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Montreal, more than any other Canadian city, is famed for its food and that's because its chefs work tirelessly to create new dishes, menus and restaurants for Montrealers and tourists refined palets.
711 Côte de la Place D’Armes (St-Jacques), Montréal, QC
Japanese Restaurant · Vieux-Montréal · 59 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: Slapped right in the middle of Old Montreal, KYO was opened by the folks behind Groupe Antonopoulos on June 20th. A chill, bar-oriented Japanese spot, it offers over 25 varieties of sake.
Restaurant · Plateau-Mont-Royal · 5 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: Opened in June by giving it elegant art-deco stylings, a vast wine list, and an impressively classy seasonal menu w/ the likes of smoked duck & white turnips, or Berkshire pork chops w/ mustard cream.
Rental Homes Canada: The latest and loudest bistro-cuisine-bar in town. The menu throws out sharers like salmon gravlax with pecan ice cream, or beef cheek confit burgers with gravy dip.
Rental Homes Canada: An amazing crew behind Flyjin. An amazing menu (think foie gras & unagi BBQ or sablefish in sake, maple, and sesame), plus cocktails like the Zen Buddha, which mixes soju, curry, and sparkling sake.
Bar · Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension · 23 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: Located in Villeray with impressive wine list and solid cocktails (get a beer/Champagne, Black Velvet). the dinner menu is equally impressive with oysters, cheeses, and organic local charcuterie.
Rental Homes Canada: Come for a fresh squeezed Pimm's Potager (Pimm's, basil, cucumber) or boeuf tartar tapas, stay to hit the dance floor, thanks to an impressive DJ lineup boasting folks like Shaydakiss and Jay London.
844 avenue du Mont-Royal Est (Rue Saint-Hubert), Montréal, QC
Restaurant · Plateau-Mont-Royal · 12 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: Traditional imaginings of cassoulet, bouillabaisse, boeuf bourguignon, and frogs legs. Order the wheel of baked Camembert (with caramelized onions and maple praline pecans). And don't share.
Rental Homes Canada: How many times have you been stranded in Westmount without kimchi? Fusion without the $16/maki price tag, you'll find stacks of almond, miso, ginger cookies, and mountains of citrus edamame salads.
South American Restaurant · Plateau-Mont-Royal · 13 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: Sunny new concept restaurant. Choose from a variety of marinades mixed fresh to order in a cocktail shaker, then combined with plump, limey tilapia and crispy plantain chips.
9, rue Fairmount Est (Saint-Laurent), Montréal, QC
Japanese Restaurant · Mile-End · 6 tips and reviews
Rental Homes Canada: Café Sardine by day, this sleek coffee shop throws off its spectacles and neck tie to become resto Iwashi by night. Sardine escabeche with seaweed vinaigrette and tuna tartar with wasabi crème fraiche
Rental Homes Canada: Chef Catherine Dawes offers an exhaustively creative menu from chimichurri octopus with avocado tempura to pork tripe with chorizo. And the brunch? Banana dulce de leche pancakes with maple bacon.