CANADA'S BEST PLACES TO EAT.

The menu includes a mix of Spanish snacks (tinned conservas of mussels, whelks, razor clams and P.E.I. bluefin tuna, above) and French-influenced fine dining (lobster salpicón with white asparagus and lobster roe, below right) MONTREAL MASTARD Low-key luxury is the thing at chef Simon Mathys's delightful (and affordable) restaurant The room, though friendly, comfortable and filled with happy locals from Montreal's Rosemont neighbourhood, was built on the cheap; the feel of the place, in the words of one review, is "convivial et sans fla-fla", which is pretty much right. Restaurant Pearl Morissette The exquisite ingredients at this Niagara winery restaurant are grown on-site Daniel Hadida and Eric Robertson opened their ambitious Niagara wine-region restaurant in November of 2017. 944 Queen Street West, Toronto primeseafoodpalace.ca A trip to Matty Matheson's Toronto restaurant is all about indulgence: a plate of rosy-rare 12-ounce prime rib, for example, with fluffy Yorkshire pudding and a smoky carrot-goat cheese tart (top right), or cornmeal waffles with smoked trout and pops of cured roe (bottom middle) OTTAWA Supply & Demand A happy neighbourhood bistro with spectacular seafood Supply & Demand is near the top of my list of fantasy neighbourhood restaurants - "fantasy" at least in some part because it's nowhere near my actual home. BROUGHT TO YOU BY SANPELLEGRINO It's funny what happens when you can't eat in restaurants for a couple of years. [Extracted from the article]