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Stopped at Le Saint-Amour for a nice lunch on our final day in Quebec City. As previous reviewers have stated, the food is outstanding, so I won't rehash the obvious. However I'd like to add my two cents on how welcoming the staff were to us despite the fact that we had our 5-year-old in tow. I know lots of parents of young kids forego nicer meals for fear of the dreaded meltdown, but everyone from the staff to fellow patrons made us feel very welcome. They even went so far as to make up a special meal for our son, complete with all of his favorites.
Kudos to Le Saint-Amour for delivering a top-notch dining experience that's also family friendly!
This place is SLOOooow. I guess that's OK if you are in a large group who haven't seen each other for a while and have lots of things to talk about (there were several of these types of table in the dining room). However if you are a couple who are tired and hungry after a long day of walking and cycling it is less than ideal.
Expect at least an hour between the entrée and the main course (I think they do this to boost the wine sales).
The food was excellent (when it arrived) and the rack of lamb was extremely good. However I ordered a side of Foie Gras which the kitchen forgot to put it on the plate, so we had to wait an additional 15mins for that to arrive.
The seared Foie Gras was pretty amazing when it arrived.
The dining room is very pretty with an indoor-outdoor feel due to the glass roof, murals and plants.
Great restaurant.
Food is inventive, generally local, prepared with precision and passion. I had a salmon carpaccio with snow crab salad, which was lovely. Roe topped it off nicely. For main I ate a filet of red deer, which was perfectly done, set off with sour red berries and blueberries; sauteed mushrooms and truffled potato mash were very tasty accompaniments. My wife ate a tuna dish with Yukon Gold potato pancakes with white truffle oil, vegetables and a sauce which she loved.
Beautiful Beaujolais wine recommended by the waiter/sommelier which we both thoroughly enjoyed.
The setting is a little odd in the atrium with an eclectic design element, but did not detract from the meal. Service was perfect. Prices, as expected, are very high.
I would ignore the comment suggesting you must dress to the nines to fit it - people were dressed very casually when we were there, as were we!
Go, damn it go!
Unbelievably good experience. We went with two young kids and they could not of been more accommodating. I had the consomme made with a Parmesan and truffle emulsion with duck confit ravioli and foie gras cubes. This was one of the best dishes I have ever had. The rest of the meal was great. A must if you are looking to splurge in Quebec.
I was there last summer. the food is great
this place is elegant with old world charm as you might expect to find in a fine european restaurant. on shorts and sneakers, went there for lunch with husband and 20 yr old son based on reviews from fellow yelpers. we enjoyed our food so much from the appetizers to desserts. i chose the raspberry dessert and it was fabulous. we had the deer steak, fillet mignon and scallops for our main entree.
best i've been to in Q city, or anywhere. go for table d'hote at lunch. much cheaper [but more limited selection]. and quieter.
We had the seared Foie Gras to start based on the waiter's advice. Didn't really know what it was until afterwards.. but I can say it was the best tasting thing I've ever had. We also had the Lamb Rack, Scallops and Sea Bass. All were fantastic.
All and all it was an amazing meal and an amazing two and a half hour experience. Will definitely go back next time I'm in QC
Overall, I think this was my favorite restaurant in Québec City. It's in Vieux-Québec (Haute-Ville), but it's away from the main drag and unlikely to be found unless you already know about it.
The first time we went was for lunch, and it was absolutely lovely. The dining area is like an indoor garden with skylights letting the sunshine through. The decor was elegant and comfortable, and the clientele at lunch appeared to be mostly businesspeople. Due to the excellent lighting conditions, I was able to get some nice photos.
The lunchtime menu was an excellent value for such high quality cuisine, about $20-25 per person if I recall correctly, including an appetizer, main course, dessert and coffee. For my appetizer I chose duck saucissons served with pea tendrils, cloudberry sauce and a blueberry drizzle. Vince had asparagus served with local cheese, prosciutto and tomato. Both were as delicious as they sound. For our main courses, Vince got filet mignon and I got cerf (red deer). I thought Vince's filet was excellent, but I thought the sauce on my deer obscured the flavor of the meat a little too much; it was still very good, though. For dessert we got a chocolate-blueberry mousse, garnished with groundcherry. This was my first encounter with the wonderful fruit of groundcherry (amour en cage), which I really enjoyed. We had all of this with a bottle of locally made sparkling water and a Chambolle Musigny.
We enjoyed our lunch so much that we decided to come back another night for dinner and do the tasting menu. I'll try to remember what we ate:
Amuse: Zucchini purée with parmesan mousse
Hors d'œvres: risotto with caviar, oysters with foam, smoked trout
Foie gras 2 ways: torchon and au naturale, served with toast and sauces of cassis, cloudberry, and zinfandel
Lobster bisque
"Surprise from the ocean": wild shrimp, scallops stuffed with truffle & mushroom, tuna with orange and vanilla sauce, all served on a bed of crunchy cauliflower
Palate cleanser: frozen sweet wine served with strawberry & mint
Caribou steak with fresh wild blueberries
Cheese course served with splayed apple, dried fruit, nuts & honey
Dessert: spice cake stuffed with goat cheese, covered with cloudberry liqueur and then set on fire. Served with cloudberry sorbet and stuffed groundcherry.
Espresso and macaroons
Unfortunately at night the restaurant was much more crowded and we found it too dark, too warm, and too loud. At night you miss out on how lovely the dining room is during the day. But the food and service were still excellent. Our caribou steak was a perfect medium rare, the seafood was excellent, and the cheese course was especially divine. They didn't have a pre-set wine pairing with the discovery menu, but our server was able to improvise with some different wines to pair with our courses, which worked out OK.
At both lunch and dinner, we enjoyed the inventiveness of the menu as well as the strong emphasis on fresh, local ingredients. The wine list was excellent, and we enjoyed getting a peek at their cellar upstairs.
I would certainly return and would recommend it highly to anyone visiting the city looking for fine dining. Their specialty is foie gras, so next time I'll definitely have to order the "foie gras 7 ways."
Since there are already such true to heart reviews on this place, I'm just gonna say that the Inspiration Menu is the way to go! This place is awesome all around.
Superior dining in a classy setting, Le Saint Amour should not be missed when in QC. The best part is that is not overly touristy like so many other places in the city. Unobtrusive on the outside, the restaurant has a small, but welcoming front hall and reception area that seems more like a traditional inn than a restaurant. Several dining rooms take up the space (including smaller and more intimate rooms upstairs decorated in a...well, I'm not up on my French historical stylistics. Baroque? Neo-classical? It will come to me. Anyway, whatever it is decor-wise, it's very traditional-French- cute inside. The "main" dining room is bigger and a bit more in the crush.
Service is exemplary. I'm not talking just plain great. It's AMAZING. Le Saint Amour was able to easily handle the allergy of my dairy=death wife without any hesitation or mess-ups. American tourists that are used to Applebee's may be put off by the highly experienced and uber-Quebequois waitstaff, but below the polish and tuxedo, Jean Claude will be the best waiter you've ever had.
Food presentation is a synthesis of French and Quebequois with an emphasis on fresh local ingredients. The menu is either a price fixe or you can opt for some a la carte choices. Appetizers are to die for: they do a great salmon tartare and, though I've never been one for foie gras, my dining companions said it was the best they'd ever had. A nice assortment of Quebec cheeses complimented the scarily abundant and excellent wine list (from which several expensive bottles of local vineyards were quaffed con much gusto).
The main dish was caribou steak. YES, I SAID CARIBOU. And it was amazing, cooked to perfect medium rare with some sort of winter berry coulis that complimented the natural juniper berry spicing of the meat. I have to be honest and say that I've never tried any other main dish than the caribou steak here because that's how damn good it is. Dessert is great as well: once I had wonderful sorbet with lychees (ok, so it's not all local foods), as well as some chocolate thing that was set on fire before it arrived on the table.
Good times ain't cheap at the Saint-Amour; one can expect to pay at least $100 per person, and that's before the wine and drinks get tacked on. But if you have to do one uber-splurge in Quebec, this is the place to do it in. Romantic, tasty, and all around impeccable from start to finish, Le Saint Amour delivers one of the best dining experiences you'll ever have.
Dress nicely; they don't throw you out for wearing jeans and a polo, but you'll feel awfully out of place if you are not at least a bit fancied up.
Our hotel concierge said this is the best french restaurant in all of Quebec. He went on to describe some meals he's had there. Lovely chap!
It would be hard for me to compare this restaurant to others in Quebec since I was only there a week but I can compare it to other meals I've had here in the bay area. The dinner we had here was fantastic. It would do really well in highly competitive foodie arena of San Francisco. My lamb was so tender, more tender than any other lamb I've ever had - and I've had many many lamb chops. The gazpacho soup with avocado mousse was absolutely perfect. Hubby really enjoyed his red deer and his soup as well.
Service was good as was the atmosphere.
If I ever went back to Quebec, I'm definitely going back to this place.
Another 5 Star review. I ordered from the "Inspiration" menu and it was outstanding.
Magnificent in every way. The most beautiful Belle-Epoque dining room, superb service and sublime food. I especially recommend their "six ways to enjoy foie gras."
Québec, QC
Québec, QC
Quebec, QC
Québec, QC
Québec, QC
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