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4 Best Thai Restaurants in Montreal

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

The best thai restaurants in Montreal are Les Street Monkeys, ChuChai, Siam Centre-Ville, and more. Start with Les Street Monkeys if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Linh Tran•4 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
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4 Best Thai Restaurants in Montreal
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Top picks at a glance

#1Les Street MonkeysThai • Verdun • value#2ChuChaiThai • Montreal • value#3Siam Centre-VilleThai • Downtown • value

Who this guide is for

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

Quick picks

Les Street Monkeys
Thai • Verdun
What executive chef and co-owner Tota Oung built at Les Street Monkeys in 2017 has a clear origin story: born in Thailand, raised in Montreal by a Cambodian mother, Oung opened this 57-seat Verdun…
ChuChai
Thai • Montreal
ChuChai is the kind of price-point-one Thai restaurant that tends to recalibrate expectations fast.
Siam Centre-Ville
Thai • Downtown
Here's what separates Siam Centre-Ville from the usual downtown Thai playbook: the kitchen was built around a chef recruited from Thailand specifically to develop dishes that aren't being replicate…
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Editorial details
Author: Linh Tran
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

On this page

  1. 1. Les Street MonkeysView →
  2. 2. ChuChaiView →
  3. 3. Siam Centre-VilleView →
  4. 4. SESAME - BISTRO ASIATIQUEView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Les Street Monkeys
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Les Street Monkeys
Verdun • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Wellington night out
Mood
Verdun
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for ChuChai
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ChuChai
Montreal • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Thai food
Mood
Casual
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Siam Centre-Ville
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Siam Centre-Ville
Downtown • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Thai food
Mood
Downtown
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for SESAME - BISTRO ASIATIQUE
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SESAME - BISTRO ASIATIQUE
Downtown • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Thai food
Mood
Downtown

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

Les Street Monkeys — What executive chef and co-owner Tota Oung built at Les Street Monkeys in 2017 has a clear origin story: born in Thailand, raised in Montreal by a Cambodian mother, Oung opened this 57-seat Verdun resto-bar alongside co-owners William Kit and Sihour Kong with the specific intention of centering Cambodian street food — not as a genre footnote but as the entire argument. The neighbourhood was the right call. Verdun's Wellington Street rewards conviction over concept, and the room here — wooden coffee tables, low lighting, bar stools, an unpretentious layout designed for sharing — signals exactly what kind of place this is before you look at the menu. That menu is where Oung's dual Thai-Cambodian inheritance becomes legible. The Stuffed Wings are the dish most consistently cited by regulars: boneless, filled with Thai sausage, and reportedly seasoned with turmeric and lemongrass, they're known for arriving fragrant and crackling in a way that reframes what wings are supposed to accomplish. The Wasabi Shrimp Ceviche reads as genuinely ambitious for this price point — sharp, bright, the kind of dish that diners associate with rooms charging twice as much. The Fried Cod with Amok Sauce carries Oung's Cambodian lineage most directly: the fish lands in a coconut milk and red curry base with kaffir lime, coconut foam, and crispy taro, a combination that reportedly keeps the dish from collapsing into a single register. The Crème Brûlée of the Moment rotates, which is reason enough to ask your server about it before committing to anything else on the dessert end. The Scallop Fried Rice functions as a table anchor and is best ordered alongside the smaller plates rather than in place of them. At price level one, the rational move is to order broadly and share everything. The room seats 57 and has been drawing a consistent crowd since opening, so weekend reservations are worth making in advance. Weeknights are the easier route — particularly at the bar if you're a party of two. View restaurant →
ChuChai — ChuChai is the kind of price-point-one Thai restaurant that tends to recalibrate expectations fast. The entire menu is plant-based — no fish sauce, no meat stocks anchoring the curries — and by all accounts the kitchen commits to that without the usual vegetarian hedge of leaning on cream and cheese to fill the gap. The room draws a crowd that eats this way regularly, not occasionally, which tells you something about how seriously the cooking is taken. If you arrive expecting the salty, funky baseline of a traditional Bangkok street kitchen, diners consistently note you'll need to adjust your frame of reference — but the food reportedly earns that adjustment on its own terms. The verified dishes here are worth knowing in some detail. Som Tam is cited across multiple sources as a defining plate: the green papaya salad is known for assertive lime acidity and real chili heat rather than a toned-down vegetarian version. Pad Keemao — drunken noodles — reportedly carries enough basil and pepper to justify the name, with plant-based protein that apparently reads as convincing rather than apologetic. Panang Neua is the curry the menu centers on: a coconut-forward, kaffir lime preparation that diners describe as rich and slightly sweet, the kind of dish that anchors the whole table's order. For starters, the Kiao Satay and the Tao-hu Dan are the recommended entry points — tofu-based preparations that set up the meal's logic before the heavier mains arrive. Practical note: the room is small and weekend reservations go quickly, so booking ahead or targeting an early weekday slot is the standard advice. The move, according to people who eat here regularly, is Kiao Satay and Tao-hu Dan to start, Panang Neua as your anchor, and rice — order it even if you think you won't need it. View restaurant →
Siam Centre-Ville — Here's what separates Siam Centre-Ville from the usual downtown Thai playbook: the kitchen was built around a chef recruited from Thailand specifically to develop dishes that aren't being replicated elsewhere in Montreal, and the restaurant holds a Thai Select Signature certification — which is either a bureaucratic footnote or meaningful signal depending on your cynicism level. I'd lean toward signal. The room lives inside the Warwick Le Crystal Hotel but, by all accounts, reads nothing like hotel dining — second-floor summer terrace, hanging lanterns, dense greenery, a serious Buddha anchoring the space. The clientele skews cosmopolitan, reportedly, because the kitchen doesn't appear to be cooking for the Bell Centre pre-game crowd. The menu centers on dishes that diners consistently flag as the reason to return. Chef Panithit's Crispy Chicken — battered, fried, finished with chili paste and garlic, cooled with cucumber and coriander — is described as deceptively simple on paper. The Drunken Noodles (Pad Kee Mao) are known for carrying genuine heat and showing up in reviews as a benchmark of whether a Thai kitchen is operating on real flame or not. The Khao Yam, their Rainbow Salad, reportedly lands as the sleeper hit — an herb-forward dish built for contrast rather than comfort. The Wontons au Canard lean rich by design, and the Cari Rouge au Poulet functions as the table anchor for anyone who wants something to build a meal around. At price level one, the math is conspicuously favorable. Practical reality: the terrace books up in summer and the vibe shifts sharply from the interior, so plan accordingly. The reliable throughline based on what people are consistently ordering: start with the Crispy Chicken and Khao Yam, run Drunken Noodles through the middle, and let the Cari Rouge close the savory stretch. Weeknights are quieter — go then if the pre-game noise matters to you. View restaurant →

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SESAME - BISTRO ASIATIQUE — Downtown Montreal has no shortage of spots pitching "Asian fusion" as an excuse to charge twenty-five dollars for something you can't quite identify. Sesame isn't playing that game. At 380 Saint-Jacques, right in the thick of the financial district, this bistro has figured out that the move is to be genuinely affordable, visually sharp, and actually satisfying — a combination that sounds obvious and apparently isn't. The room channels a kind of relaxed modernism: clean lines, an atmosphere that reads upscale without the stiffness, and outdoor seating that makes it the rare downtown lunch spot where you actually want to linger. Sesame is for the office worker who's bored of sad desk salads, the tourist who wandered off Sainte-Catherine, and anyone who knows that price level one and real technique are not mutually exclusive. The Pad Thaï is the honest test of any pan-Asian kitchen and Sesame passes it — savory, properly tangy, not drowned in sauce. The Boeuf Croustillant à l'Orange is where the kitchen flexes a little, that crunch-to-glaze tension between crispy beef and citrus-forward sauce being exactly the kind of thing that gets a dish photographed. The Tartare de Saumon and the Pokés Saumon both lean on freshness as their whole argument, and in a room this price-conscious, fresh salmon prepared with care is the kind of detail that earns repeat business. The Calmars Frits speak to the General Tao school of light-handed frying — breading that exists to serve the protein rather than bury it. Dessert-wise, the Black Sesame Ice Cream is genuinely distinctive and not just a novelty. Here's the move: come Thursday lunch when the financial district crowd hasn't yet claimed every table, sit outside if the weather allows, and go straight for the Boeuf Croustillant à l'Orange alongside the Pad Thaï — that pairing covers both the comfort and the kitchen's actual range. Sesame has a partnership with Sapporo through Sleeman, so the beer option is there and it pairs cleanly with the fried dishes. They're open Fridays until ten, which makes this a low-key first-date spot that won't stress anyone's wallet. Book ahead for Friday dinner; walk in freely for a weekday lunch. View restaurant →

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