Chez Muffy — Restaurant in Quebec

When we walk in at 6 PM on a Saturday night (11/25/2017), the restaurant was maybe 1/2 full, not that crowded. Me and the girlfriend order. Girlfriend orders a vegetarian entree with squash cream soup. I order the grass fed ribeye and a glass of wine.

One thing I noticed right off the bat is the wine glasses have marks on them to mark the 3 and 5 oz line. The waitress pouring the wine pours it up to the 5 oz line and not a nano-meter higher. Kind of tacky for a "nice" restaurant but whatever...

The soup arrives maybe 10 minutes later and its not bad. Portion was very small but its an appetizer so who cares.

Then, we wait about an additional hour for our food to arrive. I surmise that since I ordered ribeye it must be taking a while to cook (even though I ordered it medium rare)...

Finally, our main courses arrive and and visually, I'm bitterly disappointed. Girlfriends dish looks like a small plop of random veggies piled on a plate and my "ribeye" appears to be a 3mm thick slice of ribeye with small piped out blips of celeriac puree.

At this point, I'm starving so I decide to dig in. As I'm eating this paper-thing slice of ribeye, I keep thinking to myself how the price of the dish is $36. It didn't even include a real serving of the celeriac puree. It's essentially an a la carte slice of ribeye they charge $36 for. The thing was so thin it must have been on a saute pan for no longer than a minute each side. I'm not even kidding. Unsurprisingly, I finish this thing in about 60 seconds and am still hungry. Girlfriend finishes her small plop of veggies in about the same time and has a look of bitter disappointment on her face as well. I have no idea how the chef or waitress had any dignity left after serving these plates to us.

The kicker is we ask for the bill immediately after finishing and the waitress returns with a bill for $106. Just a final kick in the nads from this place.

Afterwards, we go to a random restaurant on the way home and get some bread and soup for $5 for my girlfriend because she's still hungry. I order a beer in a futile attempt to forget about the situation. I honestly can't tell if this place is either: A) the biggest tourist trap in Quebec or B) so financially in the gutter they need to rob their customers of any value by charging exorbitant prices for comically small portions of mediocre food.

As an aside, I don't care if a restaurant serves small portions. I actually think that's a great thing most of the time, but don't make your customers wait a long time and charge high prices. That's just ridiculous. Whats additionally disappointing is this is our first time in Quebec City, and the first place we went to was Le Clocher Penche, which was absolutely outstanding (food + service) and the kicker was that the prices were actually very cheap. So our expectations for other places in Quebec were sky high. Then we went to this place and basically don't know what to think of Quebec anymore. I'm just really hoping someone else can read this before they book this place and prevent any further...

We dined here for my birthday and it was disappointing unfortunately. Although I did receive a card for the occasion which I think is a cute and personal touch.

We were promptly greeted by friendly staff and were seated. We ordered our drinks and upon receiving them ordered the tasting menu.

At one point we were informed that our meals would not be fired until we were halfway through our drinks. At this point we did ask for it to get started but that was not that case. As we worked our way through our drinks we were then told that now our meals would be fired. As someone who is a non drinker 99% of the time I felt a pressure to quickly drink my beverage as we wanted our meal to begin. We did not receive our first dish until nearly an hour and the entire meal was about 2.5 hours.

I would say the service was friendly but mixed and the dishes were fine but would have benefited from further finesse (more seasoning, acid, fat, and consistent cooking). The duck in particular was incredibly tough and difficult to cut through. I will say that the dessert was incredible and that dish was the stand out star.

We specifically booked the 5:30 reservation as the website indicates that the tasting menu is $30 less per person at this time but that was not reflected on our bill. We chose to not mention that and simply pay and leave. Our tip was also less than our general standard as we felt that’s what the quality of the food justified.

As huge foodies and individuals who have worked in the industry for several years the price point unfortunately did not match the quality of the product.

Overall friendly staff, mediocre food. Unique ideas and concept but could use...

My boyfriend and I enjoyed a very lovely brunch at Chez Muffy on our recent trip to Québec City. The servers were warm, gracious, and attentive and made our experience outstanding and memorable. We admired the beauty of the restored building - the character of the stone walls and exposed wooden beams, as well as the comfort of the spectacular fireplace, and elegant black metal staircase. We were even fortunate enough to receive an impromptu tour of the space by one of the servers, as my boyfriend was very curious to see the upper level of the space! The generous hospitality we received on our visit was truly heartwarming.

The brunch itself was delicious. We loved the flavour and full body of the coffee that was served, as well as the pastries that we enjoyed - croissants, pain du chocolate. The à la carte breakfast options were excellent and the presentation of the food was done at a very high level. I loved that we were given a small pot of coffee for our table that was generously refilled.

Chez Muffy is in the Auberge Saint-Antoine - a magnificent historically redone building, designed impeccably and thoughtfully. We enjoyed learning from the historical displays, (much like a museum), and we appreciated the beautiful decor and elegant restoration of the Artifact Bar as well with intimately designed spaces. We truly enjoyed our experience here. Our brunch at Chez Muffy was definitely one of the highlights of our trip - we highly recommend it!! ...