Coteau

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5.0

Absolutely wonderful evening. Divinely prepared innovative food with great wine-interesting cocktails & attentive but not intrusive wait staff. A truly remarkable evening.

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5.0

Beautiful setting & atmosphere. A breath of serenity & Quebec charm with enough vibrancy to feel exciting. Decided to go with the tasting menu & lovely selections of natural wines which was a truly delectable experience

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5.0

The staff were courteous & kind. My table was not ready when I arrived at my reserved time, but my wait was short, & I believe the restaurant may have been short staffed. Food, wine, & atmosphere were excellent.

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5.0

Fantastic! Beautiful space, exquisite food & wine, & warm & gracious service.

Absolutely recommended.

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5.0

A Christmas dinner to remember. Imaginative & thoughtful prix fixe menu with perfect wine pairings, friendly & highly professional service, a beautiful & comfortable setting all made for a top notch dining experience.

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4.5

Ambiance & food + wine, 5 stars. I ate here a total of 4 times & really enjoyed it. I can't give it full marks because at each meal I noticed the plates & cutlery were not cleaned properly/dirty. On one occasion my glass was chipped. I do recommend though.

JustinBl-5422

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1.0

When we walk in at 6 PM on a Saturday night (11/25/2017), the restaurant was maybe 1/2 full, not that crowded. Me & the girlfriend order. Girlfriend orders a vegetarian entree with squash cream soup. I order the grass fed ribeye & a glass of wine.

One thing I noticed right off the bat is the wine glasses have marks on them to mark the 3 & 5 oz line. The waitress pouring the wine pours it up to the 5 oz line & not a nano-meter higher. Kind of tacky for a "nice" restaurant but whatever...

The soup arrives maybe 10 minutes later & its not bad. Portion was very small but its an appetizer so who cares.

Then, we wait about an additional hour for our food to arrive. I surmise that since I ordered ribeye it must be taking a while to cook (even though I ordered it medium rare)...

Finally, our main courses arrive & & visually, I'm bitterly disappointed. Girlfriends dish looks like a small plop of random veggies piled on a plate & my "ribeye" appears to be a 3mm thick slice of ribeye with small piped out blips of celeriac puree.

At this point, I'm starving so I decide to dig in. As I'm eating this paper-thing slice of ribeye, I keep thinking to myself how the price of the dish is $36. It didn't even include a real serving of the celeriac puree. It's essentially an a la carte slice of ribeye they charge $36 for. The thing was so thin it must have been on a saute pan for no longer than a minute each side. I'm not even kidding. Unsurprisingly, I finish this thing in about 60 seconds & am still hungry. Girlfriend finishes her small plop of veggies in about the same time & has a look of bitter disappointment on her face as well. I have no idea how the chef or waitress had any dignity left after serving these plates to us.

The kicker is we ask for the bill immediately after finishing & the waitress returns with a bill for $106. Just a final kick in the nads from this place.

Afterwards, we go to a random restaurant on the way home & get some bread & soup for $5 for my girlfriend because she's still hungry. I order a beer in a futile attempt to forget about the situation. I honestly can't tell if this place is either: A) the biggest tourist trap in Quebec or B) so financially in the gutter they need to rob their customers of any value by charging exorbitant prices for comically small portions of mediocre food.

As an aside, I don't care if a restaurant serves small portions. I actually think that's a great thing most of the time, but don't make your customers wait a long time & charge high prices. That's just ridiculous. Whats additionally disappointing is this is our first time in Quebec City, & the first place we went to was Le Clocher Penche, which was absolutely outstanding (food + service) & the kicker was that the prices were actually very cheap. So our expectations for other places in Quebec were sky high. Then we went to this place & basically don't know what to think of Quebec anymore. I'm just really hoping someone else can read this before they book this place & prevent any further disappointment.