I love rabbits, yes, but I'm also not squeamish about eating them. Rabbit doesn't appear often on restaurant menus here in Canada but when it does, I order it. Too often, however, the restaurant is "out" of it on that particular day so I end up eating something else.
However, when we were in Quebec City a couple of months ago, I hit the rabbit cuisine motherlode! In Old Quebec, we descended the long flight of stairs down to Lower Town and found amongst its charming shops and old buildings . . .
. . . a restaurant called Le Lapin Sauté -- The Jumping Rabbit! I suspect its name is also a bit of a double entendre on the cooking term "to sauté." Anyway, I knew we had to have lunch here!
Look at the cute "rabbit crossing" sign on the restaurant's outside wall, along with the carrot bucket full of greenery and a cherry tomato plant!
Tomorrow: the restaurant's interior decor and my delicious lunch!
[First photo from the internet. Other photos by Debra She Who Seeks.]
I don't think I could make it up those steps.
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I must go to Quebec sometime...Looks fun!
ReplyDeleteMy Gran knew how to cook a rabbit. In those days, if we didn't hunt, we didn't eat.
ReplyDeleteoh how i miss quebec. i love that city so much. i don't eat rabbit. we ate it too much when i was young and my father hunted it. you can always get lots of rabbit to eat in germany!
ReplyDeleteuh oh, don't like the look of where this is going, run little rabbit run!
ReplyDeleteLove the look of the place though, cute huh? Garry's family raised meat rabbits, tastes like chicken, not as strong as wild,
This restaurant has so much charm on the outside. The inside must be beautiful!
ReplyDeletelove those little pots used as decoration in front of the restaurant.
ReplyDeleteSome of the best food that I ever had was southern fried rabbit, not a greasy mess of deep fried breading like KFC would do but breaded and fried in cast iron. It is far superior to chicken. Now these are wild rabbits, not cuddle bunnies, they run for a living, there are no slow ones left, according to the coyote daily news.
ReplyDeleteIt has been many years since I have eaten rabbit but as I remember it....yummers. But after we had pet rabbits...um a little harder to do I fear. Something about the cuddle factor and all. Oma Linda
ReplyDeletereminds me of a high school classmate who claimed he ate squirrel. I'd be afraid of the parasites and disease from that.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read about Quebec! Such a treasure we have here in Canada. I love the stairs and the hills and the food... I can eat anything, once it's dead. lol.
ReplyDeleteI don't eat rabbit, but I don't eat much meat. I remember stories my Mother told about the depression days -- growing their own veggies and raising rabbits for food. Looks like a fun place. I'll enjoy seeing more.
ReplyDeleteAs an adventurous foodie, I would totally eat rabbit (Sorry, cute neighborhood bunny. I mean, I wouldn't eat you specifically). Looking forward to tomorrow's pictures of lunch!
ReplyDeleteWe ate rabbit a lot while I was growing up. It was quite tasty. And even though I had a pet rabbit, it didn't bother me to eat it.
ReplyDeleteLove the outside of the restaurant. Such character! Anxious to see what you had to eat. :0)
I think I'd give it a go. I've tried frogs legs, snail and all sorts of sea creatures...
ReplyDeleteSuch a cute place. Can't wait to see the inside tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteNo...I just can't eat rabbit. My dad LOVED it and no one else in the family could go near it. My mother couldn't even cook, so his niece would bring him some when she made rabbit stew.
ReplyDeleteI can't find rabbit on the menus here in Maine - and don't particularly want to. I am a person of habit (not rabbit.) I always read the entire menu and then order the same thing.
ReplyDeletethe Ol'Buzzard
I love me a rabbit. In fact, I have a jack rabbit wearing a jacket.
ReplyDeleteAh, Quebec City, a place I must visit around Christmas time.
Are you sure that's a "rabbit crossing" sign. Maybe I um just splitting hares, or hairs...
Take care, eh.
Gary
I haven't tried it, but I would give it a go.
ReplyDeleteNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Say you didn't!
ReplyDeletelove Lapin à la moutarde!!!
ReplyDeleteGoing back to Old Quebec is on my Bucket List. I think I had rabbit once but found it fatty.
ReplyDeleteI've rarely eaten rabbit but I will order it when given the chance.
ReplyDeleteSame with horse. Still haven't eaten horse, but I'll order it if I find it.
That restaurant is beautiful! I have had rabbit stew before, it was delicious and mostly tasted like mushrooms.
ReplyDeleteLove that picture of the restaurant, how enchanting....beautiful colors..
ReplyDeleteHope you had a smashing summer too..hugs kindred!
Victoria
That rabbit crossing sign is priceless. And to answer the question posted by the first sign, I'm with you, they are nutritiously cuddly.
ReplyDeleteWow, we definitely need to get there sometime! Can't wait to see more!
ReplyDeleteThis place looks so beautiful! I love the rabbit sign!
ReplyDeleteOh, I forgot to say, I have never tried rabbit. I was always told, it's a more fatty meat? Don't know if that's right?
ReplyDelete@ Magic Love Crow -- I didn't find it particularly fatty. My rabbit must have been in good shape.
ReplyDeleteI don't hardly eat meat at all so eating rabbit isn't likely to happen but I love the cute pictures of the restaurant. How charming!!! I would find something on the menu to eat just to go there.
ReplyDeleteThanks Debra ;o) LOL! Good to know ;o) Maybe one day, I will try rabbit ;o)
ReplyDeleteI love Quebec City.
ReplyDeleteThis place looks interesting and appealing.
Even before I was a vegan, I was a hypocrite - I felt weird about eating animals from the age of 9 but felt more weird if they were cuddly.
ReplyDeleteOh I KNOW the Lapin sauté! Quite well actually, it used to be the family's lunch time and breakfast restaurant when we stopped in Quebec City. I had Easter breakfast there back in 2006. Sauté also means a bit crazy, as in eccentric. The restaurant has the same owners as Le Cochon dingue, which means crazy pig (and is a word play on cochon d'Inde, i.e. guinea pigs).
ReplyDeleteI don't remember eating rabbit at the Lapin sauté, although I may have had. I remember a lapin à la moutarde de meaux at La Pignoronde, which is in the Charlevoix region. And last Christmas holidays, mum made a curry rabbit that was quite yummy. My favorite rabbit recipe is still the one I had in La Pignoronde.
Don't think I could eat it unless I was literally starving.
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