The Top 91 Places to Eat and Drink Near Restaurant L'Épicurieux
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Rank 2. Baumier
Modern Cuisine
Samuel Boyer's neighbourhood bistro in the Laurentians trades fussy plating for flavour: chicken liver mousse with mead, halibut accras with seaweed, rhubarb and blackcurrant desserts paired with natural wine. The bright, uncluttered room fills with the ease of friends gathering to share plates, a casual generosity that makes this small kitchen's ambitions feel earned rather than performed.
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Rank 4. Loiseau d'à Côté
Traditional Cuisine
A castle-like structure opposite the church in Saint-Sauveur holds a kitchen devoted to regional ingredients treated with classical rigor: suckling pig from nearby farms, boudin noir, maple-glazed offal, beef braised in red wine. Chef Alexandre Loiseau and Sandra Côté balance a modest lunch formula against a more expansive evening menu, both executed with genuine care and warmth.
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Rank 5. sEb L'Artisan Culinaire
Modern Cuisine
In a restored house in Mont-Tremblant's centre, Chef Sébastien Houle channels years of global wandering—yacht kitchens included—into dishes that marry local catch with international technique. Lake Tremblant walleye arrives as tempura with gribiche; osso bucco melts into Parmesan risotto; the wine list tilts toward Italy and France.
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Rank 9. Huit 100 Vingt
Modern Cuisine
In a timber barn set deep within farmland, Loïc Leperlier cooks a single evolving menu tethered to immediate harvests and inflected with Réunion Island sensibility. The produce—vegetables, herbs, poultry, maple syrup—all comes from the surrounding acreage, a fact that announces itself in each plate.
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Rank 11. La Cabane d'à Côté
Quebecois
A functioning maple orchard becomes the stage for Martin Picard's seasonal tasting menus, where wood-fired cooking celebrates Quebec ingredients with surprising restraint. Winter banquets unfold in a heated cabin; summer moves outdoors, shifting toward vegetables and grilled local proteins.
- Air Canada 2018 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #49 · Best Restaurants
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 12. Asteur
Modern Cuisine
In a nineteenth-century stone manor, chef Olivier Robillard orchestrates an elaborate tasting menu where Quebec's finest ingredients—morels, white asparagus, local Wagyu—become chapters in an edible narrative. Midnight walls and leather-bound menus frame the experience; the kitchen's ambition is matched by sommelier knowledge and restrained plating. It reads like theater for people who eat.
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Rank 15. Le Géraldine
Regional Cuisine
In a gabled 1880s house in the old quarter, weathered wood and careful sourcing sketch a portrait of Québécois cooking rooted in what grows nearby. Beef tartare arrives with marinated celery root and cranberries; duck breast, glazed with miso and maple, sits atop beets and maitake. Bring your own wine to a table that honors small producers and the boreal landscape.
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Rank 19. 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 20. 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 21. 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 22. 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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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 24. 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 25. 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
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #13 · Best Restaurants
- Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 26. 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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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 28. 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 29. 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 30. 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 31. 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 32. 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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Rank 33. 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 34. 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.
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #100 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 35. 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 36. 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 37. 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 38. 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 39. 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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At a West Island market hall, David McMillan and Derek Dammann have built a fire-driven room where rotisserie chicken, house-made sausage, and nearby vegetables emerge from the grill with quiet confidence. The expansive space and thoughtful wine list suggest two veterans who know how to make a dining room feel like a natural gathering place.
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Rank 41. 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 42. 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 43. 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 44. 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 45. 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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- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now
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Rank 49. 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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Chef Isaël Gadoua's intimate nine-course tasting menu unfolds with precise seasonal cooking, each dish a study in restraint and technique. A butter-poached sea urchin and barely cooked Arctic char reveal a kitchen confident enough to let raw materials speak.
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Rank 53. Bar Bello
Italian Cocktail Bar
The latest project from Montreal's prolific aperitivo evangelists channels a sun-soaked Roman bar, all vintage Campari posters and snack plates of taralli. The cocktails—Sbagliatos, Americanos, a vending machine's rotating seasonal Negronis—are built for lingering, while the vermouth and amari list runs deeper than the patio is wide. A place to nurse a drink and eat small, without hurry.
- 50 Best 2026 · #75 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #30 · Best Bars
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Rank 54. 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 55. 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 56. Le St-Urbain
Modern Cuisine
In the Ahuntsic district, a neighborhood restaurant commands a whole wall of chalk-written specials that shift with the seasons. Open sightlines to the kitchen and natural light from a bay window create a convivial pulse, while the cooking—Arctic char with carrots, venison with celery root—prioritizes flavor with evident care and restraint.
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Rank 57. 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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Rank 58. Annette bar à vin
Modern Cuisine
Chef Marc-Antoine Jetté's wine bar in a glass-walled Angus Shops space pairs Hugo Duchesne's ambitious list—accessible bottles and great vintages alike—with shareable seasonal dishes of real ambition. Mussels in escabèche, bavette with maitake, and rice pudding croquettes arrive generous and precise from an open kitchen.
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Rank 59. Rouge Gorge
French
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
- Tastet 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 71. Île Flottante
Modern Cuisine
In Mile End's painted-wood bistro space, Sean Murray Smith composes menus that pivot between continents: bluefin tartare over squid-ink risotto, celeriac parmigiana with vegan mayo and fried anchovies, a reinvented Île flottante for dessert. The worn floorboards and 19th-century Paris atmosphere suggest stability, but the cooking speaks to restless appetite.
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Rank 81. Buvette Chez Simone
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 82. Les Mômes
Modern Cuisine
A young French chef presides over this neighbourhood bistro, where burnt-orange light fixtures and banquettes set against classic bones create an unexpectedly warm room. His set menus pivot with the seasons and arrive with small gestures of surprise; wine is yours to bring. Open every night, unpretentious and steady.
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Rank 85. 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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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 87. Alma
Modern Mexican
Juan Lopez Luna grounds modern Mexican cooking in Tlaxcalan tradition while layering Quebec seasonality into each course, a balance that unfolds across a monthly-changing nine-course tasting. Seabream crudo with hibiscus and ancho chile, tortillas from daily-ground heirloom corn—the details signal a kitchen more interested in respectful innovation than novelty.
- 50 Best 2025 · #43 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Air Canada 2019 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #34 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 90. Moccione
Italian
An olive oil negroni arrives before you even sit down. Luca Cianciulli's Italian kitchen moves between tradition—crispy arancini with melted cheese, housemade casarecce with rapini and sausage—and restless invention, as in scallop crudo topped with fennel granita. The room is warm and unhurried, the wine list thoughtful, the service the kind that makes you want to linger.
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