La Tablée - Mont-Tremblant

Tl;dr Super legit cabane a sucre experience! We actually mainly came here because we couldn't get a spot for Au Pied de Cochon's sugaring season, but wow! this place is super legit! Being dumb foreigners (Americans , we had no idea that we only need to travel about half a day's drive north from NYC to experience true culture shock. This establishment serves a traditional cabane a sucre meal (extravagant Quebecois shared meal in the winter heavy on meats . They have a mini hiking path actually behind the establishment, so since we were a bit early for the reservation we opted to take a little hike on the snowy path, which was actually pretty fun. It leads to a hill where there is a small shack displaying the giant cauldron that they used in the past to boil maple syrup. Now sufficiently hungry post hike, we headed back down to the restaurant. What was quite surprising (or maybe just to us? is that this place is actually very well populated with locals. We literally counted perhaps two tables during the whole evening (within our range of vision who appeared to be tourists. To be honest, we haven't ventured many times in our travels to Montreal outside of city limits, so it was quite surprising to find that most of the waitstaff have trouble speaking English. Our original waitress, upon realizing that we actually parler anglais, had to scramble and find her colleague who could speak English to be our waiter for the night. Hey, it's totally cool and I wish this kind of language diversity existed in the US!! The meal itself was super filling in the cabane tradition. They have three tiers of pricing (basically with increasing amounts of courses . We opted for the highest tier just because we are tourists lol and it came with enough food to feed a family of 4 (as expected . Packed about 3 aluminum containers at the end of the night, but we tried our best to finish the salad and all the vegetables to make up for the copious amount of meat haha. Great selection of locally pressed ciders to accompany the meal. They'll give you the check for you to pay at the register (which is quite typical at these cabanes we realized... , located in a gift shop area in the middle of the store where you can also buy things like local maple syrup. After paying, we realized that there were a lot of people hiking to a shack in the back and that there was actually a line out the door. Since we weren't sure what the line was for, we just got in line and realized that they were making tire sur la neige (maple taffy on snow!! . Quite literally there's a snow trench where they pour boiled maple syrup onto the syrup congeals into taffy upon hitting the ice, and then you can roll it onto a stick as a sticky candy. Super cool!! Definitely don't miss this the locals were very amused to see we were so excited by the experience. Overall, a very fun (and filling! cultural dinner! Highly recommended. Merci beaucoup!

We were away in tremblant for a ski weekend and thought it would be nice for our group to go have a nice sit down dinner here. When we arrived for our reservation time, we had to wait an extra half hour for our table! At this point after a hole day of skiing we were pretty tired. Once seated we were promptly described of the various foods we will be getting. Our group went for the most expensive menu with more food variations. Everything was very delicious however when we got our soup, it was luke warm and we waited for over half an hour for our last course which was dessert to get to us. There was a table across from us that sat down half an hour after us which received their dessert first and when we received ours it was like just enough for everyone to take one bite out of everything. I feel like they ran out of food or something cause I think it was one of the last seatings. Other than the few things I pointed out the service was decent and maybe next time would go in an earlier seating for by the team we received all our food we were ready to go to bed.

For those looking for something different than the normal Cabane a sucre experience, I would recommend it. The price is fair with their 3 sets of menu you select. The service is very friendly, everyone appears to have a good time. We come here every year. We noticed the portion has shrunk in size. We used to bring 3-4 doggy bags after our meals but I am not complaining at all. This year we managed to clean up our plates without bringing extra food home. $45 menu. Very satisfying. The pea soup is really good and hearty. The iceberg salad is crunchy, savoury with the bacon and Granny Smith apple. The meat pie is great and the omelet soufflé is nice and light. The braised bacon and home sauté was lightly on the sweet side. You eat it with a Boston lettuce as a wrap. The last piece on the menu was smoked chicken. It was on the drier side. Dessert was a fantastic end of our meal. We didn't have room for maple taffy but it's worth it if you have time.

I never knew the exquisiteness of Quebec cuisine until I came to La Tablée des Pionniers. I always thought Quebec food was simply hot-dogs and beans in maple syrup, however it's not! This restaurant is open during the Sugar Shack season. I believe it opens in January and closes in April. When ordering you have the choice of the $30, $40 or $50 option. They are all set menus in which you share. My friends and I went with the $50 option because we wanted to try everything. It consisted of -Split Pea Soup with savoy cabbage and bacon -Arugula, iceberg lettuce, crispy pork rinds, maple and shallot vinaigrette -Pulled piglet and mushroom puff pastry -The smoker piece (smoked BBQ ribs smoked baked beans) -Thick cuts of braised bacon, homemade pork and apple sausages -Souffléd deep dish omelette with cheese curds, sour cream and smoked trout -Warm cheese, Lacroix apple jelly and nut bread -Maple Sticky Toffee pudding -Sundae and cider baba -Maple glazed donuts topped with bacon All of that for $50! Totally worth it! I had to unbutton my pants halfway through and walk it out. Everything was amazing, I can't find the words to explain how blown away I was by the deliciousness of this meal. They also have an extensive alcohol menu with local ciders. Ciders go hand in hand with this type of meal. I will be returning every sugar shack season. No other place will ever compare.

My last visit here was 3+years ago was when it was known as Sucerie Millette. Back then the food was sloppy and the atmosphere kitsch-y. So you can imagine my dread as it was suggested to try it out again, but now under new ownership. Well...simply put..the food is outstanding! It's still pretty much the exact same place, but they have polished up the kitchen and it feels more like a family restaurant, than some tourist trap. They offer 3 different menus for all the parties at the table to eat at the same time. We opted for the $40 menu and I will say that I never ate so good with so much. From the pea soup, the wedge salad, the egg soufflé, the meat platter, the rabbit, and the finally bread pudding for desert. It was all incredibly good. We ended up with 3 boxes of leftovers! And of course, kids loving going to the sugar shack in the back for maple taffy in the snow. I would have liked to see a more lively/festive environment to have topped it off. But there was a lumberjack-type guy singing Johnny Cash in his Quebecoise that made it memorable. I will bring my friends from out of town to this place. So glad that it has revived. Highly recommended.