Best Quebec Restaurant Guides

Bible to the dining-out public, Guide Restos Voir, published annually (Québec Amérique, $19.95) and also available at guiderestos.com, is a well-researched rundown of more than 700 addresses in every part of Quebec, from Montreal to the Gaspé, Charlevoix and Saguenay. Written by reliable critics, it includes specialty food stores in Montreal, Quebec City and the Eastern Townships. A handy aspect: Montreal and Quebec City are divided by district. In French.

Le Montréal gourmand 2015 by veteran French-born restaurant critic Philippe Mollé (Guides de voyage Ulysse, $19.95) offers a chatty, full-page rundown on 140 restaurants and a paragraph each on 80 food shops. This chef has superb taste buds and accurate opinions as his followers at Le Devoir or Radio-Canada well know. He divides up his choices by type of cuisine (French, Italian, Quebec, etc.) and by district, maps included. It’s a good read. In French.

Atmosphere included, Montréal, 140 Découvertes Gourmandes, by Sophie Suraniti (Les Éditions Transcontinental) is a personal selection of establishments where the French-born Montreal critic likes the food. She gives the style of a place as well as a gastronomic evaluation for places as varied as shirt-and-tie elegant to late-night snacking. In French.

The Montreal Gazette offers reviews in the Saturday Weekend Life section.

Lesley Chesterman, Gazette Restaurant Reviewer

For up to date reviews of restaurants in Quebec, consult restaurant reviewer Lesley Chesterman, who dines out anonymously and can be trusted.