This is an amazing little natural grocery store in Quebec. I was searching everywhere for a natural…read morefood store and couldn't find anything. Then I stumbled upon this little gem on accident. It really is amazing with all types of organic produce, organic milk and yogurts, grass-fed and organic meats and cold cuts, homeopathics and herbs. Not a tiny store either. If you are traveling there and care about what you eat this is the place to go!

My review of this verger is mainly of their boutique store and not of the actual orchards and…read morequality of their apples. I was here much too early in the season to enjoy fresh apples. I hope to come back in season and check out their varietals of apples and hopefully some of the extremely crunch and ultra juicy and delicious honey crisp. Looking back on one of the great gems of the province of Quebec is the apple orchards that we have in areas of the province. When. I first moved here I was introduced to the fall activity of "cuilleur des pommes" (picking apples) which I believe is the most fantastic family activity for fall. For me this is a right of fall to take a tractor ride take a big 10 pound bag and fill it full of the most juicy-tart apples that you take home to make sauce, pies and apple crisps. Living in the Montreal region we tend to go to orchards nearby in Laval or if we want a treat St Joseph Du Lac. SJDL is the premiere area on the north shore with many orchards and places that do cider also. They do still cider, sparkling cider and the creme de la creme "cidre du glace" iced apple cider. There is also jams, jellies and fresh apple juice available. Most all cideries do multiple products. I've never been to the Rougemont area on the S Shore but I imagine orchards produce similar products. Fast forward to Ciderie et Verger St Nicolas. I had some inside information that this was the premiere place for apple related products in the QC Capital region. So..... I told myself I had to stop by here. After a quick look in their shop they have more products than any of the orchards in the Montreal area that vie visited. Their selections of jams, jellies, fresh fruit syrups juice and ciders is impeccable. On my visit I was fortunate they had some fresh apple sauce. I bought six bottles in large and small. The flavour is unlike any sauce nice had before. It's so silky you could feed to a baby but so tasty it's incredibly fresh. Also they had Apple must- sparkling apple juice made with Honey crisp apples. We cracked a bottle on the weekend and it was the best sparkling apple juice I've had. Not too sweet but so fresh and crisp in flavour. I purchased a bunch of jellies and other products including their iced cider. Folks.....this is the best orchard- cider producer I've visited in the province. Their products I will declare I find are better than anywhere I've had in the Montreal region. It's 15 minutes from the Pierre Laporte bride on the S shore of Quebec City. So damm good I will be back to spend another boatload of money it's that amazing!

We stopped at this bakery on our way to Montmorency falls. It was Sunday morning so only the owner…read more(?) was there and so there was no sandwiches or salads available yet. Space is quite large and it appears to have a viewing area to see bakers making the bread/pastries. It even has a large corner designated for kids to play in! We asked the owner if we could have some baguette with butter which he gladly obliged. He took a fresh baguette and sliced about half of it into diagonal pieces, put some butter on the side for us and let us have at it. We also had a cappuccino and latte - both were good. The baguette was nice and fresh, good for a bakery but it's hard to mess up a baguette. Towards the end, we tried a Choquette and that was really, really good. Really enjoyed the light crunchiness and the sweetness of the pastry. Perfect sweetness level and so crispy. I probably could have eaten a ton more if I had less self-control and had more money to spend. It probably pairs really well with a coffee. The owner was nice and only charged us 1$ for the half a baguette - I guess he planned on using the rest of it for other things during the day or just a really nice guy who knew we were tourists in the area based on our terrible French and his resorting to speaking to us in English. We did notice this place seems pretty well known to locals. Tons of people would come in looking for a specific loaf of bread or purchase a mass quantity of croissants at a time. One lady bought a bunch of pastries and let her kids to play in the kid's play area. Highly recommend stopping by if you're in the area if you need breakfast or an afternoon cappuccino or latte!