20 Delicious French-Canadian Dishes

9 Traditional Québec Specialties

• 1 Cretons. A cold meat spread similar to rillettes.
• 2 Baked beans (fèves au lard)
• 3 Pea soup (soupe aux pois)
• 4 Meat pie (pâté à la viande)
• 5 Poutine.
• 6 Sugar pie (tarte au sucre)
• 7 Poor man’s pudding cake (pouding chômeur)
• 8 Pig’s trotter stew (ragoût de pattes de porc)

Creton is a salty pork spread, almost like a pate but a little less smooth, that Quebecers will eat with breakfast. It’s most often eaten on toast, alongside a few other classic breakfast dishes, like the previously mentioned fèves au lard. This is one of those ‘tastes much better than it looks’ dishes.

• 1 of 20. Pouding Chomeur.
• 2 of 20. French Canadian Tourtiere.
• 3 of 20. Cipaille.
• 4 of 20. Pig and Pea Soup.
• 5 of 20. Poutine.
• 6 of 20. Quebec Brie with Cabernet Franc Grapes.
• 7 of 20. Pig’s Feet Meatball Ragout.
• 8 of 20. Bûche de Noël.

The spongy, sweet result is, truly, worth a visit to Quebec all its own. Beyond these favorites, in Quebec City you can find a number of traditional French restaurants, ethnic foods and modern cuisine. We’ll talk about some of the most renowned restaurants in more detail below.

Top 10 Foods to Eat in Quebec

• Poutine. Poutine just might be Quebec’s signature food.
• Bagels in Montreal.
• Tire sur la Neige in Montérégie and Laurentians.
• Cheese in Eastern Townships.
• Shish Taouk in Montreal.
• Smoked Meat Sandwich in Montreal.
• Tourtière in Quebec City.
• Couscous in Montreal.

Québec is home to many unique dishes and is most famous for its poutine, tourtières, pâté chinois, pea soup, fèves au lard, cretons and desserts such as grands-pères, pouding chômeur and St. Catherine’s taffy.

Caribou is a staple drink during La Carneval de Quebec when it is sometimes served in shot glasses carved from ice. Its origin is mostly associated with French-Canadian traders who traveled across North America in the 17th century.

Quebec offers $17 billion, or 26 per cent, more in services than Ontario, while its GDP is 14 per cent less, they observed. That means even though Quebec is poorer, it spends far more. Quebec’s gross debt stood at $151 billion last fiscal year, or 49.9 per cent of its GDP. It will rise to 53.5 per cent this year.

Quebec is not explicitly declared distinct in the Constitution of Canada. Lesage did not achieve his desired constitutional amendment as premier. Quebec was also referred to as a distinct society by the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.

Quebec, French Québec, eastern province of Canada. Constituting nearly one-sixth of Canada’s total land area, Quebec is the largest of Canada’s 10 provinces in area and is second only to Ontario in population. Its capital, Quebec city, is the oldest city in Canada.

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