“I come from here, I’m good here, I’m happy to be here. And I always felt that an offer like ours was missing in Terrebonne. »
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Born close to Highway 640, young chef Sébastien Dion is a guy from the North Shore. When COVID hit, he was sous-chef at Chien fumant, a popular restaurant in Plateau-Mont-Royal. Before that, he held the same role at La Cabane à sucre du Pied de Cochon. At only 30 years old, he had studied, he felt ready to take the plunge with his wife Véronique Benoît, whom he met at Le Chien fumant – she was head bartender there, a responsibility she also held at Bar St- Dennis.
In May 2020 they opened the BRUT. Gourmet factory in the premises of a former Subway – a bargain compared to the Montreal premises three times more expensive visited by the young couple. “Initially, we went there with the formula of a grocery store that operated like a restaurant, explains the 28-year-old young woman. Everything we sold was made here, our bread, sausages, fresh pasta, and our own burrata. But we were really looking forward to the dining rooms being able to reopen so we could really get started. The restaurant therefore welcomed its first customers a little over a year ago, with a fresh menu inspired by seasonal flavors – the couple get their supplies within a 1,000 km radius of Terrebonne, the fresh herbs, spinach, lettuce and other edible flowers grow in pretty containers that frame the terrace built on rue Saint-Pierre.
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It is absolutely necessary to talk in detail about their famous burrata, so good that it is also found at Pied de Cochon and at the Cabane next door. “When we started talking about the project, only one thing was 100% certain, and that was that we were going to make our own burrata,” Sébastien Dion told us. But a fresh burrata of the day, made in Quebec, that did not exist. So we approached the Fromagerie de la Table Ronde, in Sainte-Sophie, they really gave us a big hand because it’s a crazy project. Indeed, it took a few tries before arriving at the ideal pH formula that gives this incredible elasticity to the cheese inspired by the best Italian burratas.
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But that’s just one of the many reasons to go to BRUT, which welcomes its customers directly into the kitchen – a table is set up between the fridges and the cooks’ worktops! “It’s very small here, we welcome you to our house, that’s really been it from the start, says Véronique Benoit. We are warm people and we opened a small restaurant because we like to receive! »
845 Saint-Pierre Street, Terrebonne