Note: Days in blue are flexible days, meaning little to nothing important is planned that day. Days in red are inflexible days, meaning something has to happen that day or it won’t happen at all.
Fly into
Car: Pickup in
Accommodations: Comfort Inn, (418) 872-5038 (4 miles from
airport; reserved
Sightseeing
·
Fodors walking tour (
Drive from
Accommodations
· Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu, (418) 665-3703. Expedia booking ID: 17683337; itinerary #19669263295. $514 CAD including taxes and extra guest charges for 2 nights, or $257/night CAD.
Gardens
·
Les Quatre Vents, La
Accommodations:
Drive from Le Malbaie to
Food
·
Dinner (closed for lunch) at Moose Point Tavern,
16 Henderson Rd., Big Wood Lake, www.moosepointtavern.com “Great lake views are
served supersized from both the dining room and
outdoor desk at this log cabin restaurant. Bring your big North Woods appetite
and plan to enjoy a relaxed evening watching the setting sun burnish
Sightseeing
·
Weird moose stuff general store in
Gardens
· Garland Farm (Patrick Chasse’s place)
Accommodations: Patrick Chassé’s place (Garland Farm)
Gardens
·
Beatrix
Farrand Garden at College of the Atlantic,
·
Wild Gardens of Acadia,
·
Asticou
Azalea Garden,
·
Thuya
Gardens, Rt. 3,
Accommodations: Patrick Chassé’s place (Garland Farm)
Gardens
·
Roxana Robinson Garden (private; Patrick Chasse’s client)
·
·
Skylands (private;
Patrick Chasse’s client)
Accommodations: Patrick Chassé’s place (Garland Farm)
Drive from
Shopping:
· LL Bean headquarters, open 24 hours per day. 877-552-3268.
Food:
·
Harraseeket Lunch and
Lobster Company, Town Landing,
Gardens
·
Garden in the Woods,
·
Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Accommodations: Linda’s sister’s place in
Drive: From
Gardens:
·
Alan
Haskell Horticultural Nursery,
Gardens:
·
Green Animals Topiary Garden,
Gardens:
· White Flower Farm, Litchfield, CT. (Fergus Garrett’s long border). Open daily 9-5:30.
Accommodations
·
Residence
Inn,
Drive: From
Gardens: NY state (north)
·
Stonecrop Gardens,
Note: driving distance from Stonecrop to PepsiCo is approximately 40 miles.
· Donald Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo Headquarters, Purchase, NY (Linda has already seen). Open daily year-round from dawn to dusk (7:30-ish). Free. (914) 253-2000.
Accommodations: Silas Mountsier’s
home in
Gardens
·
New York Botanical Garden,
·
Wave Hill,
Show: Wicked @ the Gershwin
Theater,
Accommodations: Silas Mountsier’s
home in
Gardens:
·
Hortulus
Farm Gardens and Nursery,
Accommodations: Silas Mountsier’s
home in
Drive from
Gardens:
·
· George’s Garden (private; friend of Renny’s)
·
· Bunny Williams Garden (private)
Accommodations:
·
Porches Inn in
Drive from
Sightseeing
· MassMOCA. “The Interventionists” in the gallery.
Accommodations
·
The Winslow House,
Drive from
Sightseeing
· Quechee (Guy recommends)
·
Ben and Jerry’s
Factory Tour in
Baseball: Expos vs.
Accommodations
·
Le
Saint Sulpice in Old
Sightseeing:
·
The World Film Festival through
Gardens
·
Montreal Botanical Garden,
Accommodations: Le Saint Sulpice
Gardens
·
Accommodations:
·
Four Points by
Drop off car at
Fly home: Depart Montreal (YUL) at
Accommodations
· Chateau Bonne Entente, Ste-Foy (Fodor’s recommends; Expedia quote is $165 CAD): http://www.chateaubonneentente.com/
·
Hotel Lowes le
Concorde, Place Montcalm (Fodor’s and
·
Le Canard Huppe,
· Hotel Cap Diamant, upper town (Fodor’s recommends this small guest house with nine rooms) ($120-$165 CAD): http://www.hcapdiamant.qc.ca/
Food
Word of advice: always check out the table d’hote—always a great value, but bring your appetite (as Marcus likes to say, the table d’hote kicks his butt each visit). When we’ve ordered off the main menu and table d’hote, the quality has always been the same—always a very fine plate!
· Marche de Vieux Port (Farmer’s Market, lower town, on the water). Great stuff! Bring cash, most places don’t take credit and dictionary if you have particular needs (Marcus wanted elk sausage and we were left with pantomime)
· Aliementaiton Petit Cartier. Great market—really a collection of small gourmet food stores. Avenue Cartier between Grand Allee est and Boulevard Rene Levesque est—walls of terrine, petit fours, and cheese
·
Aux Ancien Canadiens. Old fashioned Quebecois food in a great little
house, right in the middle of Vieux
·
Le Café de la Terrasse
(buffet at Chateau Frontenac). A
· Chalet Suisse (close to Place d’Armes). Moderately priced—try one of the fondues with broth, as well as the cheese and dessert fondues! It’s not the first place we’ll go, as there are so many fabulous restaurants, but where we’ll go on night 3 or 4 for a non-fussy plate.
· Crepes Breton. I little kitschy, as the waitresses wear traditional Cape Breton hats, but they make a mean crepe, it’s inexpensive and although the place down the road is supposed to be better, we’ve been to both and think they are equal—and the line is never as big at Crepes Breton. I believe they’re open for breakfast, too
· A la Table de Serge Bruyere (Bistro Livernois?) We went to the upstairs restaurant, less casual (no jacket required) and less expensive that the main restaurant, but not the a la Petite Table mentioned in your 1995 Fodors (p. 188). I enjoyed this meal more than Le Saint Amour
· Le Saint Amour (for a fancy plate)—very fussy French service, which is a negative for us, but great food
·
Cafes (Grand Allee est, te main street between Lowes Le Concord and city walls). Great place to sit and
watch the world go by. Be sure to walk on top of the city walls on the way back
into Vieux
· Places for a spiffy glass of wine: the bar and terrasse at the Frontenac or L’Astral (rotating restaurant on top of Loews Le Concorde—they’ll usually let you get a glass of something later in the evening at their last seating. Food is decent too—one new years it was the only place we could get reservations and another time we just had to try the festival of game meat menu)
· Great breakfast place (can’t remember the name) on Grand Allee est between Place Montcalm and rue d’Artigny—it’s on the right hand side if you’re headed toward the city walls, big glass windows, before the cigar bar
Accommodations
· Econo Lodge: www.choicehotels.com ($105/night CAD)
· Auberge Larochelle: http://www.aubergelarochelle.com/ ($125-$195/night CAD)
Gardens
·
Les Jardins de Métis, Grand
Accommodations
·
Bass Cottage Inn,
(
Food
·
The Lobster Pound,
Food
·
Porthole Restaurant (
·
Café Uffa,
·
Shopping
· Cute historic district with some nice browsing. Lots of restaurants.
Shopping
Food
·
Chauncy Creek Lobster
Pier, Chauncy Creek Rd. 207-439-1030. Road Food, p.
195 (if this is the place
Food
·
Café Mirabelle, 603-430-9301,
·
Jumpin’ Jay’s Fish
Café,
·
Café Brioche,
Food
·
Woodmans,
Food
· Main inn in the middle of town (Daniel Webster?)—nice tavern, good lunch stop. There’s also a great turn of the century ice cream shop about 10 miles east on King’s Highway, but I can’t remember the town.
Food
·
The Place,
Food
·
Stick to Your Ribs,
Food
·
Swanky Franks,
Food
·
Culinary Institute of
Sightseeing and food
· MassMOCA (www.massmoca.org) . Fabulous contemporary art museum and nationally-known example of using the arts to revitalize a former mill town. Marcus can’t decide if it’s better to describe it as a museum or insane asylum—some avant garde stuff. 12,000 feet of galleries are in cavernous old mill buildings. Both restaurants also have great food, if you’re doing a drive by.
Sightseeing/food/behold the power of cheese!
·
Vermont Cheese Trail (www.vtcheese.com).
Food:
·
Woody’s,
· Storm Café (haven’t been, but good description in Lonely Planet, p. 387)—basement of Frog Hollow (see below)
Shopping: Middlebury (VT)
· Vermont State Craft Center at Frog Hollow, 1 Mill St. Gallery and gift shop of Vermont artisans (couple blocks from Woody’s)
Food: Burlington, VT (pretty little college town on Lake Champlain, pleasant pedestrian shopping area in the center of town)
·
New England Culinary Institute (www.neci.edu) has a restaurant or two in
Sightseeing: Waterbury, VT (a bit out of the way from Burlington, on Hwy. 89, so easy drive)
· Ben and Jerry’s factory tours
Sightseeing:
· Vieux Montreal. Touristy, but worth a stroll if you have time
· Rent bikes on Rue de la Commune (Vieux Montreal). Bike to the market, pick up the fixins’ for a lunch, and bike along the Lachine Canal. If I had just a half day in Montreal and it was nice weather, this would be my pick! There were also some fabulous topiary gardens enroute to the market
Food:
· Schwartz’s Delicatessen, 3895 boulevard St. Laurent. During Jazz Fest, the line is a block long. Fabulous smoked meats, a classic
· Lots of great outdoor cafes and restaurants along St. Denis—the area between St. Denis and St. Laurent north of boul. de Masonneuve is a very young, student area, so good values on food, lots of little shops
· Jardin something or another restaurant (Place Jacques Cartier and rue St. Paul, Vieux Montreal) has a lovely outdoor patio. Nice spot for a civilized lunch
· Lunch at Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), rue Sherbrooke Ouest and Musee d’Art Contemporain (rue Ste. Catherine Ouest), is also a tasty and civilized affair. I remember particularly enjoying the latter (museum and restaurant)
· I’ve wanted to try Toque, but two visits during Jazz Fest, we couldn’t get reservations.
· Republican National Convention: 8/30-9/2 in NYC