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Québec City - Help me find this restaurant
When I visited Québec City in the summer of 2004, some friends and I found a really excellent little restaurant in one of the carless sidestreets in the warren that is Vieux-Québec, a few blocks from Château Frontenac. The best thing about it was their lunch special, which consisted of a microwaved personal pizza, a can of Coke (literally, still in the can), a salad (which I declined) and a fantastic pastry which consisted of a little cake topped with about five inches of whipped cream, all of which was encased in a thick ganache glaze - still don't know what it was called. All of this cost $6.45 plus tax, which at the time was about $4.75 American. The restaurant was quite small - it had five or six tables inside and another couple in a smallish enclosed outdoor area at the front - most of the interior space was taken up with the counter and the pastry case.
I really thought I had remembered everything about it, but Google searches (and searches of boards like these) haven't turned up anything by the name I remember. It's a tiny little place - it probably doesn't have its own website - but I would have expected someone to mention it at some point. If it helps, it's somewhere in the vicinity of a branch of the National Bank of Canada - a detail I'm sure I remembered correctly. NBC's website says that's on the Rue St-Jean, though I think the restaurant in a smaller nearby street like Rue Garneau or Côte de la Fabrique. I remember it as "Au Palait d'Or".
Any help is greatly appreciated.
