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A good review for Newtown

Todd Mundt — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:04:09 +0000

Marie-Claude Lortie, in La Presse this week, writes that, while the ambience of Newtown is nothing like their old digs at Laloux, Patrice Demers and Marc-André Jetté are back in the business of creating really beautiful and good tasting food.

This follows a somewhat lukewarm review from Lesley Chesterman in the Montreal Gazette – albeit just a few weeks after the restaurant had reopened.

Perhaps a few hiccups at the outset, but they now seem to be firing on all cylinders. Friends of mine confirm this from their recent visit to Newtown, and we’ll be there in a few months to see for ourself.

Laloux Update

Todd Mundt — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:23:01 +0000

More chef musical chairs:

Mari-Claude Lortie of La Presse blogs that Éric Gonzalez will be the new chef at Laloux, replacing Marc André Jetté, who has departed for Newtown with Patrice Demers, as we’ve already noted.

We’re familiar with Gonzalez from his time at Cube until late 2006 (we ate there the final night); he went to XO at the Hotel St James after that.

In the meantime, over at Newtown, Lortie reports that there’s no decision yet on changing the name of the restaurant, but it will be closed for about a week for some redecorating. It re-opens on May 26th with Jetté and Demers at the helm.