I am looking for a restaurant/bakery, etc. that sells a tourtiere (French Meat pie). My family is french-canadian and my grandma made meat pies every year and we ate them on New years day. She passed away 6 months ago, and I hae been wanting one. I thought this may be a good opportunity to get one.

I know it will not be the same, but...

You will find tourtières in any supermarket, bakery or deli. Most of the mass-produced ones are nothing special, but the Costco tourtières are very good indeed.

In Montreal, the Première Moisson bakery/deli chain would be a good place to find ones that tasted more home-made. They are located all over the city, including the Atwater and Jean Talon markets.

There is a Premiere Moisson bakery on Sherbrooke st. west, a few streets west of de la Montagne; this store has a lunch room adjacent so you could probably eat the meat pie there....

I have gotten tourtière at Pâtisserie de Gascogne (corner Laurier:ave du Parc)in Montréal that I've liked. Smaller pâtisseries like these are your best bet such as Gascogne or Première Moisson.

thanks for the info. I will check out those places.

Probably wont't me like my Gram's but...I will have to practive making one. Maybe I can get the recipe right.

Unfortunatly the recipe was in my grandmas head. I know what she put in it though. She did not have actual measurements, therefore, it was different everytime...but still good.

tina, the tourtiere my mom makes and the ones that can be bought are quite different;
the store bought ones often are filled with mashed potatoes and meat, my mom's only has meat, the seasonings are what gives a distinctive taste, in our family it has to have a bit of ground cloves in the meat.

And of course, ketchup on the side....

I do not know about cloves, but I do know sage. It did not have pototoes.

Yes, of course, ketchup on the side....

homemade ketchup...yummmm

I got an excellent tourtiere recipe from Chatelaine magazine (Chatelaine.com), which I make every Christmas. Their recipe calls for ground veal, not pork, which is traditional in some families, and it makes 2 pies, so you can freeze one. It includes mashed potatoes in the mix, which I thought was always the case, but I guess some families might make it only with meat. Growing up, my mother used La Belle Fermiere brand frozen tourtiere when she wanted a shortcut dinner; I've also tried La premiere Moisson's version, and it is excellent, as is everything they make. If you want a family-heirloom recipe, see if the people at Chatelaine can help you out. The recipe I use from them is more that 5 years old.

tourtiere home made.... ketchup is heinz......

I used to go to a French Tavern in a New England state that served a french meat pie plate. The meat pies were the ground pork type with those special seasoning amounts.

On your plate was a slice of meat pie with hot pork gravy; a mound of baked beans, and this is what you added the ketchup to; and a mound of potato salad.

Add a mug of cold beer and you had a great meal.