Through Toqué!, Normand Laprise and Christine Lamarche, the co-owners, aimed to create a restaurant based on market-fresh cuisine where the emphasis is placed on local products. To make this happen, they decided to build strong relationships with small producers and focus on traceability of ingredients at a time when those concepts were not in the forefront. Pioneer of a cuisine made with local and seasonal produce, Toqué! is now synonymous with a gastronomy rooted in Quebec and its surrounding regions which draws from the fields, the rivers, the ocean and the forest.