At a glance
Maison Boire is in the MICHELIN Guide selection. The Guide distinguishes four separate things: the selection, the Stars, the Bib Gourmand and the Green Star. We are in the selection. We do not write it any other way.
2025 and 2026 · MICHELIN Guide selection
What it rewards. A restaurant’s inclusion in the Guide’s selection, following anonymous inspector visits. The selection is the Guide’s front door: it attests to the quality of the cooking, without being a Star.
Who awards it. The MICHELIN Guide, through its inspectors.
What happened. The MICHELIN Guide published its first-ever Québec edition in 2025. Maison Boire appeared in it. In May 2026, at the second edition, the house was retained — one of five Eastern Townships tables to keep its place.
Official listing: Maison Boire on guide.michelin.com
- Guide Michelin 2026 : des restaurants de l’Estrie récompensés — La Tribune, May 6, 2026, by Olivier Lessard (French)
- Michelin Guide Québec 2026: the award-winning restaurants — Tastet, 2026
- Eastern Townships restaurants honoured by the Michelin Guide — Tourisme Cantons-de-l’Est, (French)
2021 · Restaurateur of the Year — Aliments du Québec au menu
What it rewards. Restaurateurs in the Aliments du Québec au menu programme who stand out for their initiatives and their commitment to sourcing, using and showcasing Québec food.
Who awards it. Aliments du Québec, through its Aliments du Québec au menu programme, presented at the annual gathering of the Association Restauration Québec (ARQ).
What happened. On November 16, 2021, Maison Boire was named grand winner of the 4th edition of the award. The jury cited a complete approach in which the environment sits at the centre of the culinary practice, and a menu built on local, organic, minimally processed ingredients.
Official announcement: alimentsduquebec.com (French)
- Maison Boire: 100% local… except the coffee — La Presse, November 18, 2021 (French)
- Aliments du Québec au menu 2021 Restaurateur Award — Tastet
- La Maison Boire désignée comme restaurateur de l’année au Québec — Le Granby Express, (French)
- Le gros laboratoire de la Maison Boire — Le Soleil, November 7, 2021 (French)
2020 · Greenest Restaurant in Canada — LEAF
What it rewards. First place in Canada under the LEAF programme, assessed on energy use, building materials, waste management and innovation.
Who awards it. LEAF — Leaders in Environmentally Accountable Foodservice, Canada’s certification body for sustainable foodservice.
What happened. The award was presented to Brian Proulx at the Restaurants Canada Show in Toronto, in early March 2020.
Public register: Maison Boire — Level 3, on leafme.org
- Maison Boire de Granby nommé restaurant le plus vert au Canada — La Voix de l’Est, March 9, 2020 (French)
- Un resto de Granby nommé le plus écologique au Canada — Silo 57, March 15, 2020 (French)
- Maison Boire, le plus vert au Canada: "Les changements sont lents à instaurer" — HRImag, (French)
2019 · LEAF Level 3 certification
What it rewards. The highest tier of LEAF certification, reached by a handful of restaurants nationwide. It covers the whole operation: sourcing, energy, water, waste, materials, innovation.
Who awards it. LEAF, following an audit.
What happened. In the summer of 2019, Maison Boire reached Level 3, two years after opening.
- Ditching plastic straws was just the beginning for Quebec’s greenest restaurant — CBC News, August 31, 2019, by Spencer Van Dyk
- Un des restaurants les plus écolos du Canada est à Granby — Radio-Canada, August 21, 2019, with a Téléjournal Estrie television report (French)
- La Maison Boire, l’un des restos les plus verts au Canada — La Voix de l’Est, (French)
- Maison Boire: eco-responsible fine dining in Granby — Tastet, full review
2019 · Excellence in Tourism Award — Sustainable Tourism Initiative
What it rewards. The grand prize in the Sustainable Tourism Initiative category, given to a Québec tourism business for exemplary practice. Maison Boire’s application was chosen from 220 submissions by a jury of some fifteen tourism and communications professionals.
Who awards it. The Alliance de l’industrie touristique du Québec, in collaboration with Québec’s Ministère du Tourisme.
What happened. On November 14, 2019, at the Centrexpo Cogeco in Drummondville, before nearly 350 industry figures, fifteen trophies were presented at the 3rd Excellence in Tourism Awards. Maison Boire won its category for its work toward eco-responsibility and self-sufficiency.
Official release: Alliance de l’industrie touristique du Québec (French)
- Excellence en tourisme: les efforts de la Maison Boire sont récompensés — Le Droit, November 15, 2019 (French)
- La Maison Boire se démarque en tourisme durable — Le Granby Express, (French)
- Excellence in Tourism Awards 2019 — regional release — Tourisme Cantons-de-l’Est, (French)
Memberships
These are not awards but commitments verified by a third party. We keep the distinction deliberately.
Aliments du Québec au menu
Maison Boire is an active member of the programme, which certifies the proportion of Québec food on a restaurant’s menu. It is the same programme that gave the 2021 Restaurateur Award.
Créateurs de saveurs des Cantons-de-l’Est
Maison Boire is an accredited partner restaurant of the network — a status reserved for restaurants that source from the region’s member producers and processors and say so on the menu.
Our listing with the Créateurs de saveurs
What the press has written
National press
- La Presse — "Maison Boire : 100 % local… sauf le café", November 18, 2021
- Radio-Canada — "Un des restaurants les plus écolos du Canada est à Granby", August 21, 2019, with a Téléjournal Estrie report
- CBC News — "Ditching plastic straws was just the beginning for Quebec’s greenest restaurant", August 31, 2019
- Le Soleil — "Le gros laboratoire de la Maison Boire", November 7, 2021
Regional press
- La Tribune — "Guide Michelin 2026: des restaurants de l’Estrie récompensés", May 6, 2026
- La Voix de l’Est — two articles, 2019 and 2020
- Le Droit — "Excellence en tourisme: les efforts de la Maison Boire sont récompensés", November 15, 2019
- Le Granby Express — five articles since 2019, on the awards, self-sufficiency and the kitchen
Trade press and guides
- Tastet — a full review and several lists; Maison Boire leads the Granby list
- HRImag — "Maison Boire, le plus vert au Canada: ‘Les changements sont lents à instaurer’"
- Silo 57 — "Un resto de Granby nommé le plus écologique au Canada", March 15, 2020
- Tourisme Cantons-de-l’Est — MICHELIN and Excellence in Tourism features
Press room
What you look for when you are working on a piece. If something is missing, write to us — we answer.
The story, in three paragraphs
One. On June 17, 2017, Brian Proulx opened Maison Boire in an 1893 Victorian house at 13, rue Court, Granby. He was 25. He had been working in restaurants since the age of 14, holds a diploma in international hotel management, and trained in Relais & Châteaux properties: maître d’hôtel and sommelier at Manoir Hovey, then sales and marketing assistant at La Bastide Saint-Antoine in Grasse. The house had been acquired in December 2016 by Kevin Proulx and John Proulx — Immeuble Provek — and fully renovated with designer Marie-Pier Morissette.
Two. What sets the house apart is fire, and self-sufficiency. All cooking is done over maple wood, in full view of guests at the chef’s counter. Behind and above the restaurant: gardens, a rooftop garden warmed by heat reclaimed from the grill, a greenhouse, growing towers, beehives, a henhouse, and a pottery studio that throws the service ware. Seventeen producers are mapped with their distances; sixteen are within 120 km. That practice earned Maison Boire LEAF Level 3 certification in 2019, the grand prize for Sustainable Tourism Initiative the same year, first place in Canada under the LEAF programme in 2020, and the Restaurateur of the Year Award from Aliments du Québec au menu in 2021.
Three. In January 2024, photographic artist Rizlane Abdessamad became co-owner; her work turned the walls into a gallery. In 2025, the MICHELIN Guide published its first Québec edition and included Maison Boire in its selection. In 2026, the house was retained. It seats 48 in the dining room and 30 on the terrace, Wednesday through Saturday, an hour from Montreal.
The verifiable facts
Exact names and titles
- Brian Proulx — chef, founder and co-owner
- Rizlane Abdessamad — co-owner since January 2024, photographic artist
- Émile Lallier — sous-chef
- Victorien Zemgue — sous-chef
- Kevin Proulx and John Proulx — building owners, Immeuble Provek
- Marie-Pier Morissette — renovation designer
- Name of the restaurant — Maison Boire, no article. Not "La Maison Boire", even though several press archives write it that way.
- Signature line — Ember-fired cuisine (the building is an 1893 house; the restaurant opened on June 17, 2017 — never write "since 1893")
- Exact wording for the Guide — "MICHELIN Guide selection, 2025 and 2026". Maison Boire holds neither a Star nor a Green Star.
Images
High-resolution photographs cleared for editorial use: the dining room, the chef’s counter, the fire, the gardens, team portraits, dishes. Supplied on request at 300 dpi, with the required credits.
Write to info@maisonboire.com with your outlet, your deadline and the format you need. We send a download link.
Who to write to
Media enquiries — info@maisonboire.com · 579 365-3232
Address — 13, rue Court, Granby, Québec J2G 4Y6
Instagram — @maisonboire
We are glad to host journalists in the kitchen and in the garden, by appointment, at the start of service.
Come and see for yourself
An award can be read. A table has to be tested.