Sugar time | Suggestions to satisfy your sweet tooth

The splendor of the sugar season has begun and many sugar bushes, restaurants and events offer menus on the theme of maple syrup. Here are our suggestions.

Iris Gagnon Paradise
The Press

the goodness of the apple

Sugaring is serious business at Labonté de la pomme, a family business, both orchard and sugar bush, located in Oka. The place welcomes customers in its rustic and charming cabin until April 24 with tempting gourmet proposals: gourmet or traditional menus, with vegetarian options, all very generous. We then digest while walking on the hiking trails or by learning, when the weather allows it, to pick your own maple sap. On-the-go or take-out menu options.

Panache Cabin

The popular event offers this year a reduced edition “P’tit shack”, due to the health situation. On March 19 and 20, in addition to a snow taffy stand in collaboration with the Sucrier Urbain, rue Wellington (in front of the church), you can go to some fifteen participating restaurants (Restaurant Rita, Archway Bar Santé, Bar Social, Janine Café, Kwizinn) to enjoy dishes and cocktails created for the occasion.

Roselys

The Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth restaurant offers an urban sugar shack brunch featuring gourmet versions of traditional local recipes. Stout-braised pork shoulder cromesquis, baked beans in birch syrup, pork terrine and foie gras with homemade fruit ketchup feature on the tantalizing three-course menu concocted by chef Edgar Trudeau-Ferrin. Every Sunday, until April 10, vegetarian version offered and reduced price for children.

The Runner’s Hut

It is at home that you can enjoy this year the menu imagined by chef Jean-Sébastien Giguère at the maple grove located in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu. The ready-to-assemble boxes will satisfy the most gourmet desires with three different menus: The total, The classic or The 100% vegan. Inventive dishes like duck confit buns, an onion, bacon and maple pie, fried pancakes or a giant donut with maple butter cheesecake are on the menu.

Archibald workshop

Located in Granby, chef Laurent Godbout’s project is transformed, for just one day, into a sugar shack on March 27. Customers are expected from 11 a.m. with a maple menu: smoked salmon pancake, perfect egg and caviar, foie gras macaroon, ham tatin… A special children’s menu is also offered.

Meson

Chef Marie-Fleur St-Pierre offers a Spanish-style sugar shack on March 26 and 27. It’s in the brunch formula that you can fill your stomach with delicacies such as pancakes with ham and manchego, pork à la “braz”, trout gravlax with maple jelly or even pan con tomato with black pudding.

Restaurant L’Ardoise

At the Sainte-Thérèse establishment, a hut menu will be featured on March 20 and 27, as well as April 3, for brunch. In addition to the famous apple and maple “sidewalks”, donuts and other delicacies, chef-owner Luc Laplante promises invigorating dishes on the menu such as foie gras candies, chicken waffles, jerk duck, Gaspor sausages in a crust and a poutine of fingerling potatoes, ham on the bone, Oka cheese and apples.