Mélanie Charbonneau has maple syrup in her blood—her family’s been in the business for generations, and it shows. Since 2004, she’s been running this Mont-Saint-Grégoire sugar shack with a no-reservations-needed, all-you-can-eat feast that dares you to pace yourself. Oven-baked omelettes, thick-cut tourtière, syrup-drenched pets de sœur, and buckwheat pancakes keep rolling out of the kitchen, making restraint a lost cause. Drinks are extra, but well worth it, especially when they come from the neighbouring cider house run by Mélanie’s father, Denis. If you’re after a proper sugar shack meal—unfussy, abundant, and heavy on tradition—this one’s got you covered. Just show up hungry.
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Running from late February through April, sugar shack season is a short but glorious stretch of syrup-soaked feasts best enjoyed in the countryside.
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