In a city whose cultural identity shifts between British, French, and North American, Japanese food is also an important part of this colored Montreal food scenes. Here are the city’s best:
9, rue Fairmount Est (Saint-Laurent), Montréal, QC
Japanese Restaurant · Mile-End · 6 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: Cuisine by Chef Hachiro Fujise (from Toronto’s Guu). The tonkotsu ramen w/ pork, or the sake-steamed cherrystone clams washed down w/ a gin & yuzu tonic. Try it and let us know what you think!
711 Côte de la Place D’Armes (St-Jacques), Montréal, QC
Japanese Restaurant · Vieux-Montréal · 59 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: KYO is the newcomer: You pretty much can’t go wrong with their menu, especially if you order the Gaijin maki rolls (caramelized onions, tempura cheese, avocado, spicy mayo, and beef sashimi).
3723 boul. Saint-Laurent (coin Des Pins), Montréal, QC
Japanese Restaurant · Plateau-Mont-Royal · 119 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: Traditional wood-hews Japanese aesthetic with late-served menu goods like green tea-braised spare ribs, roasted half-chickens in kimchi sauce, and awesome pork pancakes w/ grilled Nordic shrimp.
4006 rue Sainte-Catherine O. (coin Atwater), Westmount, QC
Japanese Restaurant · 83 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: How about the ebimayo (fried shrimp with peanuts and spicy mayo), their bacon-wrapped asparagus, grilled okonomiyaki pork belly, and their famed takoyaki octopus balls.
1862 rue Ste-Catherine O. (coin St-Marc), Montréal, QC
Japanese Restaurant · Ville-Marie · 160 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: The menu: From their grilled tuna belly, spicy mayo shrimp burger, or 48hr pork on rice (go with the pork), then washing it all down with a rare yuzu draught beer, mixed w/ Japanese citrus. Go there!