« L'Orée du Bois offers a convincingly rustic setting for some lovely traditional French country cooking.»
En Route Magazine

« C'est comblées que nos visiteurs quittent l'Orée du Bois. Dehors dans la douceur crépusculaire, la forêt irradie de tous ses feux.»
Josée Valiquette - Zone

 

 

Since 1978, owner and chef Guy Blain, his wife, Manon and their children, have shared their culinary savoir-faire with their guests at L'Orée du Bois.

The building which house the restaurant are those of a farm built at the beginning of the century. Their rusty color formely obtained from oxblood is traditional. Traditional too is the form of the roof which curiously is due to a distant influence of François mansart, great-uncle and teacher of the famous superintendant of King Louis XIV !

 
 
The buildings are those of a farm build
at the beginning of the last century.

The reproductions in the Arcimboldo dining room are surrealist in inspiration. They were created from the works of the Renaissance painter Guiseppe Arcimboldo who, in his portraits, invites the eye to break down and reconstruct strange hybrids from every realm of nature. THe reproductions in the bar are of works by contemporary artists Magritte and Edward C. Pardee. As for the older objects in the bar (a Kub bouillon tim, a Brun cookie tin, no. 284, " returnable for 2 francs if in good condition ", a coffee mill and a rock-salt grinder), they belonged to Guy Blain's parents and grand-parents. The chesnut-wood "couade", a kind of ladle, was used to dip water from a pail.

In the Portrait dining room are classical portraits inspired by Rembrandt, Georges de la Tour, Veronese, Murillo.

The Breughel dining room is entirely devoted to the Flemish artists Pierre Breughel the Elder and Pierre Breughel the Younger (1525-1569 and 1564-1638).

The musical accompaniment, about which you can obtain more information in the entryway, is a potpourri of French music. It is composed of works ranging from folkloric to classical; from the concertina (the accordion of the dancehalls on the banks; from popular successes of Chevalier, Piaf, and Trenet to the operettas of Offenbach or tunes found in the oral tradition of Gaspésie.

 
 
An evening between friends at L'Orée du Bois
is a garanteed success.

The curtains are of traditional lace from Le Puy, a town in Central France. The lamps as well as the etched glass of the entry door are by Alain Lavoie, master-glassworker.

 
   

 

 

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