The Lena Ghio Paradox/Le Paradoxe Lena Ghio: MONTRÉAL À TABLE 2018 EDITION 01.11

Monday, October 8, 2018

MONTRÉAL À TABLE 2018 EDITION 01.11 > 11.11.2018

IBÉRICA RESTAURANT

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Montreal is a city that loves culture, diversity, and food! Whether you go to a hockey game, the opera or a visit to an art exhibit, you always share a meal with your loved ones to round up the occasion.

This last October 3rd, the annual event that features the best in Montreal cuisine, Montréal à Table, reunited restaurateurs and influencers at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for this year's program launch. Organized by Tourisme Montréal, presented by Aeroplan, 150 restaurants bring together the best Quebec ingredients, freshly harvested and prepared by the city's best chef in price ranges to fit any budget!

While at the Museum, I found out they now have two urban beehives. The honey they will produce will be sold at the Museum Gift Shop and will finance Art Hive.

When you visit the Montréal à Table site, you will see the many restaurants that have prepared culinary delights for you and also see theirs dining rooms. We have some of the most well designed dining rooms in the world which earned our city the UNESCO City of Design award. Choose your ambience and your type of cuisine to find the place that suits your taste.

This year, we were divided into groups of 8 people. Each group was assigned a restaurant to discover and to share our experiences with you. I was in the group that got to go to IBÉRICA RESTAURANT. Located on Peel Street, the restaurant has a style reminiscent of a fishing town café from a port in Spain. The walls are deliberately not polished and cracks in the concrete contrast with some golden appliances popping up here and there. The kitchen is open and the fresh fish on ice is in front of you. This will please the seafood lovers mostly. We shared the appetizers so we could sample everything but then each person chose their main entrée. I LOVE PAELLA! So that is what I ordered. In the images above you see my seafood paella minus the calamari and the mussels, which I do not favor, but that you would get in your dish on top of the shrimps, clams and white fish. I enjoyed that the seafood dominated the plate and that the rice was served in a normal portion.