The Top 5 Tasting Menus Near Kundah Hôtel
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Rank 1. Tanière³
Creative
Behind a locked door in a 17th-century cellar, François-Emmanuel Nicol orchestrates a 15-course progression through Quebec's boreal forest, each plate rooted in a specific terroir and producer. Matsutake, spruce, wild blueberry, and foraged roots become the grammar of a meal that reads less like dinner than an edible argument about place.
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Rank 2. Laurie Raphaël
Modern New American
In Old Quebec's waterfront quarter, Raphaël Vézina works with regional game and seafood—spot prawns with pear and burnt citrus, scallops from the Magdalen Islands—in composed modern dishes that balance technique with a restless sense of possibility. The room, all beige tones and bubble lights, settles you into something like calm before the cooking disrupts it.
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Rank 3. Le Clan
Regional Cuisine
A Catalan chef has claimed a historic house in Old Québec to pursue his obsession with northern ingredients and game, his open kitchen anchoring a dining room hung with the trophies of his passions. The tasting menu moves between Arctic char and grain-fed veal with the confidence of someone who has found exactly what he means to cook.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Air Canada 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 4. Coteau
Modern Cuisine
In Old Québec, this hotel restaurant sources thirty varieties of produce from its own biodynamic farm kilometers away, channeling them into the chef's seasonal plates. A wine list of seven hundred labels anchors the experience.
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Rank 5. Arvi
Modern New American
Chef Julien Masia's open kitchen on Third Avenue channels the refined restraint of French Alpine cooking into Quebec ingredients—scallops from the Magdalens, local yuzu, sockeye salmon. Each plate respects its components without ceremony, from the signature brioche with duck gravlax and birch syrup to the textured quince finale.
- Air Canada 2019 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec