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Fourteen seats, one couple running the whole room: he cooks, she pours, and they both carry plates to the table. Sabayon is an intimate tasting menu restaurant where the chef's pastry background shapes everything, so the savoury courses build like desserts and the desserts feel inevitable. The signature wood-fired mushrooms with an arlette and juniper sabayon tells you everything about the approach. It holds a Michelin star and a spot on North America's 50 Best. Book the moment reservations open, or don't bother making plans.

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2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. The 50 #34 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants

The napkins are the size of bed sheets, which tells you everything about the food at this Lyonnaise French restaurant in Little Burgundy. Chef David McMillan has said he doesn't like creative food, and he means it: steaks, hand-picked oysters, rabbit, sweetbreads, and a lobster pasta that regulars treat as non-negotiable. The blackboard changes constantly. The wood bar and stag head on the wall make it feel like a neighborhood pub, which is more or less the idea.

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

1. Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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The gilded logo on the window and a permanent haze of wood smoke inside tell you what this Griffintown restaurant is about before you've sat down. Deep gray walls, long bar, and shiny wood surfaces set a moody, modernist tone for wood-fired Mediterranean sharing plates. The kitchen leans heavily on local and plant-forward produce, with fire as the organizing principle. A Michelin Selected Restaurant.

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

1. Canada's 100 Best Recommends
2. Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now

Tucked behind an old church, this converted rectory keeps its bones visible: exposed brick, parquet floors, and tables made from salvaged pew wood. Candide is a prix-fixe restaurant where the monthly menu follows whatever the market dictates, leaning heavily local and mostly plant-forward. The terrace fills fast in warm weather. A Michelin Selected Restaurant, it's the kind of dinner where the room does half the work before the food arrives.

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

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The wine list runs entirely to natural and biodynamic bottles, which tells you everything about what Little Burgundy bistro Le Vin Papillon is going for. It's a sharing-plates spot from the Joe Beef team next door, with a menu that shifts on the chefs' whims. The room is lively and genuinely welcoming, the kind of place where the Michelin Guide has taken notice without anyone seeming to have dressed up for the occasion.

1. Air Canada 2014 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Cult MTL The Top 25 Restaurants in Montreal Right Now

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec

1. Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec