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5 Best Places for Grilled Octopus in Montreal

Where to find the best grilled octopus in Montreal — each restaurant rated 4.0★ or higher. Top-rated at 9.6★. Spanning contemporary and global kitchens. Curated by TastyPals.

The best places for grilled octopus in Montreal are Chez BOSS & Fils, Keela, Fukurō: tapas + cocktails, and more. Start with Chez BOSS & Fils if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Sophie Laurent•5 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
Chez BOSS & FilsKeelaFukurō: tapas + cocktails
5 Best Places for Grilled Octopus in Montreal
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Top picks at a glance

#1Chez BOSS & FilsContemporary • Verdun • value#2KeelaGlobal • Montreal • value#3Fukurō: tapas + cocktailsSpanish • Plateau • moderate

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated spots for grilled octopus in Montreal. Whether you're a local hunting your next regular or visiting and want to eat well, these picks are sorted by quality and review depth.

Quick picks

Chez BOSS & Fils
Contemporary • Verdun
Verdun has been running its own culinary conversation long before the resto-tourism crowd thought to join it, and Chez Boss & Fils is precisely why locals tend to keep the reservation details to th…
Keela
Global • Montreal
Keela is a pandemic-era origin story that actually stuck.
Fukurō: tapas + cocktails
Spanish • Plateau
Fukurō doesn't slot cleanly into any single category, which appears to be entirely the point.
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Editorial details
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

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  1. 1. Chez BOSS & FilsView →
  2. 2. KeelaView →
  3. 3. Fukurō: tapas + cocktailsView →
  4. 4. Taverne Grecque MátiView →
  5. 5. estiatorio Milos MontrealView →

How the restaurants compare

Chez BOSS & Fils
Verdun • Contemporary
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Wellington night out
Mood
Verdun
Keela
Montreal • Global
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Hidden gems
Mood
Casual
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Fukurō: tapas + cocktails
Plateau • Spanish
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
small plates
Mood
Plateau
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Taverne Grecque Máti
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Taverne Grecque Máti
Montreal • Greek
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
group dinner
Mood
Casual

How we chose

We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →

Room tone

Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.

Food fit

We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.

Useful range

The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.

5 ranked picks

Chez BOSS & Fils — Verdun has been running its own culinary conversation long before the resto-tourism crowd thought to join it, and Chez Boss & Fils is precisely why locals tend to keep the reservation details to themselves. Louis Boutin — the Boss — and Félix Dauvet-Lainesse — the Son — opened the room in 2015, and the name is less branding than declaration: these two operators run their own floor every service, which diners consistently describe as immediately felt. The open kitchen is cited as the architectural centerpiece of the space, less a design gesture than a statement that the cooking here is meant to be watched. This is an operator-driven neighborhood room built for people who eat out seriously, not for people documenting that they do. The menu rotates seasonally, and the dishes that have built the restaurant's reputation give a clear sense of the kitchen's priorities. The Trout Tartare is reportedly the anchor order — ginger mayonnaise, fried capers, and puffed rice are its known components, a combination that suggests brightness, crunch, and textural contrast where most tartares settle for none of those things. The Fried Calamari is known for arriving without the grease fatigue that makes the dish forgettable elsewhere, and the accompanying sauce has a following of its own. The Grilled Octopus is described as restrained and deliberate: hummus below, sun-dried tomato vinaigrette alongside, nothing competing with anything else. For a price-level-one room in Verdun, the ambition of that lineup is notable. If the kitchen is running them on your night, the Scallop & Black Tiger Shrimp Duo with Foaming Butter and the Lamb Shoulder are the dishes the restaurant is most consistently praised for. Service runs Tuesday through Saturday, dinner only from 5 pm — walk-in optimism on a Friday is not a strategy. View restaurant →
Keela — Keela is a pandemic-era origin story that actually stuck. Johnny and Kristin opened this 1237 Rue Atateken address in 2020 — he came up cooking fish and sushi at Park, they crossed paths slinging oysters at Lucille's on Monkland — and the room they walked into already had a wood-fired oven in it. That oven, by all accounts, became the entire organizing principle of the kitchen. Brick walls, wood floors, a bay window pulling in street light: this is a room that has texture because it was inherited, not because someone spec'd it out. The Village has no shortage of places to eat, but Keela keeps drawing people back, and the reason isn't hard to track down. The menu is tight and doesn't overreach, which is its own kind of confidence. The grilled octopus is the dish that appears in every account of this place — reportedly the kind of result that only comes from live fire handled with real discipline. The beef tartare rounds out the cold side of things with the precision you'd expect from a kitchen with a fish-and-technique background. For something more substantial, the filet mignon steak frites is the anchor of the menu — a French bistro classic that reportedly holds up without apology. None of these are showy dishes. They're the kind of thing a kitchen puts on the menu when it knows what it's doing. Tuesday dollar oysters are, by every available account, the single best reason to plan around this place mid-week. Friday evenings bring live music from Bud Rice between 6 and 9, which makes early dinner feel like the right call over anything else happening in the neighborhood. It's a small room, so the reservation math is simple: book ahead, request the window, and order the octopus. View restaurant →
Fukurō: tapas + cocktails — Fukurō doesn't slot cleanly into any single category, which appears to be entirely the point. The Plateau room draws on the logic of the kissa — the slow, vinyl-side Japanese café tradition where music structures the evening rather than fills it — while the menu travels from Japan to Thailand to the sea without obvious apology. Décor-wise, reports consistently describe a space where high-end art and traditional Asian pieces share walls without tipping into preciousness, warm enough to hold a conversation, curated enough to give two people something to actually talk about. It's family-run in a way that registers in the room's atmosphere rather than its branding. At price level two, it's the kind of place where ordering generously still feels like a reasonable decision, which matters when you're trying to let a night extend itself. The menu is built around sharing, and the verified dishes suggest a kitchen that takes technique seriously across a wide range. The Grilled Octopus is consistently cited as the dish to anchor an order around — reportedly executed with real attention to char and texture, the kind of preparation where the cooking method is the argument. Shrimp Tempura is described as restrained in its batter, light enough that the shrimp reads as the point rather than the coating. Tako Wasabi and Salmon Tartare round out a menu that moves between Japanese and broader coastal influences with apparent confidence rather than novelty-seeking. Practical notes: the cocktail program is reported to carry genuine invention alongside the food menu, and the DJ sets, running later in the evening, are described as present without dominating — a distinction worth planning around. Book for later; sit toward the bar side for the fullest read of the room. Start with the Grilled Octopus and let the pacing follow from there. View restaurant →

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Taverne Grecque Máti — Taverne Grecque Máti is doing something Montreal's Greek restaurant scene has apparently needed for a long time: treating the cuisine as a living, generous tradition rather than a nostalgia project. At a price point that would embarrass most comparable kitchens, the room has developed a reputation for feeling like the best kind of dinner party — exuberant crowd, disciplined plate, the two rarely coexisting this comfortably. The name itself signals intent: the Mati cocktail, the restaurant's namesake, is consistently cited as a marker of how seriously the full experience is taken here, not just the food. The menu centers on a handful of dishes that diners return to specifically. The Grilled Octopus is the one that generates the most conversation — reportedly charred with intention and tender enough to suggest careful preparation rather than a rushed kitchen. The Shrimp Saganaki arrives bubbling, tomato and feta working together in the pan in a format that regulars describe as coating everything in reach. The dish that appears to anchor the most tables, though, is the 24H Braised Lamb Neck: low-and-slow by design, built over a full day until the collagen breaks down entirely, yielding long pulls of deeply flavored meat that takes real patience to produce at this price. To close, the Galaktoboureko — a custard tart in crisp phyllo with a reportedly floral, orange blossom-forward filling — is the kind of Greek pastry that tends to change how people think about Greek pastry. Practical reality: the 24H Lamb Neck and Galaktoboureko are the two dishes most worth building a table around, and weekend reservations should be made at least a week in advance — walk-in odds on Thursday through Saturday are not in your favor. View restaurant →
estiatorio Milos Montreal — Costas Spiliadis opened the first Milos on Avenue du Parc in 1979, and the radical idea then still defines it now: walk past the iced display, point at the fish you want, and let charcoal and sea salt do the rest. This is Greek dining stripped of the souvlaki-and-moussaka cliche — Spiliadis built his reputation on pristine ingredients, and the Mile End room (redesigned by Alain Carle in 2015, all warm light and an open fish bar) makes the seafood the spectacle. The whole Mediterranean sea bass, grilled and de-boned tableside, is the signature for a reason; the grilled octopus and lamb chops earn their repeat praise. Don't skip the Milos Special — feather-thin fried zucchini and eggplant with crisp saganaki and tzatziki. Dinner runs around CAD $100 per person, which is a celebration-night number, so know the weekday move: the $45 prix-fixe lunch, Monday to Friday, is how locals get the Milos experience without the splurge. A four-star Gazette mainstay that still feels like the room that changed the conversation. View restaurant →

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