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4 Best Greek Restaurants in Montreal

The 4 best greek restaurants in Montreal, sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals editors.

The best greek restaurants in Montreal are estiatorio Milos Montreal, Marven's Restaurant, Tzatzi-qui, and more. Start with estiatorio Milos Montreal if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Sophie Laurent•4 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
estiatorio Milos MontrealMarven's RestaurantTzatzi-qui
4 Best Greek Restaurants in Montreal
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Top picks at a glance

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Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated greek restaurants in Montreal. The picks are sorted by Google rating and review volume to give you a reliable shortlist. Picks span Montreal and Plateau.

Quick picks

estiatorio Milos Montreal
Greek • 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 s…
Marven's Restaurant
Greek • Montreal
Marven's Restaurant is an easy greek option in Montreal to suggest without needing a long explanation.
Tzatzi-qui
Greek • Montreal
Old Montreal has a way of turning restaurants into expensive backdrops for indifferent food.
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Editorial details
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

On this page

  1. 1. estiatorio Milos MontrealView →
  2. 2. Marven's RestaurantView →
  3. 3. Tzatzi-quiView →
  4. 4. Le Jardin de PanosView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for estiatorio Milos Montreal
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estiatorio Milos Montreal
Montreal • Greek
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
group dinner
Mood
Casual
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Marven's Restaurant
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Marven's Restaurant
Montreal • Greek
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
group dinner
Mood
Casual
Tzatzi-qui
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
Google
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.

4 ranked picks

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 →
Tzatzi-qui — Old Montreal has a way of turning restaurants into expensive backdrops for indifferent food. Tzatziqui, which opened in 2023 as the only Greek restaurant in the Old Port, positions itself as a genuine exception to that pattern. The whitewashed wooden terrace — a deliberate visual reference to Mykonos transplanted to Place d'Youville — is consistently cited by diners as one of the more atmospheric outdoor settings in the neighborhood, the kind of space that actually holds up under a long, slow summer evening. It draws a notably mixed crowd: groups on long suppers, downtown workers at lunch, and people who have grown tired of Greek cooking being treated as a footnote in this city's dining conversation. At price level one, that combination is unusual enough to pay attention to. The kitchen builds around open-flame grill traditions, and that approach is most visible in the dishes that have developed reputations. The Calamari is reportedly grilled rather than fried, with the char that implies. The Saganaki arrives tableside in the bronzed, loud fashion the dish demands, with a salt-forward profile diners describe as well-balanced against the richness. The Moussaka has become something of a signature — it's flagged across multiple sources as a dish that sells out during peak service, which suggests both that it's popular and that timing your visit accordingly is practical advice. The Chicken Pita and the Jersey Shore Fries — thick-cut, specialty-sourced, and reportedly aggressively crispy — round out a menu that rewards ordering widely rather than anchoring to a single plate. The practical case for Tzatziqui is straightforward: come on a weekday, come early before the Moussaka is gone, and bring enough people to move across the menu. This is table food — the Saganaki and Chicken Pita especially — designed for sharing, not for a solo diner watching the clock. View restaurant →

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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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