MONTREAL RESTAURANTS

BRASSERIES, BISTROS AND PUBS

Alexandre

Au Petit Extra

Bières & Compagnie

L'Express

Le Grill Bistro I

Modavie

Steak Frites St. Paul

Exotika

Café Cherrier

CHINESE

Le Piment Rouge

Szechuan Palace

Beijing

La Maison Guang Zhou

Tchang Kiang

FONDUE

Fonduementale

La Fonderie

La Raclette

FRENCH

Café de Paris/Le Jardin du Ritz (Ritz-Carlton Hotel)

Chez Queux

Beaver Club (The Queen Elizabeth Hotel)

Opus II

Le Parchemin

Restaurant Champs Elysées (Château Versailles Hôtel)

Restaurant Les Chênets

Restaurant Les Halles

Toqué!
3842 Saint-Denis Street

GREEK

La Cabane Grecque

Symposium

Restaurant du Vieux-Port

Restaurant Minerva

Milos

Ouzeri

INDIAN

Delhi

Star of India

Asha

Ambala

Golden Curry House

ITALIAN

Bocca d'Oro

Hostaria Romana

Il Cavaliere Hôtel Lord Berri

La Tarantella

Primadonna

Restaurant Amarcord

Restaurant Casa Napoli

Restaurant Il Campari Centro

Restaurant La Sila

Lanni Restaurant

Ristorante Bice

Ristorante Da Vinci

JAPANESE

Katsura

Mikado

Koji's Kaizen - Sushi Bar and Restaurant

QUÉBÉCOIS

Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel

Chez La Mère Michel

Laloux

Le Persil Fou

Le St-Amable

Les Caprices de Nicolas

Restaurant Bonaparte

Restaurant La Marée

STEAK & SEAFOOD

Gibby's

Bleu Marin

Ferreira Café Trattoria (Portuguese & Mediterranean cuisine)

Restaurant Le Fripon

Moishe's Steakhouse

VEGETARIAN

Le Commensal

Govinda Jaya Jaya

Chu Chai

VIETNAMESE

La Papaye Verte

Escale à Saïgon

Cristal No. 1

Pho Bang New York

DIVERS

Biddle's Jazz & Ribs

Casa de Matteo (Mexican)

Au Tarot (Moroccan)

Chao Phraya (Thai)

Pucapuca (Peruvian)

Globe ("World Cuisine")

Mediterraneo (grill and wine bar)

Nil Bleu (Ethiopian)

MARKETS

Montreal has four markets where farmers sell their produce directly, sometimes by the bushel, and you can also get all kinds of meat, cheese, fish and just about anything else. It can be a little pricey, but the quality is excellent. Marché Atwater 138 Atwater (metro Lionel-Groulx), Marché Jean-Talon 7075 Casgrain (metro Jean-Talon), Marché Maisonneuve 4375 Ontario E. (metro Pie-IX) and Marché Saint- Jacques 1125 Ontario E. (metro Berri-UQAM). Open Mon-Wed 7am-6pm, Thu-Fri 7am-9pm, weekends 7am-5pm. (Most of these markets have indoor quarters that remain open all winter.)

MORE VEGETARIAN RESTAURANTS

NEW Café Blue Monday

NEW Yuan

Chu Chai

Govinda Jaya Jaya

Indian-style buffet operated by the Hare Krishna organization. While undoubtedly nutritious, the food tends to be bland, prepared according to religious rules barring spices as too stimulating to the senses. The restaurant itself is pretty and bright with Krishna-related artwork on the walls. Strictly no alcohol, no caffeine and no smoking. The sign outside now says $7.95 for lunch, $9.95 in the evening and $10.95 on weekends.

Restaurant Sauve du Temps

La Bouchée de pain

Aux Vivres

Café Pharmacie Esperanza

Spirite Lounge

Le Commensal

There is also a new sit-down Commensal Bistro at 837 Mont-Royal East (Metro Mont-Royal).

Pushap

Galerie Fôkus

Casa del Popolo

Here are lists of kosher and halal restaurants in the Montreal area.

VEGETARIAN-FRIENDLY

I'm never 100% confident suggesting veg*n-friendly places because mixed restaurants have been known to slip up. So if you're very scrupulous about your diet, best stick to the list above, or at least speak with your server about ingredients.

Montreal has many small Lebanese cafés where it's possible to get a falafel plate or mixed salad and mezze plate, falafel sandwiches and sometimes sandwiches rolled up on zaatar bread. Look for Basha, Amir and Monsieur Falafel spots, but independent cafés are often also quite good. Al-Amine at 3549 Lacombe (514-739-1817, Metro Côte-des-Neiges), Al-Taïb at 2125 Guy Street (514-931-1999, Metro Guy-Concordia) and Boulangerie Farhat (7719 Saint-Laurent, 514-277-6268, metro de Castelnau) are good cheap places to eat, and they're only a few examples I know of such places.

Veggie burgers are becoming more common in fast food restaurants. The Lafleur chain offers them as an option, and some reports say their poutine gravy is also vegetarian. I've also heard that Harvey's offers an okay veggie burger. I have my doubts these places keep a separate veggie grill running, though.

The standard Montreal "all dressed" pizza includes pepperoni, green peppers and mushrooms but any pizza place can make a vegetarian pizza that omits the pepperoni or replaces it with onions and olives or some other combination of ingredients - you only have to ask. Even the pizza slice places often have one or two veggie options.

To my knowledge there isn't any Chinese Buddhist vegetarian restaurant in Montreal any more, but La Maison Guang Zhou, at 84 La Gauchetière West (514-397-9410) in Chinatown (Metro Place d'Armes) is a good Cantonese resto that has a vegetarian section on the menu. Unfortunately, there seems to be no veggie dim sum yet in Montreal.

Ethiopian restaurants usually offer good vegetarian options. Le Nil Bleu, at 3706 Saint-Denis, (514-285-4628, Metro Sherbrooke), and Au Messob d'Or, at 5690 Monkland, (514-488-8620, Metro Villa-Maria) are both well spoken of. The Nil Bleu offers delivery via À la carte express (514-933-7000).

Most of Montreal's Indian restaurants share a certain sameyness about the menu, so most offer at least one vegetarian set meal and a range of other veggie choices.

Les Chèvres

Café Santropol

Shambhala

Buffet Maharaja

Chez José

Les Délices Bio

Café Les Entretiens

Byblos Le Petit Café

Café Lola Rosa

La Petite Marche

Closure notes: There are a lot of vegetarian pages on the web, and some are not updated very often. The following restaurants are still listed in many places but are no longer open: Elixir, Faim du Monde, Bimbo, Manbo, Nantha's Kitchen. The Commensal branch at 5043 Saint- Denis is also closed.

If you have a suggestion for this page, or an amendment to the information, please let us know. A page like this is always under construction. Last updated 23 April 2005.