The Plan Z Diet Trip to Quebec City
By: Zola
Chief Dieter
Plan Z Diet
I’ll remember our dinner at Le Patriarche forever. It was one of those special meals in a special setting.
Le Patriarche is located in Quebec City, in Canada.
The first time we visited Quebec City we were there for a very short time. My husband and I promised ourselves we’d be back – and soon.
Well, it took 30 years. That’s not what I’d call soon. We weren’t even married the first time we visited! That was a very long time ago. I guess life just got in the way.
So this trip was special.
We only had a few days off, and life has been hectic here at the Plan Z Diet, so I didn’t get to a lot of research before I jumped on the plane. When we got to our hotel my first mission was to scope out the restaurant scene. I wanted some quality meals in relaxed settings. Quebec City is the perfect place for that. French bistros abound but so do other kinds of food.
Quebec City, in my opinion, is as French as France. The architecture is as grand. The streets of the old, walled city are narrow and cobblestoned. The shops are small and quaint. The products are high quality. All just like Paris.
The people are friendly. Most would stereotype and say the French are not friendly but in my experience if you are willing to try a few words of French they will acknowledge that and just start speaking English. So if you can say “bonjour” you are pretty well ready to communicate. The people of Quebec City speak Quebecoise which is a different variation on French, but it all sounds the same to me since I only speak English and some Spanish. I find it to be a light, airy language so to me it is pleasant to listen to. I love listening to the music too, so French music in the background at a restaurant always makes it feel special.
Check out this link to Le Patriarche: http://lepatriarche.com/en/index_en.html
I’ll let the movie (in French with English subtitles) describe the restaurant. I’ll work to describe the food, but in truth, you almost have to go there to really get the proper perspective. (If when you bring up the link the words are in French just look over to the left and click on the English button and you can read it in English).
Chef Roth is a creative genius in my opinion. He’s not so off the charts that you feel like you are eating a chemistry experiment but I assure you that you will experience new taste sensations no matter how exposed you are to eating in fancy restaurants. Some chefs take the creativity too far. This guy does not.
You will experience things like mushroom foam. It’s not often my husband groans with delight at a restaurant dinner table. He did at Le Patriarche when he tasted Chef Roth’s particular foam.
All of the menu course selections come in threes. They are aptly called trilogies and they all have themes. One of the trilogies I ordered was the foie gras trilogy. That means I had foie gras in three different preparations. They were all completely different.
I also had the lamb trilogy so one section of my plate had a lamb chops with a special preparation, and two other cuts of the meat were used too. I should have taken notes, but I was so intense in my eating activity that I didn’t even commit it to memory. There were just too many courses and too many variations on the themes. We had 4 courses plus le muse and intermezzo courses, so that’s about 20 different “teeny” plates.
My desserts were all made of pistachio. It was the creamiest pistachio ice cream I have ever put between my lips.
Each course was served on a different kind of plate and each plate was made in 3 sections. I have some three-sectioned plates but I had no idea there were that many different designs on the market. You’ll see some of the plates if you look closely during the little descriptive movie.
Le Patriarche will live on in my personal list of Top 10 Restaurants in the world. I hope you get to visit places this special to you too.
Cheers,
I’ll remember our dinner at Le Patriarche forever. It was one of those special meals in a special setting.
Le Patriarche is located in Quebec City, in Canada.
The first time we visited Quebec City we were there for a very short time. My husband and I promised ourselves we’d be back – and soon.
Well, it took 30 years. That’s not what I’d call soon. We weren’t even married the first time we visited! That was a very long time ago. I guess life just got in the way.
So this trip was special.
We only had a few days off, and life has been hectic here at the Plan Z Diet, so I didn’t get to a lot of research before I jumped on the plane. When we got to our hotel my first mission was to scope out the restaurant scene. I wanted some quality meals in relaxed settings. Quebec City is the perfect place for that. French bistros abound but so do other kinds of food.
Quebec City, in my opinion, is as French as France. The architecture is as grand. The streets of the old, walled city are narrow and cobblestoned. The shops are small and quaint. The products are high quality. All just like Paris.
The people are friendly. Most would stereotype and say the French are not friendly but in my experience if you are willing to try a few words of French they will acknowledge that and just start speaking English. So if you can say “bonjour” you are pretty well ready to communicate. The people of Quebec City speak Quebecoise which is a different variation on French, but it all sounds the same to me since I only speak English and some Spanish. I find it to be a light, airy language so to me it is pleasant to listen to. I love listening to the music too, so French music in the background at a restaurant always makes it feel special.
Check out this link to Le Patriarche: http://lepatriarche.com/en/index_en.html
I’ll let the movie (in French with English subtitles) describe the restaurant. I’ll work to describe the food, but in truth, you almost have to go there to really get the proper perspective. (If when you bring up the link the words are in French just look over to the left and click on the English button and you can read it in English).
Chef Roth is a creative genius in my opinion. He’s not so off the charts that you feel like you are eating a chemistry experiment but I assure you that you will experience new taste sensations no matter how exposed you are to eating in fancy restaurants. Some chefs take the creativity too far. This guy does not.
You will experience things like mushroom foam. It’s not often my husband groans with delight at a restaurant dinner table. He did at Le Patriarche when he tasted Chef Roth’s particular foam.
All of the menu course selections come in threes. They are aptly called trilogies and they all have themes. One of the trilogies I ordered was the foie gras trilogy. That means I had foie gras in three different preparations. They were all completely different.
I also had the lamb trilogy so one section of my plate had a lamb chops with a special preparation, and two other cuts of the meat were used too. I should have taken notes, but I was so intense in my eating activity that I didn’t even commit it to memory. There were just too many courses and too many variations on the themes. We had 4 courses plus le muse and intermezzo courses, so that’s about 20 different “teeny” plates.
My desserts were all made of pistachio. It was the creamiest pistachio ice cream I have ever put between my lips.
Each course was served on a different kind of plate and each plate was made in 3 sections. I have some three-sectioned plates but I had no idea there were that many different designs on the market. You’ll see some of the plates if you look closely during the little descriptive movie.
Le Patriarche will live on in my personal list of Top 10 Restaurants in the world. I hope you get to visit places this special to you too.
Cheers,
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