Cuisine:

• Others
• French
• Regional

Moine Des Echansons Description:
This tiny, unassuming restaurant is one of the hidden gems of Quebec City's bohemian Saint-Jean-Baptiste neighborhood, just west of the limits of Old Quebec. Set between bakeries, arts and crafts boutiques, high-end food stores and second-hand book shops, coffeehouses and hip record stores, the eatery combines traditional cuisine with a beautiful list of inexpensive yet always surprising organic and biodynamic wines from French and Quebec winemakers. Owner Bertrand Mesotten, a Belgian-born sommelier, has devised a simple and effective formula: everything on the menu (or almost) is available in small or large portions, served over wooden boards and matched with a particular wine---also available in two- or four-ounce servings. The menu goes through a seasonal rotation of regional cuisines, from Mediterranean in the summer to Alsatian or Savoyard in the winter. The charcuterie is especially impressive, with unusual preparations from an artisan producer in the Magdalen Islands with such items as figatelli, a Corsican-style dried liver sausage, or even seal-meat cured sausage. You can also get very pleasant cheese dishes, a lamb stew, simply prepared shrimp, or for dessert, cakes, soufflés and a piece of homemade nougat.


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