Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Quebec City
Restaurants on this list are Quebec City rooms with an exceptional wine program or a Wine Spectator award in our guide. Citywide, our guide counts 16 exceptional wine programs and 9 Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence awards. Laurie Raphaël, Légende, Le Clan, Champlain, Échaudé, L'Orygine, and Le Hobbit hold Best of Award of Excellence on this page.
Most of the page sits in Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire, including Champlain at Fairmont Le Château Frontenac. Le Hobbit is in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Les Botanistes in Jules-Verne, Graffiti in Montcalm, Michelangelo in Saint-Louis, and Verre Pickl’ in Sainte-Foy-Sillery-Cap-Rouge. Laurie Raphaël lists 600 selections and 2,800 bottles, weighted toward Burgundy and Canadian producers. Portofino keeps a cellar of over 7,000 bottles, and Le Bedeau pours an ever-changing list by the glass.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Champlain
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Champlain holds a 2025 Michelin Plate inside the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, Québec City's most architecturally recognizable address. The kitchen works in a modern French register, backed by a 630-selection wine program with 12,000 bottles in inventory, strong across Bordeaux, California, and Canadian producers. Dinner is priced at the summit of the city's formal dining tier, with Wine Director Zsombor Mezey overseeing one of the more serious lists in the region.
Échaudé
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Rue du Sault-au-Matelot, Échaudé holds a clear position in Old Québec's French dining scene: white tablecloths, classic technique, and pricing that sits well below the city's upper-tier tasting-menu houses. It draws consistent praise for quality-to-price ratio in a neighbourhood where that balance is harder to strike than it looks.
Graffiti
Deep wine list
On Avenue Cartier, one of Quebec City's most lived-in commercial streets, Graffiti sits within a dining corridor that rewards those who look beyond the Old City's heritage circuit. The address places it in Montcalm, where neighbourhood regulars share tables with visitors drawn away from the tourist track, and the room carries the unpretentious confidence that comes from serving a local clientele over time.
L'Orygine
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A Michelin Plate recipient on Rue Saint-Pierre in Old Québec, L'Orygine pairs creative Canadian cooking from Chef Sabrina Lemay with one of the city's most considered wine programs. Sommelier William Guay oversees a cellar of 1,000 selections and 5,000 bottles, anchored in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and the Rhône, with meaningful representation from Italy, California, and Canada.
Laurie Raphaël
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Quebec City's Old Port has a small cluster of tasting-menu restaurants operating at serious ambition levels, Laurie Raphaël sits at that tier's upper end, holding a Michelin star and AAA 5 Diamond designation as of 2025. Chef Raphaël Vézina builds ten-or-so-course menus around regional terroir and rotating thematic frameworks, backed by a wine program of 600 selections and 2,800 bottles deep, weighted toward Burgundy and Canadian producers.
Le Bedeau
Deep wine list
Le Bedeau occupies a storied address on Rue Saint-Jean in Old Quebec, earning a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in 2025 for the strength of its wine program. The restaurant sits within a dense corridor of serious dining rooms in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste quarter, where the wine list is the clearest signal of a kitchen's ambitions. A reservation here positions you inside Quebec City's wine-forward dining conversation.
Le Clan
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Le Clan occupies a 17th-century stone building in Old Québec's Place d'Armes district, earning a 2025 Michelin Plate for its commitment to regional Canadian terroir. The entrance routes guests through the working kitchen, a deliberate gesture toward transparency that sets the tone for everything that follows. With a 380-label wine list and a team including Wine Director Laura-Émilie Lemaire, the program matches the ambition of the plate.
Le Hobbit
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
On Rue Saint-Jean in the heart of Old Québec, Le Hobbit has held its place in the city's French-traditional dining scene long enough to accumulate a 2025 Michelin Plate alongside. The wine program runs to 1,300 selections across 12,000 bottles, with particular depth in California, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy, and Germany. Dinner only, with cuisine pricing at the $66+ tier.
Légende
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Légende sits in Québec City's Old Port with a forest-inflected interior and a creative menu rooted in northern Canadian ingredients. Part of the La Tanière Group and awarded a Michelin star in 2025, it pairs regional produce with modern technique under Chef Elliot Beaudoin. A wine list of 2,900 references, led by Wine Director Caroline Beaulieu, anchors a room that earns its upper-tier pricing.
Les Botanistes
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Les Botanistes brings French-rooted, regionally anchored cooking to Quebec City's Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge neighbourhood, with a wine program that earned a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in 2025. The kitchen operates under chef Émeline Péro alongside a wine team led by director Félix Maréchal, with a cellar of 1,700 bottles drawn heavily from France. Two-course meals fall in the $40–$65 range, making it one of the more accessible addresses in the city's serious-dining tier.
Michelangelo
Deep wine list
Michelangelo occupies a quiet stretch of Chemin Saint-Louis in Quebec City's Sainte-Foy district, positioning it within a dining tier that rewards those who look beyond the Old City walls. The restaurant carries the Italian name into a city more accustomed to French culinary traditions, signalling a particular editorial tension worth examining for any serious diner tracing Quebec's broader restaurant scene.
Portofino
Deep wine list
On Rue Couillard in Old Quebec's Upper Town, Portofino occupies a stretch of the city where stone-walled heritage buildings and narrow cobbled lanes set an expectation of serious dining. The address places it within walking distance of the neighbourhood's most decorated tables, making it a natural reference point for visitors building an itinerary around the Old City's Italian-leaning options.
Restaurant Louis-Hébert
Deep wine list
On Grande Allée, Quebec City's most storied boulevard, Restaurant Louis-Hébert has occupied a position in the city's formal dining tier for decades. The room draws on the address's historical weight and the neighbourhood's occasion-dining traditions, making it a reference point for celebratory meals among locals and visitors who want something more considered than the street's busier brasseries.
Restaurant Ophelia
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
On the Grande Allée, Restaurant Ophelia positions itself in Quebec City's mid-to-upper dining tier with a seafood and steakhouse format backed by a wine program that earned Star Wine List recognition in late 2021. A 3,000-bottle cellar with strengths across Burgundy, Italy, California, and Canadian producers signals a kitchen-and-cellar collaboration that goes well beyond the standard steakhouse offer.
Saint-Amour
Deep wine list
Approaching forty years on Rue Sainte-Ursule, Saint-Amour is one of Quebec's most decorated gastronomic restaurants, with chef-owner Jean-Luc Boulay credited as a defining voice in boreal cuisine. The kitchen draws on northern Quebec ingredients and French technique in equal measure, placing it among the province's most serious fine-dining addresses. Reserve well in advance, particularly during the winter festival season.
Savini
Deep wine list
On Rue Sainte-Anne, steps from the Château Frontenac, Savini occupies a stretch of Old Quebec where Italian-inflected dining has long held ground against the city's dominant French culinary tradition. The restaurant draws both neighbourhood regulars and visitors navigating the Upper Town's concentrated dining corridor, making it a reliable reference point in a block that rewards knowing where to look.
Tanière³
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Tanière³ occupies the 17th-century stone vaults beneath Old Québec, where a two-Michelin-starred tasting menu moves through 12 to 18 courses built entirely from Québec terroir. The restaurant holds AAA Five Diamond status, a 2025 North America's 50 Best Art of Hospitality Award, and an 81-point La Liste ranking, placing it at the summit of the province's creative dining tier.
Verre Pickl’
Deep wine list
In a converted Sillery house, chef Alexandra Romero and Jérôme Gilpin run a single-table, table d'hôte format that merges Romero's Guadalajara roots with Gilpin's French technique. The monthly menu adapts Mexican ingredients to Québec's organic market-garden calendar, with warm service and a communal dining format that seats all guests together.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Quebec City
- Which neighborhood has the most restaurants on this list?
- Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire has 13 of the restaurants on this list, the largest neighborhood group on the page. They are Tanière³, Laurie Raphaël, Légende, Le Clan, Champlain, Échaudé, L'Orygine, Restaurant Ophelia, Saint-Amour, Le Bedeau, Savini, Restaurant Louis-Hébert, and Portofino. The other restaurants on the list are in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Jules-Verne, Sainte-Foy-Sillery-Cap-Rouge, Montcalm, and Saint-Louis.
- Which restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards?
- Laurie Raphaël, Légende, Le Clan, Champlain, Échaudé, and L'Orygine, all in Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire, hold a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, as does Le Hobbit in Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Restaurant Ophelia, in Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire, and Les Botanistes, in Jules-Verne, hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
- Which wine regions show up most often on this list?
- Burgundy, Bordeaux, California, Italy, and Canada are the regions that recur on this page. Laurie Raphaël is weighted toward Burgundy and Canadian producers. Champlain is strong across Bordeaux, California, and Canadian producers. L'Orygine is anchored in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and the Rhône, with Italy, California, and Canada also represented. Le Hobbit has depth in California, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy, and Germany. Les Botanistes draws heavily from France, and Savini keeps an Italian list.
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