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12 Best Places for Steak frites in Montreal

Where to find the best steak frites in Montreal — each restaurant rated 4.0★ or higher. Top-rated at 9.4★. Spanning french and french brasserie kitchens. Curated by TastyPals.

The best places for steak frites in Montreal are Le Boulevardier Restaurant, Monarque, Gaspar Brasserie Française, and more. Start with Le Boulevardier Restaurant if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Sophie Laurent•12 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
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12 Best Places for Steak frites in Montreal
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Top picks at a glance

#1Le Boulevardier RestaurantFrench • Montreal • moderate#2MonarqueFrench Brasserie • Montreal • $$$$#3Gaspar Brasserie FrançaiseFrench • Montreal • moderate

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated spots for steak frites 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

Le Boulevardier Restaurant
French • Montreal
Le Boulevardier Restaurant is a french pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Monarque
French Brasserie • Montreal
Monarque occupies a heritage commercial building in Old Montreal with the kind of architectural confidence that most rooms in that neighbourhood substitute for actual cooking — soaring ceilings, st…
Gaspar Brasserie Française
French • Montreal
Gaspar Brasserie Française is the kind of french room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Editorial details
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

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  1. 1. Le Boulevardier RestaurantView →
  2. 2. MonarqueView →
  3. 3. Gaspar Brasserie FrançaiseView →
  4. 4. Le Bar DarlingView →
  5. 5. LeméacView →
  6. 6. Restaurant Jérôme Ferrer - EuropeaView →
  7. 7. Le Pois PenchéView →
  8. 8. Maison BouludView →
  9. 9. Brasserie BernardView →
  10. 10. FoiegwaView →
  11. 11. Brasserie 701View →
  12. 12. Les Enfants TerriblesView →

How the restaurants compare

Le Boulevardier Restaurant
Montreal • French
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
French bistro
Mood
Casual
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Monarque
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Monarque
Montreal • French Brasserie
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$$$
Best for
French Brasserie
Mood
Special occasion
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Gaspar Brasserie Française
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Gaspar Brasserie Française
Montreal • French
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
French bistro
Mood
Casual
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Le Bar Darling
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Le Bar Darling
Montreal • Bar
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
Cocktails and snacks
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.

12 ranked picks

Monarque — Monarque occupies a heritage commercial building in Old Montreal with the kind of architectural confidence that most rooms in that neighbourhood substitute for actual cooking — soaring ceilings, stone and plaster, light that shifts through the day in ways that make the space feel genuinely inhabited rather than staged. The Vieux-Montréal corridor runs heavily on tourist capture, and Monarque's reputation is built on operating differently: a contemporary Québécois brasserie that takes its setting seriously as context rather than as a selling point. The kitchen's identity, according to consistent reporting and the restaurant's own framing, centres on Quebec's agricultural producers — particularly heritage pork preparations that reflect a sustained producer-to-kitchen relationship rather than a seasonal gesture toward terroir. The approach applies classical French brasserie technique to ingredients that are argued to be specifically provincial in character. The pastry program draws repeated attention as among Montreal's strongest, which carries real weight in a city with a competitive and deeply ingrained standard in that department. Monarque operates across multiple dayparts, and the morning and afternoon service reportedly showcases the pastry work in its most direct form — worth factoring into how you plan the visit. For a special-occasion room, the practical question is always whether the experience justifies the occasion rather than merely filling it. On the evidence of what Monarque is consistently described as — a room of genuine scale, a kitchen with a defined point of view on Quebec's agricultural identity, and a pastry program that functions as a real destination — the answer appears to be yes, more reliably than most of its neighbours. Reservations are advisable; if the timing allows, arriving before the dinner rush to see the space in its afternoon light is a detail worth considering. View restaurant →

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Le Bar Darling — Le Bar Darling has worked out something that a lot of Montreal's bar scene is still getting wrong: the idea that a room can take its cocktail program seriously and run a real kitchen at the same time, without one apologizing for the other. It's a mid-price spot with a genuinely democratic spirit — the kind of place that makes sense for a solo lunch at the counter, a low-key second date, or a late stop on a Plateau crawl when hunger becomes undeniable. By all accounts, it doesn't perform cool; the ease is apparently just baked in. The menu is where the personality shows up. The smoked salmon bagel is the kind of thing that looks like a safe play on paper but is reportedly constructed with real attention to proportion — the balance between smoke, fat, and bread is what diners point to, not just the ingredient list. The shakshouka has a reputation for the kind of braised-tomato depth that most brunch spots don't have the patience for. The piri-piri chicken and avocado salad is known for threading heat against richness — a combination that's easy to mishandle — and the kitchen is said to keep it in check. Steak frites at this price point anywhere in Montreal is a leap of faith, and Darling's version is consistently cited for the frites specifically, not as an afterthought but as the actual point of the dish. The soupe of the day rounds out a menu that moves comfortably from morning through late without feeling scattered. Practical intel: weeknights are reportedly when the room is at its best, before it hits full volume. The soupe of the day is worth ordering as a read on what the kitchen is confident about that week — it changes, and that's the point. Two dishes and a drink is the format this place seems built for. View restaurant →
Maison Boulud — Maison Boulud operates out of the Ritz-Carlton on Sherbrooke Street — not Westmount proper, but close enough to that neighbourhood's register of quiet money and considered occasion-dressing that the distinction barely matters. Daniel Boulud's Montreal flagship is built around a grand, light-filled dining room that opens onto a garden courtyard, and the room does genuine work: it signals, from the moment you arrive, that the kitchen intends to meet the ambitions of the address. In warmer months, the garden terrace is consistently cited as among the more pleasant places to take a long dinner in the downtown core — a claim that holds up across enough accounts to be taken seriously. The menu is reported to move between classical French technique and Quebec seasonal product, which is the Boulud formula applied with the precision the Ritz name demands. The kitchen is known for its handling of foie gras preparations, duck, and seasonal fish — all categories where the gap between competent execution and genuinely careful cooking tends to show. Bread service and petits fours bracket what is, by consistent account, a meal paced for lingering: this is not a room that rushes covers. The wine list is described as serious in both depth and ambition, and the service carries the formal, rehearsed character that classical French fine dining requires and that is, in Montreal at this price point, increasingly rare. This is a destination for occasions that justify the full apparatus — a significant dinner, a business meal where the room does part of the talking, or a date that calls for something more deliberate than atmosphere alone. Reserve well ahead, particularly for the terrace in summer. Budget for an evening, not a meal, and go dressed accordingly. View restaurant →

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