Eating at Au Pied de Cochon

[Impacity]

He's never gonna get blood to his feet again.

[EarlySeed]

Kudos to Tony on this one, I couldn't of eaten half of that

[freedomtodowhatuwant]

I ate in this restaurant yesterday!! Fantastic, sublime, one of the best places i have ever been and i ve visited a few restaurants, travelled in 40 countries and lived in 3,one of the tastiest food ever,even the poutine that i usually dont like was incredibly sublime, with foie gras, a real delicacy.and the pigs head? a real feast to be shared witht least two people.everything is so tasty. and being Italian it is something to say that the poutine au foie gras now i put it at the par with pasta!

[SirGourmand]

Martin SVP tue moi!!

[ashburnhouse]

This place rules. I just ate there!!!

[Etpwnhome]

I am going to eat here within the next few years. No question.

[Xentradi97]

Epik Food Koma...

[BicPentameter]

In Paris there's an Au Pied De Cochon at 6 Rue Des Coquillers. The still serve raw steak tartar with a raw egg yolk on top. Illegal in the US.

[freedomtodowhatuwant]

@BicPentameter yes in the U.S. everything is prohibited, you cannot even fart in public, i guess.....

[mixmaster66666]

Any And ALl You Peta Douchebags Can Suck My Foie Gras Loving Cock GET FUCKED SHITHEADS !!!!!!

[powerpro21]

@mixmaster66666

possibly the best comment I ever read on Youtube. I agree. Ate here not long ago. Foie Gras everything. Sorry PETA, you lose on this one.

[gillettecrackers]

@powerpro21 Out of all their ridiculous arguments, PETA has a point with foie gras. They really just force-feed the duck to increase the size of the liver, amounting to torture. At least with most other meats, we just kill things quickly and the rest of their lives are okay.

[misscarmengunn]

ohmygod how much is he eating?!

[bloodorange2]

That is now my favorite restaurant..

[Lusobrasileiro23]

Why not to eat in different moments, as we say in Brazil, you can only die once!!! :-)

[Lusobrasileiro23]

There are people starving in Somalia and in other parts of the world!!! My goodness, what a waste!!! Yeah, as you said it's a real sin :-(

[afterapplepicking]

@Lusobrasileiro23 The food doesn't get wasted, you fucking idiot. The camera crew has to get fed. I'm sure the kitchen staff and the wait staff at the restaurant are eating their share. Dozens of people are gonna eat the food that Tony left over.

It's called TV. They show you a window of constructed reality, pre-approved for audiences. It's not real.

[biomecaNICK]

tellement de gaspillage !!! ahhh jaurrais aimé etre la

[Caramelle22]

the two pig head is around 75$.. that's quite expensive! looks good but I rather have sushi for 75$ Just seing him eating bits and bobs from this make me feel a bit sicky.. mostly coz foie gras is soo good but.. very fatty.

[smokenfly514]

You know you're an amazing chef when you can make liver taste good

[amazingdany]

I don't think any of those PETA douches will be eating at PDC.

[cuallito]

There does seem to be a lot of latex involved with ducking these days

[Odelle5]

I'm really looking forward to eating here next week before the Kinetik Festival!

[mandaladouble]

I went to Pied in May 2009 and the food was excellent. The atmosphere was even better. I recommend it to anyone visiting Montreal.

[artistsandbox]

martin picard is one fucker that knows what he's doing

[mikel1982]

Epic Meal Time and Martin Picard need to make something together lol. The amateurs with the legend!

[dtoddlerchung]

@mikel1982 The are in the same city after all

[MrUndersolo]

Welcome to Montreal! Glad I can check this place out!

[overstim]

Even better than he makes it look. Try the Steak Tartare served sushi roll style!

[overstim]

Even better than he makes it look. Try the Steak Tartare served sushi roll style!

[Zen0Ph0bus]

my kind of food...  going on my FOOD PORN playlist :D

[mogwai142]

@Zen0Ph0bus ... are you Randy Marsh?

[blacknoise]

PDC is super-delicious. I went last week, and I'll be going back.

[smokey9877]

I was there with my girlfriend.. I had the Guinea Hen for two (Tony's Course 12) and the Fish & Chips and literally felt like I was going to die by overstuffing. Martin's food is absolutely delicious, but also the most filling I've ever had. Love it! YOU must go there and try it!!

[krabby4000]

i would love to die eating all that

[MYacono]

I ate there Aug '07 and it was of THE best meals of my life (deer tongue, frisee salad, foie gras and boudin noir tort, my wife the bison steak with mashed potatoes). Mr. Picard posed for a picture with me and my wife and was super nice and cool. Not mentioned or shown is the wine selection which reads like porn. I am going back next week and Mr Picard was my prime motivation

[afterapplepicking]

The foie issue is manufactured for two types of do-gooders who have a blank protest sign and a magic marker and no job: The stupid ones, who actually buy into the ridiculous notion that forcefeeding a duck hurts the duck, and the pretentious ones, who oppose eating any animals. Because hey, it's mean to kill things, and the pretentious are well-fed themselves, so screw people who rely on meat for their subsistence.

Religious vegetarianism is the only valid kind, and they don't protest foie.

[eva20120]

foie gras~foie gras~foie gras~

[coolkidz145]

that's going to be one hell of a crap.

[MrAtaguas]

@coolkidz145 Yup hes gonna shit foie gras

[shamane999]

This guy will die from... Pleasure!!!

[paulyinparis]

i love vegan liver!

[KrahulikIsGod]

@paulyinparis they make vegan liver? i bet that was pretty difficult to get right!

[theoriginal72]

I had it, it tastes nothing like foie gras.

[oceanoxchubi]

hes lucky ! I would die at his place

[NightmareKingz]

I had a seared foie gras hamburger with a side of flavorful duck carpaccio topped with a raw pepper flaked egg yolk. It was delectable, and I got to talk to Chef Martin Picard and philosophize about everything from life to food to women. A truly remarkable dining experience.

[NightmareKingz]

@NightmareKingz STFU FAGGOT

[mztweety1374]

I can tell he a great chef b/c he looks like hell warmed over child.

[LungTaLuver]

this guy can eat.

[hoyle1911]

Tony and Martin have inspired me to cook my own foie gras recipes at home. Great stuff! Vegans aren't welcome as far as I'm concerned.

[mztweety1374]

@hoyle1911 i no thats right...

[KellicJTiger]

While I love meat and frankly would sooner eat my arm off then go without. Force feeding? Ahhh....seems a little on the iffy side. Yes we are at the top of the food chain. However there are very few species on this planet that torture or prepare their food before they eat it. Unlike other animals we have the ability to think and choose what we do when we eat. I'm still eating meat though and that is MY choice.

[beef4u2use]

all the vegans, vegetarians and advocates for any form of produce should get a grip on reality. We are at the top of the food chain and as such, anything goes. Don't feel guilty about it, just accept it. If you wnat to spend all your days eating twigs, berries and soy bean snot, that is your perogative. But please leave me to enjoy my culinary pleasures without your commentary.

Foie gras tastes great....period.

[SethHesio]

A very simplistic argument. I would say that as a meat eating culture we should all be more aware of the process we're a part of. Pork, chicken, duck, lamb, beef, venison, yes let's eat it all. But since our intelligence and ingenuity puts us at the top of the food chain it should be our obligation to make sure that animals do not suffer. A happy life, and clean, swift and painless death.s. If we can strive for that, there would be a hell of a lot more meat eaters in the world.

[SethHesio]

We should all, as meat eaters, visit an abatoir and if you don't feel comfortable with animals dying, then you shouldn't eat it.

[froget86]

@SethHesio I didnt's feel shit, I can't understand why feel bitch about farm animals

[SethHesio]

@froget86 So you wouldn't mind suffering of an animal? or did you think the animals you saw were well treated?

[theoriginal72]

@SethHesio

Ever seen how KFC raises it's birds? Those chickens wish they had it this nice.

[KrahulikIsGod]

@SethHesio they're animals, dude. that is their lot in life because they're stupid and easy to catch.

[SethHesio]

@KrahulikIsGod They're dumb obliging animals. And we should be able to eat them, but surely we're smart enough to work out a way that means the animals don't suffer? The meat tastes far better on animals that have been reared and slaughtered free from suffering. I think that's not too much to ask.

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio How would you know that? have you raised two animals of identical stock, and tormented and tortured one every moment of its life, lavished care on the other, and then slaughtered one slowly and painfully, and the other quickly and mercifully, and then eaten both of them to compare?

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 Free range meat tastes better, yes.

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio How do you know it's a result of it being free range and not due to the fact that non-free range animals are usually slaughtered younger than free range animals?

Until you actually perform the test I stated, you have no way of backing up your claim, sir.

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 I don't think you quite got the jist of what I was saying... re read it.

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio I got the jist of what you were saying, thank you very much. Your claim that somehow an animal which does not suffer tastes better is just absurd.

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 A happy animal is a tastier animal. You're saying the variable is the age of the animal, not the more natural life it leads?

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio I'm saying there's multiple variables between the lives of a free range animal and a factory farm animal, any of which could be responsible for the difference in flavor and texture, and that your claim that happiness is the variable responsible is devoid of any support. I am merely pointing out -one- of these other variables, which is age. Another possible one is diet. Free-range animals eat natural, varied diets, while factory farm animals eat processed diets high in empty calories.

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 Yes, I was arguing against factory production in general. Happy was a catch all term, good diet, freedom to roam etc. You didn't expect me to provide empirical evidence for happiness did you? You sound like you've got anger you need to expel...

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio Where do you get the impression that I'm angry? Am I swearing at you? Do I seem upset? Yet another random claim... But since you don't seem to know the definition of 'happy,' I can hardly expect you to know the definition of 'anger,' either.

As a great man one said, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means..."

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 Well your tone is antagonistic, and I don't think you need to be swearing in order to seem angry. I'm happy to argue a point with someone and work out what their beef is, you seem to be a crank though.

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio Why do you automatically assume that someone who is pointing out the flaws in your statements and reasoning is inherently antagonistic?

It's not the point I'm arguing. Free-range animals -are- more delicious than factory farm animals. It's your reasoning as to why they are more delicious which is silly.

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 My reasoning is sound. If you took any animal and treated it the way a Wagyu beef cow is treated for the time up to and including slaughter. Stress free, in other words... happy. That meat or poultry is going to taste better. It will have more fat on it, the meat or poultry will be tender. Feed, and length of life are of course major factors and change the product. But the less stress an animal goes through, ie the happier it is in its life, the better the end product, guaranteed.

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio Actually factory-farmed animals tend to be more tender and fatty than free-range animals, assuming a fast cooking method. This is because factory-farmed animals don't perform much physical activity, which results in less developed muscle and connective tissue, and more fat deposits.

Free-range animals, on the other hand, tend to be leaner and less tender due to more physical activity and greater age at slaughter, assuming fast cooking methods, but are generally more flavorful.

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 Free range pIgs develop a much thicker outer fat. The point was traditional farming methods, with animals living more natural happy lives will result in a far better product, you crank.

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio Free-range pigs develop a much thicker outer fat and tend to have better marbling due to being allowed to live longer than factory farm pigs and industrially also are of different breeds from factory farm pigs. Once again, there's multiple factors.

I'm talking about all other factors being equal. Which is why I specified animals of the same stock in my original post.

Also you want to define 'better product'. Factory farm pork is cheaper than free range pork. Is it then 'better'?

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 You want me to be specific with every word... so you might think I'm talking about better price when we're actually discussin the quality of meat. You are a crank, or bored and drunk. Can you go be a pedant somewhere else? Or are you going to keep asking questions?

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio The only reason to not be specific is because either you lack knowledge of the topic or are unable to support your claims. My claim has not changed. But you're bouncing all over the place.

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 You're a pedantic crank. The happier the life of the animal, the better the end product, yum yum :)

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio Restating your claim ad infinitum didn't work in 2nd grade, and it still doesn't work now.

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 It makes sense, and I've said all that needs to be said to you. Go be bored and annoy someone else.

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 I never said it was the only factor, which is why you're a crank.

[Zidana123]

@SethHesio Sure you did. You attempted to use 'Happy' as a catch-all to describe various other factors and terms which are not described by the word 'Happy.'

Do I have to quote the great man again?

[SethHesio]

@Zidana123 A crank, or drunk and bored.

[jtothe100]

ducks and geese have no gag reflex... they swallow whole fish. also, these birds over eat themselves to death in nature all the time.

[ABCunite]

There are some funny people online.. LAWL, Just because you are vegetarian makes you better than oter people? (Y) way to go...

[evan2156]

OK, let's shove food down your throat till your ready to puke, then tie a noose around your neck so you can't, then shovel more food down again. Let's repeat this process every day of your life, then let's cut your freakin' head off. Hope you enjoyed your life! That's the reality of it! There plenty of other great food that's available for me to eat without having to torture an animal to death.

[mrpopenfresh]

Sector 7-G, I wonder if Homer works there.

[nhraim]

what a waste,..... perte de temps, de bouffe et canards!!

[amayagab]

My favorite chef along with David Chang

[ishlaurennx]

haaa, "... and when he dies, stop."

my goodness, what i would do for this man's job.

[Matty73]

read Kitchen Confidential and find out what he DID do for this job. :)

Helluva book, awesome chef and champion of proper food IMO.

[ishlaurennx]

heheh i've read through about half of it (: along with some of his other books

[ashburnhouse]

Fucking amazing.

[mernaaaa]

This guys is so fuckin awsome !! he got a restaurant and hes a true chief. but he got an series at the television, where he cooks some strange things right in the nature beside hes pick-up ;D. he bring anything he need in little vials and bake it at the fresh air. Hes soo awsomee. 5*

[mathamore]

well he s my chef martin picard and i recommend his book ..amazing

[SethHesio]

The only thing I do not agree with Tony on, and this is a pretty major factor when it comes to the end ingredient, is that there are not shots or even suggestions of how the ducks are force fed. I love this episode, but Bourdain skimped on the facts when it came to how foie gras is achieved.

[highd12]

Martin Picard has his own show on Food Network Canada, where he goes to the range seen here, to give them maple syrup to feed to the ducks. The duck have a very friendly bond with the feeder and as soon as he steps into the room they open up their mouths and are eager to be fed. We are shown the feeding process and it wasn't bad at all. however it doesn't speak to how other farms treat their birds.

[SethHesio]

If you're going to champion a great ingredient, and defend the process by which the duck/ goose is fattened. You gotta show it. Like I said, I love this show but there aint no showing of the process that makes foie gras. Force feeding. I'm a die hard fan, that's why I'm saying this. Bourdain champions intelligence as well as good food.

[detroit900]

He did show it extensively in another episode. Watch all his shows and become a regular viewer, then you won't assume incorrectly.

[detroit900]

1) Tony did a whole section on this when he was in NY State at some farms etc in another episode. This was already covered.

2) You seem to be unaware that at any properly run fois gras company, the ducks actually move towards the person who feeds them down their throat for a few seconds at a time. Worrying about fois gras is silly, when it is a tiny slice of meat sales - we are talking fractions of a percent worldwide. There are legitimate animal cruelty problems that deserve our attention.

[theoriginal72]

Ducks don't even chew, so what's the harm anyway?

[landis69]

@detroit900 you're right...the chicken and beef trade is for worse and way way way more widely used.

[fuscian]

@detroit900 This foie gras rapes any foie made in the USA, trust me.

[rhcp514]

what would you recommend me in the foie gras menu whats the best plate?

[highd12]

But I am telling you that Martin Picard, who is the chef in this clip does show it on his show. No Reservations is a travel show that happens to be about cooking. The Wild Chef is a cooking show, by a chef and he does show the feeding process of this farm on his show. Unfortunately I can't find the clip on YT.

[mathamore]

the duck in the can ,la tarte au foie gras ........

[captainblue1]

Ça n'a pas de maudit bon sens! Ça fait tellement longtemps que je veux y aller! Bientôt, j'espère!

Insane! I want to go there since so longly! I hope to go there soon!

[goshare22]

"...and looks like some sort of cheese there...oh no...it's lard."

Haha Sector 7G that goes way back to 1989!

[ELGQZ]

I have the book!!!!! , read it in one night..lol, great cookbook, great artwork and delicious pics.. ! Huge fan fan of Chef Matrin Picard !!!!!!!!!!!!

[smoothswinging14]

just spoke to my brother from NY...he was eating at this place and told me to check it out on youtube. HOLY SHIT I NEED TO GO THERE ASAP!!!!!!!!!!

[amazingdany]

DON'T!

You'll be... Cursed.

[Tybalt114]

Looks amazing...

[DrBundy1]

Nice "Sector 7G" quip there, Bourdain! Wonder how many will catch that. Wonder how many more will understand it!

[cduernholz]

I ate there last week, it was AWESOME! My only regret is that I wasn't able to go back the next night.............

[denisefan]

excuse me, but I want to go drop a huge deuce just after watching this clip... and I didn't even eat.

[zodiacza]

yummy! tony you lucky bastard!

i am soooo jealous right now.

[sanfanucci]

lol and when he dies stop

[amayagab]

They missed something. He said "take the whole menu of foie gras, give him more and more and more, when were done start over with a second wave. When he dies, then we stop"

[amazingdany]

Ça l'air bon en sacrament.

[JoFouSam]

The Pied de Cochon is not located in the Plateau Mont-Royal at all but rather in the Quartier International.

[richcianci]

APDC's address is 536 Avenue Duluth Est. If that isn't the Plateau, I don't know what is. But I can see why you said that. I am mystified as to why they used shots of Old Montreal and the International District while Bourdain's voice-over describes the Plateau.

[JoFouSam]

You are right, I was thinking about Toqué!

[mathamore]

not at all , its on the  plateau mont-royal on duluth street

[lilmamaness]

Why can't I stop watching this episode? He makes gluttony look so damn good.

[prayingmantismama]

thats because gluttony IS so damn good

;-)

[stepharvey]

OMG LOL foie gras poutine AHAH

[mztweety1374]

tonite i will kill you lol!!!!!!

[kirintar2]

rofl when he dies stop

[doggieGZ]

hahahaha i get stuffed just watching this video

[williamh1550]

Geeze, I would love to work at Au Pied De Cochon....

[Tobudz]

Oh my god, Anthony Bourdain is so lucky to get to go through that many courses of Foie Gras. I'd do anything just to experience what anthony bourdain did in this video. *Drools!!*