Portland Poutine » Montreal

The Best Poutine in Montreal?

Dave — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:57:18 +0000

Makes me want to visit Montreal again . . . Ma-Am-M Bolduc, in particular!

A view from Montreal: More Fast Food

Dave — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:43:21 +0000

Andy and Lynda are still in Montreal, and send me this lovely example of fast food poutine. The fine example above is from a chain called Deso.

Note the most excellent gravy dripping down the side of the styrofoam bowl and the bonus mayonnaises!

Andy tells me most of the cheese was on the bottom of the container.

A view from Montreal: Fast food poutine

Dave — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:37:11 +0000

My friends Andy and Lynda (the couple that had us over for the a Grey Cup party last year) are in Montreal right now, just coincidentally the week of this site’s launch.

I asked Andy before he left if he could do me the favor of taking photos of Montreal poutine, if he got the chance. Well, poutine is ubiquitous in its Quebec birthplace, and he delivered the first photo yesterday, which you can see above. Nothing fancy, just fast food poutine at Harvey’s.

I boldly predict (hope?) that Burgerville will someday offer poutine, with fresh Tillamook cheddar cheese curds!

Homemade Grey Cup Party Poutine

Dave — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:37:38 +0000

The 2009 Grey Cup is just around the corner – Sunday, November 29th. The Grey Cup, for the non-Canadaphiles, is the Super Bowl of the Canadian Football League.

And could there be a better accompaniment to a Grey Cup party than poutine and beer?

Last year Andy and Québécoise Lynda invited us to their Grey Cup party. The game was held in Montreal, and the hometown team, the Allouettes, made it to the final. We would celebrate Canada-style: with Canadian beer and homemade poutine.

We enjoyed beers from both ends of the Canadian quality spectrum: La Fin Du Monde, and Molson Canadian.

And then to the fries. Ideally twice-fried *real* fries would have been better, but the scent of the deep fryer can linger for days in a house, so out of respect for my hosts we used oven-baked Ore-Ida® Golden Fries®.

They’re pretty nice looking, though not as crisp as the real thing.

To make up for the less than ideal fries, we used good quality cheese curds: Beecher’s fresh curds from New Seasons. They’re ridiculously expensive – $5.45 for 6oz of friggin CURDS – but this was a special occasion. We sprinkled the curds on top, tucking some of them deep into the hot fries.

And then we spooned authentic St Huber ready to serve Poutine sauce (aka gravy), from Lynda’s personal stash.

Ta-da!

The poutine, albeit not gourmet quality, was a delicious success. Unfortunately the Allouettes lost to the Calgary Stampede.

Thanks to Heather of Mile73.com for the photographs!

A slightly different version of this post was published last year at Dave Knows Portland as How I spent my Grey Cup Sunday.