I went to eat lunch at ITHQ ( Institut de tourisme et d’hotellerie du Quebec). It’s a school that specializes in tourism, hotel and restaurants.

My colleagues were intrigued as Prince William and Catherine went there to eat while visiting Montreal. Therefore, they have decided to try it out as well! All the staffs were students. I couldn’t tell if I didn’t know it was a school.

The staffs were very friendly and professional. All the tables were taken and the clients seem to be from business professions as well! It’s serious business! Not amateur at all so far!

How was the food? Why don’t we just look at the pictures and judge 😉

Some duck confit….something like that. I simply loved this appetizer…I might go back just for this! But sadly, i think their menu changes very often…

I have no clue what this soup is…Judging by the color, i would say pumpkin…Did not taste it…so can’t tell!

Another star appetizer!! It’s scallop with celery ! 

This is the appetizer that I chose…it comes with such a dainty bowl! 

It is a mixture of mushrooms and cheese. The server made it sound so good as it was the special of the day…They said “it comes with shitake!” Sure that is exotic for them…But it’s not exactly exotic for me. It was okay. It didn’t make my tastebuds go crazy.

And then we moved on to main dishes!

 Wapiti. I once ate a wapiti tartare that got me loving this meat so much. However, this dish left me quite disappointed…

Roasted beef with beer. I heard my colleagues said this wasn’t impressive at all…

Cod fish. My colleague that eats very little (known to never finish anything on her plate) actually ate the whole thing! I guess it was really that delicious?

Lamb. It is actually the most generous portion of all the main dishes.

Chocolate mousse to complete the meal. The server highly recommended this chocolate mousse. However, I’m not very fond of mousse cake…but creme brulee was the other choice which I am not very fond of either…so I ended with chocolate mousse (and they delivered an extra creme brulee by mistake so i ended up having creme brulee as well!).

The chocolate mousse was better than the other mousse cakes i have tried in the past. But i still don’t like mousse cake…so I’m a biased here to judge. The creme brulee was a total disappointment. It was very liquid…I thought it was suppose to be gelatine? Anyway..the taste was fine but the texture not so much.

My verdict? ITHQ serves amazing appetizers. For the rest, it is left to be desired. I have to admit the food is all nicely cooked. Just the taste is missing something (I guess that has to be blamed on their recipe that their professors have chosen).

Have you been all eaten well in these holidays season?

Zuuchini