Bistro St-malo

The food was exceptional. The service amazing. My Mom had a seafood stew, and I the homemade boudin as our main meals and everything was perfect. Our entrée's were French oinion soup, and steak tartare. Everything was fresh, and so tasty. I will definitely be going back to this restaurant when in Quebec. This is a 9/10. Prices are extremely reasonable.

This looked like a popular dining place in Quebec City. The French onion soup was ok. The salad was loaded with pickled beets which I was not expecting. If you do not like pickled anything or beets, don’t order their salad. I was excited to try their mussels. It seemed like a popular dish. I ordered the half order of mussels with marnier broth. The mussels didn’t taste fresh and the classic broth tasted odd unlike what I was used to. I only ate about a third of the mussels. I took the rest home. I reheated the mussels the next day and discovered that many of the mussels that I took home which were at the bottom of the serving bowl were unopened (30%) and another (20%) had to be pried opened with a knife. The latter didn’t taste as good as other orders I’ve elsewhere. This is the worst mussel meal I’ve had. I tried boiling the ones that were not opened, but they remained close. I learned later from my google search that the unopened mussels were not fresh or dead and one can get sick from eating them. If they were fresh and alive, the shells will open when cooked. I have attached a picture of the mussels (30%) that were not fresh.