The Top 16 Places to Eat and Drink Near Les Fougères
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Rank 1. Les Fougères
French
A rambling countryside refuge north of Montreal where seasonal cooking unfolds across a dining room, shop, and gallery. Duck confit and fern salad from the property's gardens anchor menus built around what local farmers bring—a quiet insistence on place that has held steady for three decades.
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Briana Kim's intimate Ottawa restaurant unfolds a nine-course vegetarian tasting menu built on fermentation and umami-rich technique, where sesame tofu swims in pine-smoked tea broth and black garlic oils burnish preserved figs into dark, savory condiments. The wines pair intelligently, but the real revelation is how methodically she constructs meatiness from plants.
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Rank 8. Arlo Restaurant
Canadian
Arlo trades in ingredient-driven Canadian cooking that shifts with the seasons—roasted cod one visit, beef tataki the next—served in a Centretown room that hums with energy at the bar and softens into intimacy toward the back. The wine list favors natural bottles, and summer diners drift to a leafy terrace where the food feels less like a statement and more like an invitation.
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Rank 10. Atelier
Canadian
Marc Lepine presents seven courses of deliberate strangeness at this tasting counter, where snow crab arrives beneath coconut foam and green curry sheet—a dish he calls "surface tension," and it looks the part. The food is precise and complex, occasionally puzzling in concept but never in flavor, precision meeting playfulness with ease.
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Rank 13. Perch
Canadian
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Rank 15. Riviera
Mediterranean
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