The Top 72 Places to Eat and Drink Near Babar Restaurant
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Rank 2. Pavane
French
François Côté's Pavane occupies a narrow storefront on Granby's main street with the weathered warmth of wood and leather, its menu a frank collage of bistro classics and Japanese impulses. Calf's liver with soubise, lobster mac and gratin, kamikaze salmon tartare—each plate arrives with the ease of a place that knows what it does and stops short of pretense.
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Rank 3. Maison Boire
Traditional Cuisine
A coffee-colored cube in Granby's center houses an open kitchen where vegetables, fish, and meat meet flame and maple smoke. The dining room—black tables, glassed wine cellar, chef's counter—radiates understated refinement, while rooftop gardens signal what the cooking promises: restraint, clarity, the particular sweetness of things char-marked and alive.
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Rank 4. Espace Old Mill
Modern New American
In a restored 1849 mill beside a sprawling market garden, Jean-Martin Fortier's restaurant serves a single nightly menu drawn from vegetables grown steps away—beets that dissolve on the tongue, cabbage charred and glossed with beurre blanc. The cooking is modern but tethered to soil and season, each plate a small argument for what happens when a farmer learns to cook.
- Air Canada 2023 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 5. Parcelles
Vegetarian
Chef Dominic Labelle's farmhouse restaurant pivots daily around vegetables and proteins grown on his own land near Magog. Duck with Romanesco and pastured eggs illustrate a kitchen that works close to the harvest, with natural wines to match.
- Air Canada 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #79 · Best Restaurants
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 6. Le Hatley
Modern Cuisine
On a lakeside estate, Chef Alexandre Vachon works with Québec ingredients in precise, architecturally composed dishes—scallops with sea urchin, Sterling beef paired with onion condiment—that honor classical technique while pursuing bold combinations. The dining room overlooks Lake Massawippi; the wine list is thoughtfully curated; the service unfolds without fuss.
- AAA Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 8. Bistro Le Tap Room
Traditional Cuisine
Rustic bistro adjoining Manoir Hovey, its walls hung with vintage hunting gear and farm tools, radiates unpretentious charm. The kitchen treats traditional Quebec fare—bison tartare, seared scallops—with restrained modern flourishes.
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Rank 11. Vin Polisson
Wine Bar
A narrow room with counter seating overlooking a tight kitchen, where Chef Isabelle Charest works with local, seasonal vegetables and sources natural wines from Québec and the Nordic regions. The cooking is intuitive and spare, letting produce speak for itself; wine pairings anchor each plate with precision rather than ceremony.
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Rank 12. Toqué!
Modern French
Normand Laprise has spent three decades mining Quebec's seasons for a refined tasting menu rooted in French technique but distinctly local in spirit. The wine cellar of 700 bottles and attentive service frame dishes that move playfully between tradition and invention.
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Rank 14. Beba
Argentinian
Two brothers honor their grandmother's name and Argentine-Jewish heritage in this 28-seat Verdun room, where marinated mackerel on sesame bread and guinea fowl pâté with green tomato relish signal a kitchen that thinks beyond borders. The cooking is bold and generous, the hospitality genuine, the natural wine list a natural fit.
- 50 Best 2025 · #50 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #6 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 15. Bibine Buvette
Modern Cuisine
Chef Chloé Ouellet's second restaurant channels bistro spirit through a short menu of Quebec ingredients—scallops with corn and peaches, venison with blue cheese—built on vegetables from her own garden. A large bar and covered terrace amplify the convivial mood.
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A glittery ten-year-old destination where locals and visitors mingle over inventive cocktails like mezcal-based 24 Karot, anchored by warm service and classic technique. DJ nights and top-shelf agave spirits draw crowds to the bar, while fried chicken and truffle pasta keep the mood unpretentious.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #62 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Bar Team
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Behind a modest door near the old port, thick stone walls and candlelit leather define a space that feels like a private French hunting lodge. The kitchen works deftly with local ingredients—sweetbread vol-au-vents, halibut in bacon jam, trout confit—letting ambitious sauces do the talking. Romance lives in the restraint.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 18. Sabayon
Modern Cuisine
In a sixteen-seat room on Rue du Centre, Patrice Demers and Marie-Josée Beaudoin orchestrate a six-course tasting where pastry training meets savory precision and wine pours meet the plate. Grilled oyster mushrooms beneath a crisp arlette, Arctic char inflected with tea, seasonal vegetables at their peak—each dish arrives as a small argument for restraint and local terroir.
- Air Canada 2024 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #44 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 19. Jérôme Ferrer - Europea
Modern French
A glass-walled kitchen frames the chef's French technique applied to Quebec's finest—lobster, venison, caviar—while light floods this modern room. Silver service and nostalgic flourishes like maple prebaked pork rinds elevate what could be austere into something warmly theatrical.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Fine Dining Experience
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · Canada's Best Restaurant
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Rank 20. Monarque
Modern French
The brasserie sprawls across two moods: a lively bar for quick lunches, an elegant dining room for lingering. Chef Jérémie Bastien marries French technique with Asian inflection—foie gras with dashi and yuzu, sea trout scattered with daikon and pak choi—a balance of restraint and refinement that feels neither borrowed nor forced.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · Canada's Best Restaurant
- Air Canada 2019 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #61 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 21. The Coldroom
Cocktail Bar
A duck painted above an unmarked door ushers you downstairs into a 19th-century warehouse where the Sallerach—Courvoisier, rhubarb, anise absinthe—captures the spirit-forward traditions of nearby Salle Climatisée. The speakeasy rewards those willing to order by mood rather than menu.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #97 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
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- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · World's Best Rooftop Restaurant
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Winner · North America's Best Rooftop Restaurant
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Rank 24. Joe Beef
Lyonnaise French
The din and generosity of a Lyonnais bistro animate this Montreal institution, where lobster spaghetti with brandy cream and oeuf en gelée with black truffle sit beside steaks and rabbit à la royale. Jean-Philippe Miron's menu treats richness as virtue, the wine list as invitation, and the napkins—mercifully large—as honest acknowledgment of what eating here demands.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #51 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 25. Foxy
Wood-fired Mediterranean
In a converted industrial space on Notre-Dame West, Foxy builds its menu around wood-fired technique and locally sourced ingredients with a Mediterranean lean. Charred mushrooms, Arctic char, and beef arrive meant for sharing, executed with the unselfconscious skill of a kitchen that trusts its fire.
- Air Canada 2016 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
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Rank 26. Nora Gray
Italian
- Air Canada 2012 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
- Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
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Rank 27. Bouillon Bilk
Modern Cuisine
Behind a modest storefront on rue Sainte-Catherine, Chef François Nadon assembles refined plates that collide ingredients—miso enoki with celery root, hazelnut butter with seared scallop—in careful, globetrotting conversation. Pastry chef Léa Godin Beauchemin's desserts and Minh Doan's wine list suggest a kitchen thinking in layers, not gestures.
- Air Canada 2011 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 28. Le Mousso
Creative
The dining room hushed as the kitchen brigade emerges, each chef bearing identical plates for thirty synchronized diners. Le Mousso orchestrates a three-hour tasting of ten dishes announced to the collective room—a theatrical ritual where lobster poached in spinach with grated ewe's milk cheese becomes not just dinner but shared ceremony. It's precision theater, all technique and warmth.
- Air Canada 2023 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 29. Bar Dominion
Cocktail Bar
A Art Deco room with original tilework and woodwork holds ninety years of Montreal's weight lightly. Andrew Whibley's cocktails have the precision of his Cloakroom pedigree, while Pablo Rojas's kitchen turns out impeccable steak frites and a raw bar that doesn't apologize. Grand hotel elegance married to gastropub appetite.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #37 · Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
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Rank 31. Gol’s Lanzhou Noodle
Lanzhou Noodles
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · Top 50 Honourees · Elite 30 Canada
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · Top 50 Honourees · Elite 30 Canada
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Rank 32. Restaurant Panacée
Modern Cuisine
Chef Catherine Couvet Desrosiers works a circular counter for twenty diners, her seasonal cooking brightened by tangy vinaigrettes and fermented vegetables with an ease that feels both precise and convivial. A bluefin tuna with carrot medley or barbecued pork loin with pan sauce arrives as proof that restraint and care make their own argument.
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Rank 33. Oncle Lee Kăo
Chinese
Red lanterns cast a warm glow over a lively dining room where grilled lamb skewers, spiced duck, and charred sea bream emerge from the kitchen with the confidence of a team that knows fire. The grilled Cornish hen, glazed in soy and maple, suggests a restaurant comfortable moving between continents without apology.
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Rank 35. La Spada
Roman Italian
A Roman osteria transplanted wholesale into a deliberately excessive dining room where the noise level matches the ambition. Cacio e pepe and bone-in veal Parmigiano arrive with the confidence of a place that knows exactly what it does, while a chef's table in back offers a seasonal tasting menu for those seeking quiet authority over convivial chaos.
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- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · International Bartender of the Year · Kate Boushel
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 37. Le Serpent
Italian Mediterranean
Le Serpent occupies a former foundry's warehouse, its exposed brick and metal furniture framing Italian cuisine that balances raw seafood's citrus brightness with rich pasta. The venison haunch with smoked celery root has become a quiet signature in this deliberately unfinished room.
- Air Canada 2014 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Condé Nast Traveler The 28 Best Restaurants in Montreal
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Rank 38. Garde Manger
Seafood
Behind a modest entrance in Old Montreal, Garde Manger unfolds as a wood-paneled room of leather and low light, humming with eighties synth. Oysters and razor clams arrive nearly unadorned; shared plates tether the chef's technique to whatever caught his eye that morning. The wine list wanders happily across France, Italy, and natural producers, a map of genuine curiosity.
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Rank 39. Dorsia
European
Marble and mirrors frame a polished room where French and Italian cooking merge with restraint—roasted sea bream, beetroot agnolotti, duck à l'orange. The menu whispers rather than shouts, suited to quiet dinners for two.
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Rank 40. Hélicoptère
Modern Cuisine
David Ollu's seasonal bistro at the Hochelaga entrance composes clean, spare dishes—courgette with XO sauce, house-made pappardelle with lemon corn and lobster—that balance simplicity with precision. The room radiates warmth; the drinks list is thoughtful; a back café serves coffee and light meals by day.
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Rank 41. Ferreira
Portuguese
Chef Natalia Machado Villaverde's Portuguese seafood shines in a warm room punctuated by azulejo tiles and a sprawling bar. A 400-strong wine list heavy on ports and rare spirits justifies both the elegance and the reasonable price.
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Rank 42. Bar Bisou Bisou
Cocktail Bar
Stone and whitewashed brick frame this Old Montreal aperitivo bar, where sherry, vermouth, and amaro take center stage. Order a Nouvelle Saison—tequila, Calvados, rosé, Nonino amaro, red cabbage—or drift through low-ABV drinks meant to linger. Small plates like Spanish tortilla and briny Gildas anchor the ritualistic sipping.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #24 · Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 44. Heni
Southwest Asian/North African
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
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Rank 45. El Pequeño Bar
Cuban-Inspired Cocktail Bar
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Rank 48. Bar George
British
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
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Rank 52. Place Carmin
French
A soaring industrial room with skylights and an open kitchen hosts classical French brasserie cooking: foie gras terrine, duck à l'orange, blood pudding Tatin. Desserts bend local flavors—maple crème brûlée, Paris-Brest with sea buckthorn—toward indulgence. The design signals ambition; the food follows through with care and restraint.
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Rank 54. Mémo
Modern Cuisine
An industrial loft with exposed pipes frames a central counter kitchen where the chef moves between continents on a single plate: gochujang-glazed ribs, hamachi crudo with ponzu, ceviche, aguachile. The cooking is eclectic and assured, grounded in technique rather than novelty, each dish arriving with its own logic and hunger.
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Rank 56. O-Thym
Regional Cuisine
A brighter room built largely from salvage announces O-Thym's commitment to restraint—a philosophy evident in blackboard menus that pivot with the seasons and Quebec suppliers. Lamb bavette with kale, Arctic char and carrots, beets folded into pastry: the cooking trades complexity for clarity, and welcomes your own wine to the table.
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Rank 60. Le Vin Papillon
Modern Cuisine
In Little Burgundy, a convivial wine bar run by the Joe Beef crew trades the formal for the familial, pairing hand-sliced Petite Bourgogne ham with Fleur des Monts cheese and beef tartare that echoes tourtière. The biodynamic and natural wine list feels less curated than discovered, the changing menu built for sharing among friends rather than impressing strangers.
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Rank 63. Sushi Okeya Kyujiro
Japanese
A theatrical omakase counter unfolds with dramatic flair, presenting over twenty small dishes that move swiftly from delicate chawanmushi to pristine nigiri. The progression showcases Japanese technique with fish ranging from obscure varieties to Hokkaido uni, each plate a small statement of precision.
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Rank 68. Candide
Modern Cuisine
In a converted rectory behind Église Saint-Joseph, Candide opens to exposed brick and wooden tables salvaged from church pews, with a kitchen counter where chefs work openly. The monthly set menu pivots on market availability, treating humble vegetables and local proteins with inventive precision—grilled broccoli glazed in lemon balm vinegar, guinea fowl paired with apple and caramelized shallots.
- Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Condé Nast Traveler The 28 Best Restaurants in Montreal
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Rank 70. Cadet
Modern Cuisine
A minimalist room near the Quartier des Spectacles channels the same kitchen that runs Bouillon Bilk, trading formality for a convivial counter where tapas meant for sharing—marinated mackerel, hand-cut beef tartare, seared calamari with chili beurre blanc—arrive in quick succession. The chocolate-banana tart closes the meal with casual grace.
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- Air Canada 2017 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Condé Nast Traveler The 28 Best Restaurants in Montreal
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