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6 Best Portuguese Restaurants in Montreal

The 6 best portuguese restaurants in Montreal, sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals editors.

The best portuguese restaurants in Montreal are Chez José Café, Ma Poule Mouillée, Ferreira Café, and more. Start with Chez José Café if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Sophie Laurent6 ranked picksPublished July 15, 2026Updated July 15, 2026
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Chez José CaféThirty years on Avenue Duluth and Chez José Café still reads, from everything regulars and longtime Plateau residents report, like a place that got it right early and saw no reason to complicate things. Family-run and eco-conscious since 1994, it landed on a Portuguese-inflected take on international brunch cooking before that combination needed a name, and it has stayed exactly there. The room is reportedly rustic in the way that rooms get rustic — accumulated rather than designed — and the clientele skews toward people who think forty dollars for lunch is an ideological failure. That mix of Plateau lifer and curious tourist wandering off St-Laurent seems to be the point. What the place has, according to consistent accounts, is the rare quality of cooking that seems aimed at the person sitting down, not at anything else.The dishes that earn the most loyalty are pretty well documented at this point. The Fruit de Mer Soup — mussels, squid, and shrimp in a tomato-coriander broth — is the one diners come back specifically for, described repeatedly as assertive on the coriander and generous with the broth. The Poitrine de Poulet Churrasco is the lunch centerpiece: churrasco-grilled chicken on housemade Portuguese bread, and the chipotle sauce that comes with it has developed something of a cult following among regulars who wish it were sold by the jar. The Pasteis de Natas are the known closer — four per order, reportedly flaky and properly custardy. The Burrito aux Lentilles gives the menu its cross-cultural range without making the whole thing feel unfocused.Practically: weekday brunch is the move if your schedule allows, since the room fills quickly on weekends and the better seats go fast. Lead with the seafood soup, anchor on the Churrasco chicken, confirm the chipotle sauce situation when you order, and end with the Pasteis de Natas. The Psychedelic Blast is available at a price point where curiosity costs you almost nothing. View restaurant →

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Portus 360Portus 360 is doing something the Plateau has very little of: Portuguese cooking with apparent conviction at a price point that feels like a loophole. The menu doesn't shy away from the salt-cod obsession, the lamb, or the old-country seriousness that defines the cuisine at its best — this isn't the softened, tourist-facing version. The crowd, by all accounts, reflects that: Portuguese-diaspora regulars eating the way they eat at home alongside neighbours who've clearly made it a habit. At price level one, most kitchens coast on the format. Everything about how this menu is structured suggests Portus 360 is more interested in the cooking. The Pasteis de bacalhau are the entry point — salt-cod fritters that diners consistently flag as leaning hard toward fish rather than filler, which is the only version worth ordering. The Polvo grelhado is the dish the room is known for: grilled octopus that reportedly carries serious char and a straightforward preparation that puts the seafood front and center. The Bacalhau à braz — shredded cod scrambled with thin-cut potatoes and egg — is a classic that rewards a kitchen patient enough to treat it carefully, and this one is described as hitting that mark. The Sela de borrego em crosta de ervas aromáticas, a herb-crusted lamb saddle, signals that this isn't a one-trick menu: it has genuine range. The Tartare de filet mignon is the quieter outlier — a different angle on the kitchen that's worth exploring if you want to see how far the cooking stretches beyond the Portuguese canon. Book ahead on weekends; the room fills with purpose and walk-ins reportedly get turned away. The practical move: anchor the table on the octopus, cover the bacalhau in at least one of its forms, and let the lamb close things out. View restaurant →

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