Eating authentically prepared food lets you taste the very essence of a country and draws far fewer angry glares than chewing on its national flag. Chew into tasty French essence with today's Groupon to L'Echelle de Jacob in Gatineau. Choose between the following options:

• For $45, you get a four-course meal for two (up to a $94 total value). The meal includes:
  • Two soups du jour
  • Two entrees
  • Two mains
  • Two desserts

• For $80, you get a four-course meal for four (up to a $188 total value). The meal includes:
  • Four soups du jour
  • Four entrees
  • Four mains
  • Four desserts

A meal at L'Echelle de Jacob ferries diners through an oasis of French flavours guided by a menu abundant in traditional, elegant dishes refined over the last 35 years. Let throats swim in the deep end of the soup du jour before selecting one of six thoughtfully prepared entrees—such as the brandied duck and chicken-liver pate or the terrine of venison—to later inherit all your fortunes. Eight mains range in scope from game birds to resplendent cuts of meat, and include the filet of salmon with mango salsa and the hearty rack of lamb perched on a stage of poached apples, pears, and cranberries. Complete the four-course fete by cracking into the crème brûlée or scooping through the terrain of a snowflake lemon mousse, sealing the comforting memory away for recollection when it doing real shovelling this winter.