Cassis Monna & Filles — Restaurant in Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans

We love this place. We feel like it’s a great welcome to Ile d’Orleans since it’s just a dash from the bridge. The team is friendly and the products sold here are delicious. I love anything made with cassis. Their gin is complex with all ingredients sourced from the island. That’s just one of the nice things to take back home with you. This time we sat on the balcony for Sunday brunch with a view of the lawn and the river. Our food and service were sur la coche. Afterwards we chilled a little on the lawn in the big purple bean bag style cushy lounge chairs before heading onwards. This is a great place to let the kids unwind on the lawn while you enjoy a sip and chat or just go for some grown-up time alone with the one you love. If we lived nearby this is one of those local places I’d be sure to show my out of town guests. It’s got such a great vibe. Et alors, étant donné que nous habitons à Michigan, malheureusement nous nous trouvons trop loin de votre belle île pour vous rendre visite chaque fois que nous le souhaitons. Donc, à la prochaine. Merci...

We stopped here for lunch during our drive in Ile d'Orleans. This was a fantastic find. This is the storefront and restaurant of a blackcurrant farm. They have a restaurant, a take out shack, an ice cream parlor, a tasting section and a huge yard in the back. The food and ice cream revolves around blackcurrants which is an original concept. We had a salad (leafy greens with dried blackcurrants and a blackcurrant vinaigrette) and the chicken sandwhich (also with blackcurrant mayo). The restaurant does not take reservations so we put down our names but after a while we ordered take out. The restaurant called us after about 75 minutes at which point we were eating lunch in their yard. Take out took 30 mins to fulfill. The takeout menu only has 5 items but in my opinion these are the best items from their full menu. The yard had benches with umbrellas and overlooked the St Lawrence river and the bridge to the island. The softserve blackcurrant ice cream is worth a try but get the vanilla-blackcurrant mix as the blackcurrant on its own was...

It was, for me, a most pleasant surprise. Too often I'm grumpy, irritated, and unenthusiastic about place my wife picks and wants to visit. Anything that smells of a tourist destination or winery serving tourists tends to be a turnoff. HOWEVER, I really enjoyed the visit and meal, especially as I'm a budding gardener and an amateur historian. Basically I had only the slightest understanding of what a black currant is, so I really enjoyed the education I received touring the grounds and going through the distillery/shop. The food was good and it was a lovely summer early afternoon, sunny and warm. Others have mentioned waits, errors or staff seeming unenthusiastic but we had none of that. A lovely visit. We brought home several bottles of black currant syrup, which I pretty much drank the entirety of; mixing it with sparkling water or seltzer (extremely refreshing, relatively light on sugar). We also brought home several bottles of creme de cassis both for our own consumption and as gifts, which our friends all said...