Plateau restaurants worth returning to.
For restaurants on the Plateau Mont-Royal, start with the kind of meal you want. Saint-Denis brings L’Express’s French brasserie menu; Duluth, Au Pied de Cochon’s Québec-rooted cooking. On Rachel, Café chez Téta focuses on Lebanese manouchés and coffee, while Ma Poule Mouillée and La Banquise offer two different directions: Portuguese charcoal chicken or a broad poutine menu. These five starting points sit within the guide’s wider neighbourhood selection.
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Five starting points for your meal
- L’ExpressFrench brasserie
- Au Pied de CochonQuébec-rooted à la carte cooking
- La Banquisepoutine and different topping combinations
- Ma Poule MouilléePortuguese charcoal chicken
- Café chez TétaLebanese manouchés and coffee
On Mont-Royal: a plate or a multi-course dinner?
- Le Rouge Gorgesmall plates or dishes; a separate enquiry for ten or more
- Chez Victoireà la carte or a four-course tasting menu for the whole table
The entries for L’Express, Au Pied de Cochon, La Banquise, Ma Poule Mouillée, Café chez Téta, Le Rouge Gorge and Chez Victoire were updated on September 8, 2026 using the restaurants’ official websites. These seven addresses offer different meal formats on Saint-Denis, Duluth, Rachel and Mont-Royal. Official sources appear beside each refreshed entry; the remaining listings retain their earlier editorial text.
L’Express
On Saint-Denis, Montréal’s L’Express serves French brasserie classics including house ravioli, beef tartare and duck confit, with daily specials alongside them. Compare the day’s dishes with those familiar choices, then use the restaurant’s own reservation link to plan your visit.
ON THE MENU — Compare the house ravioli or beef tartare with the daily specials on the current menu.
Official sources : Menu. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Bouillon Albert
Opened in October 2024 in the former Le Hachoir space, Bouillon Albert brought to the Plateau an idea Paris has known for a century: grand French cooking at neighbourhood prices. Jean-François Corriveau runs the room — hanger steak in café-de-Paris sauce, duck confit, snails in garlic butter — and the mains stay between $19 and $30, starters from $8. The house says it itself on its site: "we prefer human contact, call us." So you book by phone, like before.
ON THE MENU — The café-de-Paris hanger steak ($30), the duck confit ($26), the snails ($10), the île flottante with "bonbecs" ($10).
Bistrot La Fabrique
Jean-Baptiste Marchand has cooked in view of the room since 2008, and Stéphanie Labelle runs the welcome — a co-owner duo that made this address one of the reasons Montréal took brunch seriously again: the Huffington Post ranked it among the country's ten best. Knife-cut tartares, salads served in their steel bowls, and a menu that changes every three weeks — regulars never live the same menu twice, and that's exactly why they come back.
ON THE MENU — The tartare of the moment, the current cycle's brunch; menus change every three weeks, ask for prices on-site.
Le Nil Bleu
Thirty-plus years on the same stretch of Saint-Denis: Le Nil Bleu has been the Plateau's ambassador of Ethiopian cooking since 1993. You eat with your hands, injera as your utensil — kitfo, doro watt in berbere, turmeric lamb — and Montréal readers have voted it the city's best African table again and again. The tasting menu for two makes the rounds of the card and is still the best way in.
ON THE MENU — The tasting menu for two ($69.95), the kitfo ($28), the doro watt ($22), the vegan platter ($25).
Au Pied de Cochon
For the Montréal Au Pied de Cochon, head to Duluth. Its à la carte cooking draws on Québec ingredients and French brasserie traditions, with local and seasonal products shaping the menu. Book online through the Montréal restaurant page; the group’s Mirabel properties have separate pages.
ON THE MENU — Review the current menu linked by the Montréal restaurant before booking; dishes can change with the season.
Official sources : Website and reservations. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Khyber Pass
Faruk Ramisch opened his first room in 1995 and has run the Duluth one since 1998, with his daughter Nadia at his side. Every trip to Asia brings back an object, and the room has become a collection you visit as much as you eat in — right down to the fifty-odd-seat terrasse Tastet ranks among the city's most beautiful. Lamb is the specialty: kabuli palaw with lamb shank, brown rice, raisins and carrots, and filet-mignon skewers. You bring your wine, and you leave having learned something about Afghanistan.
ON THE MENU — The kabuli palaw, the teka skewer, the table d'hôte; prices posted on-site.
Le Jardin de Panos
Montréal's first bring-your-own-wine, on Duluth since 1979 — and the flowered garden-terrasse around which generations have planned their summer evenings. The Greek menu doesn't need to reinvent itself: grilled calamari, souvlaki, moussaka, served in a courtyard that feels like leaving the city without crossing the bridge. You bring your bottle, you take your time.
ON THE MENU — The grilled calamari, the chicken souvlaki, the moussaka; prices posted on-site.
Les Oiseaux
For nearly forty years, this address was called La Colombe, and Mostafa Rougaibi fed the Plateau here until his retirement in 2020. Rather than let the room go dark, his longtime employees — Julian Strayer and his brother Jean-Francis — relaunched it as Les Oiseaux, with the outgoing chef's blessing and help. Duck, foie gras and game move through a three- or five-course table d'hôte, on certified Québec products, and the Duluth terrasse fills up from June on.
ON THE MENU — The five-course table d'hôte, the foie gras; menus on the board, ask for prices on-site.
La Banquise
La Banquise’s published menu puts poutine at the centre, from La Classique to combinations with different meats or vegetables. It is the option in this group to explore when poutine itself is the meal you want. The menu also lists La Véganomane with vegan cheese and sauce, while warning that cooked foods can come into contact. Confirm ingredients and dietary requirements directly before ordering.
ON THE MENU — Start with La Classique or compare the topping combinations on the official poutine menu; confirm current availability.
Official sources : Contact · Menu. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Ma Poule Mouillée
Ma Poule Mouillée offers Portuguese chicken roasted over charcoal, with the choice to eat on site or take your order away. The published menu includes chicken plates, sandwiches and a poutine combining chicken, chouriço and São Jorge cheese. Choose it for the grill and those Portuguese flavours; if you want a wider range of poutine toppings, compare La Banquise’s menu separately before deciding.
ON THE MENU — Choose a chicken plate or sandwich, or compare the house chicken-and-chouriço poutine with the other menu options.
Official sources : Menu. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Restaurant Coréen Luna
Na Young Park and Hyun Seok Kim ran a restaurant in Seoul before opening this forty-odd-seat room on Rachel in 2018. The trio of kimchi — radish, cucumber, cabbage — comes from Na Young's grandmother's recipes, the banchan are house-made, and the bibimbap still arrives sizzling. You bring your wine, you settle into a room where the owners know faces, and you quickly understand why the neighbourhood keeps the address to itself.
ON THE MENU — The trio of kimchi, the bibimbap, the bulgogi; prices posted on-site.
Le Passé Composé
The house was born on the Plateau in 2010, toured the city, then came home in February 2026 — in the former Mlle Rosa space, which the neighbourhood already knew. The Sandhu family runs it with founding chef Arnaud Glay, and the menu owns the occasion brunch: poached eggs on brioche, caramelized-onion compote and seared foie gras at the top of the bill, French toast and waffles for the table. A return to its roots that arrives with its original regulars.
ON THE MENU — The poached eggs with foie gras, the French toast; ask for prices on-site.
Café Ohayo
Hiroshi Kitano and Samath Mom met in 2018, side by side behind the counter at Kitano Shokudo. Five years later, they opened their own room right next door — 28 seats, comforting yōshoku cooking: ramen, sandos, ebi burger, chirashi as carefully done as at the original counter. The coffee was meant to be a secondary touch; Samath made it an obsession, pour-over included, and it "quickly took off." You come for the matcha latte, you stay for the food.
ON THE MENU — The ebi burger, a ramen of the day, the matcha latte ($6), the espresso ($3.35); the kitchen closes at 4:30 p.m., ask for dish prices on-site.
Bincho
On December 8, 2025, Bincho relit the stoves of the former Le Pontiac — "a legendary Plateau space," writes La Presse, which had already run a feature on it in April. The kitchen moves between Japan and France over the binchotan charcoal the house is named for: hot oysters, karaage, sesame cucumber salad, and, crowning it all, the hanger steak grilled over live coals. Bianca Jodoin's décor — pink-red light, a long bar, warm wood — makes it one of the most self-assured rooms on the avenue.
ON THE MENU — The binchotan hanger steak, the hot oysters, the karaage; ask for prices on-site.
Le Rouge Gorge
At Le Rouge Gorge, start with oysters, cheese or charcuterie, then extend your meal with dishes from the menu. Ordinary visits are walk-in. For ten or more people, the website provides a separate group enquiry for a section or a private event; use that route when organising a larger gathering.
BEFORE YOU GO — Check the kitchen hours for your chosen day: food service and the bar do not always close at the same time.
Official sources : Menu · Hours and arrival · Group enquiries. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Satu Lagi
Montréal's only Indo-Malay table, and it does nothing by halves: the entire kitchen is gluten-free, from the rendang to the nasi lemak to the pandan crème brûlée. The weekend brunch made its name — Benedict with spicy terasi, kaya toast with onsen eggs — and the natural-wine list is built to keep up with flavours that don't apologize. A room that proves a niche cuisine can become a neighbourhood table.
ON THE MENU — The rendang, the nasi lemak, the terasi Benedict at brunch, the pandan crème brûlée; ask for prices on-site.
Sham Mont-Royal
Montréal's first fully plant-based Syrian table reinvents the Middle East without an ounce of meat: shiitake shawarma, plant-based shish taouk, moujadara, moussaka, mulukhiya. In summer, the terrasse opens directly onto the pedestrian stretch of the avenue, and the room posts a 4.8 on Google — not as a vegan curiosity, but as a neighbourhood canteen where the plates are generous and the colours bright.
ON THE MENU — The shiitake shawarma, the moujadara, the mulukhiya, an assortment of mezze; ask for prices on-site.
Chez Victoire
Chez Victoire offers an à-la-carte dinner or a four-course tasting menu. Decide together before booking: the tasting menu is for the whole table. The published menu also lists a côte de bœuf for two or three people. Read the dinner menu first to choose the meal format that suits your group.
BEFORE YOU GO — Book through the restaurant’s website and confirm the menu, any supplements and your dietary needs.
Official sources : Dinner menu · Website and booking. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Joséphine
In early 2026, Joséphine gave itself a second life: a fully redesigned room, a refreshed card — oysters, mussels, lobster ravioli, house-made pasta — and above all Djo, a hidden piano bar connected to the dining room. The week's fixtures have become neighbourhood rituals: all-you-can-eat mussels on Tuesday ($25), $1.25 oysters on Wednesday, and a four-course tasting menu at $49 that tours the card without emptying the wallet.
ON THE MENU — Tuesday's all-you-can-eat mussels ($25), Wednesday's oysters ($1.25), the four-course tasting menu ($49), the lobster ravioli.
Barranco
Lima's bohemian, coastal barrio, transplanted to Saint-Denis in April 2021. Chef Daniel Silva writes a card that owns the Peruvian street — ceviche, leche de tigre, anticuchos, chicharrón, lomo saltado — and the room plays the part all the way: a lively terrasse, weekend DJs, a pisco cocktail bar. A destination restaurant that behaves like a neighbourhood address, open noon and night seven days a week.
ON THE MENU — The classic ceviche, the leche de tigre, the anticuchos, the lomo saltado; ask for prices on-site.
La Prunelle
A quarter-century at the corner of Duluth and Drolet, and the formula hasn't budged: French cooking with travelling accents, Québec products through the seasons, and your bottle on the table. Around fifty seats, big windows that open onto the street once the weather turns, and regulars who come back for the halibut — regularly cited as the house dish — the sweetbreads and the duck breast. Reckon about $95 for three courses, your wine on top.
ON THE MENU — The halibut, the sweetbreads, the duck breast; about $95 for three courses, bring your bottle.
Le Pégase
On Gilford, away from the noise of the big arteries, Le Pégase is one of the bring-your-own-wine rooms the city cites when it wants to prove the formula can be serious — Voir ranked it in its Top 10. Chef-owner Michael Audet-Laparé keeps a French card without detours: rack of lamb in two mustards ($58), bison bavette with mushrooms ($53), duck breast ($51), osso buco ($50), and foie gras au torchon to start for $7 more. Two seatings a night, four nights a week — and for tables of twenty or more, the house even opens on its closing days.
ON THE MENU — The rack of lamb in 2 mustards ($58), the bison bavette ($53), the foie gras au torchon to start (+$7); bring your bottle.
La Raclette
Since 1985, the cheese has melted at the corner of Gilford and Christophe-Colomb. Raclette, cheese fondue, hot-stone grill: the house owns its Alps all the way, your bottle on the table and a three-season terrasse brimming with character — "a unique experience in North America," it says without blushing. Check the menu and reservation information on the official website, or contact the restaurant at 514 524-8118 before making plans. An address that's forty years old and keeps the rhythm of a family home.
ON THE MENU — Raclette, cheese fondue or hot-stone grill; check the current menu and reservation information.
Byblos Le Petit Café
In July 1989, Héméla Pourafzal, newly arrived from Rasht in Iran, opened this little café with her brother Massoud — in the entrance hall alone, a third of the current room. She built the tables with her own hands and painted the now-famous exotic wall herself. Thirty-six years later, her grandson Reza Laurent has taken over the house, and the Persian brunch remains a neighbourhood ritual: feta omelette at the top of the list, house sweet bread, artisanal jams, halva and Iranian tea served until 4 p.m. on weekends. In the evening, the Dizi arrives by the book, fresh herbs, torshi and raw onion at the ready.
ON THE MENU — The feta omelette at brunch, the Dizi (a vegetarian eggplant version offered), the Iranian tea with halva; ask for prices on-site.
Tri Express
Chef Tri Du arrived from Vietnam by sea, grew up in a foster family in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, passed through the kitchens of Kaizen and the Tree House, then opened this counter at the corner of Marquette in 2006. The room feels like an old French brasserie overrun with objects that tie together Japan, Vietnam and the sea — "when my mother turns things down at home, they end up here!" laughs his son Thierry, who runs the room. You come for "l'inattendue," the famous sushi pizza, the "divine" rolled in its cucumber leaf, the new-style sashimi and the black cod.
ON THE MENU — L'inattendue (sushi pizza), la divine, the new-style sashimi, the black cod; ask for prices on-site.
La Selva
Twenty seats, not one more, on a residential street the tourist maps ignore. Chef-owner Ali David Caro Garcia cooks a Mexico in depth here, far from tex-mex: the tilapia ceviche that made his name, huitlacoche — corn truffle — turkey enmoladas confit in duck fat, Michoacán carnitas tacos. On Wednesdays, the mojitos drop to $5. It's the kind of room the neighbourhood keeps to itself, where a second visit is enough for them to place you.
ON THE MENU — The tilapia ceviche, the confit-turkey enmoladas, the carnitas tacos, the Wednesday mojito ($5); ask for prices on-site.
Café chez Téta
Café chez Téta combines a Lebanese food menu with a coffee stop on Rachel. Its manouchés include zaatar, falafel and meat or cheese options, with salads and dips available alongside them. Pair that format with a cardamom latte or Lebanese coffee when you want something different from the grill and poutine choices farther along Rachel. The café’s own site also provides a takeaway ordering link.
ON THE MENU — Compare the zaatar or falafel manouché with the other toppings, then choose a dip, salad or cardamom coffee.
Official sources : Contact · Menu. Entry updated September 8, 2026.
Pho Rachel
Steps from boulevard Saint-Laurent, a tiny room run by a couple, no website, no publicity machine — just a pho that has customers in June 2026 writing that "everything is homemade, down to the pickled radishes and the fish sauce." The house special soup runs around $4 for the starter size, the vegetarian spring roll $3, and the chicken-and-wonton pho comes out review after review. Service runs in two shifts, lunch and dinner — call before you cross the city.
ON THE MENU — The chicken-wonton pho, the house special soup, the vegetarian imperial rolls; low prices, confirm hours by phone.
Restaurant Sandhu
Ajmer Sandhu trained in Italy before opening on Papineau in 1989 — and he never chose between his two cuisines. The result: the only card in town where butter chicken and pizza share the same order, about 210 dishes, a family table that has fed the same corner for thirty-five years. Butter chicken with naan remains the house's most-ordered dish; Monday to Wednesday, two 12-inch pizzas go for $30, the two-dish combo for $32, the three-course takeout table d'hôte for $35. Open seven days until 10:45 p.m., which is nearly impossible to find on the Plateau anymore.
ON THE MENU — The butter chicken with naan, the two-dish combo ($32), the takeout table d'hôte ($35); two 12-inch pizzas for $30 Mon–Wed.
La Petite Marche
Six rooms across three floors, on Saint-Denis since 1994, and a house legend that traces the name to a little village in Auvergne. La Petite Marche has just given itself a refresh — new décor, refreshed card — without touching what sets it apart: three free shows every night, generous Italo-French plates, the table d'hôte at $40 or $45, and the pint of Belle Gueule at $6.75 anytime. The kind of big neighbourhood house where you can arrive as two on a Tuesday or fifteen on a Saturday, and where the music is part of the walls.
ON THE MENU — The table d'hôte ($40 or $45), the pint of Belle Gueule ($6.75), the weekend brunch; three free shows every night.
Patati Patata
Twelve seats at the counter, not many more, at the corner of Saint-Laurent and Rachel. Louis Dumontier, a carpenter, opened the fry shop in June 1996 and built the room with his own hands — the woodwork is still his, the teapot-shaped windows come from the tea room that occupied the place, and the façade is signed by Québec artist Étienne Martin. The house has since passed to two longtime employees, Luc Séguin and Benjamin Barker, without a thing changing: house fries, the small classic burger, poutine, Santropol espresso and microbrewery beers, until 2 a.m. every day. One of the rare counters on the Main where the neighbourhood comes before the foot traffic.
ON THE MENU — The house fries, the small classic burger, the poutine, the Santropol espresso; ask for prices on-site.
Majestique
Named in 2026 among Canada's 100 best bars, the Holder family's buvette has held its stretch of the Main since 2014 — it was Charles-Antoine Crête who built the first card. Today executive chef Alejandro Vega and chef de cuisine Maxim Guillemette serve $2 oysters at 5 à 7, the twelve-inch Gaspor-pork hot dog on Hof Kelsten bread, marinated whelks and house fries. The real feat: the kitchen serves until 2 a.m., every night without exception — which makes it the end-of-shift canteen for the neighbourhood's cooks and night workers.
ON THE MENU — The $2 oysters at 5 à 7, the Gaspor-pork hot dog, the marinated whelks, the house fries; ask for other prices on-site.
Le Darling
Three thousand square feet of corner, a circular central bar, mismatched lamps, doll houses and windows on two sides: since March 2017, the Holder brothers have run the former Les Bobards address across every register of the day. Pastries and Pilot coffee in the morning, weekend brunch, refined share plates at night — chef Alejandro Vega came through Jun I, Bouillon Bilk and Cadet — then a "menu fringale" when the night stretches out, the kitchen holding until 11 p.m. on weekdays and midnight Thursday to Saturday. You come in with a laptop at 10 a.m. and leave at close: same café, same bar, same address.
ON THE MENU — The Pilot coffee and pastries in the morning, the share plates at night, the menu fringale late; ask for prices on-site.
Else's
On a corner nothing marks out, Else Smith — Norwegian, self-proclaimed "punk godmother" — opened her tavern more than a quarter-century ago. She left in 2000, but her portrait still watches over the room. A quirk of the licence means you order food with your pint — and just as well, because the kitchen matters: mac and cheese, dumplings, tacos, and the cheesecake from "Johnny Cheesecake," a figure of Montréal pastry and the house's supplier since it opened. Jazzman Vic Vogel used to hold court at the piano in the back. The room is dark, full of neighbourhood artists, and no one stays a passing customer there for long.
ON THE MENU — The mac and cheese, the dumplings, the house beer, the Johnny Cheesecake cheesecake; ask for prices on-site.
Réservoir
The Duluth brewpub is twenty-four years old, and it's the team from the late Hôtel Herman that now runs it: Vickie Cartwright in the room, Simon Leblanc at the stove, Steven Thibault at the brewing — a dozen beers born in the tiny brewery at the back. The card keeps the devilled eggs and the smoked herring "from the very beginning, at the regulars' insistence," says the local press, which describes customers for whom the room is "a second home." Brunch came back in 2025 after five years away — La Presse gave it a full review — and the two-level terrasse ranks among the city's most beautiful.
ON THE MENU — The devilled eggs, the haddock accras with cilantro-mayo, the fried-chicken sandwich, a beer brewed on-site; ask for prices on-site.
Rôtisserie Romados
When the Machado family closed Romados in December 2020 after twenty-seven years, the Plateau thought it had lost its chicken. Nine months later, George Karaglanis — the house's manager for its last three years — reopened with Vicki Eliopoulos, and above all with the same piri-piri recipe. "Many ask whether the chicken is as good as before, and the answer is a categorical yes," the food press decides. Grilled chicken, chicken sandwich, Romados poutine, chorizo on the grill, pastéis de nata and bolas de Berlim for dessert — seven days a week, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., at the counter. The house is doing well enough to have opened a first branch in Laval in March 2026; the original, though, hasn't moved from Rachel.
ON THE MENU — The piri-piri chicken, the chicken sandwich, the grilled chorizo, the pastéis de nata; ask for prices on-site.
Restaurant Anecdote
At the address where a 1983 snack bar took its bow, a completely different house has moved in: a Greek grill turned toward the sea, led by chef Sohel, whose room posts 4.9 stars and June–July 2026 reviews that all circle the same promise — "we'll be back." Lamb chops at the top of the list, moussaka, grilled octopus, a seafood platter "worth every dollar" per a June guest, loukoumades to finish. A rarity on the Plateau, and precious to a whole audience: everything here is halal. In summer, the golden-hour terrasse does the rest.
ON THE MENU — The lamb chops, the grilled octopus, the seafood platter, the loukoumades; ask for prices on-site.
Viva Restaurant + Bar
Steps from Saint-Laurent, Viva refuses to choose between its two countries: a Neapolitan pizza oven on one side, piri-piri chicken and fish "like in Portugal" on the other, house-made pasta in between. The reviews keep insisting on the wood-fired pizzas — "the best I've had in Canada," writes a February 2026 guest — and on the mushroom-and-truffle risotto. The pattern that recurs in the comments is the one you're looking for: the second visit. "My second time here… I'll be back for another funghi pizza," notes an April regular. A family room, a terrasse, and a ninety-seat private room for big tables.
ON THE MENU — The wood-oven funghi pizza, the mushroom-truffle risotto, the piri-piri chicken, the calamari; ask for prices on-site.
Le Chien Fumant
Since the winter of 2009, Nicolas Gamache (ex-Distillerie) and chef Maksim Morin (ex-Joe Beef, Liverpool House) have held their corner of De Lanaudière — and they're in the room every night, which can't be faked. The 2-a.m. bistro of the early days has matured into a tasting-menu room: gueridon service, wagyu seared on volcanic stone, a cheese cart, caviar when the occasion suits. The paintings on the walls are for sale — the two owners run the Golden Crab art gallery right next door — and the house keeps a cigar cellar and a valet. It's no longer the neighbourhood's weekly canteen: it's its grand occasion, at the same two guys' place for seventeen years.
ON THE MENU — The tasting menu (required for three or more), the tartare and razor clams à la carte; ask for prices on-site.
Chez Claudette
The yellow counter on Laurier Est has fed the Plateau since 1982, and the local press cites it everywhere at once: best poutine in the city, best Plateau restaurants, classic Montréal diners — all three lists at the same time. The card counts more than forty poutines, including two signatures that sum up the house: "La Cabane" (bacon, sausage, maple syrup) and "Le Pharaon" (merguez, hot sauce), on hand-cut, twice-fried fries with cheese that squeaks just right. Long open all night on weekends, the house remains the neighbourhood's late-night address — call for the exact hour, but for forty-four years, it has answered.
ON THE MENU — La Cabane, Le Pharaon, the classic poutine on hand-cut fries; ask for prices on-site.
Also on the Plateau carnet
43 addresses noted on Prince-Arthur, Duluth, Saint-Denis, Saint-Laurent, Mont-Royal, Rachel, de Bullion, Chabot and du Parc, 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 Prince-Arthur
- Au 14 Prince-Arthurtraditional Vietnamese cooking
- Au Coin Berbèrecouscous and tajines
- Le Squaretartare; bring your own wine
- Dispensaire Microbrasseriemicrobrewery since May 2018
- Restaurant NemoVietnamese-leaning grill and seafood
- Panini Stoppressed paninis, late hours
On Duluth and Saint-Urbain
- Bagasmash burgers, local products
- Bar Suzannedumplings, cocktails, twelve beer lines
- Hum VeganAsian-influenced plant-based cooking
- Restaurant Bar VivarSpanish-minded wine bar
- TerracottaTunisian table, gargoulette cooking
- Café Santropolneighbourhood café since 1976
On Saint-Denis
- Brasserie Cherrierneighbourhood bar, sidewalk terrace
- La PanzeriaPuglian cooking, panzerotti
- Le Bleu Raisincontemporary French; bring your own wine
- Le Club Espresso Barthird-wave café and bike workshop
- Piel CanelaLatin American brunch
- Pizzeria ArtigianiNeapolitan pizza and fine-food grocery
- Sushi Momoplant-only sushi
- Tacos Tin Tantacos, hand-pressed tortillas
- Taqueria La MatracaMexico City tacos, open kitchen
On Saint-Laurent
- Beyt Cave à MangerLebanese-Mediterranean wine bar
- BrocardSyrian cooking, open kitchen
- Casa Minhotafamily-run Portuguese table
- KawsayEcuadorian cooking, ceviche and empanadas
On Mont-Royal and Laurier
- Le Comptoir de Mamieneighbourhood wine bar, natural wine
- Le MekongSoutheast Asian, sharing plates
- Linju Nouille Asiatique Expressnoodles and stir-fries, Chinese and Thai
- Ohana Sushi Veganvegan sushi
- Restaurant Bungalowmarket-driven cooking
- Nikkei MTLJapanese-Peruvian, ceviche and tartare
On Rachel and Marie-Anne
- Boca IbericaPortuguese and Spanish tapas
- Chez DovalPortuguese grill since 1974
- Fenêtre sur KaboulAfghan cooking, tea room
On de Bullion and Villeneuve
- Capitaine Sandwichcounter sandwiches since 2017
- Rites BerbèresKabyle cooking, couscous; bring your own wine
- Monsieur BFrench bistro; bring your own wine
On Chabot and Fabre
- BangluckThai noodles, neighbourhood shop
- Café Maison Chabotspecialty café, house viennoiseries
- Brume Cantinebrunch and sandwiches, micro-grocery
On du Parc and des Pins
- Restaurant AltoMontreal-style pizza, late night
- Restaurant ChillaxJapanese table, gyoza and katsudon
- Oh..MISO!!ramen, six seats, reservations advised
Plan your visit
Which options suit a meal to take away?
Ma Poule Mouillée explicitly offers takeaway as well as eating on site. Café chez Téta links to online takeaway ordering for its Lebanese café menu. Check the official ordering pages for the current selection and collection details.
How do L’Express and Au Pied de Cochon differ?
L’Express offers French brasserie classics and daily specials on Saint-Denis. Au Pied de Cochon’s Duluth restaurant describes its à la carte cooking as rooted in Québec with French brasserie influences. Choose by the current menu and book through the restaurant’s own website.
Are there meat-free choices among these five?
Café chez Téta lists zaatar manouchés and falafel options. La Banquise’s published menu includes La Véganomane, made with vegan cheese and sauce, and warns that cooked foods can come into contact. Confirm ingredients and dietary needs directly before ordering.
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