Comfortably Numb

For Christmas, F and I got a gift certificate for a recently opened restaurant, so we wanted to go there this week. We decided to simply show up there, knowing that we wouldn't mind eating at the bar if ever the restaurant was full. Unfortunately, the whole place had been taken up by a group, so we went to our go-to restaurant, La Souche. It is one of my favorite places in Quebec. They brew their own beer and make great food with ingredients bought locally. The name of the place means "the stump", and a lot of the tables are made with parts of tree stumps. As for the food, there are new specials every week. During the winter, one of the specials is usually a comforting stew. That is what I took, and this week it was a pork stew with cranberries, camembert and aragula. Adding cheese to a stew makes it a bit intense, but since it wasn't a very strong cheese, i.e. camembert, it was okay. The cranberries were a nice touch, especially since the holidays are not that far behind us. The stew usually comes with some nice, hot bread. F had a burger, and since I am addicted to La Souche's fries with mayo, I pretty much wiped those out.