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3 Best Places for Pieuvre grillée in Montreal

Where to find the best pieuvre grillée in Montreal — each restaurant rated 4.0★ or higher. Top-rated at 9.2★. Spanning spanish and contemporary kitchens. Curated by TastyPals.

The best places for pieuvre grillee in Montreal are Tapeo, Restaurant État-Major, Petros Westmount. Start with Tapeo if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Sophie Laurent•3 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
TapeoRestaurant État-MajorPetros Westmount
3 Best Places for Pieuvre grillée in Montreal
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Top picks at a glance

#1TapeoSpanish • Villeray • moderate#2Restaurant État-MajorContemporary • Hochelaga • value#3Petros WestmountGreek • Westmount • splurge

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated spots for pieuvre grillée 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

Tapeo
Spanish • Villeray
Tapeo doesn't position itself as a Spanish grandmother's kitchen, and that restraint is apparently what makes it work.
Restaurant État-Major
Contemporary • Hochelaga
État-Major sits in Hochelaga without apology, and that's the whole point.
Petros Westmount
Greek • Westmount
Petros Westmount is not playing to the downtown power-lunch crowd or styling itself as a Parisian import.
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Editorial details
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

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  1. 1. TapeoView →
  2. 2. Restaurant État-MajorView →
  3. 3. Petros WestmountView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Tapeo
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Tapeo
Villeray • Spanish
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
dinner
Mood
Villeray
Restaurant État-Major
Hochelaga • Contemporary
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
hidden gem
Mood
Hochelaga
Petros Westmount
Westmount • Greek
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
splurge
Best for
upscale
Mood
Westmount

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.

3 ranked picks

Tapeo — Tapeo doesn't position itself as a Spanish grandmother's kitchen, and that restraint is apparently what makes it work. In Villeray — a neighbourhood that builds credibility slowly, through residents who actually live there rather than concepts that arrive fully formed — this room has a reputation for doing something that flashier addresses on Saint-Laurent often miss: creating the conditions for a real night out without making you feel like a prop in someone else's branding exercise. By all accounts the lighting holds, the tables are close enough to feel the room breathing without collapsing your privacy, and the pacing doesn't rush. It's configured for two but doesn't penalize a table of four, and at a price point that won't prompt a quiet reckoning with your bank account the next morning, it offers something increasingly uncommon — a room with a distinct point of view that doesn't charge extra for having one. The kitchen operates in a contemporary idiom loosely anchored in Iberian and Mediterranean logic. The Ceviche de pétoncle 'Gin tonic' is consistently cited as the opener that sets the register — acid-forward, with a botanical lift that apparently earns the name without tipping into gimmick. The Pieuvre grillée is known for its grilled character, reportedly the result of patience rather than performance. For sharing, the Paëlla à la Tapeo functions as the centerpiece it's designed to be — generous, unfussy, not aiming for delicacy. The Fideos and Secreto Ibérico read as dishes for returning visitors who already know the room's logic. The Churros au chocolat are widely considered the way to close. Practical notes worth keeping: the Paëlla reportedly requires advance notice, so mention it when you reserve. A Thursday booking is said to give you the room at its best pace — still full, unhurried, the kitchen not yet in weekend survival mode. If the front of the room feels exposed, ask for the back. Reserve with the Paëlla flagged. Do that. View restaurant →
Restaurant État-Major — État-Major sits in Hochelaga without apology, and that's the whole point. The neighbourhood has been carrying its own cultural weight for years, and this restaurant seems to understand that a contemporary kitchen in this corner of Montreal earns goodwill by keeping prices accessible rather than by decorating itself into debt. The price level here is about as low as you'll find for cooking that consistently draws comparisons to what the Plateau charges forty dollars more to attempt. The value proposition isn't an accident — it reads like a deliberate argument about who gets to eat well and where. The menu centers on proteins handled with evident seriousness. The bavette de bison and magret de canard are the dishes diners and local food writers keep circling back to — cuts that reward kitchens willing to treat the animal as the point rather than the backdrop. The pieuvre grillée is reportedly among the more technically sound versions in the city, octopus that's known for achieving the char-to-tenderness ratio that most versions quietly fail at. On the pastry side, the kitchen is not treating dessert as an afterthought: the beigne de l'État-Major has developed a reputation as a benchmark version of a form that gets underestimated everywhere, and the namelaka signals that the sweet side of the menu is operating at the same level of intention as the savory. Both are consistently mentioned as the kind of finish that reframes the meal. Practical reality: the room is small, and the restaurant books up, so a weeknight reservation made in advance is the move. Work through the verified list in full — the bison bavette and the beigne are the two dishes most frequently cited as non-negotiable, but skipping anything here seems to be how people end up with regret they mention unprompted. View restaurant →
Petros Westmount — Petros Westmount is not playing to the downtown power-lunch crowd or styling itself as a Parisian import. It operates as a Greek-leaning contemporary table in one of Montreal's most self-possessed neighbourhoods — and by most accounts, the room earns that positioning without strain. The space is consistently described as warm rather than designed-to-within-an-inch, with lighting calibrated to the kind of register that slows a dinner down in the best way. Tables are reportedly spaced for conversation, the pacing unhurried, and the atmosphere shifts noticeably between a more relaxed midweek tone and a louder weekend crowd. If you're there for the company as much as the cooking, a Wednesday or Thursday booking and a table toward the back is the practical call. The menu centers on what a Mediterranean kitchen built around heat and fire can do. The Saganaki is the room's calling card — known for arriving loud, golden, and doing exactly what the dish is supposed to do. The Saganaki de crevettes reportedly extends that same blistered register in a brighter, more oceanic direction. The Pieuvre grillée has a reputation as the sleeper of the menu, the kind of grilled octopus preparation that diners consistently cite as a reason to return. The Côtelettes d'agneau anchor the savory selections and are regarded as the kitchen's most straightforward statement of intent. For first-timers uncertain where to start, the Spécial Petros is the recommended entry point — a dish that appears to function as the kitchen's clearest introduction to what Petros does and why it does it. At price level three, this is dinner with some intention behind it. Book ahead, arrive without a hard stop on the evening, and let the Saganaki set the pace for everything that follows. View restaurant →

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