Mile End restaurants worth returning to.
Where to eat in Mile End depends on the meal you have in mind. Along Saint-Laurent, Larrys spans breakfast through dinner, while Le Butterblume centres on lunch and brunch. Fairmount brings La Khaïma’s couscous; Bernard, Nouveau Palais’s burgers and comfort food; Saint-Viateur, Île Flottante’s seasonal tasting menu. Use these five starting points to choose a style of meal, then explore the rest of the neighbourhood selection below.
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Five starting points for your meal
- Larrysbreakfast, small plates and dinner
- Le Butterblumelunch, brunch and a neighbouring boutique
- La Khaïmanomadic cooking and couscous
- Nouveau Palaisburgers and comfort food
- Île Flottanteseasonal tasting menu
On Laurier Ouest: walk in or book ahead?
- Bar Henriettaa flexible evening without a reservation
- Jun Ià-la-carte sushi or omakase, with online booking
The entries for Larrys, Le Butterblume, La Khaïma, Nouveau Palais, Île Flottante, Bar Henrietta and Jun I were updated on September 8, 2026 using the restaurants’ official websites. These seven addresses offer different meal formats and arrival arrangements. Official sources appear beside each refreshed entry; the remaining listings retain their earlier editorial text.
Larrys
Larrys gives you several ways to build a meal on Saint-Laurent: breakfast dishes, vegetable plates, fish and meat share the published menu. Mackerel spaghetti and beef tartare sit alongside a veggie burger and simpler breakfast choices. The practical distinction is booking: the restaurant takes evening reservations, while brunch and lunch use its live waitlist. Choose your meal first, then check the matching arrival arrangements.
ON THE MENU — Browse the current menu for mackerel spaghetti, beef tartare or a veggie burger; check availability before going.
Official sources : Website and reservations · Menu. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
La Buvette Chez Simone
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Open since 2008 and still true to itself: the big central bar designed by Zébulon Perron, the order slips filled in by pencil, and a roast chicken that has never left the menu. This is Montréal's 5 à 7 finishing school — a room that doesn't need to reinvent itself because it was right from the start.
ON THE MENU — The roast chicken ($22), bravas-style beef tartare ($21), pudding chômeur ($11).
Bar Henrietta
On Laurier Ouest, Henrietta suits a flexible evening: the bar lists a daily 4 p.m. opening and does not take reservations. That makes it a different choice from Jun I, where you can book your meal. Keep another option in mind if you need a table at a fixed time.
BEFORE YOU GO — Check the menu before heading out. For a late visit, confirm the bar and kitchen closing times directly with the team.
Official sources : Menu and practical information. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Barcola
A tiny Trieste-inspired bistro where chef Fabrizio Caprioli rewrites his tasting menu every week, over a soundtrack pulled from his own vinyl collection. On Sundays the room becomes a café and a record player. It's the kind of place where the third visit changes everything: the kitchen remembers what you liked.
ON THE MENU — Three-course tasting menu ($68); on Wednesdays, the three-course aperitivo ($38).
Lawrence
Since 2010, a small, unadorned room where a single tasting menu changes with the week's deliveries — the farm decides, the kitchen follows. Same house as Larrys, the other side of the same spirit: here, the evening has one table of honour, and it's yours if you come back.
ON THE MENU — The tasting menu ($145), wine pairing ($80). Book; the room is small.
Le Butterblume
Le Butterblume puts lunch and brunch at the centre of the day. Its seasonal menu pairs house-made pasta and vegetable dishes with a pork-and-spinach maultasche served in chicken dashi. The separate boutique next door offers another format: coffee, pastries and sandwiches to take away or eat on site.
ON THE MENU — Compare the maultasche with the current seasonal pasta and vegetable dishes, or use the boutique for a sandwich and coffee.
Official sources : Contact · Menu · Boutique. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
La Khaïma
La Khaïma centres its published menu on couscous, with chicken and olives, beef and dates, or a vegan bean option. It also lists group tables d’hôte, making it a useful place to investigate when several people want to plan one meal together. The restaurant says its menu changes, so contact it about the current choices, group arrangements and any dietary needs before reserving.
ON THE MENU — Choose a couscous from the current menu; ask about the group table d’hôte if you are organising a shared outing.
Official sources : Contact · Menu · Website and reservations. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Nouveau Palais
Nouveau Palais’s published menu on Bernard offers a straightforward choice between a hamburger, a veggie burger and larger comfort-food plates such as fried chicken or mac and cheese. That makes it a useful alternative to the tasting-menu format elsewhere in this guide: each person can choose an individual dish. The official site also publishes separate wine and martini lists if drinks are part of the plan.
ON THE MENU — Look at the hamburger or veggie burger, fried chicken and mac and cheese; consult the current menu for accompaniments.
Official sources : Contact · Menu · Menu. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Café Olimpico
Since 1970, when Rocco Furfaro opened the room to follow Italian soccer on a satellite dish bought for the occasion. The pool table is still there, the crowd spills onto the sidewalk in summer, and the family still holds the counter. If you had to show someone what "being a regular" means in Montréal, you'd bring them here on a Saturday morning.
ON THE MENU — An espresso at the counter, a cornetto, and the time to linger a while.
Mile End Grilladerie Portugaise
At the corner of Saint-Viateur and Saint-Urbain, the charcoal grill sits right in the window — you can see the chickens turning before you even walk in. Siblings Grace and Nelson Oliveira run the house, and the hot sauce sold by the jar comes from a recipe by Grace's father-in-law, one of Montréal's pioneers of Portuguese chicken. The half-chicken with fries is still the reference order, but the cod and the lamb chops have their faithful too. It's a no-fuss room where the charcoal does all the work, and where a regular's table always ends up being the same one.
ON THE MENU — Half-chicken ($23), grilled octopus ($24), pastel de nata ($4.50).
Île Flottante
Île Flottante serves a seasonal tasting menu with a leading role for vegetables, alongside meat and seafood. Choose it for a sequence of courses. Tell the restaurant about dietary restrictions when booking and confirm the adaptations available.
ON THE MENU — Consult the current tasting-menu information and discuss dietary needs through the restaurant’s own reservation process.
Official sources : Menu. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Sparrow
On the Main, in the salvaged church pews that serve as banquettes, Sparrow has held on since the early 2010s — one of the neighbourhood's oldest habits. The butter chicken is the order no one argues with anymore, and the bar learns faces fast enough that you feel at home. A small fact for the curious: Sparrow's kitchen once gave rise to the original Lawrence concept, a few doors down — two rooms born of the same neighbourhood, a few years apart.
ON THE MENU — The butter chicken, and whatever the bar is running that night; prices to confirm on-site.
Leila
One long communal table and a small bar that never lets up: that's Leila, right near Saint-Viateur on the Main. Chef Amine Laabi, at his first restaurant after the Loumi counter, serves Moroccan sardines on toast next to Galician-style octopus — unfussy Mediterranean cooking, built for a glass of chilled red and an evening that stretches out. The room occupies a space that saw several concepts before it, but the communal table and central bar belong right here.
ON THE MENU — The sardines on toast; ask for tonight's prices, the menu isn't yet verified item by item.
Jun I
At Jun I, choose individual nigiri, sashimi and maki or Junichi San’s omakase, an assortment selected by the chef. The website offers both table booking and takeout ordering, so decide whether you want to sit down or bring your meal home. The menu evolves with ingredient availability.
BEFORE YOU GO — Read the current menu, then use the booking or ordering link that matches your plans.
Official sources : Menu, booking and ordering. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Il Pagliaccio
Manuel Silva spent thirty-one years at Le Latini before opening his own room on Laurier Ouest in 2010. There's no printed menu here — the kitchen announces what's good tonight, and it's still Silva who builds the wine list himself. White tablecloths, unhurried service, a quiet elegance unchanged in fifteen years. It's the kind of room where you end up knowing the server's name before the name of the dish you just ate.
ON THE MENU — There's no menu; ask what the kitchen is offering tonight.
La Chronique
On Laurier Ouest since 1995, La Chronique has never changed hands: the same two chef-owners, Marc De Canck and Olivier de Montigny, have been at the stoves almost every night for thirty years. White tablecloths, a staircase with a warm wooden rail, and a wine list they still build together. The Signature menu — lobster, halibut, foie gras, lamb — comes in several courses, with or without pairing. A room that never needed to reinvent itself because it was right from the start.
ON THE MENU — The Découverte menu ($95) or the Signature ($150, $275 with pairing). Book; the room is small.
Molenne
In the former Café Mei space, five partners opened a proper Mile End brasserie in 2025 — chef Louis-Joseph Rochefort (Bouillon Bilk, Le Serpent) leads a kitchen rooted in Québec terroir. The tourtière du Lac-Saint-Jean, with duck and rabbit, is ordered for the table and takes its time cooking. Café Mei's original furniture was kept, with banquettes salvaged from the TNM — a new room already wearing the neighbourhood's history on its walls.
ON THE MENU — The tourtière du Lac-Saint-Jean, duck and rabbit ($90).
Faros
Since 1986, Faros has done one thing on Fairmount, and done it well: you pick your whole fish off the ice, near the entrance, before it goes to the grill. Benny Kazerooni, owner and chef, started in the kitchen here in the 1980s, long before he owned it — and the ritual of the fish counter hasn't changed since. An unadorned Greek taverna, where the fish is sold by weight and the Greek salad needs no embellishment.
ON THE MENU — The catch of the day, chosen at the counter and sold by weight; ask the price before ordering.
Wilensky's Light Lunch
On May 15, 1932, Moe Wilensky started pressing sandwiches at the corner of Fairmount, and the family has never stopped — Asher, Sharon and Alisa Wilensky still hold the counter. The Special, grilled salami and beef bologna on a pressed roll, always comes with mustard and is never cut: the rule has been posted on the wall since day one, and it's not up for discussion. Sodas are still built by hand at the fountain — the cherry cola first among them — and you don't leave a tip: the counter's change goes into the Heart and Stroke Foundation box.
ON THE MENU — The Special, a fountain-built cherry cola; prices aren't posted online, ask at the counter.
Café Club Social
In 1982, Vincenzo Lucifero opened this space as a private card club, to play among friends around big Friday meals. It was his son Franco who opened it to the neighbourhood in 1990, and his brother Jay has worked behind the counter since 1995. The espresso comes from their own blend, the corner terrasse fills the moment the sun comes out, and on Italy match nights the room becomes a stadium. One of the last places in the neighbourhood where you can sit down at 6 a.m. and stay until evening without anyone finding it strange.
ON THE MENU — The house espresso, a spritz on the terrasse; prices posted at the counter.
Pizza Toni
Yoni Amir and Daniel Maislin — the team behind Falafel Yoni, a few doors down — make thin, crispy slices and Roman-style squares here, to eat standing or take away on Saint-Viateur. The spicy honey-garlic pepperoni is the order regulars name without hesitating, and the house brews its own beers, including a pilsner that carries its name. A simple room that does exactly what it promises, and does it well enough that the neighbourhood comes back several times a week.
ON THE MENU — The Toni Pepperoni slice ($6), the pep square ($6.50), the whole S.G.H.P. ($26/$36), a house pilsner ($7).
Restaurant Thaïlande
The low tables with purple-and-gold cushions, surrounded by gilded elephants, are booked by phone — and you come for them as much as for the crispy duck and green curry. Tom Mecksavanh has run this Bernard room for years, and when a car came through the front in December 2024, he rebuilt: the room reopened in late January 2025 and the regulars came back as if nothing had happened. Dinner service only, five nights a week.
ON THE MENU — The crispy duck, the green curry; online menus are images, ask for prices on-site.
Dieu du Ciel!
Since September 11, 1998, Jean-François Gravel and Stéphane Ostiguy have brewed on-site at the corner of Laurier, and the brewpub has become one of the neighbourhood's surest rooms to end a night. The tap list is dated and republished because it genuinely changes — the July 4 list already looks nothing like the June 1 one — with two cask ales and guest ciders at all times. The 8-oz pour is named for the neighbourhood: the "Mile End." And Péché Mortel, their imperial coffee stout, regularly goes on cask where it was born.
ON THE MENU — The "Mile End" 8 oz ($6.25), the pint ($10.25), Péché Mortel on cask, the DDC! poutine ($16). Prices before tax.
Pizzeria Magpie
The Popovic brothers — Boris, Peter and Nick — have run this Maguire room since September 2010, around a wood oven given to them by friends at B&M on Saint-Viateur. "That was the deciding moment," Boris says. Daily quantities are limited so nothing sits around, and the menu has never dropped its classics: the Margherita — which Eater once declared the city's best on a good day — the Mortadella with pistachio and stracciatella, and the meatballs made with meat from Boucherie Chez Vito.
ON THE MENU — The Margherita ($21, whole burrata +$8), the Mortadella ($27), the meatballs ($18).
Le Falco
Hidden in an industrial building on avenue de Gaspé, Le Falco is a Japanese-style café where everything is made the same morning, in limited quantities — when the onigiri are gone, they're gone. The siphon coffee is built at the counter, in front of you, and Tastet described it as the only one of its kind in the city. Donburi, miso soup, matcha: a short menu that hits its mark, in a room half the neighbourhood still keeps to itself. Weekdays only; on weekends, the space lives other lives.
ON THE MENU — A morning onigiri, a siphon coffee; prices at the counter.
Ta Chido
The Franco family has run this avenue du Parc snack bar since 2011, and it's the bread that brings you back: the telera is baked on-site — by the house's father — and it's what holds the achiote-pork torta, the al pastor, or the chicken tinga without ever giving way. The huitlacoche quesadilla and the sopa azteca round out a menu that isn't trying to impress, just to feed you like in Mexico City. A detail regulars all eventually notice: the case of vintage King Kong toys near the counter.
ON THE MENU — The torta pierna (achiote pork), the huitlacoche quesadilla; prices at the counter.
Caffè In Gamba
Dominic Drouin named his café after an Italian expression — in gamba, the one who does things well — and the room proves it: forty to fifty coffees on the menu, from about eight rotating guest roasters that turn over across the months. The latte earned the house the title of best in the city at La Presse's 2018 competition, and on weekends a no-laptop policy keeps the room for conversation. Before visiting the avenue du Parc location, check the café’s official information or call 514 656-6852.
ON THE MENU — A pour-over from the current guest roaster; bags of beans online ($23.50 to $26.50).
Also on the Mile End carnet
6 addresses noted on du Parc and Saint-Laurent, not yet visited. Each has its own note on the carnet, written from public sources and the house's own site. Surveyed 16 September 2026.
On Park Avenue
- Restaurant Khao SoiNorthern Thai, halal
- Restaurant DoabaNorth Indian, clay oven
- Restaurant Hansangtraditional Korean, no fusion
- Mythos OuzeriGreek charcoal grill, live music
- Melina Phyllo BarGreek phyllo pies
On Saint-Laurent
- Cuisine Hongroise MontréalHungarian home cooking
Plan your visit
Where should I start for a daytime meal?
Le Butterblume publishes lunch and brunch menus, with a separate boutique next door for coffee, pastries and sandwiches. Larrys also lists breakfast dishes alongside a broader menu. Check each restaurant’s current service times before setting out.
Which of these options has vegetarian choices?
La Khaïma’s menu includes a vegan bean couscous, and Nouveau Palais lists a veggie burger. Confirm the current ingredients and any dietary needs with the restaurant.
How should I plan a group meal or a tasting menu?
La Khaïma publishes group tables d’hôte. For Île Flottante’s seasonal tasting menu, use its reservation link and specify dietary needs.
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