Brasserie Harricana, Québec Restaurant Interior, Canadian Commercial Architecture, Building Images
Brasserie Harricana in Montréal, Québec
12 Apr 2021
Brasserie Harricana
Architects: Alain Carle Architecte Inc.
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
A convivial and urban setting
A restaurant is a form of extension of the public domain: an identifiable place, ideally of high physical quality, where the ambience, the service and the table are orchestrated around the guests to create a mirror of urban life.

The Brasserie Harricana project, located in an industrial sector of the Parc-Extension neighbourhood in Montreal, is an urban project in itself: it bears witness to the courage and vision of new young developers venturing into outmoded sectors of the city, where there is certainly reconversion, but often at a very slow pace.
The brasserie was therefore designed as a gathering place in the manner of a neighbourhood centre. The light spaces confer a ?civic? rather than an intimate ambience. People meet in a classical context to enjoy beers produced on site and break bread with an honest and traditional cuisine.

The name comes from the former restaurant of the developer?s parents, who lived for over 20 years in Amos (Abitibi, Quebec), where the Harricana River flows. The chairs and certain other elements were recovered from the original location, today abandoned because people

there ?socialize? less ?

A point of special interest for us: the concept of the space was developed ...