Le restaurant La Maison du Pêcheur est
situé directement sur les rives de la Baie de Percé, face
à l'Île Bonaventure. L'établissement est reconnu pour
l'excellence de sa table: il obtient notamment deux étoiles du Guide
Debeur de même que du Guide "Where to Eat in Canada". Cette notoriété lui vient de sa cuisine créative et originale. C'est une table renommée pour ses excellents
fruits de mer et ses spécialités typiquement gaspésiennes:
potage aux algues marines, saumon au sucre d 'érable et citron, loup
grillé au beurre de fenouil, coquille de langues de morue au beurre
d'oursin, crème d'oursin au safran, ...Non seulement un repas gastronomique vous attend à La Maison du Pêcheur, mais aussi une vue imprenable sur la Baie de Percé, l'Île Bonaventure et le Rocher Percé. Une visite à la Maison du Pêcheur est la garantie de plaisirs du palais et de souvenirs inoubliables de votre séjour en Gaspésie. |
The
Maison du Pêcheur, which is on the waterfront overlooking Bonaventure
Island, gets two stars this year for its lively, inventive
cooking - but above all for its astonishing tartar of fresh salmon with
seaweed. There's no fresher fish to be found anywhere on either coast, and the variety is extraordinary. There's a masterful fish soup with rouille, sea-urchin soup (which tastes almost too much sea-urchins), home-smoked fish, cods'tongues and cheeks (if you're lucky), hot Gaspé goat-cheese and the salmon tartar, which is served on a white plate in the shape of a fish, with curls of sliced lemon forming the tail and a disc of ripe olive the eye. It's magical. They have snow crab, boiled lobster (from their own underwater farm 55 feet below sea-level), ocean catfish, scallops (with goat-cheese), halibut (with ginger), cod, sole and salmon (with maple sugar and lemon). The cooking is beautiful understated : the scallops
are never overwhelmed by their goat-cheese and there's barely a hint of maple
sugar with the salmon, a fish that's so often disgraced by sweet salsas.
There's a trim sugar pie at the end of the meal and Orpailleur, the new wine
from Quebec, by the bottle for the curious. |
Source : Anne Hardy. Where to Eat in Canada, Twenty-Eighth Year, 19989-1999. |