Hooray for Sugar Shack season in Quebec! Ahh, yes, the copious amounts of maple syrup, the sleigh rides through the tapped trees, the animals, the music, and the fun. There’s really nothing more “Quebecois” than sugar shacks.
And there are loads of great ones in and around Montreal. We recently hit up Constantine in Saint-Eustache and the bean loved it. We started the experience off with a walk through their little petting zoo, followed by a puppet show held in the building that also had a doll museum. Then we enjoyed some music and dancing, and a horse-drawn sleigh ride, before moving into the dining room, where out party of 36 sat at long family-style tables passing around super authentic (and delicious foods): beets and homemade pickles, bread (to which the bean exclaimed, “Hey, this doesn’t have maple syrup on it!), and coleslaw, followed by cast iron skillets of eggs and ham, bowls of potatoes along with baked beans, and finally, dessert: sugar pie and ice cream, or pancakes. We smothered everything with their liquid gold.
The last part of our experience was, of course, moving into the building that had the maple syrup on snow, which we happily rolled onto our popsicle sticks.
If you haven’t brought your kids to a sugar shack, this spring is the season to do it! Catered to families, there’s no shortage of fun to be had at these authentically Quebec locales!
A full-time work-from-home mom, Jennifer Cox (our “Supermom in Training”) loves dabbling in healthy cooking, craft projects, family outings, and more, sharing with Suburban readers everything she knows about being an (almost) superhero mommy.