WOW! This amazing little gem of a place is 5 star across the board. Great modern quebecois cuisine, great service, and great ambiance. This was our first night in Quebec and we wanted to try modern Quebecois cuisine. We read great thing about Cendrillon, so made reservations and off we went. We arrived and were warmly greeted and taken to our table near the open kitchen's oyster bar. The decor inside is very eclectic and charming, and they also have patio dining out front. The dishes here are smallish, as you are meant to order several and share. Bigger than tapas size and wash is a little mini entre in itself...very nice concept. They also specialize in raw oysters, which I love, buy my son and wife do not, so we skipped these. They also make homemade charcuterie, and so started with that. The charcuterie plate included five different types; Copa, white ham, pepperoni, duck breast, and a pate (forgot what type). Surrounded by assorted house made picked red onion, fennel, and pickels, and each served on top of it own house made special sauce. This was the best charcuterie plate I've ever had even compared to those I had in Europe.
For the share plates they had many great sounding items on the menu but my wife and I each wanted to try the quarter lobster tail and puff pastry and caviar cream sauce. So we got two of those are we got steak with cheesy mashed potatoes and red wine sauce for our son. Our lobster was simply out of this world...could not have been better. Our son loved his steak; and for the entire ride home could not stop talking about how much he loved his mashed potatoes and his broccolini with Cesar dressing. We also ordered their escargot with Parmesan and a piece of seared foie gras on top. Also super delicious. I should also mention that with each dish our waiter carefully described each dish, which unfortunately I am not doing them justice here, as I am sure I forgot half the ingredients, but nevertheless every dish was superb.
We later found out that our waiter was actually one of the co-owners (Jeffery, maybe. I am terrible with names) and he founded this restaurant four years ago. The name of the restaurant is Cinderella in French and they called it this because it's a bit of a rebirth of a restaurant that used to be in this location back in the 60s. Sounds like this part of town kind of ran down and now it's experiencing a rebirth.
For dessert we thought we try something different and ordered: Maple sugar tart with Maple baked bean ice cream, and a piece Maple sugar "cake" on top. The tart and the sugar cake were very tasrty, but too sweet for us. However, the ice cream was quite wonderful. (Think azuki bean ice cream, but replace the red beans and sugar with baked beans and maple syrup). We each would have liked a big scoop of it.
We also had olive oil sponge cake, with a bit of maple ice cream. This was just average, nothing special here.
All in all, I highly recommend you visit here, as you will be in for a great experience. read more