Restaurant L’Académie Gatineau

Overall a good experience. Their garden salad wasn’t that great but still edible. I had Lamb which was perfectly cooked and tender. What made the experience memorable is that you can bring your own drink( bottle / beers). I recommend this spot.

Appetizer was ok. The bread from the bread basket was a bit dry.. the tartare was ok needed a bit more salt. Cesar salad was good and fries were not bad!

Service was super friendly and the place was clean. The service a bit slow tho

The ambience was nice and the greeting at the door. But after that it went down hill. It took a long time before we were greeted by our waitres and when we ordered it took forever to get our meals plus we had to hunt for the waitress just to get water. When we fiinally got our meal my wifes pasta was overcooked and the waitress didn’t even ask her if she wood like cheese or peppers. My salad the beets were so over cooked that they had absolutely no flavour. I left my salad and the waitress never even asked if there was anything wrong with my food. When we had to leave we had to go look for the waitress and asked twice for the bill. So after all this I paid my bill and gave no tip. What really took the cake was my waitress came bacl before I could even stand up and verbally assaulted me that I gave no tip. I told her the food was no good and neither was the service but she tried to shame me into giving her a tip. Instead of trying to resolve it properly.

Not sure if sauces are supposed to be this thick. But every dish we ordered had thick heavy sauce; mussels, pasta, and poutine. Tastes fine. But sauce is pretty gross because of how thick it was. Sauce for the poutine made the fries soggy and thick pretty much unedible half way through. Kids chicken fingers and fries were actually amazing… chicken and fries were good and portions were huge. Lacking vegetables. Service mediocre.

We had a late lunch here today and really enjoyed it, everything was great. The food was delicious and the portions were big. My husband is a picky eater and he loved the veal. There was no wait, the service was fast and everyone was extremely polite. We sat outside and there was soft relaxing music. The prices were fair, about $30 per person for a nice quality meal. Great place, we will definitely return.