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| - We did plenty of eating on our trip here in Montreal, and we spend plenty of time in heralded restaurants in New York City. I have to say Candide is a truly unique and memorable experience that should be indulged in if your a local or visitor in Montreal.
Plenty of Montreal restaurants, and the cuisine in general, wants to celebrate its local ingredients and traditions in decadence. Here, the team at Candide doubles down on the local ingredients with a hyper seasonal menu, and is able to amp up flavors with unique combinations while having a level of restraint, something rare in my short time in Montreal.
In just about every city, these restaurants focused on hyper-seasonal menus, vegetable-heavy dishes served in bone and neutral colored plates with an emphasis on organic natural wines are popping up. John-Winter Russell's was as good if not better than all of my previous experiences.
If you can sit at the chef counter and do the wine pairing, do it. Great explanation's of the dishes from the chef, and the server or sommelier will discuss the wines paired with each dish in length. Amazing food, amazing wine, cool atmosphere in an old church, Candide is more than worth the splurge.
Oh and one more thing - if the cheese, sweet potato and buckwheat dish is available, get like 10 of them. All dishes were incredible but that's the dish I find myself craving daily.
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