Michelin unveils Quebec guide, awards stars to 9 restaurants

CBC

15-05-2025

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Michelin, a tire company which produces a prestigious food and travel guide, unveiled its first-ever Quebec guide on Thursday, and awarded highly-sought-after stars to nine restaurants, most in the Quebec City-area.
The guide declared Tanière³, in Quebec City, Canada's second-ever two-star restaurant.
The total list of Michelin starred restaurants in Quebec are:
ARVI (Québec City).
Jérôme Ferrer - Europea (Montreal).
Kebec Club Privé (Quebec City).
Laurie Raphaël (Quebec City).
Légende (Quebec City).
Mastard (Montreal).
Narval (Rimouski).
Sabayon (Montreal).
Tanière³ (Quebec City).
The Michelin guide awards stars to restaurants for excellence in food, drinks and service. A restaurant can earn up to three stars, widely considered the highest honour any restaurant can achieve. Inspectors conduct multiple visits before a rating is issued.
The stars can be controversial, however. Critics of Michelin's rating system have argued the stars place a high degree of pressure on some chefs.
Michelin stars also tend to be awarded to restaurants that serve high-end fare.
It costs money to get the Michelin guide to send inspectors to a region. The Quebec version of the Michelin guide cost $2.1 million, paid for by a coalition of associations and multiple levels of government. The money goes to Michelin and serves to pay for the cost of producing the guide. Inspection standards are high; inspectors visit restaurants multiple times to ensure consistency before issuing a star.
In addition to stars, the guide also awards some restaurants a "bib gourmand" which recognizes "friendly establishments that serve good food at moderate prices."
Both Vancouver and Toronto already have Michelin guides. There are currently 16 Michelin-starred restaurants in the Greater Toronto Area, including what was previously the only two-starred restaurant in Canada, Sushi Masaki Saito. There are 10 Michelin-starred restaurants in Vancouver.