Restaurant Pulcinella occupies a corner of Saint-Denis that still knows what it wants to be — a neighbourhood Italian room built on handmade pasta, generous portions, and the kind of staff rapport that reviewers reach for the word "famil…

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10.0

Based on 207 reviews

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Contemporary•Villeray•moderate

Claire Jacques

Philippe Guilbault and Laurence Théberge — a sommelier and a veteran pastry chef, respectively — opened Claire Jacques on what was, until recently, a forgettable Villeray corner, and by most accounts the room landed fully formed.

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Wine Bar•Hochelaga•moderate

L'aPero buvette

L'aPero buvette suits a night out in Hochelaga when you want wine bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Italian•Little Italy•moderate

Bistrot Boisselet

Bistrot Boisselet is a italian pick in Little Italy in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night

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Contemporary•Plateau•moderate

TULA - Les repas végétaliens équilibrés

Montreal has no shortage of vegetarian restaurants, but plant-based Indian cooking done with genuine culinary ambition is a different category — and Tula is essentially the only room in the city occupying it.

Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner

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9.8

Based on 2210 reviews

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Contemporary•Saint-Henri•moderate

Restaurant La Toile

Saint-Henri has a way of producing restaurants that feel genuinely local rather than locally themed, and La Toile — sitting on Saint-Jacques in the thick of the neighbourhood — sounds like a textbook example.

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$

Mr. Crousty

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Wine Bar•Outremont•moderate

Mauve (Vin & Fleurs)

Mauve (Vin & Fleurs) is a wine bar pick in Outremont in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. If Unable to identify signature dishes is your kind of order, that is a good sign.

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Contemporary•Outremont•moderate

Myers

Myers is the kind of contemporary room in Outremont you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Café Dei Campi

Café Dei Campi is a cafe pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Chinese•Montreal•$$$$

Restaurant Rizière

On a stretch of Saint-Laurent that cycles through trends faster than most leases, Rizière has built a reputation by doing the opposite of what the boulevard usually rewards: slowing down, focusing, and committing to a specific vision of…

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K-BROS Restaurant Coréen

K-Bros, opened in July 2022 by two best friends — KO, the owner, and HA, the chef with over 25 years of Korean kitchen experience behind him — is a thirty-seat room on Boul.

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Italian•Little Italy•moderate

Lucca

Lucca has occupied its corner of Dante Street in Little Italy, and by most accounts it operates with the quiet confidence that comes from not needing to reinvent itself every season.

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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$

Restaurant Mastard

What Simon Mathys built at Mastard — on a stretch of Rue Bélanger that nobody was calling a dining destination — is a particular kind of statement: that a neighbourhood restaurant can hold a Michelin star and still feel like it belongs t…

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Pizzeria Zac | Plant-Based Pizza & Eats

Pizzeria Zac | Plant-Based Pizza & Eats is a pizza pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Spanish•Rosemont•moderate

Bo' Dégât Tapas et Vins

Bo' Dégât is what happens when a Barcelona-born chef — Carme Márquez, trained under Carles Abellán and Nandu Jubany, two of Catalonia's most rigorous culinary minds — decides Rosemont deserves a tapas bar with actual credentials behind it.

small platesdinnerdate night

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Japanese•Plateau•splurge

Kitano Shokudo

Kitano Shokudo is the kind of japanese room in Plateau you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Sushidate nightdinner

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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$

BONYARD | Restaurant de quartier dans le Sud-Ouest de Montréal

BONYARD operates on a premise that feels both obvious and underserved in the Sud-Ouest: street food built from Montreal's own multicultural DNA, served from a pick-up counter with a terrace that catches the neighbourhood's unhurried rhythm.

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Seafood•Montreal•splurge

Langoustine seafood

Langoustine occupies a specific and deliberate position in Montreal's seafood landscape — a mid-to-upper-tier room (price level three) that, by all accounts, resists the temptation to dress the product in unnecessary cosmopolitan flourish.

Seafood dinnerdate nightspecial occasion

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9.6

Based on 530 reviews

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Contemporary•Plateau•moderate

Leila

Leila is what happens when a genuine following meets a genuine kitchen — and the question worth asking is whether those two things are in proportion.

Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner

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9.6

Based on 328 reviews

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Bar•Montreal•moderate

Bar Bisou Bisou

Bar Bisou Bisou is making a coherent, grown-up argument about what a bar can be — and in Old Montreal's stone-walled underground, it lands with real conviction.

Cocktails and snackscocktailsdate night

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Spanish•Plateau•moderate

Fukurō: tapas + cocktails

Fukurō doesn't slot cleanly into any single category, which appears to be entirely the point.

small platesdinnerdate night

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WULI

On the corner of Boulevard Monk in the southwest reaches of the island, WULI has staked out a position that isn't particularly common in Montreal's Korean dining scene: a deliberate Korean-Japanese hybrid that treats the fusion not as a…

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Spanish•Montreal•moderate

Restaurant Nemo - Montréal

Restaurant Nemo occupies a slot on Rue Prince-Arthur, Montreal's pedestrian strip that has a way of lending any room a sense of occasion before the first drink arrives.

small platesdinnerdate night

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9.6

Based on 209 reviews

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Italian•Little Italy•moderate

Manuzza - Arancini Bar & Mercato

Manuzza exists at the intersection of two things that rarely coexist this cleanly in Montreal: a single-minded concept executed with Sicilian seriousness, and a room that feels like someone actually cared about the welcome.

Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night

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Snack Bar•Montreal•$$$$

'noy asian snack bar

'noy asian snack bar suits a night out when you want snack bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

cocktaillate nighthidden gem

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Syrian•Outremont•moderate

Damas

Georges Rateef's Syrian restaurant in Outremont has accumulated a reputation that places it among the most seriously regarded Middle Eastern kitchens in Canada — and in a city with Montreal's culinary range, that distinction carries actu…

dinnerdate night

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9.4

Based on 4153 reviews

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Momo par Christian Ventura

Momo par Christian Ventura is the kind of sushi room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

date night

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9.4

Based on 3465 reviews

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Seafood•Montreal•splurge

Seau de Crabe Restaurant

Seau de Crabe arrived in Montreal carrying a straightforward, almost confrontational premise: Quebec's first seafood boil concept, built around crustaceans, house sauce, a bib, and the reasonable expectation that you will leave with butt…

Seafood dinnerdate nightspecial occasion

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9.4

Based on 2565 reviews

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MR CAJUN

MR CAJUN is the kind of seafood room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Seafood dinnerdate nightspecial occasion

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9.4

Based on 2128 reviews

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Bar•Montreal•moderate

The Coldroom

The Coldroom operates on a premise that still carries genuine romance in the age of over-tagged cocktail bars: there is no sign, no obvious door, no concession to the casual passerby.

Cocktails and snackscocktailsdate night

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9.4

Based on 2080 reviews

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Spanish•Montreal•moderate

Mezcaleros Tapas & Cocktails

Mile-End has a particular talent for rooms that feel borrowed from somewhere warmer, and Mezcaleros on Avenue du Parc appears to be the neighbourhood's most persuasive version of that fantasy.

small platesdinnerdate night

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9.4

Based on 1851 reviews

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French•Montreal•moderate

Le Pégase

Le Pégase is the kind of bistro that operates on an implicit understanding with its clientele: French cooking, done without performance, in a room that knows its purpose.

French bistrodate nightdinner

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9.4

Based on 1218 reviews

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Seafood•Montréal•value

Restaurant Beba

Beba is the restaurant credited with making Verdun a destination rather than a neighbourhood people pass through on the way elsewhere — a meaningful distinction in a city where dining gravity tends to cluster in familiar arrondissements.

Wellington night outdinnergroup dinner

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9.4

Based on 1151 reviews

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French•Old Montreal•splurge

Le Club Chasse et Pêche

Le Club Chasse et Pêche occupies a stone-walled cellar in Old Montreal — low ceilings, dark wood, no windows — a room that has been deliberately engineered to make time irrelevant.

Special occasionspecial occasiondate night

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9.4

Based on 1114 reviews

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French•Montreal•moderate

Le Boulevardier Restaurant

Le Boulevardier Restaurant is a french pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

French bistrodate nightdinner

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9.4

Based on 1094 reviews

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Seafood•Plateau•moderate

Le Filet

Le Filet is, on the evidence, a room that has made a considered bet on restraint — and on the Plateau, where the ambient noise of self-promotion is essentially constant, that registers as a genuine position.

Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner

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Fine Dining•Montreal•$$$

Candide

Candide occupies a converted rectory behind Église Saint-Joseph — exposed red brick, parquet floors, wooden tables fashioned from old church pews — and the architecture is not incidental to the point.

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Restaurant CoqCor Guy-Concordia

Restaurant CoqCor Guy-Concordia is a korean pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Mediterranean•Plateau•moderate

Restaurant Bungalow

Eighteen years on Avenue Mont-Royal Est is a form of argument.

Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner

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9.4

Based on 661 reviews

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Italian•Little Italy•moderate

Luciano Trattoria

Luciano Trattoria is an argument for restraint in a neighborhood that doesn't always make that case.

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Monopole

Monopole is what happens when five people with serious industry pedigree — Toqué!

wine barcocktaildate night

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9.4

Based on 465 reviews

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Japanese•Montreal•splurge

Nama Omakase + Sushi Restaurant

Nama Omakase + Sushi is built around a premise that Montreal's mid-to-upper tier dining scene rewards: technical Japanese discipline applied to ingredients that can compete on a serious North American scale, delivered through an omakase…

Sushidate nightdinner

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Italian•Little Italy•moderate

Mucca

Little Italy has no shortage of places serving Italian food, but Mucca — a mid-priced room on the strip — operates on a different logic.

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Italian•Griffintown•moderate

Moreiras

Griffintown has spent the better part of a decade trading its industrial bones for restaurant rows, and Moreiras Pizza Bar earns its place in that story with a legitimately unusual credential: its Italian-made pizza oven is certified by…

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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9.4

Based on 307 reviews

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Contemporary•Outremont•moderate

Lux La Lumière

Rue Bernard Ouest sits at the seam between Mile-End and Outremont — close enough to both that locals claim it depending on mood — and Lux La Lumière wears that ambiguity well.

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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$

Restaurant Bincho

Bincho arrived at 701 Mont-Royal Est carrying a specific kind of ambition: take one of Le Plateau's most storied addresses — the room that housed Le Pontiac — and rebuild it around binchotan, the Japanese white charcoal that burns hotter…

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Italian•Little Italy•moderate

Restaurant L'osso

Restaurant Losso is doing something quietly deliberate for Little Italy: a room that trusts the neighborhood rather than performing it.

Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night

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9.4

Based on 182 reviews

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Italian•Griffintown•moderate

Sauce Buvette Du Quartier

Sauce Buvette Du Quartier is the kind of italian room in Griffintown you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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Italian•Montreal•$$$$

Mare

Mare is the kind of italian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Italian•Montreal•$$$$

Bocca Di Lupo

Bocca Di Lupo suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$

Phillips Bar

Phillips Bar is a restaurant pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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French•Montréal•moderate

L'Express

L'Express has operated on Rue Saint-Denis, and its reputation rests on something rarer than a strong opening year — it rests on four decades of consistency in a neighbourhood that has cycled through trends and closures without interrupti…

Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner

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9.2

Based on 3908 reviews

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Bar•Montreal•moderate

Bootlegger Cocktail Bar & Cuisine Montréal

Up a flight of stairs on Saint-Laurent, Bootlegger leans hard into its speakeasy bit — 600-plus bottles of spirits, rare whiskeys, absinthes, and a team of mixologists who've apparently been hauling their cocktails to competitions.

Cocktails and snackscocktailsdate night

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9.2

Based on 3271 reviews

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Mexican•Saint-Henri•moderate

Tacos Frida

Tacos Frida is the kind of mexican room in Saint-Henri you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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9.2

Based on 2602 reviews

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Contemporary•Saint-Henri•moderate

Terrasse St-Ambroise

Terrasse St-Ambroise is the kind of contemporary room in Saint-Henri you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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9.2

Based on 2538 reviews

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Middle Eastern•Griffintown•moderate

SHAY

Shay landed in Griffintown at a moment when the neighbourhood was still figuring out what it wanted to be, and it arrived with a clear point of view: live fire, a South African culinary frame, and a room polished enough to feel intention…

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9.2

Based on 2268 reviews

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Japanese•Outremont•splurge

Nikkei MTL

Nikkei MTL is the kind of japanese room in Outremont you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Sushidate nightdinner

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9.2

Based on 2105 reviews

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Chinese•Montreal•$$$$

Liuyishou Fondue / Liuyishou Hotpot Montreal

Liuyishou Fondue / Liuyishou Hotpot Montreal is the kind of chinese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

date night

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9.2

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Bar•Montreal•moderate

Atwater Cocktail Club

Atwater Cocktail Club earns its reputation before you even get inside — the approach through a graffiti-lined alleyway, punctuated by a red industrial light, is the kind of entrance that filters out the ambivalent.

Cocktails and snackscocktailsdate night

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9.2

Based on 2021 reviews

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Vegan•Montreal•$$

Lola Rosa Place-des-Arts

Lola Rosa Place-des-Arts is a vegan pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

date night

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9.2

Based on 1892 reviews

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Spanish•Villeray•moderate

Tapeo

Tapeo doesn't position itself as a Spanish grandmother's kitchen, and that restraint is apparently what makes it work.

dinnerdate night

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9.2

Based on 1877 reviews

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Japanese•Montreal•splurge

Sushi Hidden Fish

Sushi Hidden Fish is the kind of japanese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Sushidate nightdinner

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9.2

Based on 1827 reviews

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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$

Cadet

Cadet is a restaurant pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

date night

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9.2

Based on 1726 reviews

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Bar•Montreal•moderate

Cloakroom Bar

Cloakroom Bar is a bar pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Cocktails and snackscocktailsdate night

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9.2

Based on 1674 reviews

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French•Old Montreal•splurge

Restaurant Bonaparte

Restaurant Bonaparte has occupied the same Old Montreal address, and that duration alone signals something worth interrogating.

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9.2

Based on 1648 reviews

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French•Old Montreal•splurge

BARROCO

Barroco occupies one of Old Montreal's candlelit stone rooms — exposed brick, low ceilings, the kind of cave-like intimacy that the neighbourhood's 18th-century buildings produce almost effortlessly.

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9.2

Based on 1381 reviews

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Italian•Old Montreal•splurge

Le Serpent

Le Serpent occupies a converted loft in Old Montreal — concrete columns, exposed steel, warm industrial light — and the room reportedly wears that tension between raw and refined better than most of the neighbourhood's stone-walled grand…

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9.2

Based on 1349 reviews

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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$

Montréal Plaza

Montréal Plaza is the kind of restaurant room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

date night

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9.2

Based on 1300 reviews

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Wine Bar•Montreal•moderate

Le Vin Papillon

Le Vin Papillon is the wine bar sibling of Joe Beef, occupying a room in Little Burgundy that has built a reputation as one of Canada's most serious natural wine destinations — not through hype, but through a list that observers consiste…

winedinnerdate night

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9.2

Based on 1148 reviews

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Italian•Little Italy•moderate

Il Bazzali

Il Bazzali is the kind of italian room in Little Italy you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night

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9.2

Based on 1114 reviews

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Wine Bar•Montreal•moderate

La Buvette Chez Simone

There's a particular kind of Montreal room that doesn't perform for you, and Chez Simone has been that room.

winedinnerdate night

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9.2

Based on 1008 reviews

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Japanese•Montreal•splurge

YUBARI

YUBARI is the kind of japanese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Sushidate nightdinner

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9.2

Based on 957 reviews

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Contemporary•Saint-Henri•moderate

Tuck Shop

Tuck Shop is the kind of contemporary room in Saint-Henri you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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Île Flottante

Île Flottante occupies a particular and well-defended position in Mile End's crowded natural wine landscape — a neighbourhood that now has enough low-intervention lists and small-plates formats to make differentiation a genuine challenge.

dinnercocktaildate night

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9.2

Based on 918 reviews

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Japanese•Downtown•splurge

Kyodai Izakaya

Kyodai Izakaya pitches itself as an Osaka-style izakaya transplanted to the Sainte-Catherine corridor — a format that, done right, means drinking drives eating and the menu sprawls in the best possible way: small plates designed to keep…

Sushidate nightdinner

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9.2

Based on 678 reviews

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Italian•Saint-Henri•moderate

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.

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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9.2

Based on 649 reviews

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Italian•Saint-Henri•moderate

La Spada

Saint-Henri has a way of producing restaurants that feel like they belong to the neighborhood rather than to some broader idea of the neighborhood — and by most accounts, La Spada fits that description with room to spare.

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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9.2

Based on 521 reviews

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Contemporary•Plateau•moderate

Le Violon

Le Violon arrived on the Plateau in June 2024 and immediately made itself difficult to ignore — No.

Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner

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9.2

Based on 451 reviews

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Contemporary•Villeray•moderate

Restaurant Les Mômes

Restaurant Les Mômes is the kind of contemporary room in Villeray you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Italian•Saint-Henri•moderate

Figata

Saint-Henri has plenty of neighbourhood spots running on atmosphere alone, so Figata's particular proposition is worth paying attention to.

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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9.2

Based on 254 reviews

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Contemporary•Plateau•moderate

Azalea

Azalea sits on Rue Saint-Denis between Rachel and Marie-Anne, which means it's competing daily with some of the Plateau's most established bistro real estate — and yet it's carved out a genuinely distinct identity rather than softening i…

Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner

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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$

Magpie Magique

Magpie Magique occupies a peculiar and deliberate position in Montreal's restaurant landscape: it is, at its core, a mood project.

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Contemporary•Outremont•moderate

La Gaviota Restaurant

La Gaviota Restaurant suits a night out in Outremont when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Restaurant•Montréal•$$$$

Tô dinette viet

Tô dinette viet suits a night out in Montréal when you want restaurant that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Vieux-Port Steakhouse

Vieux-Port Steakhouse suits a night out in Old Montreal when you want steakhouse that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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9.0

Based on 10147 reviews

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French•Montreal•moderate

Gaspar Brasserie Française

Gaspar Brasserie Française is the kind of french room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

French bistrodate nightdinner

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9.0

Based on 4026 reviews

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Japanese•Montreal•splurge

Kyo Bar Japonais

Kyo Bar Japonais is the kind of japanese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Sushidate nightdinner

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9.0

Based on 3911 reviews

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Peruvian•Plateau•moderate

Barranco MTL - Peruvian restaurant & cocktail bar

Barranco MTL - Peruvian restaurant & cocktail bar is a peruvian pick in Plateau in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner

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9.0

Based on 3657 reviews

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Spanish•Montreal•moderate

Escondite Union

Escondite Union doesn't position itself as a formal Spanish dining room, and everything about its reputation suggests that's entirely deliberate.

small platesdinnerdate night

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9.0

Based on 3582 reviews

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Breakfast•Saint-Henri•moderate

Arthurs Nosh Bar

Arthurs Nosh Bar suits a night out in Saint-Henri when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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9.0

Based on 3582 reviews

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Contemporary•Saint-Henri•moderate

Satay Brothers Resto 3721 Notre-Dame

Satay Brothers Resto 3721 Notre-Dame suits a night out in Saint-Henri when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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9.0

Based on 3512 reviews

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Bar•Montreal•moderate

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.

Cocktails and snackscocktailsdate night

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9.0

Based on 3356 reviews

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French•Montreal•$$$$

Joe Beef

David McMillan and Fred Morin's Joe Beef, anchored in Little Burgundy, has a reasonable claim to being the most influential restaurant Montreal has produced — the room credited with making the city's food culture legible to the outside w…

frenchseafooddate night

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9.0

Based on 3236 reviews

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Dessert•Montreal•moderate

C’ChoColat

C'chocolat is not attempting to be a reverent patisserie with a hushed case and a disciplined aesthetic.

dessertdinnerdate night

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9.0

Based on 3000 reviews

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French•Old Montreal•splurge

Holder

Holder has operated out of Old Montreal, founded by brothers Maurice, Richard, and Paul Holder, and the room makes its intentions clear before the menu arrives.

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9.0

Based on 2998 reviews

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French•Outremont•moderate

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.

Downtown dinnerdate nightbusiness dinner

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9.0

Based on 1369 reviews

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112

French•Outremont•moderate

Brasserie Bernard

Brasserie Bernard suits a night out in Outremont when you want french that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

dinnerdate night

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9.0

Based on 1278 reviews

Reserve Menu Rate

113

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Jellyfish Montreal - restaurant

Jellyfish Montreal - restaurant suits a night out in Old Montreal when you want fine dining that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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9.0

Based on 1256 reviews

Cuisine AuntDai

Cuisine AuntDai is the kind of chinese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

date night

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9.0

Based on 1225 reviews

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115

Brunch•Villeray•moderate

Le Toasteur Villeray

Le Toasteur Villeray has a clear argument to make: that brunch deserves the same restless creativity usually reserved for dinner tasting menus.

dinnerdate night

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9.0

Based on 1223 reviews

Bar Suzanne

Bar Suzanne suits a night out when you want bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

cocktaildate night

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9.0

Based on 1119 reviews

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117

Spanish•Villeray•moderate

Mesón

Mesón suits a night out in Villeray when you want spanish that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

dinnerdate night

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9.0

Based on 1117 reviews

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118

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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$

Miracolo

Miracolo suits a night out when you want restaurant that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

date night

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9.0

Based on 1083 reviews

Plats de Pâtes Hong Mère

Plats de Pâtes Hong Mère suits a night out when you want chinese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Italian•Little Italy•moderate

Impasto

Impasto is the project of chefs Michele Forgione and Stefano Faita, and it sits on Saint-Laurent in Little Italy with the particular confidence of a room that has nothing left to prove.

Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night

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Contemporary•Griffintown•moderate

Mauvais Garçons

Mauvais Garçons suits a night out in Griffintown when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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Contemporary•Villeray•moderate

Château Maneki

Villeray doesn't do theatre, which is precisely why Château Maneki reads as right for the neighbourhood.

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Spanish•Montreal•moderate

Casa Galicia

Casa Galicia has been operating out of Montreal, making it one of the city's longest-standing Spanish tables — and one of the very few anywhere in North America to have built its identity around the specific regional tradition of Galicia…

small platesdinnerdate night

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French•Plateau•moderate

Bouillon Albert

There is a version of the contemporary bistro that exists purely to feel current — rotating small plates, a wine list that requires a philosophy degree, prices that demand you justify the evening afterward.

Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner

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Wine Bar•Montreal•moderate

Buvette Pastek

Buvette Pastek has the kind of reputation that travels through Montreal by word of mouth rather than press release — a wine bar that diners describe less in terms of what they ate and more in terms of how the night moved.

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Contemporary•Saint-Henri•moderate

Oorja

Saint-Henri has quietly become the address for Montreal's most interesting mid-range cooking, and Oorja earns its place in that conversation by doing something genuinely singular: it's the city's first dedicated Hakka restaurant, built a…

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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French•Montreal•moderate

Buvette Nicole

Old Montreal has a particular weakness for its own mythology — the cobblestones, the vaulted ceilings, the sense that history alone justifies the bill.

French bistrodate nightdinner

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Restaurant•Montreal•$$

Buvette Pompette

Buvette Pompette suits a night out when you want restaurant that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Japanese•Downtown•splurge

Manga Bistro

Manga Bistro suits a night out in Downtown when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

Sushidate nightdinner

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8.8

Based on 3525 reviews

Website Rate

130

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Indian•Griffintown•moderate

India Rosa Griffintown

India Rosa Griffintown suits a night out in Griffintown when you want indian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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8.8

Based on 2801 reviews

Reserve Menu Rate

131

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Seafood•Old Montreal•splurge

Pincette - Bar à Homard

Pincette - Bar à Homard suits a night out in Old Montreal when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

Seafood dinnerdate nightspecial occasion

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8.8

Based on 1696 reviews

Website Menu Rate

132

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Italian•Little Italy•moderate

Bottega

Bottega has occupied a fixed point in Montreal's pizza conversation since the Covone family opened in Little Italy in 2006, and the operation's reputation rests on a deliberate refusal to approximate Naples.

Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night

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8.8

Based on 1443 reviews

Website Menu Rate

133

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Barbecue•Griffintown•moderate

Le Boucan Smokehouse

Le Boucan Smokehouse is a barbecue pick in Griffintown in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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8.8

Based on 1348 reviews

Website Rate

134

Fine Dining•Old Montreal•splurge

Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel

Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel does not position itself against Montreal's modernist tasting-menu circuit, and that restraint is the point.

Special occasionspecial occasiondate night

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8.8

Based on 1058 reviews

Website Menu Rate

135

Contemporary•Downtown•splurge

Hiatus Restaurant et Bar

Let's be clear about what Hiatus actually is: not a restaurant that happens to have a view, but a fully committed argument that Montreal's downtown deserves a real destination at its peak — literally.

Downtown dinnerdate nightbusiness dinner

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Seafood•Montreal•splurge

Chez Delmo

Chez Delmo suits a night out when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

Seafood dinnerdate nightspecial occasion

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Contemporary•Outremont•moderate

Bloomfield

Bloomfield has figured out something that most Outremont addresses tend to overthink: the room matters as much as the plate, and the morning is the most honest hour to read either.

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Taza Flores

Taza Flores suits a night out when you want tapas that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Japanese•Montreal•splurge

Taiyo Cité Centre ville

Taiyo Cité Centre ville is a japanese pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Sushidate nightdinner

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Brasserie 701

Brasserie 701 is a french pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

cocktaildate night

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8.6

Based on 3776 reviews

Website Rate

141

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Contemporary•Griffintown•moderate

Restaurant Grinder

Restaurant Grinder suits a night out in Griffintown when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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8.6

Based on 2622 reviews

Reserve Menu Rate

142

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Contemporary•Griffintown•moderate

Yoko Luna

Yoko Luna occupies a particular niche that Griffintown — Montreal's perpetually reinventing neighbourhood — seems to have been waiting for: a contemporary room that refuses to make you choose between a sushi night and a steakhouse blowout.

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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8.6

Based on 2397 reviews

Reserve Menu Rate

143

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Californian•Griffintown•moderate

Restaurant ZIBO! Griffintown

ZIBO!

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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8.6

Based on 1587 reviews

Website Menu Rate

144

Contemporary•Griffintown•moderate

PALMA*

PALMA* is a contemporary pick in Griffintown in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. King Crab Tempura and Toro Tartare with Caviar also give you a decent sense of the menu.

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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8.6

Based on 1219 reviews

Reserve Menu Rate

145

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Contemporary•Saint-Henri•moderate

EVA's - St. Henri

EVA's - St. Henri is a contemporary pick in Saint-Henri in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night

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French•Outremont•moderate

Chez Leveque

Chez Lévêque has been making the same argument since Pierre Lévêque relaunched it in 1972, and the family rename in 1994 changed nothing essential: this is an Outremont institution that has decided, with some conviction, not to become an…

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Contemporary•Villeray•moderate

Chez Josie - Villeray

Chez Josie - Villeray suits a night out in Villeray when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Japanese•Downtown•splurge

Sora 45

Sora 45 is the kind of japanese room in Downtown you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Downtown dinnerdate nightbusiness dinner

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Contemporary•Outremont•moderate

À la table d'Outremont

À la table d'Outremont is a contemporary pick in Outremont in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Les Enfants Terribles

Les Enfants Terribles suits a night out when you want french that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

date night

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8.4

Based on 7260 reviews

Website Rate

151

Italian•Griffintown•moderate

Le Richmond

Le Richmond is a italian pick in Griffintown in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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8.2

Based on 1213 reviews

Reserve Menu Rate

152

Contemporary•Griffintown•moderate

Bazart

Bazart arrives in Griffintown at a moment when the neighbourhood is still negotiating its own identity — former industrial corridor, incoming creative class, not quite settled.

Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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Italian•Little Italy•moderate

Pizzeria Napoletana

Pizzeria Napoletana has been anchoring Dante Street in Little Italy — a timeline that begins not with pizza but with billiards, cards, and a café that served as a gathering point for Montreal's Italian immigrant community.

Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night

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8.0

Based on 4135 reviews

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Common questions about Date Night in Montreal

What are the best restaurants for date night in Montreal?

The top restaurants for date night in Montreal include Restaurant CoqCor du Parc - Parc Cité, Restaurant Pulcinella, Claire Jacques. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.