Un hommage à nos ancêtres. Un retour à nos racines, une réflexion sur notre histoire culinaire depuis les premières nations à aujourd’hui. Un lieu de rencontre et de partage autour de la table afin de découvrir ou redécouvrir notre terre, notre forêt, notre fleuve.
Un récit culinaire merveilleux inspiré d’éléments historiques transformés par l’imaginaire destiné à être transmis de génération en génération. La cuisine que vous y découvrirez saura stimuler tous vos sens. LÉGENDE prête une grande attention aux détails qui font partie intégrante de son contenu, même s’ils ne se concentrent pas principalement sur la vérité historique, mais sur la façon de véhiculer un aspect merveilleux accroché à la réalité.
Un menu inspiré de notre patrimoine culinaire et de l’empreinte laissée par le temps sur notre cuisine.
Laissez-nous vous surprendre. Vivez l’expérience afin de comprendre et de savourer.
Détails
Nos Spécialités
Terroir, Gibier, Cuisine Boréale, Menu dégustations, Accords de vins, Accord sans alcool
Légende propose une expérience gastronomique mémorable qui célèbre les saveurs riches du Québec à travers un menu dégustation créatif et raffiné. Les convives soulignent fréquemment l'utilisation innovante d'ingrédients locaux, transformés en plats artistiques et savoureux qui mettent en valeur le terroir régional. L'ambiance est largement décrite comme élégante, chaleureuse et accueillante, offrant un cadre propice à la découverte culinaire. Une part importante du succès de l'établissement repose sur son service exceptionnel; le personnel est régulièrement salué pour son professionnalisme, ses connaissances approfondies et sa passion communicative, assurant à chaque invité une attention particulière. Qu'il s'agisse de s'asseoir au bar pour observer la brigade en action ou de profiter d'une soirée romantique, les clients repartent souvent impressionnés par la cohésion de l'équipe et le haut niveau de rigueur maintenu. Les accords mets et vins, ainsi que les créations sans alcool, sont fréquemment cités comme des atouts majeurs qui rehaussent parfaitement la complexité des saveurs. Malgré quelques commentaires isolés sur les portions ou les préférences personnelles, le consensus général est que cet établissement offre un voyage culinaire de classe mondiale qui mérite amplement le détour.
LEGENDE - You win some, you lose some! Signing off a wonderful vacation with a disappointing Michelin 1* experience! Sigh!
Packed with some wonderful culinary experiences, spirit lifting vistas, sights & scenery & most of all, abundance of cherished loving, family bonding. My abbreviated food crawl during the past week has been most memorable & precious. Sadly, our last meal at the Michelin 1* Legende in Quebec City added an unexpected sour note to our otherwise splendid food crawl.
When dining out in upscale restaurants, one of the most despised things I dislike encountering is one that involves being charged a hefty price for the meal but still feeling hungry whilst paying the bill!
Do not get me wrong, the food at Legende was actually quite creative, unique, visually appealing, tasty & enjoyable. Although in some areas, the chefs were a bit heavy handed with the salt ( the tomato dish ). Sadly, a satisfactory end result was not fulfilled largely due to the miscalculation of the chef's overall menu creation & planning. IMHO, the prime reason & failure that causes the meal's demise of not achieving an acceptable quality/quantity/value ratio was not the use of uncommon & exotic ingredients but rather, the labour intensive elements & in some cases, the presence of overly redundant & irrelevant components which added to the complexity, required down sizing & hence an elevated cost component to the meal. Case in point, our impressive 8 course / $140 tasting menu at Montreal's Buillon Bilk was near flawless, sumptuous & a filling affair. Contrary, our 6 course / $ 135 offering at Legende was stingy & lacking in substance. Appetizer portions were midget one bite hors d'oeuvres size. However, the most absurd was the meat entree course featuring 4 thin slices of stingy, roughly 3oz in total, pieces of meat, gimmickily paired with a bowl of three sauces…..a couple of which are mediocre tasting & totally irrelevant! This is tantamount to trying to get full by eating a Shawarama but offered without the pita bread & vegetable/pickle condiments ... .only the bare-bone meat pieces garnished with Tahini & some Hummus were served!!
Our tasting menu offered the following courses:
6 East Coast Oysters topped with local Boreal condiments (optional $18 addition)
Hors d'oeuvres:
Wild rose & marigold potato
Crispy tuille, maitake mascarpone cream & Clos de Roches cheese
House made Tofu butter, fermented seaweed, smoked maplewood emulsion
Ils ont eu leur étoile Michelin & c'est pas pour rien. Je recommande le menu dégustation avec l'accord vin. Nous étions 2 & avons pris l'accord vin légende & prestige ce qui nous a permis de déguster plein de vin. Je recommande aussi le 7 Ieme service & pour nous nous avons eu du magret de canard avec foie gras poêlé c'était magique en bouche. Services A1 du début à la fin wow!
Service & ambiance was great, as was the quality & creativity of the food. The only thing that docks it 1-star from an overall 5-star rating is the value.
We've been to many, many 1 Michelin star restaurants over the years, & had degustation menus at most of them, but the amount of food offered in your tasting was definitely too small for the price. Since the making of the sauces (which were all outstanding) & the assembly of the dishes are a significant portion of the cost, you should increase the size of a few of those dishes to provide better value.
In addition, while my wife appreciated you offering a non-alcoholic tasting to go with the meal, few of those drinks tasted great or matched with the food. So she felt you had good intentions, & clearly work went into making them, but ultimately they have to taste good & they have to match the food, & they missed the mark.
But every other aspect of the dinner was stellar, so overall very good; just missing the mark of fantastic.
The fresh Quebec sourced ingredients were the key to the delightful dishes! The Grand Cru Chablis complimented the meal perfectly ! My special thanks to the wonderful sommelier Caroline who opened a classic Sauterne to crown the evening. As a chocoholic, I missed my fix as they do not have Quebec sourced chocolate… the wonderful Nicaraguan coffee was a wonderful exception .. Thank you for a delightful experience
Tonight was a repeat visit to Legende & it did not disappoint. The food was amazing (6 course tasting menu with paired wine) & the service was fantastic! The whole experience is a treat for the senses- sitting at the bar provides a great opportunity to watch the whole place in motion - a well oiled machine with each staff member passionately working in total sync. It is well worth a visit!
Service was excellent & the tasting menu was a great experience, with a few stand-out dishes like the tartlet in the amuse-bouche, the halibut, & the butter-fried bread. But the real life-changer was the genius mixologist, Jean-Francois. We opted for the non-alcoholic pairing & it was incredible. We will never forget the creativity & effort that went to his perfectly paired drinks (sousviding shiraz for 8 hours to remove the alcohol, using ingredients I never would have thought of like cat nip, verjus & sweet clover).
The only negative was the nordic shrimp tortellini dish we ordered a-la-carte. While it sounded innovative on paper, we found it to be poorly executed. The tortellini filling was hard & the mealworm dashi didn't go with the dish.
MICHELIN
