Montreal Restaurant Tips by Marie-Claude

Coco Coqueto CLOSED!: Don't miss the fresh exotic fruit juices

It is a family restaurant.. about 10 tables, very small but very friendly. There is nice latin music playing while you eat the Colombian plates.

They also have breakfast that look good and cheap.

Favorite Dish: The fruit juices are really worth it, an they are cheap 2,50$ for a wide glass. We took apetizers for 2, a mix of meat, potatoes, vegetables with spicy salsa, miam :D They have around 10 different plates to choose from. What we ate , Tonjebj and me, was really good.. But i can't recall the names of the plates. I had beef in sauce with rice, salad and baked bananas :D
Feel free and try something different!

Address: 4563 Saint-Laurent

Comparison: less expensive than average

Directions: Between Mont-Royal and Villeneuve. (North of Mont-Royal street)

Phone: 514-281-8407

Price: US$11-20

Rating: 4

Theme: Other

Le Cavalier afghan CLOSED!: Don't miss the lamb and the vegetarian plates!

The ambiance is very nice, there is a sitarist playing on saturday nights, the food is excellent, tender, tasty wow!
you can bring your bottle of wine, much more cheeper then, there is a shop selling some just in front.
the decoration is nice too

Favorite Dish: The Lamb is tender and tasty as i never eat! wonderfull!
Take ( i don't remember the name) it is a plate with veggies inside a dough cooked in steam it is very very good!

Address: 170, rue Prince-Arthur

Comparison: about average

Directions: Metro Sherbrooke and then walk towards st-laurent, you cross the park and you are just one block from it

Phone: 284-6662

Price: US$11-20

Rating: 5

Theme: Middle Eastern

El Zaziummm: GRRRR Will you be able to eat the MONSTER!!!! El Zaziummm Review

This is a funky kind of restaurant. You have to go there in group, much more ambiance and party feeling that way. You have to get reservations to get a "funky" table, it could be a bath, a table with sand, or any other decorations. They sell various type of food, its a mix between californian cuisine and mexican cuisine. They have big and tasty sandwiches with different kind of meats and garniture inside, like the Monstre. It's a enormous sandwich that if you finish your plate (accompagnied with fries and salad) you get a t-shirt written I've been able to eat the Monster at El Zaziumm ;) They also sell a small Monster (I was able to finish that one and I was more than full!!!) Chicken breast grilled with avocado, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, etc with a large portion of home made fries!!! MIAM!

They also sell fajitas and other classical mexican foods. Everything looks good and tasty and the prices are pretty easy on the wallet. It's a rather small restaurant and so the quality of the food is very high.

Favorite Dish: I really recommand this restaurant for 4 people and up. We were 3 and the noise of the big table beside was ruinning a bit our "fun". It's a bit loudy, so it's better to be more and make your own party ;)

Address: 1276 Laurier E

Comparison: about average

Directions: East of Metro Laurier (10 min walk)

Phone: (514) 598-0344

Price: US$11-20

Rating: 5

Theme: Eclectic/International

Chez Gatsé: Tibetan food, so exotic!

This is a very small restaurant in a basement on Ontario street just west from St Denis street. You enter another world where everything is calm, slow and meditative. There is just a few dishes that never change (not since I went the first time 4 or 5 years ago). The prices are very cheap and you leave with a stomach full! The Menu is 8.50$ and the Yeti Menu (Big degustation of their major dish in one plate) is 12.95$.

Favorite Dish: I tried almost all of them and I still prefer the Momo, the ones with cheese in it. A Momo is a dough cooked in steam that is stuffed with either meat, veggies or cheese. There are other plates either vegetarian or with meat. Everything is good, but I always go back to the Momo. Simply Delicious!

Address: 317 Ontario E.

Comparison: least expensive

Directions: 200m west from St Denis

Phone: 514-985-2494

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Pan-Asian and Pacific Rim

Boccacinos: A good american-italian Boccacinos Review

This is a very nice restaurant with great service and food. There is a few around the island of Montreal. But I have been in the one on Mc Gill College.

Favorite Dish: I took the Cappelini florentine.. pasta with spinach, mushrooms and pine nuts.. miam! My friend took the Chicken penne.. I am going to take that one next time :D

I went back and took the Chicken Penne it wasn't too good... We went on a Saturday lunch and it was so so. The pasta's where not cooked enough. And the ambiance was out. I really prefered during the evening with my friend Lisa, ex vter Liestef.

Address: 1251 Mc Gill college

Comparison: about average

Directions: not far from the metro

Price: US$11-20

Rating: 3

Theme: Italian

Website: http://www.boccacinos.com/

Kura Sushi Bar CLOSED Thai restaurant instead!: The best sushi i ate

Small restaurant, very tidy. Same waitress very nice, the service is good, so is the food!

CLOSED FOR GOOD :( BUT EXQUISIT THAI RESTSAURANT INSTEAD!

Favorite Dish: We took once a big menu for 53$can without taxes and service, it was about 8 services, sushis included! wow so delicious

Last time we took some sushi and a salmon teriaky, the salmon was perfectly cooked!
it melts on your tongue. miam!

Address: 404 rue Gilford

Comparison: about average

Directions: just at the exit of the metro Laurier (exit Saint-Joseph) at the corner of st-denis

Phone: 842-1988

Price: US$11-20

Rating: 5

Theme: Japanese/Sushi

Le Thai pot: Exquisit thai food :D

This restaurant replaced my other tip of Kura Sushi bar.. The food is as good as the restaurant before and the prices are about the same. Same great value!

Favorite Dish: Tonjebj and me took a menu all included for around 50$ before taxes and service. We had a shrimp soup, some dumplings with peanut sauce, a curry chiken with wite rice and some noddles with shrimps, a glass of wine each and a fruit deserts with fresh coco and ice cream :D MIAM!! I never eaten such nice thai cuisine.. the taste is very refined! You have to try it!

Address: 404 rue Gilford

Comparison: more expensive than average

Directions: corner St-Denis just 2 min walk from Laurier station exit St-Joseph

Phone: 514-842-1988

Price: US$31-40

Rating: 5

Theme: Pan-Asian and Pacific Rim

Mon Shing: One of the best chinese in town :D

this is one beside all the others chinese restaurant in the chinatown. they look all the same. But you get great food at a very low price. Chinese food is one of my favorites and this restaurant was one of the best taste.

Favorite Dish: I took a hot and sour soup, very tasty, then shrimp dimsum that were delicious, it tasted ginger :) miam! and then chicken with pinnaples and ginger, that was also very tasty. You can get a bowl of rice for 1$can :)
At the end you get a fortune cookie and an orange. mmmm :)

Address: 90 La Gauchetière Ouest

Comparison: less expensive than average

Directions: 3 min by foot from the Place d'armes station

Phone: 875-6395

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Chinese/Dim Sum

Mazurka: The best Polish restaurant in town.

It is a family ambience restaurant. It is very good and cheap. They have the same menu since a long long time, but it is good.

Favorite Dish: Depending on the day, you can eat beet soup that is just wonderful! try the potatoe pancake, delcious. They serve fresh rye bread that I like a lot.

Address: 64, rue Prince-Arthur est

Comparison: least expensive

Directions: Exit at Sherbrooke metro station, cross st-denis street and the park and you are on Prince Arthur

Phone: 514-844-3539.

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Other

3 Amigos: THE MEXICAN in town

This is a very nice restaurant to go out either with friends or the kids. The ambience is like a party. You have large drinks of Daiquiri(lemon, strawberry, etc.) these are really good and refreshing, they cost aroud 4-5$can. (they sell some without alcohol)
The plates are big and very tasty.
I recommend that you take one apetizer for more than 2 people and than take one main meal each.. and it won't be easy to finish it all.. (unless you have a big appetite)

Favorite Dish: The tortillas are great. It comes with 5-6 tortillas, different salsas and some chiken or whatever you want with cooked veggies.. miam you make yourself the tortillas :D
the chimichangas are good too.
Everything I tried there is delicious. Follow your appetite and you won't be deceived!

Address: 1657 Ste Catherine W

Comparison: about average

Directions: It is on Ste Catherine West, 2 blocks from Guy Concordia subway station. between St Mathieu and Guy streets.

Phone: (514) 939-3329

Price: US$11-20

Rating: 5

Theme: Mexican