We love this place! I feel fortunate to live just across the boarder so I get to shop in Coaticook…read more The ice cream and cheeses are excellent and everyone is very friendly.

Amazing ice cream: taste, selection, quality and price. This is amazingly tasty ice cream. Service…read moreis friendly and prompt. I always bring ice cream back to the states when I am in the area. It's the best vanilla. Their cherry cheesecake is also delicious.

La Pinte is the place to go for milk products. In particular we love their 9% yogurt and chocolate…read moremilk. They carefully select the dairy farms that they work with, all from the local region, and work to ensure the highest quality product. We are sure to stop at La Pinte anytime we are in the area.

What a beautiful place in the middle of nowhere!…read more A friend brought us here on a walk so he can get some goat cheese. This is basically a milk bar where you can purchase glass-bottled milk, snd other dairy foods. The ambiance and look is charming. You can see this is a local's favourite. The good: Lots of milk, all in good old fashioned glass bottle (that you can return). Accessories like glasses and t-shirts (yep!) available. They have a variety of cheeses, spreads, and other dairy products. Staff is magnificent and resourceful, they made us tru a few spreads (and we ended up getting some). The design of the place is very modern and neat. The bad: There is nothing bad with the place, but the locals make you feel like you really are in their way, so it is really hard to shop without getting that annoying feeling of being a nuisance. Definitely worth a stop if you are in the area. Their products are also in local grocery stores, but you will be missing out on the charm of this place.

This is my happy place when I visit the Eastern Townships. From bakery, to groceries, wines,…read morecheese, select charcuterie, groceries and prepared dinners (the beef bourgoinon divine) and wines. Best place for breakfast and lunch. And a very funky rambling space with a warm, inviting air. Not to be missed.

Stopped in for a sandwich on my way from Maine to Montreal. The bread itself was very tasty,…read morealthough maybe a bit worse texturally for having already been made into a sandwich. The ham and cheese were okay but nothing special, and the cornichons were distinctly underwhelming.

Saw this place on a Yelp search and figured out it's a 5-star rating with "chocolate" in the name…read moreand nice scenery. What's not to like? So I booked a night to stay over on our way to Charlevoix. The Good: certainly that breakfast earns its reputation. It's conventional but really good, as is the coffee. Service in the cafe also quite good. The Bad: bedbugs. Found in the bedsheets. I get the feeling the staff knows they have a problem because when we brought it up they were indifferent to it. Did not make for a good nights sleep. The Other: scenery around the hotel is pretty nice, quiet and peaceful. Parking is street parking.

We are in the area celebrating not only my mom's birthday, but also following the route of the…read moreInspecteur Gamache series of novels by Louise Penny, famous local author. This was my mom's request and any chance to spend time in Quebec is something we all love. North Harley is a charming little town with some unique shops and of course, this delightful Inn, L'Auberge de la Chocolatière, or The Chocolate Makers Inn. The café has a nice array of breakfast, lunch and dinner items, as well as desserts. We were promptly seated. Staff is perfectly bilingual (which is pretty common for this area). I ordered the Grilled Cheese Panini with comes with side salad or soup of the day. I chose the latter, a celery and mushroom (non dairy) veloûté. My mom ordered the sane whereas my dad got the pepper and eggs Panini with chèvre and the soup. We each ordered the thé froid, iced tea, a slightly sweetened iced herbal tea. The Panini was delicious. It was a perfect combination of sweet and savory. The soup was creamy, properly seasoned and piping hot. As there was a chill in the air, it hit the spot. The service was excellent. We opted to forgo dessert, but we did get an array of 12 artisanal chocolates to go. We had mom choose the flavors from over almost 40 offerings in dark, milk and white chocolate. Each chocolate has a fine-thick sliver of topping or sprinkling of herbs or spices, such as dried cranberries, apricot, elderflower, cassis, cayenne pepper, sea salt, lavender, coconut, cardamom. In essence, a chocolate lovers paradise. In the car, we sampled the pralined and the apricot. The chocolate is extremely high quality and not too sweet. There's a lot of love out into those concoctions. The store also sells maple syrup candies and syrup, small and large bars of the chocolates, etc. It was a lovely first meal in the region. I would cone back here to enjoy the area's outdoor offerings and perhaps stay here.

As a fondue lover I had to try this place after my friend went. I've been talking about it to my…read moreboyfriend and of course he surprised me on Valentine's Day awww! Fondissimo is attached to another resto called le shop you just gotta go to the left and behind and you'll see a projected image of the name on the wall, hard to miss. We were greeted by a tall male hostess who gave us a great seat by the window with loads of candles ( my fav ) We of course got the cheese fondue and Chinese fondue because that's the way to go. Unfortunately the cheese fondue wasn't very good, tasted like an iga store bought one. We got traditional so if I were to come back I would skip the cheese entirely or try something else that didn't taste so generic. It is BYOW so I wasn't expecting the cheese to be grade a like in Paris. Chinese fondue was great, we went with the marinated pork and beef slices. Pork takes a while to cook so that's a bit annoying but the beef cooked within seconds. If you're feeling more adventurous you can get all the fun meats, kangaroo, camel and etc. We didn't talk and appetizers as nothing really jumped out at us. But we decided that dessert to go was a must. We chose the cheese cake which was a really good home made cream cheese, with a crumble crust which was perfect. The restaurant and service was great but at the end their was a mix up with the tip so they emailed us right away because the tip was more then our meal. That was very nice of them and just for that reason only they get 4 stars. 5 stars if they get a real cheese fondue :)

I enjoyed this restaurant. The cheese fondue was good but nothing to write home about. The chinese…read morefondue was better - bouillon was tasty and meat portions were reasonable. I liked the duck and beef slices the best. The tartar as an entree was good as well. Service by our waitress Florence was the best part of the meal. It's nice that it is a BYOB.

This one of the best places in the area to go pick apples in the fall. It's a fairly large orchard…read morethat gets very busy when the apples are ripe. You take a ride in a wagon pulled by a tractor from the main building to the apples. There are two size bags that you can pick and they will direct you to the apples that are currently being picked. Once you fill your bag, you hop back on the wagon to go pay for the apples. In the store you will find picked apples for sale, cider, apple pies and everything else made from apples. Their pies are really delicious. One word of warning...very few employees are fluent in English. Usually one of the customers who is fluent in English will step up to help. The tour in the wagon will be in French only. Just nod your head and laugh when the others laugh and you will do fine.

Their pre-made sandwiches, salads and meals are excellent! A perfect option when you don't want to…read morecook.

An amazing assortment packed into a tidy well organized store…read moreAnd a laundromat next door Nice folks and the store is very convenient to me