Looking to work on your cooking skills? How about roasting a delicious duck for dinner? If you’re confident in your Martha Stewart-ness, then Le Canard libéré is your new one-stop shop for all things duck.

Just about every inspired store emerges out of some kind of obsession. The singular haunting beauty of Le Canard Libere, is that obsession isn't just its fuel — it's the entire place's spirit and subject, its driving force. The space co-joins eatery and grocery store, offering up over 25 Brome Lake duck products, in every configuration imaginable. The store stocks various cooked (and uncooked) duck treats available for testing your cooking abilities, including honey and garlic duck wing drumettes, boneless breast confit and country-style pot pie.

The staff is very friendly, and are educated in duck-eria enough to offer sound advice if you’re simply lost. Le Canard libéré also offers culinary clinics by renowned chefs if you’re worried about starting a kitchen fire.

The café part offers simple but competent breakfast and lunch dishes. Most of the dishes at this small, lively cafe are first-rate, freshly made with quality ingredients and served sizzling hot. Try the house-made stew with scallions, onions and of course, duck. A duck soup and sandwich - possibly with orange-cranberry duck sausage – turned out to be a rich, little lunch. Too heady? Try fries cooked in duck fat, or even the much bally-hooed Brome Lake foie gras (although this is indeed a good choice).

There is no way to cook a duck that hasn’t already been explored. So, the store really wants customers to expand their knowledge of duck and how healthy and tasty it really is. This is why the staff may just roll their eyes when you ask for oh-so-typical foie gras. Try some duck wings. Come on, experiment.