Last week, I’ve finally had the chance to tour Quebec City’s famous Hôtel de Glace, or ice hotel. Although the hotel’s been operating every winter since 2001, I had never seen it with my own eyes. Every year, the hotel is built anew from the ground up, allowing visitors to wander in a magical wintery… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Quebec City
Reinventing What Hotels Ought to Be: A Visit to Hôtel La Ferme in Charlevoix
Imagine if one of the Cirque du Soleil founders had the idea of reinventing what a hotel ought to be, and decided to build it in one of Quebec’s most charming villages, pair it with one of the province’s best skiing mountains, and link it with a scenic train ride to Quebec City. Sounds too… Continue Reading
Restaurant Review: Patente et Machin, Quebec City
Quebec City’s Patente et Machin (roughly translated as ‘Trinket and Doodad’) is the city’s most popular new restaurant. Opened just two months ago in a former diner of the St-Sauveur neighborhood, an area of the city that is off the average visitor’s radar, it’s the most talked about Quebec City restaurant in blogs and social… Continue Reading
Quebec City’s First-Ever FoodCamp: A Delicious and Inspiring Experience
Well, Quebec City has finally had its first major food event. Sure, there are a few tradeshows that take place every year, but we had yet to host a fully fledged conference with chefs, and demos, and tastings, and networking opportunities—and fun! It was called FoodCamp Québec, and it all happened thanks to the determination of one… Continue Reading
An Apple Lunch Menu Featuring a Tartare of Marinated Trout and Smoked Salmon – And a Book Giveaway
In Quebec City right now, the leaves have fallen and temperatures have already dropped to zero degrees Celsius (that’s in the low 30s for those speaking Farenheight!). Over the weekend, E and I were joining my parents to their cottage in a little village called St-Férréol-les-Neiges, which is located about 45 minutes out of the… Continue Reading