For the first time since 2019, a Quebec restaurant has risen to the top of Air Canada’s Best New Restaurants preselection : Sabayon, project by Patrice Demers and Marie-Josée Beaudoin, wins the honors.
Published at 10:30 p.m.
Located in Pointe-Saint-Charles, the micro-restaurant of just 14 seats of the pastry chef and sommelier seduced with its intimate atmosphere and its expert and ingenious work with seasonal foods. Sabayon’s signature dish, grilled oyster mushrooms on mashed potatoes, garnished with caramelized arlette wafer and a cloud of zabaglione sauce, was named dish of the year.
“Sabayon is such a personal project, we chose every little thing that is in the restaurant, each plate, the soap pump… That people love it so much, that we have so much recognition for our very small restaurant, we is really very touched! “, exclaimed Marie-Josée Beaudoin, contacted in Toronto, where the winners’ unveiling evening took place on November 4.
“We are going to continue what we have been doing for a year, continue every day to try to be even better. It confirms that we made the right choices from the start, it’s really a great surprise! », added Patrice Demers.
PHOTO JOSIE DESMARAIS, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
The Parapluie menu won over the judge.
Quebec is well represented in this list while the country restaurant Maison de Soma, in Mont-Tremblant, occupies 3e rank, having stood out for its menu both anchored in the Quebec region and surprising with its East Asian inspiration. Parapluie, a project by chef Robin Filteau-Boucher, occupies 6e place.
In 2e In place is a Toronto establishment, Mhel, with its cuisine which is “an ode to Japan and South Korea”. Two other establishments in the Ontario metropolis are found in the top 10 : Takja BBQ House (4e) and Bar Prima (7e).
Also included are Café Malabar (Victoria, 5e), Fat Rabbit (St. Catharines, 8e), Gary’s (Vancouver, 9e) et Crumb Queen/Andy’s Lunch (Winnipeg, 10e).
Remember that to determine the best restaurants that opened in 2024 in the country, Air Canada calls on around fifty culinary experts across the country – including the author of these lines – who suggest the places that marked the year for them. eyes. From this list, a one-month itinerary is established. Only one person this year, Tara O’Brady, food journalist, cookbook author and judge at Wall of Bakersthen visited the restaurants – in all 30 establishments and 16 cities were part of his gastronomic journey. A long list of 30 finalists was first revealed, then the top 10.
The last Quebec restaurant to have climbed to the top of the top 10 is Arvi, in Quebec, in 2019. In 2017, it was another establishment from Quebec, Battuto, which won first place.
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