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GuideUpdated July 15, 2026

3 Best Places for Tiramisu in Montreal

Where to find the best tiramisu in Montreal — each restaurant rated 4.0★ or higher. Top-rated at 9.6★. Spanning italian kitchens. Curated by TastyPals.

The best places for tiramisu in Montreal are Lucca, Gia Vin & Grill, Ristorante Donato. Start with Lucca 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
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3 Best Places for Tiramisu in Montreal
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Top picks at a glance

#1LuccaItalian • Little Italy • moderate#2Gia Vin & GrillItalian • Saint-Henri • moderate#3Ristorante DonatoItalian • Westmount • splurge

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated spots for tiramisu 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

Lucca
Italian • Little Italy
Lucca has occupied its corner of Dante Street in Little Italy since 1999, and by most accounts it operates with the quiet confidence that comes from not needing to reinvent itself every season.
Gia Vin & Grill
Italian • Saint-Henri
The team behind Nora Gray and Elena — Ryan Gray, Emma Cardarelli, and five partners including sommelier Lawrence Fiset — didn't open Gia Vin & Grill to chase trends.
Ristorante Donato
Italian • Westmount
Ristorante Donato arrived in Westmount in 2021 and found its footing fast — which tells you something about both the neighbourhood and the kitchen.
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Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

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  1. 1. LuccaView →
  2. 2. Gia Vin & GrillView →
  3. 3. Ristorante DonatoView →

How the restaurants compare

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Lucca
Little Italy • Italian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
Italian classics
Mood
Little Italy
Gia Vin & Grill
Saint-Henri • Italian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
Neighborhood dinner
Mood
Saint-Henri
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Ristorante Donato
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Ristorante Donato
Westmount • Italian
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

Lucca — Lucca has occupied its corner of Dante Street in Little Italy since 1999, and by most accounts it operates with the quiet confidence that comes from not needing to reinvent itself every season. The format is a chalkboard-menu trattoria — the offering shifting daily with market availability — which is the kind of discipline that separates a kitchen genuinely committed to Italian cooking from one running off a standing laminated card. The room is reported to be intimate, running to roughly fifty seats, with service that diners consistently describe as polished rather than perfunctory. It reads as a considered dinner destination: a date night or a deliberate occasion, not a casual walk-in. The pasta is understood to be the kitchen's primary argument. The seafood linguine has the reputation of a reflex order among regulars, while the tagliatelle bolognese and gnocchi are close behind as anchors of the daily program. Beyond pasta, the menu is known to center on whatever the board is showing that evening — the specials are reportedly where the kitchen demonstrates its range, and the advice from those who follow the restaurant is to ask what is on the board before committing. To bracket the meal, the burrata and focaccia is the conventional opening, and the tiramisu the conventional close — both dishes that Lucca is said to execute in a straightforward, traditional register rather than with any revisionist ambition. The cooking's reputation rests on trusting its ingredients, which at this price level is exactly the right instinct. Book ahead — the room fills and the size does not accommodate impulse visits. When you call, ask what the specials are that night; that conversation will tell you more about what to order than any standing menu description can. View restaurant →
Gia Vin & Grill — The team behind Nora Gray and Elena — Ryan Gray, Emma Cardarelli, and five partners including sommelier Lawrence Fiset — didn't open Gia Vin & Grill to chase trends. They named it after Giovanna, the owner of Pacina estate in Tuscany, as a statement of intent: this is a restaurant built around reverence for Italian tradition, fire, and wine. The address matters too. Housed in a small auxiliary building of the grand old RCA complex in Saint-Henri — where stereos and vinyl recordings were made in the early 1900s — the 55-seat dining room carries real bones. Chef Conrad Charron runs the kitchen, and the concept is focused enough to mean something: Italian-inflected grilling, executed by people who already know how to run rooms Montrealers are protective of. Canada's 100 Best Restaurants placed Gia at No. 24 in Montreal for 2025, which for a neighborhood spot in Saint-Henri with this price point is a signal worth taking seriously. The menu centers on the kind of cooking that earns repeat visits rather than one-time pilgrimages. The arrosticini — Italian lamb skewers with roots in Abruzzo tradition — arrive smoky and direct, exactly what a grill-focused kitchen should be judged on. The Tuscan pappardelle with duck bolognese has the reputation of a dish people come back for: rich, slow, structurally sound. Diners have called the tiramisu the best they've had in Montreal, which in this city is not a small claim. Snow crab pasta rounds out a menu that keeps its Italian reference points clear without being rigid. The inside move is the wine island — a roughly 30-seat section in the wine cellar that operates without reservations, guided by partner and sommelier Larry. Walk-ins who know about it sidestep the main dining room entirely and get something closer to a wine bar experience with full kitchen access. Book the dining room for a weeknight if you want Chef Charron's full menu at your pace; claim the wine island on a Friday if you'd rather see where the night goes. Either way, lead with the arrosticini and let Larry steer the wine. View restaurant →
Ristorante Donato — Ristorante Donato arrived in Westmount in 2021 and found its footing fast — which tells you something about both the neighbourhood and the kitchen. This is Italian cooking filtered through the sensibility of Executive Chef Takeshi Horinoue, whose background is in precision and restraint rather than abundance. That combination — Japanese culinary discipline applied to Italian technique, operating out of a room designed by MCD Design's Marie-Claire in one of Montreal's wealthiest, most residentially minded neighbourhoods — produces a restaurant with a distinct register. It's not loud. It's not trying to be a scene. The open kitchen creates a kind of transparency that suits the whole operation: you're meant to feel close to the work, not dazzled by theatrics. Donato is for people who want dinner to feel considered without being fussy, and for couples who want a room that holds the evening without demanding they perform in it. The menu's reputation rests on three dishes that have become signatures. The grilled octopus with lima bean purée and salsa verde is the kind of appetizer that earns the word "signature" properly — a combination of textures and acid balance that diners and reviewers consistently single out as a reason to return. The lobster spaghetti anchors the pasta section and reflects Horinoue's commitment to handmade pasta as a daily practice, not a selling point. And the tiramisu — mascarpone, coffee, amaretto — is described across sources as luscious and precise, which is harder to achieve simultaneously than menus make it sound. These aren't items that rotate seasonally to signal ambition; they're the dishes that tell you what this kitchen actually believes in. Book well ahead for weekend tables — Westmount's dining room to resident ratio is not in your favour, and Donato has become a neighbourhood staple in a neighbourhood that does not have many of them. The open kitchen means some seats feel more kinetic than others; if atmosphere matters to your evening, ask for proximity to the pass. Start with the octopus, commit to the lobster spaghetti, and don't skip the tiramisu on the logic that you've seen tiramisu before. View restaurant →

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