Le Lit Double: A Neighbourhood Bar in the Heart of Quebec City’s Saint-Jean-Baptiste

“Quebec City is one big double bed.” If the expression makes you smile, you already know that here, between friends, exes and neighbours, everyone ends up crossing paths. In the Saint-Jean-Baptiste neighbourhood, one bar went as far as taking it for its name: Le Lit Double. Le Lit Double opened in 2025 on Rue Saint-Jean, in the former 1850 bank that once housed Pub Le Projet. Three friends created a place in their own image: welcoming, lively, and where you eat really well.

Le Lit Double: Three Friends Behind a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Bar

Behind Le Lit Double is a trio with complementary roles: Mathieu Ferland on management, Jérémy Dufour on service and wine, and Gaspard Thibaudeau-Goupil in the kitchen. The project’s instigator, Mathieu learned the ins and outs of taking over a business after years working in service and a detour through international relations. With Jérémy, he took over Le Projet, then the two recruited their friend Gaspard, trained in Italian cuisine at the ITHQ and a veteran of, among others, the late Kraken Cru. Together, they shaped Le Lit Double into a bar that looks like them: humble, unpretentious, carried by a soundtrack that makes as much room for Québécois classics as for punk rock, and where the team has full freedom to be itself.

A Travel-Inspired Bar Food Menu

“We’re not a restaurant, we’re a bar,” the partners insist. Le Lit Double is a bar where the food nonetheless deserves full attention. Rather than sticking to a single tradition, Gaspard looks at what people eat over a drink elsewhere in the world, with a dedicated place for local and seasonal products. “My goal is always for the next menu to be the best one,” the chef sums up.

The “spice bag” quickly established itself as a signature. Inspired by a popular dish in Ireland, it brings together fries, fried chicken, spices, a crunchy chili condiment and curry sauce. “It’s like our poutine,” says Gaspard. Alongside it, the pork schnitzel shares the menu with house-made Louis d’Or spätzle and grilled cauliflower on a lacto-fermented tomato sauce. The curious can put themselves in the hands of the sharing menu, a very affordable formula built around discovery.

At the bar, the eleven draft lines put Quebec breweries front and centre, from Boréale to Les Grands Bois by way of Menaud. Jérémy adds a wine on tap and a short selection of private imports, renewed as he tastes his way through new bottles. The classic cocktails (Negroni, Paper Plane, Jungle Bird) stay affordable, and the team has carte blanche to improvise creations, with or without alcohol, using syrups made according to the kitchen team’s inspiration.

An Upside-Down Bed in a Former 1850 Bank

Beneath the coffered ceilings of the former bank, amber light glides over the ornate cornices and plaster medallions, revealing every detail of another century. The eye drifts upward, then stops on the centrepiece of the décor: a bed draped in rust tones hanging upside down, alongside its nightstand. A deliberate nod to the bar’s name, the installation draws on Madame Claude, a Berlin bar where everything happens upside down. The rest is the work of artisans: light fixtures shaped by Mathieu’s girlfriend Camille, a ceramicist, old school chairs raised into bar stools, and shots by Quebec City photographers covering the walls.

At dinner, the mood is hushed. Once the last service is over, the volume goes up a notch, in a spirit the team likes to compare to Darling in Montreal. The evening takes on house-party vibes and wraps up in the wee hours of the morning (!!)

Affordable Drinks and Events on Rue Saint-Jean

At Le Lit Double, accessibility is a mission in its own right. Starting from the observation that many people no longer feel they get their money’s worth at restaurants, the team has made value for money its promise: light bills, without ever cutting corners. Inclusive and designed “for the more and the less fortunate,” this philosophy seems to have struck a chord with locals, many of whom see it as the spot the street was missing.

That spirit carries into an events program guided by the team’s favourites. Colombian, Mexican or Creole pop-ups with chef friends, a gastronomic evening where the kitchen rolls out more advanced techniques: the bar becomes the playground of a crew that loves bringing people together. The space can also be booked privately for up to 60 guests, and cultural projects are welcome, from exhibitions to short film screenings.

We love the spot for the energy it brings to the neighbourhood, the spontaneity of its team and its affordable food. Once you’ve slipped into the double bed, you keep coming back for a drink with friends, which often calls for a second.

Written by Jean-Philippe Tastet
Photography by Raphaëlle Morin / Hubert Poliquin / Gael Thibault / Samuel-Olivier Roy-Lopez

Updated on November 07, 2026

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