The best sugar shacks in and around Montréal
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When it’s sugar shack time, Montrealers know spring is around the corner. Maple lovers don’t have to go far as the city has some great urban sugar shacks where Québec tradition and modern influences are combined. Below is a list of some of our favorite ways of getting your sugar shack fix in and around Montréal.
Restaurant meals
Once again, Caribou Gourmand is offering its highly anticipated weekend maple brunch. The menu consists of cabane à sucre-inspired dishes laden with maple syrup, such as the “The Sugar Shack Plate” with a ham braised in maple for 8 hours, apple and maple sausage from the Jean Talon Market, bacon in maple syrup, baked beans, scrambled maple eggs, duck rillettes, pork rinds, toasted sourdough bread, and breakfast potatoes. Pick and choose among all the dishes available and create your perfect sugar shack brunch. Don’t forget to taste the sugar shack smoothie, maple beer or sugar shack Mimosa with maple whisky. Some vegetarian options are available. (Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from March 13th until April 26th).
Le Richmond is once again offering its highly anticipated weekend urban maple brunch, a yearly rendez-vous for savouring maple delights in the heart of the city. On March 214th, 15th, and 22nd starting at 10am, head to Le Richmond to enjoy a maple menu that starts with 4 dishes to share such as maple roasted ham and salmon rillettes. That course is followed by your choice among 3 main course options then dessert, of course. End your sugar shack experience on their terrasse with maple taffy, activities for kids that include meeting Serge the llama and for adults with mulled wine or Canadian whiskey on ice. This is a very popular event so we highly recommend you get your tickets in advance.
The Paparmane tearoom is celebrating maple season with a delectable menu filled with our favourite sweetener. Savoury bites such as the “chic” mini tourtière and the brioche filled with braised maple-glazed ham share the menu with sweet items such as their elegant verion of pouding chômeur. The Paparmane maple menu is available from March 11 to May 3. Reservations are highly recommended.
From March 14 until supplies last, Les Enfants Terribles is joining in the sugar shack fun. Their maple season menu is available Monday to Sunday, for lunch and dinner. Items such as homemade tourtière, chestnut soup with maple syrup and bacon crisp, and maple crème brûlée are on the menu, as well as a generous brunch platter with 2 poached eggs, sausage, maple-glazed ham, mini meat pie, creton, baked beans, potatoes, and fruit. Reservations are recommended. Les Enfants Terribles also has a few items available to take away, like their sugar pie, cream sugar and hay-smoked ham, so you can enjoy maple season at home.
Shop Angus restaurant Terroirs’ mission is to showcase producers and reconnect diners with Québec's terroir. Their dishes have a nostalgic feel with the aim of reconnecting diners with the flavours of their childhood. Terroirs is offering a five-course sugar shack menu for the entire month of March. On the sweet and savoury feast, you’ll find acerum, maple-scented milk cap mushrooms, and classics such as sausage in syrup, crispy pork rinds, and maple taffy. A Quebecois food and wine pairing is also available. They are open Wednesday to Saturday from 6 p.m. and reservations are strongly recommended. On March 28, Domaine Inselberg and Terroirs will be collaborating on a four-course, country-style meal featuring flavours of the maple season at the vineyard (about 45 minutes from Montréal).
Trendy Indian restaurant India Rosa is cooking up their own version of a sweet and spicy sugar shack brunch, available on Saturdays and Sundays, from March 28 to April 19, from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. The menu blends Québec traditions with Indian flavours. Sip on a signature cocktail with Jal Jeera spices and aple syrup while you enjoy items such as the sugar shack Béné with brioche bread, poached egg, pulled pork, mushroom ragout, apple compote, creamy maple Malai sauce, white beans with maple syrup. And don’t skip the maple taffy events set in partnership with Érablière Morin where you can enjoy a “tire” with Indian spices!
Old Montréal’s pub Wolf & Workman is celebrating the season by turning their terrasse into a “full-on sugar shack”. Their Cabane à sucre sur la terrasse brunch will take place on March 28 and 29, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will serve all the sugar shack classics, maple cocktails with local liquors Sortilège and Fireball, and music performances by Montréal Irish band Gráinne.
Celebrations and festivals
Cabane Panache
Cabane Panache
Promenade Wellington’s Cabane Panache, the trendiest sugar shack in town, is an anticipated annual spring celebration that’s returning from from March 19 to March 22, 2026. Several Verdun restaurants cook up a storm inspired by the traditional Québec feast while local drink establishments will be tending to all beverages. A line up of musicians and lumberjack-style activities round up what promises to be a very festive weekend.
Les Refuges du Bivouac are offering their unique interpretation of a sugar shack menu in their heated domes with an unbeatable bird’s eye view of Place Des Arts. The refined and exclusive maple menu is a blind tasting menu but will surely include local flavours. It’s available from March 11 to 15 in our bubbles, with two sittings per evening at 5.30 P.M. and 8.30 P.M. Guests can give advance notice of any dietary restrictions that the kitchen team will adapt to and vegan and vegetarian options are available upon request. Reservations are recommended.
Plaza St-Hubert is hosting Le Temps des Sucres’ sugar shack event at Bain St-Denis on Saturday March 14 from 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. Expect sugar shack activities such as maple taffy from Le Sucrier Urbain, a travelling shack event, as well as musical performances by Chasse Balcon.
The second edition of Promenade Masson’s urban sugar shack celebration is taking place on April 11, 2026 from 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. Traditional music, games, entertainment and maple taffy are on the menu for this festive neighbourhood celebration.
Sugar shacks and farm-to-table restaurants
Sucrerie de la Montagne
If a real sugar shack experience is what you’re after, be sure to check out Sucrerie de la Montagne in February, March and April. Named a Québec heritage site and situated amid a 120-acre forest of century-old maple trees atop Mont Rigaud (an hour away from downtown Montréal), this place will make you feel like you’re experiencing the authentic Québécois tradition of “sugaring off.”
Apple Sugar Shack of Labonté de la Pomme
For another authentic experience of Québec sugar shacks, visit the Apple Sugar Shack of Labonté de la Pomme. Known as the first apple shack in Québec, this family-run establishment located 45 minutes outside the city offers menus influenced by its specialty apples. In March and April, choose among several formulas, from a traditional meal with a twist to a gourmet spread in their dining room. Vegetarian menus are available.
Ste-Hélène Bistro-Terrasse
Parc Jean-Drapeau’s Ste-Hélène Bistro-Terrasse transforms into an urban sugar shack every Saturday and Sunday from March 14 to April 19. Enjoy a homemade, all-you-can-eat menu that includes all the classics such as pea soup, omelette in maple syrup, baked beans, maple ham and the all-important maple taffy. Reservations are recommended and bookings for groups of 25 or more are possible during the week.
Érablière Charbonneau
About 40 minutes south of Montréal is Érablière Charbonneau, a sprawling domain that celebrates maple in all its forms. There are hiking and snowshoe trails to explore before enjoying a very filling menu of traditional dishes, from pea soup to homemade tourtière and, of course, maple taffy on snow. From February 21 to May 1, 2026.
Domaine Lafrance
Located about 40 minutes from Montréal, Domaine Lafrance is a 100-year-old orchard and maple producer. The menu is rooted in tradition and includes many classics. Roast marshmallows, twirl maple taffy and indulge in their homemade apple donuts with a maple glaze. Reservations are recommended.
Parcelles Austin
Parcelles is one of Québec’s most celebrated farm-to-table restaurants. Located in Austin near Lake Memphremagog, the farm supplies some of Montréal’s best restaurants with unique vegetables. It also supplies its own restaurant with hyper local and seasonal produce that become part of the rotating menu. This coming April, the spotlight is on maple syrup, with “a few nods to traditional sugar shack menus”. Parcelles has created its own interpretation of the classic maple taffy by adding buttermilk to the mix. An absolute must!
Sucrerie des Gallant
Built in the middle of a bird sanctuary with wood salvaged after the devastating 1998 ice storm that swept through Québec, Sucrerie des Gallant is a welcome forest-bathed respite less than an hour from Montréal. Sleigh rides, a traditional menu, a variety of maple-laden desserts, and a refreshing walk around the 400-acre domain await visitors at this handsome sugar shack.
Cabane à Tuque
Vegans will be happy to discover Mont-Tremblant’s Cabane à Tuque, a classic sugar shack that just happens to be plant-based. From February 14 to April 27, discover Cabane à Tuque’s menu of traditional dishes adapted to a vegan diet.
Markets, food halls and shops
Montréal’s public markets are going on a great maple celebration! Les Sucres au marché starts at the Atwater Market on March 28 from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. with traditional music and dance, inflatable games for the whole family, maple taffy on snow, maple cocktails and mocktails, sugar shack menu, and artisans and maple producers.
The Maisonneuve Market takes over on March 29 from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. with maple product tastings, inflatable games for children, traditional Québécois music and dance shows and much more.
And finally, the Jean-Talon Market festivities are taking place on April 11 from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. with music, children storytelling, exhibitors displaying alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, infused syrups, traditional dishes and taffy on snow!
Maple stands abound at all Montréal’s public markets starting in early March and until late April so stock up on your yearly supply of maple syrup, which you can purchase directly from the producers.
Domaine des 15 lots is partnering up with bean-to-bar chocolate maker Avanaa to create a maple marshmallow dipped in chocolate, which should be available from mid-March. Avanaa will also be serving its maple hot chocolate throughout the month of March.
A few Montréal pastry shops also partake in maple season. Villeray’s Mlles Gâteaux’ is offering a few seasonal treats like a maple entremets with pecan crunch, pear confit and maple mousse or the banana and maple cupcakes with a maple butter filling. Première Moisson has a few maple creations like the maple pecan twist and the reinvented pouding chômeur.
The maple experience at home
Chef Martin Picard runs what is perhaps the most famous sugar shack in Québec. Even if the Au Pied de Cochon sugar shack usually sells out for the season very early on, this gourmet shack offers a gargantuan feast to celebrate the season at home. The generous box for 2 contains some of their delicious and most popular menu to enjoy with your loved ones in the comfort of your home. A lot of maple items can also be purchased separately, like the black truffle maple butter and the maple fudge.
Édouard & Léo are neighbourhood butcher shops from the team behind beloved restaurant Hoogan & Beaufort. Every season, they offer a sugar shack box to go for 4 to 6 people. In it you’ll find multi-course menu with many items to be cooked or warmed up at home. Some items can also be purchased separately.
Can’t make it to a sugar shack this year? No problem! With Ma Cabane à la maison, you can order your meal from a participating sugar shack and have it delivered to your home, your office or a nearby Metro grocery store.
Mayssam Samaha
Mayssam Samaha is a food and travel writer and blogger and the founder behind the blog Will Travel for Food. She travels the world in search of the next culinary discovery. From Iceland to South Africa, she’s already visited over 36 countries and there’s nothing she enjoys more than wandering around a farmers’ market in a foreign city. She is also the founder of the SAISONS intimate dinner series highlighting Québec products and chefs.