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The restaurant isn't obvious from the street, and we found ourselves here completely by chance. This is a small, family-run business, and they are all incredibly kind and welcoming. The space is mostly contemporary but still warm and inviting, especially the cool light fixtures. The family buys and cooks local food.
The menu is small, and it doesn't really look like much. It's a printed sheet in a plastic page protector. But wow, everything sounds amazing. Our waitress, one of the family's daughters, walked us through the daily specials, and I had a really difficult time deciding. She steered me toward the macaroni and cheese, and it was absolutely stunning. (In my experience, restaurants think mixing more cheeses and adding creme, etc. to mac and cheese makes it better. To me, it just tastes like heavy, semi-flavorless sludge.) This is the best macaroni I have ever had. Aside from the mixture of cheeses, roasted garlic, and truffle oil, it was topped with maple-cured ham. As if that wasn't enough, she then brought me three different jars of homemade pepper oil, each with slightly different flavor characteristics. This on the macaroni was delicious. I would season small sections of the macaroni with the different oils because they were so good, and I kept finding myself audibly making yummy noises because it was so delicious. My partner had the quiche, and it was cooked to perfection: light, fluffy, and topped with mozzarella cheese. I have no idea how the combination of cream and these other ingredients didn't make this dish too heavy, but it was brilliant.
This will be at the top of our list for a return visit if we come back to Montreal. Kudos to the Robin family, and thank you for a wonderful meal!
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