Some of The Best Regional Food in Canada is Hiding in This National Park [Video]

My first visit to Le Bic, the wild and beautiful region surrounding Quebec’s Parc National du Bic, was in 2018, and it remains the farthest I have traveled simply to have dinner. My husband and I drove more than five hours from Montreal to eat at Chez Saint-Pierre, the restaurant belonging to the renowned chef Colombe St-Pierre, in the town of Rimouski. The clapboard house was unexceptional from the outside, unlike St-Pierre herself, whose fun outfit — shorts over pantyhose, plus a 1970s-style headband the night I visited — and outspoken volubility filled the room with warmth and charisma. St-Pierre, now 46, is the daughter of a local lighthouse keeper and grew up on Île Bicquette, a tiny island in the St. Lawrence River. She is charming, generous, and passionate about her region. And her food is fantastic. Sitting in her restaurant, its walls lined with corks — “they make excellent insulation” — we …