I just wanted to post to let everyone know how wonderful the food and servce were at FL and La Toque this past weekend. My wife and I celebrated our 10th aniversary at The French Laundry on Saturday and I thought I would pass...

I’ll be travelling into Montréal at the end of October with a small group of chefs and culinary professionals. We have one free night to dine...I’ve experienced La Chronique and Toqué in the recent past and I actually...

with honey and blue cheese, vanilla sorbet with orange sauce and pomegranite seeds. Cow milk cheese, honeyed pecans, quince paste, toasted raisin and nut bread. Cost ~$150 ================== La Toque 1140 Rutherford

Brunoise and Toqué! are in 2 different categories. either you go the Brunoise way and compare it to Cocagne, Lemeac or maybe "Le Club Chasse et Pêche" or you go the Toqué! way and compare it to Anise or La Chronique.

It’s "La Toque", and a Chowhound search will bring up a few notices, buried under links to discussions of Montreal’s landmark restaurant of the same name.

We did reserve at Toque for our upcoming visit. We will be dining a la carte if we dine at all. We have also downsized our list to include: Les Chevres Au Petit Extra Ferreira Brunoise Garde

Toqué, an elegant québécois restaurant featuring chef Normand LaPrise’s cuisine: maple-syrup glazed quail, roasted lobster sauteed in green garlic and red wine vinegar and fois gras, which melts

eats and we’ll take our chances). Toque is closed while we’re in town—where should we reserve a table for a reliably great, preferably fish and vegetable centered, French/Contemporary meal in a lovely...

think will become an annual trip- this will be our third straight visit as we’ve enjoyed the restaurants so much. Already looking forward to our next installment- First trip- we dined at Les Lumieres (we stayed at the Hotel...

, not to mention several of the city’s other classic bistros like L’Express, Continental, Au Petit Extra and Holder. La Chronique doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. I’d much rather eat there than...

Or la Chronique ? Just by looking at the april “degustation” menu, I would have gone there, it was a fish only menu. http://www.lachronique.qc.ca/fr/pdf/menu-degustation.pdf IMO, as much as Toque! is good, I feel the...

Awrighty, then. Maybe we’ll plan on doing Toque'! some other night (or maybe we’ll skip the tasting menu and just order a la carte). Shame they’re not open on Monday. :( Thanks for the advice! - P

, but definitely not in the Toqué! league, are La Gaudriole (826 Laurier East, 514 276-1580, www.total.net/~emve), Au Pied du Cochon (536 Duluth East, 514 281-1114, www.aupiedducochon.ca) and Au Petit Extra (1690 Ontario East,...

the reasonably priced 2002 La Poussie Sancerre (43$); a bit fruity but with a clean and dry aftertaste. M.E. started with Artichaut Breton, served over a bed of mixed greens. The mustard vinaigrette sauce was well balanced;...

I’ll butcher the names (guess I’m too lazy to look them up) but two good substitutions for Toque would be La Chronique or La Caprice de Nicholas.