chajar announced his most recent project: the opening of his new restaurant, Ôma, which will be located in the Vignoble du Ruisseau, in Dunham, and which should launch its activities in May. In the meantime, until May 5, he is offering the Cabane ô Sucre experience, a four-course gourmet menu ($78 per adult, $38 per child aged 4-12).

Visit the Vignoble du Ruisseau website

Sugar shack At pig’s feet

You can’t go to the Pig’s Foot Cabin? Let her come to you with this takeaway menu for two including several classics from Martin Picard’s table: layers of foie gras, forest pea soup, fried pancakes, stuffed rabbit… Price: $85, orders taken until At the end of April, several drop-off points across Quebec.

Visit the Sugar Shack Au Pied de Pig website

Clan

In Quebec, Le Clan offers its sugar brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. The opportunity to taste the excellent gourmet and local cuisine of chef Stéphane Modat, here available in mimosa eggs and maple mayo, hare tourtière, maple veal sausage, without forgetting the ears of corn! $36 per person.

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Belvu Terrace – Off-Piste of Château Champlain

Meet “off-piste” on the Belvu terrace of Château Champlain for a festive and urban sugaring experience. From March 21 to April 7, you can enjoy a menu composed of traditional dishes, accompanied by a maple-infused drink, in a musical atmosphere that promises to be electrifying, with a hint of traditional music.

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Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Artisan Market

It’s the return of the decadent sugaring-off brunch at the Artisans Market at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, which continues every Saturday and Sunday until April 21. Chef Mathieu Couture and pastry chef Jean-Marc Guillot offer a menu that combines nostalgia and reworked new items, at $39 per person ($44 during Easter weekend, omelette station and taffy on snow as a bonus!).

Visit the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Artisans Market website

Montreal public markets

There will be a sugar shack atmosphere in Montreal’s public markets! The celebrations launch this Saturday, March 16 at the Atwater market, then on March 17 at the Maisonneuve market. On March 23, it will be the turn of the Jean-Talon market. Tasting of maple products (free for the first 300 to arrive), sugar shack menu, taffy on snow, traditional music and inflatable games are on the program.

Visit the Montreal Public Markets website

thank you life

You will hardly find more original than the menu of the essential bakery-restaurant in Piedmont, served from March 21 to April 28. Homemade sausage with cherries and maple whiskey, chicken wings with fermented peppers and maple, maple labneh espuma, smoked maple meringues are just a few items on the six-course menu offered at just $65 per adult and $30 per child under 12 (before taxes and service).

Visit the Merci la vie website