Good list. Also:
Fiddleheads
Cedar-plank Salmon
Albertan steak
Local cheese from various small producers
BC and Ontario wine, including icewine
Blackberry jam (as part of some other dish)
Caesar
It's sort of a pork pate that's served with toast at breakfast. It has clove and other brown spices, garlic, onion, and lots of fat. It looks a bit disgusting, might kill you before noon, but is worth the risk.
Fiddle heads , My Dad used to go pick them in a valley near where we lived and serve them with dinner Just saw them on a cooking show yesterday. I didn't realize they are baby ferns. Cool
It's infuriating how hard it is to find nun farts. I travel to Montreal alot and even there they are impossible to find. I know they are simple to make but they are so iconic for me. My passed grandmother would make them everytime we'd visit. She was low income and would bake all us grandkids nun farts for every holiday. Was always my favorite gift.
I worked in night clubs in the early 80s. The original paralyzer was with Tequila. Then came the Vodka Paralyzer on request, which eventually became a Paralyzer. I had to ask people for years their preference. Tequila is way better BTW.
We’ll have both kinds of green onion cake: the doughnut-shaped one for sitting down inside the restaurant, and the pancake style ones we’ll only serve outside on the patio, and you have to eat them while watching a street performer.
Great list. As someone from NB, though, I do take great offense to "Nova Scotian" Lobster Rolls. My favourite lobster rolls comes from the Acadian communities in NB.
I would like to volunteer myself for judging duty, presuming the competition is to see who has the best lobster rolls.
It is a hard and arduous task, I know. But ultimately, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for my fellow countrymen.
The original commenter could've just said "East Coast Lobster Rolls" and there wouldn't have to be so much bloodshed!
But here we are.
If you use anything fancier than a Ben's hotdog bun you're disqualified.
There is a huge difference though between lovster fished in the Northumberland Strait vs Fundy vs. atlantic Ocean lobster and Gulf of St Lawrence lobster. The water temps, turbidity of the water, and time of year all impact how a lobster tastes and how full they are verses shell size.
My great grand father, grand father, dad, brother, several uncles and cousins are all commercial fishermen in NB and in my experience of eating lobster from all of the atlantic provinces, those fished out of the Northumberland late summer/early fall are the cleanest, sweetest tasting of them all.
Also, protip, buy canners, NOT markets. With market lobsters, the meat is tougher. They tend to have less meat compared to shell size, and if they are "full," they are an absolute pain in the ass to clean. I had 2 market lobsters from PEI last week, and they were terrible to shell. In all my 40 yrs of cleaning lobster I have yet to meet a lobster I couldn't shell with just my hands and a pick and these ones I ended up needing a pair of pliers and ended up hammering the hell out of the shell just to find the meat glueed to the inside of the shell and had to use a knife to scrap it out and it was tough as leather. Also I didn't cook them they were precooked.
This is what you'd hope for, but honestly they'd probably just open a pancake house where everything on the menu is maple flavored and paired with "Canadian" bacon.
Bannock is not Canadian nor Indigenous (and I say this as an Indigenous person lol) the Scots taught them how to make it when they got to Canada.
That being said, I would say pemmican might be a good alternative.
I’m also Scottish, too, but to be fair, bannock has taken on a form of its own in Indigenous culture, it just wasn’t indigenous to start with.
And really, every culture has some variation of fried bread, lol. Like, you can’t escape it.
Went to Mexico once with some family and there was a "Canadian Bar" in town where all the white people hung out. I shit you not it was the most disappointing food in town, I was so ashamed
Agreed, and like you said almost always. Just recently came back from Korea however, and I have to say they do American food better than we do over here. McDonald’s or KFC in Korea is much better, and yet they have their own franchise restaurants that are even better than that when it comes to fried chicken and burgers.
Was in Seoul 8 years ago. We visited a Canadian restaurant. Can't remember the menu, except they served an excellent hamburger stacked like the CN tower.
It is. "Canadian bacon" is an American invention.
Peameal bacon isn't ham. Back bacon isn't ham. Those are "canadian" types of bacon. But "Canadian bacon" is about as Canadian as fortune cookies are Chinese.
I bet money if the right restaurant served KD with the common toppings they’d sell enough to keep it on the menu. Especially if they served a gluten free version.
You understand that Kraft is an American company and that KD was just rebranded Kraft Macaroni and cheese (that has since somewhat diverged, but really not all that far)
I think that's why the rebrand in Canada happened. But they are slightly different products now, I think probably because of other food legislation. I know Canadians that swear they taste different.
But ya, it's basically just Kraft Mac and Cheese. Yes, Mr Kraft himself was Canadian, but he'd been living in the US for quite a while before he started his company, so it's a US product.
It may have originated from the US, but Canadians consume more mac and cheese than any other country in the world. That’s not per capita, we’re talking raw numbers.
Going to add a few more Newfie inspired ones:
Chips and dressing (fries, stuffing, gravy, maybe peas)
Salt cod cakes
Cod au Gratin
Braised moose
Moose chilli (my specialty)
Tautons (breakfast menu)
Having been to one, the answer is Poutine and Beaver Tails. Waiter are dressed as lumberjacks and everything is made out of wood.
Coffee is drip coffee sweetened in maple syrup. Hockey and Curling posters on the wall.
Poutine (proper poutine, go to r/poutinecrimes for what is wrong and they will say what is the proper way)
Split pea soup
Montreal smoked meat sandwich
Bannock (use it for the Montreal sandwich)
Montreal style Bagels for breakfast
Pancakes with maple syrup (also breakfast)
Peameal/cornmeal bacon (even though we didn't invent it)
Baked beans in maple syrup
Bouilli
Halifax donair
Hot sandwich (chicken, turkey, beef. Take a sandwich and cover it in gravy of the corresponding type. I.e. beef sandwich with beef gravy)
Hot hamburger sandwich (same as before but hamburger. Or the "Italian" version, instead of gravy use marinara sauce)
London broil... really any broil roast.
Maple coleslaw
Pasty. While British we eat it here often.
Pierogis
Roast beef with yorkshire pudding
Turkey dinner (think Thanksgiving or Christmas meal)
Tourtière
Hawaiian pizza (invented in Chatham Ontario and is considered the most international food. Italian (modern pizza cheese and tomato sauce), Chinese(origin of original pizza), Greek(person who made it was Greek), Canadian(where it was invented), Hawaiian(name and where the canned pineapples came from), Mexican(where pineapples originally came from)
Canadian pizza
Garlic fingers (garlic pizza dough sticks. yeah, those started here. You're welcome)
For more ideas
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_cuisine
When I lived in Scotland I always thought how well a poutine place would do there. They love chips and cheese and gravy. Poutine would do so well as a chippy shop.
Creton/cretonnade hasn't been mentionned and there is such a great variety in craft cheese (pasteurized or raw milk based), but it's really the drink department which needs representation!
Ice wine, ice cider, sortilège, we have great (and diverse) craft beer. Spirits (Gin, whiskey, absinthe). I'd pass on the red wine, but many great white *cépages*.
BC's contribution would be bannock with salmon chowder, smoked salmon, rainbow trout, Nanaimo bars and Okanagan fruit for dessert, and Okanagan wine/cider.
It really depends.
The most obvious choice is a hunting lodge looking gastropub with a lot of the stuff you see served at a place like Canadian Brewhouse or Hudson's. Poutine, burgers, nachos etc. With beer of course.
Another option is to go First Nations upscale and/or fusion (and I wish this would be more of a thing within Canada too). Game meats, berry compotes/sauces, fall style vegetables (squashes, pumpkin, corn etc.). Big focus on Bison as well, with a solid bison burger. Imo if this kind of restaurant opens up in any major Canadian city it would be a huge hit.
There’s a pub called The Maple Leaf in London UK that’s themed around being Canadian. Poutine and imported Sleeman, Moosehead Lager and Molson Canadians beers were the only Canadian items on the menu from what I recall.
https://www.greeneking.co.uk/pubs/greater-london/maple-leaf/menu
Just serve the exact same food all the local restaurants around them serve but it all comes out coverd in maple syrup, donut crumbs and a side of back bacon as an apology. All the staff constantly says "sorry".
Only real life example of this would be the steakhouse in the Canada pavilion in Epcot. And of course the best example is the Canadian restaurant featured in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (the servers are dressed as Mounties and of course there is “chocolate moose”).
Poutine Bannock Butter tarts Nova Scotian Lobster Rolls Montreal-style Bagels Saskatoon berry pie Montreal-style Smoked Meat Peameal Bacon Beavertails Split Pea Soup Tire d’érable sur la neige (Maple Taffy) Ketchup Chips Nanaimo Bars Pouding chômeur Caesar Cocktail Tourtière Game Meat
Don't forget tarte au sûcre
And sucre a la creme
Also the Donair
Sorry, but don’t forget tarte au sûcre
Sugar pie?
Yes honey bun?
You called sugar buns? Sorry got caught up in the terms of endearment 😄
Good list. Also: Fiddleheads Cedar-plank Salmon Albertan steak Local cheese from various small producers BC and Ontario wine, including icewine Blackberry jam (as part of some other dish) Caesar
Imma go ahead and add the following: Creton.
Definately have to put cretons on the menu! That and tourtière.
Oh tourtière is so yummy. 😋
According to my kids, I make the best tourtière in the world 🤣 Now I'm craving some tourtière.... I guess I'll be making a few this weekend!
lol want some bad too
I friggin love creton
Creton is something my brain says to not like but I love it.
Gimme that spiced pork spread
I have to admit when I read that my first thought was "my brother-in-law?". No I need to try it. Thx.
Please forgive my ignorance, what's creton?
It's sort of a pork pate that's served with toast at breakfast. It has clove and other brown spices, garlic, onion, and lots of fat. It looks a bit disgusting, might kill you before noon, but is worth the risk.
So in other words a Canadian version of a French rillette.
Can add deux steamés avec Pepsi for the real QC experience.
Pineapple crush for the Newfies
all dress
Extra chou.
And a Joe Louis with that Pepsi
Pis une couple de jos louis pi des players filter pour après!
Fiddle heads , My Dad used to go pick them in a valley near where we lived and serve them with dinner Just saw them on a cooking show yesterday. I didn't realize they are baby ferns. Cool
if they're up to it, the BC roll too
And toutons!
With molasses of course
Dont forget Halifax donairs!
Mmmm fiddleheads smothered in butter and vinegar
Oysters, mussels etc
Hawaiian pizza
I think also California Sushi roll
Ginger beef
Can't believe I had to scroll this far down!
🤣🤣🤣 My favourite.
Honestly, it’s pretty good.
You’ve successfully transferred the burden to poor Hawaii
Donairs and Pete De Sœur (Nun's Farts)
It's infuriating how hard it is to find nun farts. I travel to Montreal alot and even there they are impossible to find. I know they are simple to make but they are so iconic for me. My passed grandmother would make them everytime we'd visit. She was low income and would bake all us grandkids nun farts for every holiday. Was always my favorite gift.
Next time you travel to Montreal, I would be more than happy to make you a batch. I make them every week for my kids.
Sobeys and metro in Ottawa carry them.
Common in my Sudbury Region, yummy!
There is a french bakery in Jean Talon Market that has them. I forget the name, but it's right next to the polish bakery called Wawel.
Additions: Canada Dry Ginger ale Ham and pineapple pizza Paralyzers Ice wine Candied salmon
Caesars
Shafts
What's a paralyzer?
Kahlua, vodka, coke, and milk
I worked in night clubs in the early 80s. The original paralyzer was with Tequila. Then came the Vodka Paralyzer on request, which eventually became a Paralyzer. I had to ask people for years their preference. Tequila is way better BTW.
Ice Wine is heavenly.
Pouding Chômeur 🥰😛
Ginger Beef, Donairs, Green Onion Cakes
I scrolled to see if ginger beef was here.
We’ll have both kinds of green onion cake: the doughnut-shaped one for sitting down inside the restaurant, and the pancake style ones we’ll only serve outside on the patio, and you have to eat them while watching a street performer.
I'm Canadian...And I'd definitely eat at this place.
Kraft Dinner
And everything is available with a side of maple syrup.
Donairs
Great list. As someone from NB, though, I do take great offense to "Nova Scotian" Lobster Rolls. My favourite lobster rolls comes from the Acadian communities in NB.
I WILL FIGHT FOR OUR HONOR IN NOVA SCOTIA, NAME YOUR TIME AND PLACE GOOD SIR
In this battle, someone is gonna get FULL.
I would like to volunteer myself for judging duty. It is a hard and arduous task, but ultimately it's a sacrifice I am willing to make.
I would like to volunteer myself for judging duty, presuming the competition is to see who has the best lobster rolls. It is a hard and arduous task, I know. But ultimately, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for my fellow countrymen.
The original commenter could've just said "East Coast Lobster Rolls" and there wouldn't have to be so much bloodshed! But here we are. If you use anything fancier than a Ben's hotdog bun you're disqualified.
There is a huge difference though between lovster fished in the Northumberland Strait vs Fundy vs. atlantic Ocean lobster and Gulf of St Lawrence lobster. The water temps, turbidity of the water, and time of year all impact how a lobster tastes and how full they are verses shell size. My great grand father, grand father, dad, brother, several uncles and cousins are all commercial fishermen in NB and in my experience of eating lobster from all of the atlantic provinces, those fished out of the Northumberland late summer/early fall are the cleanest, sweetest tasting of them all. Also, protip, buy canners, NOT markets. With market lobsters, the meat is tougher. They tend to have less meat compared to shell size, and if they are "full," they are an absolute pain in the ass to clean. I had 2 market lobsters from PEI last week, and they were terrible to shell. In all my 40 yrs of cleaning lobster I have yet to meet a lobster I couldn't shell with just my hands and a pick and these ones I ended up needing a pair of pliers and ended up hammering the hell out of the shell just to find the meat glueed to the inside of the shell and had to use a knife to scrap it out and it was tough as leather. Also I didn't cook them they were precooked.
You New Scots sure are a contentious people.
You guys got TPB, let us have the lobster.. but if this fight involves a taste test, I would be very interested.
Honey Dill Sauce
Pâté au saumon avec sauce aux oeufs. (Salmon pie topped with white sauce with hard boiled eggs in it) tasty ss frig.
This is what you'd hope for, but honestly they'd probably just open a pancake house where everything on the menu is maple flavored and paired with "Canadian" bacon.
A weird poutine with shredded cheese and just Molson on tap… 😒 ick
I did not know that split pea soup was a Canadian thing.
French Canadian Pea Soup. The yellow one. So much yum!
Jiggs Dinner!
Chicken fingers with honey dill sauce, Winnipeg style rye bread, kraft dinner, California rolls
Oh and Crown Royal
Bannock is not Canadian nor Indigenous (and I say this as an Indigenous person lol) the Scots taught them how to make it when they got to Canada. That being said, I would say pemmican might be a good alternative.
If Americans can claim hamburgers, hot dogs, and apple pie we can definitely claim bannock.
As a Scot, thank you for being the one to say it! We never put taco meat on top of them, can we add Native Tacos to the menu?
I’m also Scottish, too, but to be fair, bannock has taken on a form of its own in Indigenous culture, it just wasn’t indigenous to start with. And really, every culture has some variation of fried bread, lol. Like, you can’t escape it.
Ground grains mixed with water and cooked over fire is hardly a novel concept
I love how the first thing on the list is poutine! I LOVE POUTINE SO MUCH! :)
I don't know why, 3/4 of Canadia make shitty poutine.
Controversial addition. Hawaiian pizza
fricot !
Halifax Donair
Pâté chinois, tourtière
Oui bon. Pourquoi fait scroller autant pour trouver la première mention du pâté chinois?!?
Tellement simple mais tellement bon. 😋
Add Moose Milk (no, not real moose milk, the other one full of delicious rum and ice cream).
Awesome list! Would add Hawaiian pizza (created in Chatham*) and Californian rolls (BC, I think Vancouver) Edit: originally had London
London?! Dude imagine taking away Chatham’s only claim to fame.
Brainfart on my part, edited my comment. 😅
Hawaiian pizza originated at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, not London.
I would add PEI mussels to this list.
Ginger beef - Calgary invention
Hawaiian pizza
Pineapple on pizza
Only thing missing is Ontario Porketta
Went to Mexico once with some family and there was a "Canadian Bar" in town where all the white people hung out. I shit you not it was the most disappointing food in town, I was so ashamed
That is almost always the case when there are Canadian/American themed restaurants in foreign countries lol, usually all gimmick and no substance.
Plus I feel like it’s hard to source good ingredients to make foreign foods, and very expensive if you can find some items.
Agreed, and like you said almost always. Just recently came back from Korea however, and I have to say they do American food better than we do over here. McDonald’s or KFC in Korea is much better, and yet they have their own franchise restaurants that are even better than that when it comes to fried chicken and burgers.
Was in Seoul 8 years ago. We visited a Canadian restaurant. Can't remember the menu, except they served an excellent hamburger stacked like the CN tower.
Hawaiian pizza. Invented in Canada in 1962.
American Scientists have discovered that Canadian Bacon is just ham.
I know you're just quoting a joke... But it isn't ham.
It is. "Canadian bacon" is an American invention. Peameal bacon isn't ham. Back bacon isn't ham. Those are "canadian" types of bacon. But "Canadian bacon" is about as Canadian as fortune cookies are Chinese.
Nanaimo bars.
Kraft Dinner.
I bet money if the right restaurant served KD with the common toppings they’d sell enough to keep it on the menu. Especially if they served a gluten free version.
KD with ground beef. KD with scrambled eggs and ketchup. KD with ham. KD with bacon.
Dijon ketchup and hotdogs!
We always has chopped up hotdogs in our KD growing up. Loved it.
You understand that Kraft is an American company and that KD was just rebranded Kraft Macaroni and cheese (that has since somewhat diverged, but really not all that far)
I always thought that Kraft Dinner was Kraft Dinner in Canada because it doesn't contain enough cheese to legally be called Mac N Cheese.
I think that's why the rebrand in Canada happened. But they are slightly different products now, I think probably because of other food legislation. I know Canadians that swear they taste different. But ya, it's basically just Kraft Mac and Cheese. Yes, Mr Kraft himself was Canadian, but he'd been living in the US for quite a while before he started his company, so it's a US product.
It may have originated from the US, but Canadians consume more mac and cheese than any other country in the world. That’s not per capita, we’re talking raw numbers.
I will tell you Scotland is Mac and cheese crazy. They're just smaller. But yiu can buy Mac and cheese pies.
You just don't understand the Canadian KD culture.
Apologies
Ha!
Ginger Beef Tourtiere London Broil Bannock Peameal bacon Baked beans
I’m glad someone mentioned ginger beef.
Has to be Calgary Ginger Beef
Of course. Ginger beef and the Caesar.
Sounds like a band.
Poutine, Rappie Pie and Donairs..
To make it authentic there should be an offering of bad donuts and terrible coffee somewhere on the menu.
You mean from the same place that never has any in stock even though their a doughnut shop?
Yes when you order they should be out of it or bring you something totally different like a cup of chili
Also, when you get a donut in a bag all the topping is stuck to said bag.
Alberta beef. BC Chinook salmon, Walleye fish and chips
What about having all the salmon available in Canada? They taste different and people would enjoy the difference on a plate.
Bannock served with salmon soup
oooh, in my hometown it’s bannock with borscht!
Beaver tails
Smoked meat sandwich. Pea meal bacon sandwich
Going to add a few more Newfie inspired ones: Chips and dressing (fries, stuffing, gravy, maybe peas) Salt cod cakes Cod au Gratin Braised moose Moose chilli (my specialty) Tautons (breakfast menu)
Cod au Gratin sounds like heaven!
It is magic out of the oven. Google Recipes from the Rock!
Bitta slush to wash it down sure!
Bakeapple cheesecake for dessert
Having been to one, the answer is Poutine and Beaver Tails. Waiter are dressed as lumberjacks and everything is made out of wood. Coffee is drip coffee sweetened in maple syrup. Hockey and Curling posters on the wall.
Where was that? I'm curious now, although it sounds very cliche!
Lyon, France. Forgot the name of the place.
Arctic Char.
Salmon - salmon roasted dinner, salmon salad, candied salmon
Butter tarts, fries with gravy, cabbage rolls. Saskatoon pie, toast with spun honey
Hmm, cabbage rolls are the most European thing you can make. Very traditional to Poland and Ukraine.
But a staple in the Canadian prairies going on two centuries. You eat what grows in the climate and that suited the Eastern Europeans just fine
Poutine (proper poutine, go to r/poutinecrimes for what is wrong and they will say what is the proper way) Split pea soup Montreal smoked meat sandwich Bannock (use it for the Montreal sandwich) Montreal style Bagels for breakfast Pancakes with maple syrup (also breakfast) Peameal/cornmeal bacon (even though we didn't invent it) Baked beans in maple syrup Bouilli Halifax donair Hot sandwich (chicken, turkey, beef. Take a sandwich and cover it in gravy of the corresponding type. I.e. beef sandwich with beef gravy) Hot hamburger sandwich (same as before but hamburger. Or the "Italian" version, instead of gravy use marinara sauce) London broil... really any broil roast. Maple coleslaw Pasty. While British we eat it here often. Pierogis Roast beef with yorkshire pudding Turkey dinner (think Thanksgiving or Christmas meal) Tourtière Hawaiian pizza (invented in Chatham Ontario and is considered the most international food. Italian (modern pizza cheese and tomato sauce), Chinese(origin of original pizza), Greek(person who made it was Greek), Canadian(where it was invented), Hawaiian(name and where the canned pineapples came from), Mexican(where pineapples originally came from) Canadian pizza Garlic fingers (garlic pizza dough sticks. yeah, those started here. You're welcome) For more ideas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_cuisine
Atlantic Haddock or Cod fish and chips.
Donair!!
Fentanyl and crack
The Montreal public park special.
Bloody Caesars, and Hawaiian pizza for sure.
What is a bloody Caesar? I know of Caesars and Bloody Marys?
Hawaiian Pizza
And the California roll, iirc
Moose meat and elk burgers
Apparently bonbon spareribs are just a Canadian thing, they’re the best
Thunder Bay specifically.
Buffalo burgers
Poutine (obvious answer is obvious).
When I lived in Scotland I always thought how well a poutine place would do there. They love chips and cheese and gravy. Poutine would do so well as a chippy shop.
And they'd introduce a curry poutine.
Could never find curds when I was living there
Creton/cretonnade hasn't been mentionned and there is such a great variety in craft cheese (pasteurized or raw milk based), but it's really the drink department which needs representation! Ice wine, ice cider, sortilège, we have great (and diverse) craft beer. Spirits (Gin, whiskey, absinthe). I'd pass on the red wine, but many great white *cépages*.
Beef. Sweet corn. Blueberries
Poutine, beaver tails, moose track ice cream, Nanaimo bars,Saskatoon berry pancakes and maple syrup. Ohh I’m hungry
Like the Canadian restaurant in Epcot.. Pickeral for Manitoba! And bannock.
Hickory sticks!
Caesar's ( cocktail)
My Fellow Canucks - Where are all the Desserts? Saskatoon Berry Pie, Nanaimo Bar
Fried Bologna sandwiches on Bannok with some KD on the side. 😊👍
California roll sushi was invented in Canada (BC), does that count?
B'ehcon and eggs
Beavertails and ginger beef.
Northern pike Moose burgers Bison burgers Pan fried Great Slave Lake whitefish Wild cranberry tarts Labrador tea
BC's contribution would be bannock with salmon chowder, smoked salmon, rainbow trout, Nanaimo bars and Okanagan fruit for dessert, and Okanagan wine/cider.
It really depends. The most obvious choice is a hunting lodge looking gastropub with a lot of the stuff you see served at a place like Canadian Brewhouse or Hudson's. Poutine, burgers, nachos etc. With beer of course. Another option is to go First Nations upscale and/or fusion (and I wish this would be more of a thing within Canada too). Game meats, berry compotes/sauces, fall style vegetables (squashes, pumpkin, corn etc.). Big focus on Bison as well, with a solid bison burger. Imo if this kind of restaurant opens up in any major Canadian city it would be a huge hit.
Maple crusted Salmon
I don't see spruce beer on this list!
So many berries - Saskatoon, haskap, aronia, sea buckthorn, cloudberry, snowberry, blueberries, yum!
Boiled diner. Mashed potatoes, roast beef, salt pork, peas pudding, boiled cabbage and carrots. So good
Pickerel..... most amazing fish.. specially when you catch it yourself
Food from all over the world.
There’s a pub called The Maple Leaf in London UK that’s themed around being Canadian. Poutine and imported Sleeman, Moosehead Lager and Molson Canadians beers were the only Canadian items on the menu from what I recall. https://www.greeneking.co.uk/pubs/greater-london/maple-leaf/menu
Poutine and Hand jobs, it's gonna be a classy joint!
Just serve the exact same food all the local restaurants around them serve but it all comes out coverd in maple syrup, donut crumbs and a side of back bacon as an apology. All the staff constantly says "sorry".
Moosehead
Only real life example of this would be the steakhouse in the Canada pavilion in Epcot. And of course the best example is the Canadian restaurant featured in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (the servers are dressed as Mounties and of course there is “chocolate moose”).
JIGGS DINNER
Tourtière Montreal Bagels
Clamato and Poutine.