The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Mémo
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Rank 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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 6. 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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- 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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- 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 9. 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 10. 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 11. The Cloakroom
Cocktail Bar
Behind a menswear shop in a century-old Golden Square Mile building, this twenty-five-seat bar conducts cocktails like bespoke tailoring—precise, invisible in technique, built from a decade's worth of house-made amari, rare aged spirits, and tinctures distilled at low temperature to preserve delicate flavors. No menu; the bartenders read you instead, personalizing classics to fit the moment.
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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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 14. 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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- AAA Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · Canada's Best Hotel Restaurant
- Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
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Rank 16. Maison Boulud
Contemporary French
Inside the Ritz-Carlton, Boulud's kitchen bridges French tradition and New York directness—rib roast and pâté en croûte arrive with a certain swagger. Multiple rooms let you choose your theater: the open kitchen's heat, fireplace warmth, the conservatory's light, or the garden's reprieve from the surrounding city.
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Rank 17. Renoir
Modern New American
A Burgundian chef works the line in a hotel dining room that feels less institutional than intimate, leaning on regional Quebec ingredients to shade classical French technique: gravlax salmon topped with maple caviar, Arctic char with citrus sabayon, a duck à l'orange that justifies its place on the menu. Olivier Perret's cooking acknowledges tradition without genuflecting to it.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best French Cuisine Restaurant
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best New Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 19. 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 20. 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 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 22. 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 23. 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 24. 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 26. 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
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal
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Rank 27. 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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Rank 28. 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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- Spirited Awards 2026 · 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 31. El Pequeño Bar
Cuban-Inspired Cocktail Bar
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Rank 35. Bar George
British
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
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Rank 37. 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 38. MARCUS
Modern Cuisine
Light floods the third-floor dining room of the Four Seasons, where bay windows dissolve into a makeshift terrace when the weather permits. Marcus Samuelsson's menu pivots toward seafood—Dover sole, lobster, oysters—with occasional forays into lamb and Wagyu, each plate reflecting a restless, eclectic sensibility.
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Rank 41. 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 42. 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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- Spirited Awards 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · International Bartender of the Year · Kate Boushel
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 44. 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 45. Schwartz’s Deli
Smoked Meat American
A Montreal landmark since the late 1920s, Schwartz's wraps you in decades of photographs and newspaper clippings the moment you enter. The signature smoked meat—brisket cured in house spices, smoked and steamed, then sliced thin onto rye with mustard—remains the reason people queue here, though counter seating and off-peak visits offer escape routes. It is less restaurant than institution.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal
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Rank 46. 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 47. 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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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 4 Finalist · International Bartender of the Year · Kate Boushel
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Rank 49. Cabaret L'Enfer
Creative
Chef Massimo Piedimonte's seven-course tasting menu unfolds in an industrial-chic room inspired by Montmartre's legendary cabaret, where Italian and French-Canadian influences collide on the plate. Dishes shift daily with the market, each plated with meticulous precision and served alongside Montreal cultural references that feel neither forced nor whimsical.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · Canada's Best Restaurant
- Air Canada 2023 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #45 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 50. Restaurant L'Express
Classic French
A Plateau fixture since 1980, L'Express occupies a Parisian-style room of claret walls and Art Deco fixtures where night owls gather until half past midnight. The à la carte menu holds steady on classics—bone marrow, veal kidneys in mustard, hanger steak with shallot butter—while servers navigate the crowded tables with professional grace.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #73 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 51. Restaurant de l'ITHQ
Regional Cuisine
In a bright room overlooking Square Saint-Louis, culinary students and seasoned instructors collaborate on French-technique dishes built from Quebec's larder—char from Gaspé, bison from Lanaudière, mountain honey. The kitchen's seasonal rhythm culminates in tableside flambéed crêpes Suzette, a reminder that training and ambition need not announce themselves loudly.
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Rank 52. Au Pied de Cochon
Québécois French
Martin Picard's temple to foie gras and offal embraces the French peasant maxim that every part of the pig deserves the plate. The open kitchen pulses with energy, the wine list anchors an unapologetically indulgent Québécois menu, and pouding chômeur provides the sweet, humble finish.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #78 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 53. Le Violon
Seafood
In the Plateau, this elegant room channels restrained French-leaning cooking: monkfish with lobster bisque, trout embellished with matsutake, a Dalmatian painting presiding over the room. The kitchen's grip on technique and ingredient integrity echoes through pastry and a wine list favoring smaller producers.
- Air Canada 2025 · Best Dessert · Best New Restaurants
- 50 Best 2025 · #29 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 54. Mon Lapin
Modern Cuisine
Bare tables, lively noise, the kind of ease that lets a kitchen play without pretense. Mon Lapin pivots on small, startling gestures—leeks presented like mussels, habanada peppers cradling baccalà, pappardelle with ragù bianco and chestnuts—each dish a minor act of restraint and precision. Eight years in, it remains neither neighbourhood spot nor destination, but somehow both.
- 50 Best 2025 · North America's Best Sommelier Award · Vanya Filipovic
- 50 Best 2025 · #2 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Air Canada 2018 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 55. 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 56. Sushi Nishinokaze
Edomae Sushi
In Mile End's eight-seat counter, chef Vincent Gee applies edomae rigor to wild seafood flown in several times weekly, his rice seasoned with artisanal vinegar and stored in straw baskets. The minimalist room doubles as a ceramics gallery, and each nigiri—aged, marinated, sometimes kissed with Kishū charcoal—tastes like patience made edible.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #5 · Best New Restaurants
- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 57. 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 58. La Chronique
French
A wood-paneled room on Laurier Ouest where formality feels earned rather than imposed. Chef Marco Perrier treats pristine ingredients—Hokkaido scallops, Gaspé char—with quiet precision, letting each element breathe. Desserts, particularly the cream puff, arrive with the same care as the wine list's thoughtful obscurities; this is dining built to last.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 60. Le Majestique
Seafood
A wood-paneled room of mounted deer heads and mismatched chairs hums with industry regulars nursing natural wines and house cocktails like the Roche Papier Shiso. Oysters arrive briny and alive; the seafood tower is theater. Le Majestique trades in kitschy warmth and the kind of ebullient noise that feels earned rather than performed.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #40 · Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
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Luca Vinci's permanent pasta kitchen on Clark Street focuses intently on handmade dough and seasonal Italian fundamentals—baccalà spread on polenta, agnolotti swimming in roasting jus—with a natural wine list that doesn't overshadow the plate. The dining room feels relaxed and precise at once, the kind of place where a Philly cheesesteak shares equal standing with tiramisù.
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #8 · Best New Restaurants
- Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #47 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 63. Rôtisserie La Lune
Traditional Cuisine
Behind glass on St-Zotique, a brasserie devoted to the Quebec rotisserie reimagined by the Mon Lapin team: farm birds turn golden on the spit, arriving with crispy fries and house gravy. The 70-seat room hums with family dinners and late-night regulars, its wine list a French-Quebec conversation steered by two of the country's best sommeliers.
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #2 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #21 · Best Restaurants
- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 64. Montréal Plaza
Contemporary French
Montréal Plaza pairs whimsy—dinosaur tartare vessels, upside-down dollhouses—with exacting technique from co-chefs who balance French tradition against Japanese precision. The tasting menu, introduced by popular demand, unfolds through dishes like sea urchin with soy and ginger, each ingredient selected with uncompromising care.
- 50 Best 2025 · #22 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #13 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 65. 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 66. Limbo
Modern Cuisine
A long bar and open kitchen frame Chef Harrison Shewchuk's daily-shifting menu of French and Italian-inflected cooking that finds as much care in its vegetables as its proteins. Einkorn bread with cultured butter, mouclade, sunflower-seed risotto: dishes read simply but carry a deliberate, sometimes surprising depth.
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #3 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #23 · Best Restaurants
- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 67. Kitano Shokudo
Japanese
A narrow red-brick storefront holds a counter and a few tables where chef Hiroshi Kitano works through ingredient-driven Japanese bistro dishes—crispy karaage with yuzu mayo, sashimi, a duck mazemen. The uni carbonara, wheat noodles cloaked in sea urchin cream and pecorino, announces the kitchen's particular gift for collision and restraint in equal measure.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal
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Rank 68. 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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A brutalist drinking room where bartenders work visible behind a stainless steel counter, their precision evident in drinks like the Glow On—a force-carbonated highball layering Scotch, aquavit, cedar and tonka bean. Martinis arrive tableside in perpetually refreshed frozen glasses, though a Labatt 50 commands equal respect here.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #17 · Best Bars
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Rank 70. Lawrence
Modern Cuisine
Marc Cohen works alone in a 25-seat open kitchen on Fairmount East, composing tasting menus where supporting ingredients—carrots, mussels, bone marrow—matter as much as the protein. His seasonal cooking draws from nearby farms and his own butcher shop, moving between squid-ink pasta and tripe gratins with equal precision. A small room built for conversation, and a wine list that rewards curiosity.
- Air Canada 2011 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #57 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 71. Hoogan et Beaufort
Wood-fired New American
A converted factory with century-old brick walls frames Marc-André Jetté's wood-fired cooking, where agnolotti stuffed with celeriac and Louis d'Or cheese, whole roasted duck, and even desserts emerge from the flames with charred precision. The wine list and alcohol-free cocktails suggest a kitchen that understands proportion and restraint as much as smoke.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 72. Le Virunga
African
Maria-José de Frias draws from her Congolese roots and Quebec's larder to build a cuisine where yam and plantain meet turmeric-glazed beef, each plate spiced with intention. In her intimate dining room, her daughter Zoya tends to guests with the ease of someone who knows exactly what matters.
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Rank 73. Leméac
Parisian Brasserie French
A red-brick Parisian brasserie on Laurier Avenue where bow-tied servers ferry beef cheek Bourguignonne and house-made black pudding past a counter thrumming with regulars. The wine list roams Burgundy and the Rhône with the confidence of a place that knows exactly what it is.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
- Condé Nast Traveler The 28 Best Restaurants in Montreal
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Rank 74. Parapluie
Modern French
A 30-seat shrine to French technique where Chef Robin Filteau Boucher mans an open kitchen visible from a marble counter wrapping the room. His seasonally driven plates—anchored by a legendary lobster egg mayonnaise—showcase restrained elegance and sauces of remarkable depth.
- Air Canada 2024 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #56 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 75. Mastard
Modern Cuisine
Simon Mathys's intimate tasting room on a quiet Montreal street embraces minimalist design but radiates warmth; his five-course menu pivots on Quebec ingredients transformed through precise technique and unexpected combinations—walleye with grilled zucchini purée and miso, scallops on salsify with crab emulsion—that somehow cohere into something both eccentric and inevitable.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Air Canada 2022 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #63 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 77. Pichai
Thai
Jesse Grasso's fiercely seasoned Thai and Isaan cooking channels street-food intensity, anchored by local ingredients and a wine list favoring whites and natural wines. The sleek room buzzes with Thai families and travelers seeking the unvarnished tastes of Bangkok.
- Air Canada 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #36 · Best Restaurants
- Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
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Rank 78. Juliette Plaza
Modern Cuisine
A suspended boat and Asterix strips set the tone in this 20-seat sibling to Montreal Plaza, where chefs Cheryl Johnson and Charles-Antoine Crête work small plates with nostalgic Québécois inflections and modern Asian notes. Fish tartare in a cone, slow-braised beef chuck—the cooking is simpler than next door but no less playful, built on local produce and irreverent charm.
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · Recommends
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 80. Bar St-Denis
Contemporary French
Gauthier's seasonally driven French cooking channels Middle Eastern inflections—falafel alongside boudin, clams with tabbouleh—in a refreshed art deco dining room anchored by a long bar. Impeccable technique and imaginative pairing define the place, from razor clams on the half shell to barbecued trout with dandelion greens, with Homsy's thoughtful wine list matching the ambition.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #22 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
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Rank 83. Pumpui
Thai
A bright Thai counter in Little Italy where chef Jesse Mulder's years abroad show in uncompromising dishes: chicken red curry with proper depth, vegan pad kaprao, squash fritters cut with tamarind's sharp edge. The grocery-comptoir setup—casual stools, a few booths—signals that technique and ingredient matter more than ceremony.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · Recommends
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal
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Rank 84. Oncle Lee
Contemporary Chinese
Chef Anderson Lee's contemporary Chinese cooking at this Laurier avenue spot balances classical technique—sesame noodles, garlic fried rice—with playful reinvention: sweet and sour eggplant finished with peanuts and bacon, beef tartare spiked with doubanjiang. The cocktails show the same restless creativity, and every ingredient speaks for itself.
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · Top 50 Honourees · Elite 30 Canada
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 85. Le Petit Alep
Syrian Middle Eastern
Sisters Chahla and Tania Frangié run this fifty-year-old Syrian and Armenian kitchen with the ease of people stewarding family tradition—succulent braised lamb, grilled sea bass with arak, mezze meant for sharing. The mehalabié arrives trembling with rosewater and orange blossom, a dessert that tastes like memory itself.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · Recommends
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 86. Damas
Syrian Middle Eastern
The dining room glows with the energy of a neighborhood gathering place where Syrian and Ottoman flavors collide on plates of dazzling color and freshness. Order the lamb in any form, claim a seat facing the open kitchen, and watch the bread emerge from the fire while the charcoal grill works its precise magic.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
- Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
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Rank 88. 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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A modest ramen counter where the tonkotsu broth simmers with the patience of obsession, yielding a creamy, umami-dense bowl that justifies the inevitable wait outside. Noodles are pulled and cooked to order; toppings—silky chashu, jammy egg, bamboo—arrive precisely placed. No reservations means lines, but the cooking speaks for itself.
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Rank 90. Salle Climatisée
French
A twenty-seat bistro in Little Italy where chef James Coyle builds a compact, seasonal menu around Quebec producers, with roasted cabbage and clams among the standouts. Bar seats face the kitchen, and the playful ambiance—courtesy of a Calder-like mobile and low-intervention wines—rewards the squeeze.
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Rank 91. Casavant
French
A corner bistro in a buzzing neighborhood where the kitchen stays lit until midnight, turning French staples—saucisse-purée, steak tartare with smoked mackerel—into something worth the trip. Chef Charles-Tristan Prévost sources from Jean Talon market and favors natural wines, building a menu that feels both generous and considered.
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- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 93. Claire Jacques
French
A neighbourhood buvette where the two chefs behind Patrice Pâtissier and Mastard cook with the same disciplined lightness they bring to their other projects. Small plates—whipped ricotta with oyster mushrooms, shiitake, sunflower seeds—pivot effortlessly between a quick afternoon visit and a proper dinner, the seasonal menu never straying far from what tastes good right now.
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Rank 94. Gia Vin & Grill
Wood-fired Italian
A converted garage with subway tiles and wood-fired heat, where the team behind Elena and Nora Gray builds a seasonal Italian menu around grilled meats and seafood—arrosticini, local farm lamb, mussels escabèche—alongside supple pastas and daytime antipasti. The wine list tilts toward natural bottles, a Montreal reflex executed with conviction.
- Air Canada 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #71 · Best Restaurants
- Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
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Rank 95. Le Filet
Seafood
A bustling seafood-focused bistro on Mont-Royal where the daily catch dictates the menu. Pan-seared scallops arrive in almond and cider sauce; striped bass comes sided with parsnip purée and black truffle. The packed dining room thrums with conversation, though a seat at the counter suits a solitary evening just as well.
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Rank 97. Rouge Gorge
French
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
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Rank 100. 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.