The 10 Best New Restaurants for 2024 were selected by culinary journalist and author Tara O’Brady.
Montreal’s Sabayon restaurant topped this prestigious list. Pastry chef Patrice Demers and sommelier Marie-Josée Beaudoin are the proud owners of this 14-seat establishment.
Don’t hesitate to come and taste their signature dish, designated dish of the year, featuring grilled oyster mushrooms on mashed potatoes, with a caramelized Arlette wafer and a cloud of sabayon sauce.
In 2nd place in Air Canada’s 23rd annual Best New Canadian Restaurant ranking is Toronto’s Mhel, owned by Seung-min Yi and Young Hoon Ji. This restaurant offers Korean-Japanese dishes, including the dessert of the year: a Japanese version of crème caramel, made using Ontario maple syrup.
In 3rd place, Édith Foliot and Didier Lorti’s Maison de Soma in Mont-Tremblant took the honours. This restaurant offers the cocktail of the year, Le Somananas: an explosion of flavours mixing pineapple weed with Rosemont whisky, amaretto from Distillerie Mariana and Bourgoin Verjus.
Here are some other restaurants worth visiting:
All the winners are featured on the Best New Canadian Restaurants website, as well as in the November issue of Air Canada enRoute magazine.
With this program, Air Canada aims to inspire travellers to discover the country.
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