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This hip micro-brewery pub serves up creamy house-brewed beer as well as many other quality drinks.

A quirky café jammed with locals enjoying good-value healthy soups, sandwiches and salads. Try the three-cheese quiche.

The bar attached to the popular Keg Steak House attracts a coterie of regulars spanning a wide range of occupations, nationalities and storytelling talents.

With a breathtaking view of the St Lawrence River, this hotel café is continually popular (see Fairmont le Manoir Richelieu, La Malbaie).

If you wish to venture into the heart of Québec City’s artistic community, there is no better place than a seat at this convivial café. Light meals and strong coffee. B&B accommodations too.

Stéphane Tamar Kordahi opened Café Rico as a politically conscious place serving fair-trade coffee. It has succeeded in creating a relaxed, musical ambiance with the constant aroma of roasting beans.

A breathtaking 90-minute drive northeast of Québec City along the north shore of the St Lawrence River and through the rugged Charlevoix region brings you to the majestic Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu Hotel. Here US presidents, movie moguls and tourists of every background have come to relax in historic splendor. Expanded in 1994 to include a casino, the facility now offers 780 slot machines and 21 table games.

The most stunning casino in Canada, given its location on the Ile Notre-Dame and overlooking the Vieux-Port and the glittering towers of downtown. The casino offers a full house of attractions including four superb dining facilities and nightly variety shows. Over 18s only.

Competing with Le Dag across the street is another wild, three-tiered entertainment tower. Chez Charlotte’s lounge is on the top floor, with the dance club Chez Maurice and smoking club Société Cigares below.

A pulsating complex of nightlife temptations awaits the nocturnal patrons of this popular and newly renovated Québec City club. Housing five dynamic areas, the main attraction is the massive (and very loud) dance floor, filled with chic and beautiful 20- to 35-year-olds who have been carefully hand-picked by the doormen from a constant line-up outside. The top-floor lounge, Chez Charlotte, has a spectacular terrace that can seat 500, or try the Voodoo Grill for gourmet munchies. Cover charge. Over 18s only (see Chez Maurice Complex).