The room at nine from the far end: the globes lit, candles on every table, diners soft along the leather banquette

Souper Thursday to Saturday · 17:30 –⁠ 22:00

After dark, a short card and candles.

Three nights a week the café turns bistro: nine dishes, a red and a white by the carafe, and a booked table held fifteen minutes past your time.

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6340 rue Beaubien Est · Rosemont, Montréal

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Soupe: courge rôtie et pomme, graines grillées · VG$9

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Le souper · Thursday to Saturday

Nine dishes and a carafe

A short card from 17:30, last order at 21:15. When the kitchen changes a dish it tapes a slip over the card and strikes the line; the slip comes down at closing.

The souper card

Soupe à l’oignon under a lid of blistered gruyère, a candle beside the bowl

Pour commencer

Soupe à l’oignon gratinée

Onions cooked down for three hours, bread, gruyère

$14

Betteraves, chèvre frais, noisettes

Roasted beets, fresh goat’s cheese, toasted hazelnuts

$15

Rillettes de porc, cornichons

Potted in-house, toast, sharp pickles

$14

Magret de canard sliced over red cabbage with a pear poached in cider

Les plats

Moules marinière, frites

White wine, shallot, parsley; the frites are twice-cooked

$27

Truite amandine

A whole fillet, brown butter, flaked almonds, lemon

$29

Steak frites, beurre maître d’hôtel

Onglet, cooked the way you ask once and not twice

$32

Magret de canard

Rendered slowly skin down, red cabbage, a pear poached in cider.

$34

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Pintade rôtie, jus au cidre

$31

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A crème brûlée, its sugar just cracked, a spoon beside the ramekin

Pour finir

Crème brûlée à la vanille

Cracked to order under the iron

$11

Île flottante

Meringue poached to order on crème anglaise, the caramel poured at the table.

$10

Poured from 17:30

A red and a white, by the carafe

Chosen to go with the evening card and changed when it changes. By the glass or the half-litre, and a cider or a local blonde for anyone who would rather.

Rouge

Gamay, Touraine · light, served cool

$26 the carafe · $9 the glass

Blanc

Muscadet sur lie, Loire · dry and saline

$26 the carafe · $9 the glass

Cidre

Cidre du verger, dry, from an orchard in Rougemont

$8 the bottle

Bière

A blonde from the neighbourhood, on tap

$8 the glass

Book for souper

Drinks and the grinder

Carafes and stemmed glasses at the end of the counter at night, the globes reflected in the zinc

The clay-red enamel jug and two tumblers on the marble

Tonight

The Gamay with the pintade

The kitchen

Three people, one pass

Between them they open the door at 07:30 and close it after the last candle.

Meet the kitchen

Élise at the counter, looking up from the pass mid-task

Élise Tremblay

Owner and cook

Writes the card each season and the slips each morning. Turns out the Tatin at eleven.

Théo laminating croissant dough on the marble bench

Théo Bouchard

Baker

In at five for the deck oven. The kouign-amann come out at 07:30 and again at 14:30.

Nadia at the grinder, three-quarter view, a red kerchief in her hair

Nadia Haddad

Counter and coffee

Runs the zinc and the grinder, and knows which bag goes on next.

The room

Thirty-four seats, morning to night

A zinc counter, a leather banquette under the tall windows and oak tables in between, on the ground floor of a red-brick corner in Rosemont.

The room from behind the zinc at eight, the first two guests at the window