Mirabel, QC
(450) 258-1732
I have a little puzzle for you guys to figure out. Where do pigs go when they die? Well to heaven of course, no need to complicate things. Now for people who want to know where heaven is situated, look above, it's in Mirabel at the P.D.C. sugar shack! I reviewed a while back Au Pied De Cochon, a restaurant owned by stud martin Picard (it's a joke, he's nowhere near a stud!), from Food Network's own The Wild Chef. It's always great to see Canadians on the big television networks and even better to see Quebecers who cant speak proper english on them! I've been to his restaurant 6 times now and with plans to go back again and again. Now for his sugar shack, it was rated by EnRoute magazine one of the top 10 restaurants of the year. December 2009 is the first time I heard about it and I have been trying to get reservations there since!
Finally many many many months later a reservation for April 2011 and the countdown has begun. It's truly been a long time since I've wanted anything this badly. Our group arrived at 1:30 PM and this place is packed, every table booked and another 50-60 standing waiting for seats.
By 2:00 PM we sit and the feast begins. We start off with a delicious pea soup with lard and foie gras. I have never really cared for soup, but this was quite delicious. Next is the salad with cheese and oreilles de crisse and I must say that the vinaigrette works quite well with all the ingredients. The "oreilles" gave a delicious crunch to the salad and a nice salty taste. A buckwheat pancake with sturgeon and sour cream makes a nice sandwich when put together. Of course a weird item for a sugar shack... Sushi! A delicious piece deep fried in a tempura batter and it tastes great with some maple syrup. Lastly oysters with maple syrup. Yes there are quite a few appetizers, and quite a lot of maple syrup!
For main course, an extremely tender pork shoulder with vegetables, smoked and baked in maple syrup. The outside skin was crispy and smoky with a hint of sweetness. Truly delicious! A fantastic can of baked beans with cottage cheese to go along with all these upcoming dishes. A lobster egg tart was next with a huge lobster shell protruding through the dish. A roasted chicken with beer gnocchi was next, and lets just say, I hope you don't mind head and feet. Once again very tender, this dish was a pleaser , but I must say that the gnocchi were the star. 
The dessert portion of the afternoon was the best for me, with a ton of variety. To start off a freaking amazing warm tarte tatin (upside down apple pie), drenched in maple syrup with vanilla ice cream on top. This was one of the best dishes in my entire life! The mixture of warm tart, the cold ice cream, the sweet maple syrup and apples, brought me straight to heaven. Next was pancakes, very standard dish.... oh wait they were deep fried in duck fat and drenched in maple syrup! Another phenomenal dessert. Then came " tire sur la neige", which was with ice and not with snow... Lastly an nougat ice cream coated in chocolate sauce with a maple cotton candy on top was to die for, the nougat ice cream was pure pleasure to eat.
Overall: 8.5/10
Overall for a sugar shack 12/10 ;)
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