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3 Best Places for Spanakopita in Montreal

Where to find the best spanakopita in Montreal — each restaurant rated 4.0★ or higher. Top-rated at 9.8★. Spanning greek kitchens. Curated by TastyPals.

The best places for spanakopita in Montreal are Restaurant Souvlaki | Restaurant grec à Lachine, Kouzina Niata, Le Jardin de Panos. Start with Restaurant Souvlaki | Restaurant grec à Lachine 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
Restaurant Souvlaki | Restaurant grec à LachineKouzina NiataLe Jardin de Panos
3 Best Places for Spanakopita in Montreal
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Top picks at a glance

#1Restaurant Souvlaki | Restaurant grec à LachineGreek • Lachine • moderate#2Kouzina NiataGreek • Montreal • value#3Le Jardin de PanosGreek • Plateau • value

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated spots for spanakopita 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

Restaurant Souvlaki | Restaurant grec à Lachine
Greek • Lachine
Lachine has long existed in Montreal's culinary imagination as a place you pass through rather than seek out, which makes Restaurant Souvlaki on Rue Saint-Jacques — with its bring-your-own-wine pol…
Kouzina Niata
Greek • Montreal
Kouzina Niata is doing something Montreal's Greek dining scene rarely pulls off at price level one: making the food feel like it comes from an actual place.
Le Jardin de Panos
Greek • Plateau
Le Jardin de Panos is doing something the Plateau's Greek restaurant scene rarely manages: treating mezze as a genuine philosophy rather than a prelude to something bigger.
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Editorial details
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

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  1. 1. Restaurant Souvlaki | Restaurant grec à LachineView →
  2. 2. Kouzina NiataView →
  3. 3. Le Jardin de PanosView →

How the restaurants compare

Restaurant Souvlaki | Restaurant grec à Lachine
Lachine • Greek
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
dinner
Mood
Lachine
Kouzina Niata
Montreal • Greek
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
group dinner
Mood
Casual
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Le Jardin de Panos
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Le Jardin de Panos
Plateau • Greek
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
group dinner
Mood
Plateau

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

Restaurant Souvlaki | Restaurant grec à Lachine — Lachine has long existed in Montreal's culinary imagination as a place you pass through rather than seek out, which makes Restaurant Souvlaki on Rue Saint-Jacques — with its bring-your-own-wine policy, its in-house market corner, and an owner who is reportedly both the face and the hands of the kitchen — feel like a deliberate counter-argument. This is a Greek spot calibrated for neighbourhood loyalty rather than destination dining. It's for the person who wants honest pita and a bottle of their own Assyrtiko without ceremony, for the solo diner at the counter, for the small group who measures a meal by whether they leave satisfied rather than impressed. The price point holds firm at mid-casual, and the room — bright, modern, consistently described as spotless — signals that the kitchen takes cleanliness and care in equal measure. The menu centers on a tight range of Greek standards executed with apparent intention. The chicken gyro pita plate is the anchor: one or two wraps built around the classic spit-meat format, served with rice, a choice of salad, and a decision between potatoes or fries. Diners consistently point to a signature lemon sauce as the thing that distinguishes this kitchen's approach from the baseline gyro experience elsewhere. Tzatziki and pikilia round out the meze side. Two dishes earn particular attention: pork popcorn and spanakopita, both of which reviewers single out as standing apart from the plate-and-pita routine. And then there is the Greek poutine — a Quebec classic reframed with Greek ingredients — which functions less as a gimmick than as a direct statement about where this kitchen is comfortable operating: squarely in both traditions at once. Bring your own bottle — this is the practical cornerstone of any visit here. There is no corkage drama to navigate, and the policy meaningfully stretches the value of an already affordable meal. The small market within the restaurant is worth a few minutes before you sit; it stocks items specific enough that regulars mention it unprompted. If you're going with two people and want counter seating over a table, the room accommodates that without making it feel like an afterthought. The move is simple: call ahead to confirm hours, bring a wine that can hold up to lemon and garlic, and let the spanakopita and pork popcorn set the pace before the gyro plate lands. View restaurant →
Kouzina Niata — Kouzina Niata is doing something Montreal's Greek dining scene rarely pulls off at price level one: making the food feel like it comes from an actual place. This isn't a souvlaki counter coasting on lemon-and-olive-oil nostalgia, nor a white-tablecloth Hellenic production. By all accounts, the kitchen operates on a domestic logic — the kind associated with Greek households that treat braising times as non-negotiable and don't abbreviate the process for a Tuesday night rush. Regulars, from what circulates online and through word of mouth, treat it with the protectiveness people reserve for places they're not entirely sure they want to share. The menu centers on a short but purposeful roster. The Tirokafteri — spiced feta dip — is consistently flagged as having genuine heat that builds rather than simply announces itself. The Tomatokeftedes, herb-packed tomato fritters, are reportedly one of the kitchen's more technically demanding plates, balancing a set exterior against a soft interior in a way that distinguishes them from lesser versions around the city. The Spanakopita is described by diners as properly constructed: well-laminated pastry, filling that reads as green and savoury rather than dense and grey. The Kokinisto, meat slow-braised in red sauce, is the dish that comes up most often when people explain why they return — it's the kind of preparation that requires hours and apparently gets them. The Moussaka is treated with the same seriousness, no shortcuts implied. The strategic move, based on how regulars seem to order, is to anchor the table around Kokinisto and Moussaka, then work backwards through meze — Tomatokeftedes and Tirokafteri are considered essential, not supplementary. A group of four reportedly eats exceptionally well here. Weeknight visits are the call if conversation is part of the plan. View restaurant →
Le Jardin de Panos — Le Jardin de Panos is doing something the Plateau's Greek restaurant scene rarely manages: treating mezze as a genuine philosophy rather than a prelude to something bigger. The menu centers on communal, slow-paced eating — the kind of spread that rewards a full table and a bottle opened before anyone's made a decision. At price level one, it's almost aggressively accessible, and the return-heavy, neighbourhood-skewing crowd suggests the kitchen has built real loyalty rather than tourist traffic. That alone is worth noting. The pikilia — the mixed mezze spread — is reportedly the anchor order, the dish that signals how confident the kitchen is across its range. The fromage haloumi grillé is known for achieving the char-to-squeak ratio that distinguishes a properly worked griddle from a rushed one. The escargots au beurre à l'ail et haloumi consistently surprises first-timers: French in technique but Greek in its salt and richness, the combination is genuinely unusual and, by most accounts, the table's most debated plate in the best sense. The dolmas à la sauce avgolemono are served warm, the lemon-egg sauce described by regulars as velvety and carefully balanced — avgolemono being one of those preparations that's easy to approximate and difficult to actually execute. The spanakopita reportedly holds its structural integrity through volume service, which is a more meaningful achievement than it sounds on a busy Friday night. Book for a weeknight if you want the room at its most relaxed; weekend tables and the terrace fill early. The standard advice from regulars is to start with the pikilia and build outward from there, resisting the impulse to over-order. Sit outside when the season allows — the Plateau streetscape was made for exactly this kind of unhurried meal. View restaurant →

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