The Top 88 Places to Eat Near Restaurant L'Épicurieux

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

Named for the balsam fir, this bright, casual bistro in the Laurentians feels like a neighbourhood spot that happened to end up somewhere very pretty. The team, with roots at Le Mousso and Le Club Chasse et Pêche, turns out modern Québécois cooking built for sharing over natural wine. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a room where bottles circulate freely and nobody seems in any particular hurry to leave.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
2. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Air Canada 2024 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
2. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

An old house in the heart of Mont-Tremblant village, turned into a cozy fine dining room where the chef's past life cooking on yachts quietly shapes the menu. Local ingredients get the globe-trotting treatment: Lake Tremblant walleye shows up in a crispy tempura, and the osso bucco is the kind of low-and-slow thing that makes you cancel your ski plans. Italy and France anchor the wine list, and the service is warm without being fussy.

1. AAA Four Diamonds
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A small castle-like building across from the Saint-Sauveur church turns out to house a traditional French restaurant with serious local sourcing ambitions. Suckling pig from a named family farm, boudin noir, maple-glazed sweetbreads, and a flat iron steak done properly with mushrooms and red wine give the menu a distinctly Québécois accent. Lunch runs on a set formula; evenings open up to à la carte. The welcome is genuinely warm, in the way that feels earned rather than rehearsed.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. AAA Four Diamonds

A working maple orchard an hour from Montreal, with a wood-fired evaporator doubling as the stove. Martin Picard and Vincent Dion-Lavallée run this cabane à sucre as a long, celebratory tasting experience, feeding groups of six to twenty-four through fifteen or more courses of Quebec terroir. Come winter, it's all tourtière and woodsmoke inside the heated cabin. By summer, the feast moves into the orchard under canvas, and the menu tilts toward the garden.

1. Air Canada 2018 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #49 · Best Restaurants
3. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

The menu arrives as a leather-bound storybook, its chapters narrated by the kitchen team in a candlelit stone building that dates back forever. Asteur is a single-set-menu fine dining room where chef Olivier Robillard works exclusively with Quebec ingredients, weaving personal memory into each course. Old beams, midnight-blue walls, white tablecloths, and a sommelier who clearly has opinions make the whole evening feel rather deliberately unhurried.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A bring-your-own-bottle restaurant inside an 1880 house in Vieux-Saint-Eustache, with weathered wood and the general feeling that the building has opinions about locally sourced food. The kitchen leans hard into Québec terroir, wild plants, boreal herbs, and house-made marinades, and the menu shifts with what the season is actually offering. Generous plates, no corkage anxiety, and a room that makes the whole project feel less like a trend than a given.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

The name is borrowed from a Jura winemaker who calls everyone "mon lapin," which tells you something about the energy here. Mon Lapin is a wine-bar-slash-bistro in Little Italy where the menu changes daily, lists ingredients more than dishes, and then arrives at the table as something you didn't quite expect. The natural wine list, which landed a North America's 50 Best Sommelier Award, is the kind of thing sommeliers photograph. Reservations open thirty days out and vanish fast.

1. 50 Best #5 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #2 · Best Restaurants
3. Air Canada 2018 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants

A Michelin-starred tasting room on a residential stretch of Rue Bélanger, about as far from tourist Montréal as you can get while still being in it. Chef Simon Mathys runs a five-course carte blanche menu that changes constantly and leans hard into Quebec terroir, with sauces and emulsions doing the heavy lifting. Seats around fifty, opens five nights a week, and fills up fast enough that reservations aren't optional.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Air Canada 2022 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
3. Canada's 100 Best #63 · Best Restaurants

An eight-seat omakase counter in Mile End where the rice alone could start a conversation: pesticide-free, cooked in a cast-iron pot, seasoned to match the fat content of whichever fish comes next. The edomae technique here runs to careful aging and marinating, with fish flown in from Japan several times a week alongside Quebec lobster and Magdalen Islands scallops. The minimalist room doubles as a ceramics gallery. Michelin one-star.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Canada's 100 Best #5 · Best New Restaurants
3. Canada's 100 Best #31 · Best Restaurants

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

A painting of a Dalmatian anchors the dining room, which tells you something about the mood: elegant, but not stiff. This is a seafood-forward tasting restaurant in the Plateau where co-chefs Danny Smiles and Mitch Laughren cook with a clarity that favors the ingredient over the flourish. The pastry chef's reimagined classics are a reason to stay for dessert. It holds a spot on North America's 50 Best Restaurants list.

1. 50 Best #15 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
2. Air Canada 2025 · Best Dessert · Best New Restaurants
3. Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants

The pommes dauphine with mouclade has been on the menu since day one, which tells you something about a bistro that otherwise rewrites its card almost daily. Limbo landed a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a spot on Canada's 100 Best not long after opening in Little Italy, near Jean-Talon Market. The chef leans French classic with a sideline in offal, the wine list runs natural and Jura-heavy, and the long bar and burgundy banquettes keep things unfussy.

1. Canada's 100 Best #3 · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #23 · Best Restaurants
3. Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants

Free-range chickens and ducks turn slowly on the spit here, arriving golden with hand-punched fries and a serious pour of house-made gravy. This is a brasserie rotisserie from the team behind Mon Lapin, rebuilt from scratch with small-farm sourcing and a Bib Gourmand to show for it. The 70-seat room, warm and lunar-themed, fills with families early and late-night regulars after ten, held together by a short, considered wine list.

1. Canada's 100 Best #2 · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #21 · Best Restaurants
3. Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants

Fresh pasta is made each morning before the dining room opens, which tells you most of what you need to know about this snug Italian spot on Clark. The menu is short and brash: a few antipasti, a genuinely unhinged Philly cheesesteak, filled pastas in buttery, precise sauces, and a small run of desserts. The natural wine list skews slightly nerdy in the best way. Canada's 100 Best landed it at number 47 for 2026.

1. Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #8 · Best New Restaurants
3. Canada's 100 Best #47 · Best Restaurants

The massive beams overhead still carry the ghost of the factory that stood here, and the kitchen has leaned into that industrial inheritance by firing almost everything, including the desserts, over live flame. This is a Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant where wood smoke is the house philosophy. The room is grand without being stiff, and the wine program is the kind that rewards lingering.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
3. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

A marble counter wraps around the open kitchen in this 30-seat modern French bistro on Beaubien, putting you close enough to watch the sauces reduce. The menu runs seasonal sharing plates, though the egg mayo with lobster is apparently permanent, removed only at the chef's peril. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand. Elegant and unfussy, the kind of place where the fries have a reputation of their own.

1. Air Canada 2024 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #56 · Best Restaurants
3. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The sausage and mash has its own name here, which tells you something about how this French bistro operates. Chef Charles-Tristan Prévost, a Le Club Chasse et Pêche alumnus, runs a room in Jean Talon market country where the produce shows and the natural wine list is longer than the pretension. Bib Gourmand from Michelin. Evenings stretch into tartare and duck; service stays loose throughout.

1. Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #100 · Best Restaurants
3. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The long bar suggests a casual night out, but Bar St-Denis is a proper contemporary French restaurant where the cooking quietly negotiates between Escoffier and Beirut. Both falafel and boudin find a home on the same menu, and the kitchen, run by Au Pied de Cochon alumni, handles the tension with enough technique that it stops feeling like a concept. The room is art deco with the fussiness dialed back, and the wine list leans natural.

1. Canada's 100 Best #22 · Best Restaurants
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best Recommends
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The specials list is where Pichai really moves, rotating through local ingredients that shift with the season and Quebec's own producers. This boisterous Thai restaurant on St-Hubert leans hard into Isaan cooking, the spicy, funky, herb-driven food of northern Thailand, alongside a wine list of low-intervention whites and skin-contact pours. Thai families and well-travelled regulars fill the room together, both with strong opinions about what to order. Ranked 36th on Canada's 100 Best.

1. Air Canada 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #36 · Best Restaurants
3. Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now

A doll's house hangs upside down from the ceiling, plastic triceratops serve as tartare vessels, and somewhere near the bar sits Elmo. The whimsy is deadpan and fully committed, which tracks for a fine dining room where the French tradition gets quietly rerouted through Japanese technique. The tasting menu wasn't planned but stuck around by popular demand, which tells you something. Canada's 100 Best lists it at number thirteen.

1. Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #13 · Best Restaurants
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. AAA Four Diamonds

1. Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #99 · Best Restaurants

A Syrian and Armenian mezze restaurant on Jean-Talon, run by two sisters whose family heritage shapes every dish on the table. Shared plates of labneh, hummus, and fattoush arrive with grilled pita, and the beef kebabs come seasoned with fléflé, a Syrian red pepper condiment that quietly runs the show. Save room for the mehalabié, a rosewater and orange blossom pudding that earns its place at the end. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand.

1. Canada's 100 Best Recommends
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
3. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

Black walls, waxed concrete floors, and rock music at full volume set the mood for a 25-seat tasting menu restaurant in Le Plateau that treats dinner as theater. The seven-course menu, inspired by the seven deadly sins, shifts almost daily depending on what catches the chef's eye, with dishes that carry their own little narratives. It ranked 45th on Canada's 100 Best and holds a Michelin selection.

1. World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · Canada's Best Restaurant
2. Canada's 100 Best #45 · Best Restaurants
3. Air Canada 2023 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

The foie gras poutine arrives with duck-fat fries, duck gravy, cheese curds, and more foie gras than feels legal, which tells you everything about what Martin Picard is doing here. This Plateau bistro is loud, amber-lit, and unapologetically devoted to the richer cuts of the pig-and-foie gras canon. An entire menu section belongs to foie gras alone. Finish with pouding chômeur and feel very Québécois about the whole thing.

1. Canada's 100 Best #78 · Best Restaurants
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

Bone marrow crumpets are a reasonable thing to serve in Montreal if you're a British chef cooking from a tasting menu in a cozy Plateau room. Marc Cohen sources much of his meat from his own nearby butcher shop, and the seasonal menu moves at a pace that makes the whole meal feel considered rather than rushed. The wine list leans toward lesser-known labels, which is either adventurous or a little homework, depending on your mood.

1. Air Canada 2011 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #57 · Best Restaurants
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The name, "Salle Climatisée," is a straight lift from old French commercial signage, which tells you something about the sense of humor running this twenty-seat Little Italy bistro. Seven savory dishes, cheese, two desserts, on a slate board that changes with the seasons. The kitchen leans on Quebec producers and turns out the kind of food that's rustic without being careless. Low-intervention wines, G&Ts brightened with verjus, and a ceramicist's Calder-evoking mobile overhead.

1. Canada's 100 Best #43 · Best Restaurants
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now

Two celebrity chefs with serious Montreal pedigree, David McMillan and Derek Dammann, opened this fire-driven steakhouse in the West Island with a soft spot for vegetables and seafood alongside the expected meat. The sprawling room has real character, the bar is genuinely welcoming, and the wine list goes in unexpected directions. It landed on Canada's 100 Best list, which tracks for a place this confident in what it is.

1. Canada's 100 Best #66 · Best Restaurants

The kitchen grinds fresh masa from heirloom Mexican corn every day, which tells you something about the priorities here. Alma is a tasting-menu restaurant in Outremont where the chef threads his Tlaxcalan roots through Quebec seasonal produce, and the sommelier answers with a Catalan-leaning wine list. The result is modern Mexican cooking that doesn't ask for your permission to be unexpected. Canada's 100 Best ranks it 34th in the country.

1. Air Canada 2019 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Canada's 100 Best #34 · Best Restaurants

1. Air Canada 2023 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Canada's 100 Best Recommends
2. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
3. The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal

An old-school institution on Avenue Laurier where the service is formal enough that you'll sit up a little straighter without quite knowing why. This French tasting restaurant offers both a multi-course menu and à la carte, so you're not locked into an evening-length commitment. The kitchen treats fine ingredients with a light hand, and the wine list has some genuinely adventurous choices tucked in among the classics.

1. AAA Four Diamonds
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

The charcoal grill in the open kitchen sets the tempo at this Syrian and pan-Ottoman restaurant in Outremont, where the bread comes straight from the fire and the lamb arrives in several forms. The team steers first-timers and regulars through the menu with equal care, and the room has the kind of noise level that means everyone is having a good time, whether they planned to or not.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
3. Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now

1. Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
3. The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal

1. Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants

The white shirts and black aprons are not an affectation; the staff here dress like Parisian servers because the whole point is a Parisian brasserie, transplanted to Outremont and running the same menu it has for years. Braised beef cheek, boudin noir, rum baba: the classics, done straight. The arched brick windows flood the room with light at lunch and turn it into a glowing fishbowl after dark. The wine list leans Burgundy and Rhône.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
3. Condé Nast Traveler The 28 Best Restaurants in Montreal

A nine-course tasting menu anchors this intimate fine-dining room on Rue Bélanger, though à la carte keeps things from feeling too precious. The chef came up at Joe Beef and Paloma, and the cooking carries that pedigree without showing off about it: seasonal, tightly composed, precise enough that sea urchin in a butter evoking Sunday roast chicken lands as a coherent idea rather than a stunt. Canada's 100 Best named it among the country's top restaurants.

1. Canada's 100 Best #95 · Best Restaurants

A slim, stylish contemporary Chinese restaurant on Laurier where the menu quietly mixes Montreal sensibility into familiar staples. Sesame noodles and garlic fried rice get the same serious attention as steamed oysters with fermented black bean sauce or beef tartare spiked with doubanjiang. The cocktails follow the same logic, which is either reassuring or alarming depending on how adventurous you're feeling. Selected by the Michelin Guide.

1. Chinese Restaurant Awards Top 50 Honourees · Elite 30 Canada
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Air Canada 2023 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants

A contemporary bistro at the edge of Hochelaga where the menu changes with the seasons and the kitchen has a clear point of view. The chef came up through Bouillon Bilk, and that pedigree shows in cooking that's composed without being fussy. The café at the back, Hélico, handles daytime traffic with light bites and good coffee, so the room shifts character depending on the hour.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

A mural of the African continent covers the back wall, and the menu follows its logic from there. This intimate dinner-only restaurant runs on a pan-African kitchen where Quebec ingredients meet sub-Saharan spices, game meats, and native vegetables you won't find elsewhere in Montreal. The wine list is exclusively South African, which is either a commitment or a statement, possibly both. A Michelin Selected Restaurant.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Condé Nast Traveler The 28 Best Restaurants in Montreal

An olive oil negroni greets you before the Italian food even begins, which tells you something about how this restaurant on Saint-Denis thinks. The menu runs from crispy arancini and house-made pasta to scallop crudo with fennel granita, traditional instincts with a restless edge. The wine list is carefully chosen, the service warm without being theatrical, and the room feels like somewhere the chef actually wants you to enjoy yourself.

1. Air Canada 2019 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Air Canada 2014 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Air Canada 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants

A wine bar in a glass-and-steel former industrial building in the Angus Shops district, Annette draws the kind of crowd that actually reads the by-the-glass list before ordering. The wine program is the draw, deep on both serious vintages and accessible finds, but the seasonal small plates are built to share and hold their own. The Michelin Guide recognized it with a Bib Gourmand.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The entire back wall is a chalkboard menu, which tells you almost everything you need to know about Le St-Urbain. It's a neighborhood restaurant in Ahuntsic, the kind where natural light comes through big windows and you can watch the kitchen work from your seat. The cooking is seasonal and straightforward, built around flavor rather than flourish, and the room manages to feel lively without trying too hard.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

The menu at this seafood restaurant on Avenue du Mont-Royal shifts with whatever came off the boat, so the kitchen is essentially never cooking the same thing twice. The room fills fast and stays loud, which makes it feel more like a dinner party than a reservation. Counter seats are worth grabbing if you're solo. The Michelin Guide lists it among its selected Montreal restaurants.

1. Air Canada 2011 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Old painted panelling and varnished floorboards give this Mile End bistro the feel of a Paris side street that took a wrong turn and ended up somewhere more interesting. The chef runs a carte blanche menu each evening, which in practice means a shifting parade of influences that refuses to settle on one continent. The namesake dessert, a riff on the classic floating island, shows up eventually, but by then you've already forgotten to expect it.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal

1. The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal

Weekend brunch in Rosemont, far from the Plateau's self-consciousness, where the line forms early and nobody seems to mind. Régine is a lively neighborhood café doing French-inflected brunch, meaning croissants and pastries alongside things like corn waffles with confit duck or salmon croquettes with poached egg and green pea purée. The menu covers carnivores and vegans without making a fuss about it, which is rarer than it sounds.

1. Condé Nast Traveler The 28 Best Restaurants in Montreal

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Condé Nast Traveler The 28 Best Restaurants in Montreal

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
2. Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Montreal

1. Air Canada 2018 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants

1. Air Canada 2015 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants