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Korean•Montreal•$$$$
Restaurant CoqCor du Parc - Parc Cité
COQCOR — the name is a contraction of *Le Coq Coréen*, Korean Chicken — commits to that premise without apology.
hidden gemdate night
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10.0
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Best Date Night Restaurants in Montreal: 153 Picks for 2026
Montreal restaurants that get mood, pacing, and city character right for a better evening.
153 restaurantsAvg rating 9.2Updated July 2026
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Top picks for date night in Montreal
Fast answers for diners searching for date night restaurants in Montreal. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
#1 pick
Restaurant CoqCor du Parc - Parc Cité
Korean | Montreal | $$$$
Known for GangJeong (sweet and spicy Korean fried chicken).
Restaurant Pulcinella
#2 pick
Restaurant Pulcinella
Italian | Little Italy | moderate
Strong pick for italian classics.
#3 pick
Claire Jacques
Contemporary | Villeray | moderate
Strong pick for dinner.
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Italian•Little Italy•moderate
Restaurant Pulcinella
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…
Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night
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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.
dinnerdate night
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10.0
Based on 125 reviews
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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.
winedinnerdate night
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10.0
Based on 68 reviews
5
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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10.0
Based on 63 reviews
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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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9.8
Based on 617 reviews
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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$
Mr. Crousty
Mr.
hidden gemdate night
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9.8
Based on 223 reviews
9
Wine Bar•Outremont•moderate
Mauve (Vin & Fleurs)
Mauve (Vin & Fleurs) is a wine bar pick in Outremont in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. If Unable to identify signature dishes is your kind of order, that is a good sign.
winedinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 130 reviews
10
Contemporary•Outremont•moderate
Myers
Myers is the kind of contemporary room in Outremont you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
dinnerdate night
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9.8
Based on 57 reviews
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Cafe•Montreal•$
Café Dei Campi
Café Dei Campi is a cafe pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
date night
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9.6
Based on 863 reviews
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Chinese•Montreal•$$$$
Restaurant Rizière
On a stretch of Saint-Laurent that cycles through trends faster than most leases, Rizière has built a reputation by doing the opposite of what the boulevard usually rewards: slowing down, focusing, and committing to a specific vision of…
date night
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9.6
Based on 807 reviews
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Korean•Montreal•$$$$
K-BROS Restaurant Coréen
K-Bros, opened in July 2022 by two best friends — KO, the owner, and HA, the chef with over 25 years of Korean kitchen experience behind him — is a thirty-seat room on Boul.
date night
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9.6
Based on 794 reviews
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Italian•Little Italy•moderate
Lucca
Lucca has occupied its corner of Dante Street in Little Italy since 1999, and by most accounts it operates with the quiet confidence that comes from not needing to reinvent itself every season.
Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 782 reviews
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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$
Restaurant Mastard
What Simon Mathys built at Mastard — on a stretch of Rue Bélanger that nobody was calling a dining destination — is a particular kind of statement: that a neighbourhood restaurant can hold a Michelin star and still feel like it belongs t…
date night
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9.6
Based on 753 reviews
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Pizza•Montreal•$$$$
Pizzeria Zac | Plant-Based Pizza & Eats
Pizzeria Zac | Plant-Based Pizza & Eats is a pizza pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
date night
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9.6
Based on 655 reviews
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Spanish•Rosemont•moderate
Bo' Dégât Tapas et Vins
Bo' Dégât is what happens when a Barcelona-born chef — Carme Márquez, trained under Carles Abellán and Nandu Jubany, two of Catalonia's most rigorous culinary minds — decides Rosemont deserves a tapas bar with actual credentials behind it.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 635 reviews
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Japanese•Plateau•splurge
Kitano Shokudo
Kitano Shokudo is the kind of japanese room in Plateau you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Sushidate nightdinner
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9.6
Based on 610 reviews
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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$
BONYARD | Restaurant de quartier dans le Sud-Ouest de Montréal
BONYARD operates on a premise that feels both obvious and underserved in the Sud-Ouest: street food built from Montreal's own multicultural DNA, served from a pick-up counter with a terrace that catches the neighbourhood's unhurried rhythm.
date night
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9.6
Based on 599 reviews
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Seafood•Montreal•splurge
Langoustine seafood
Langoustine occupies a specific and deliberate position in Montreal's seafood landscape — a mid-to-upper-tier room (price level three) that, by all accounts, resists the temptation to dress the product in unnecessary cosmopolitan flourish.
Seafood dinnerdate nightspecial occasion
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9.6
Based on 530 reviews
21
Contemporary•Plateau•moderate
Leila
Leila is what happens when a genuine following meets a genuine kitchen — and the question worth asking is whether those two things are in proportion.
Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.6
Based on 328 reviews
22
Bar•Montreal•moderate
Bar Bisou Bisou
Bar Bisou Bisou is making a coherent, grown-up argument about what a bar can be — and in Old Montreal's stone-walled underground, it lands with real conviction.
Cocktails and snackscocktailsdate night
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9.6
Based on 312 reviews
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Spanish•Plateau•moderate
Fukurō: tapas + cocktails
Fukurō doesn't slot cleanly into any single category, which appears to be entirely the point.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 270 reviews
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Korean•Montreal•$$$$
WULI
On the corner of Boulevard Monk in the southwest reaches of the island, WULI has staked out a position that isn't particularly common in Montreal's Korean dining scene: a deliberate Korean-Japanese hybrid that treats the fusion not as a…
hidden gemdate night
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9.6
Based on 210 reviews
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Spanish•Montreal•moderate
Restaurant Nemo - Montréal
Restaurant Nemo occupies a slot on Rue Prince-Arthur, Montreal's pedestrian strip that has a way of lending any room a sense of occasion before the first drink arrives.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 209 reviews
26
Italian•Little Italy•moderate
Manuzza - Arancini Bar & Mercato
Manuzza exists at the intersection of two things that rarely coexist this cleanly in Montreal: a single-minded concept executed with Sicilian seriousness, and a room that feels like someone actually cared about the welcome.
Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 196 reviews
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Snack Bar•Montreal•$$$$
'noy asian snack bar
'noy asian snack bar suits a night out when you want snack bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
cocktaillate nighthidden gem
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9.6
Based on 178 reviews
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Syrian•Outremont•moderate
Damas
Georges Rateef's Syrian restaurant in Outremont has accumulated a reputation that places it among the most seriously regarded Middle Eastern kitchens in Canada — and in a city with Montreal's culinary range, that distinction carries actu…
dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 4153 reviews
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Sushi•Montreal•$$
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
36
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
37
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
38
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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9.4
Based on 838 reviews
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Fine Dining•Montreal•$$$
Candide
Candide occupies a converted rectory behind Église Saint-Joseph — exposed red brick, parquet floors, wooden tables fashioned from old church pews — and the architecture is not incidental to the point.
fine diningdate night
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9.4
Based on 763 reviews
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Korean•Montreal•$$$$
Restaurant CoqCor Guy-Concordia
Restaurant CoqCor Guy-Concordia is a korean pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
date night
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9.4
Based on 724 reviews
41
Mediterranean•Plateau•moderate
Restaurant Bungalow
Eighteen years on Avenue Mont-Royal Est is a form of argument.
Plateau dinnerdate nightdinner
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9.4
Based on 661 reviews
42
Italian•Little Italy•moderate
Luciano Trattoria
Luciano Trattoria is an argument for restraint in a neighborhood that doesn't always make that case.
Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 586 reviews
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Wine Bar•Montreal•$$
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
44
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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9.4
Based on 454 reviews
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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.
Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 439 reviews
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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
47
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.
dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 294 reviews
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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$
Restaurant Bincho
Bincho arrived at 701 Mont-Royal Est carrying a specific kind of ambition: take one of Le Plateau's most storied addresses — the room that housed Le Pontiac — and rebuild it around binchotan, the Japanese white charcoal that burns hotter…
hidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 183 reviews
49
Italian•Little Italy•moderate
Restaurant L'osso
Restaurant Losso is doing something quietly deliberate for Little Italy: a room that trusts the neighborhood rather than performing it.
Italian classicsfamily dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 182 reviews
50
Italian•Griffintown•moderate
Sauce Buvette Du Quartier
Sauce Buvette Du Quartier is the kind of italian room in Griffintown you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 132 reviews
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Italian•Montreal•$$$$
Mare
Mare is the kind of italian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
hidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 113 reviews
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Italian•Montreal•$$$$
Bocca Di Lupo
Bocca Di Lupo suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
hidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 112 reviews
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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$
Phillips Bar
Phillips Bar is a restaurant pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
hidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 107 reviews
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French•Montréal•moderate
L'Express
L'Express has operated on Rue Saint-Denis since 1980, 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…
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…
Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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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•$$$$
Liuyishou Fondue / Liuyishou Hotpot Montreal
Liuyishou Fondue / Liuyishou Hotpot Montreal is the kind of chinese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
date night
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9.2
Based on 2100 reviews
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Bar•Montreal•moderate
Atwater Cocktail Club
Atwater Cocktail Club earns its reputation before you even get inside — the approach through a graffiti-lined alleyway, punctuated by a red industrial light, is the kind of entrance that filters out the ambivalent.
Cocktails and snackscocktailsdate night
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9.2
Based on 2021 reviews
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Vegan•Montreal•$$
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•$$$
Cadet
Cadet is a restaurant pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
date night
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9.2
Based on 1726 reviews
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Bar•Montreal•moderate
Cloakroom Bar
Cloakroom Bar is a bar pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Cocktails and snackscocktailsdate night
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9.2
Based on 1674 reviews
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French•Old Montreal•splurge
Restaurant Bonaparte
Restaurant Bonaparte has occupied the same Old Montreal address since 1984, and that duration alone signals something worth interrogating.
Special occasionspecial occasiondate night
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9.2
Based on 1648 reviews
68
French•Old Montreal•splurge
BARROCO
Barroco occupies one of Old Montreal's candlelit stone rooms — exposed brick, low ceilings, the kind of cave-like intimacy that the neighbourhood's 18th-century buildings produce almost effortlessly.
Special occasionspecial occasiondate night
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9.2
Based on 1381 reviews
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Italian•Old Montreal•splurge
Le Serpent
Le Serpent occupies a converted loft in Old Montreal — concrete columns, exposed steel, warm industrial light — and the room reportedly wears that tension between raw and refined better than most of the neighbourhood's stone-walled grand…
Special occasionspecial occasiondate night
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9.2
Based on 1349 reviews
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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$
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
72
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 since 2008.
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
75
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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9.2
Based on 953 reviews
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Bar•Montréal•value
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
77
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
78
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
79
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
80
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
81
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.
dinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 277 reviews
82
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
83
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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9.2
Based on 252 reviews
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Restaurant•Montreal•$$$$
Magpie Magique
Magpie Magique occupies a peculiar and deliberate position in Montreal's restaurant landscape: it is, at its core, a mood project.
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 248 reviews
85
Contemporary•Outremont•moderate
La Gaviota Restaurant
La Gaviota Restaurant suits a night out in Outremont when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
dinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 161 reviews
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Restaurant•Montréal•$$$$
Tô dinette viet
Tô dinette viet suits a night out in Montréal when you want restaurant that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 155 reviews
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Steakhouse•Old Montreal•splurge
Vieux-Port Steakhouse
Vieux-Port Steakhouse suits a night out in Old Montreal when you want steakhouse that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Special occasionspecial occasiondate night
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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•$$$$
Joe Beef
David McMillan and Fred Morin's Joe Beef, anchored in Little Burgundy since 2005, has a reasonable claim to being the most influential restaurant Montreal has produced — the room credited with making the city's food culture legible to th…
frenchseafooddate night
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9.0
Based on 3236 reviews
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Dessert•Montreal•moderate
C’ChoColat
C'chocolat is not attempting to be a reverent patisserie with a hushed case and a disciplined aesthetic.
dessertdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 3000 reviews
97
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French•Old Montreal•splurge
Holder
Holder has operated out of Old Montreal since 2003, founded by brothers Maurice, Richard, and Paul Holder, and the room makes its intentions clear before the menu arrives.
Special occasionspecial occasiondate night
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9.0
Based on 2998 reviews
98
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French•Outremont•moderate
Leméac
Leméac is the kind of french room in Outremont you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
dinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 2744 reviews
99
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Peruvian•Montreal•$$$
Tiradito
Tiradito is the kind of peruvian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
cocktaildate night
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9.0
Based on 2700 reviews
100
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Japanese•Downtown•splurge
IMADAKE IZAKAYA
IMADAKE IZAKAYA suits a night out in Downtown when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Sushidate nightdinner
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9.0
Based on 2686 reviews
101
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Japanese•Montreal•splurge
Biiru
Biiru has held its ground in the Quartier des Spectacles since February 2014, which in downtown Montreal restaurant years qualifies as institutional.
Sushidate nightdinner
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9.0
Based on 2400 reviews
102
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Japanese•Montreal•splurge
Kaëdo Sushi
Kaëdo Sushi 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 2140 reviews
103
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Italian•Griffintown•moderate
Mano Cornuto
Mano Cornuto landed on a quiet Griffintown corner in August 2019 and became the neighbourhood's de facto anchor almost immediately — a reputation it has held through a pandemic the four co-owners reportedly navigated via meal kits and co…
Drinks and dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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9.0
Based on 1974 reviews
104
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Pizza Delivery•Montréal•moderate
Restaurant Elena
Elena arrived in St-Henri before the neighbourhood acquired its current reputation, and by most accounts it played a genuine role in building that reputation rather than simply benefiting from it.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnercasual night
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9.0
Based on 1907 reviews
105
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Brunch•Outremont•moderate
Le Majestique Montréal
Le Majestique Montréal is a contemporary pick in Outremont in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
dinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 1593 reviews
106
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Fine Dining•Montréal•$$$$
Toqué!
Normand Laprise's Toqué!
fine diningdate night
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9.0
Based on 1565 reviews
107
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Spanish•Montreal•moderate
Ibéricos Taverne à Tapas Espagnoles
Ibéricos Taverne à Tapas Espagnoles is the kind of spanish room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 1527 reviews
108
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Gastropub•Montreal•$$$
Bar Dominion
Bar Dominion is the kind of gastropub room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
cocktaildate night
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9.0
Based on 1469 reviews
109
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Bar•Montreal•$$
Bar Henrietta
Bar Henrietta is the kind of bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
cocktailwine bardate night
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9.0
Based on 1412 reviews
110
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Restaurant•Montréal•$$$
Vin Mon Lapin
Mon Lapin occupies a particular position in the Joe Beef Group's portfolio — it is the Mile End entry point, the room where the operating philosophy of the larger organization is expressed in a looser, less ceremonial format.
date night
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9.0
Based on 1379 reviews
111
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French•Westmount•splurge
Maison Boulud
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
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
113
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Fine Dining•Old Montreal•splurge
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.
Special occasionspecial occasiondate night
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9.0
Based on 1256 reviews
114
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Chinese•Montreal•$$
Cuisine AuntDai
Cuisine AuntDai is the kind of chinese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
date night
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9.0
Based on 1225 reviews
115
Brunch•Villeray•moderate
Le Toasteur Villeray
Le Toasteur Villeray has a clear argument to make: that brunch deserves the same restless creativity usually reserved for dinner tasting menus.
dinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 1223 reviews
116
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Bar•Montreal•$$
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
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
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
119
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Chinese•Montreal•$
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.
date night
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9.0
Based on 947 reviews
120
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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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9.0
Based on 919 reviews
121
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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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9.0
Based on 905 reviews
122
Contemporary•Villeray•moderate
Château Maneki
Villeray doesn't do theatre, which is precisely why Château Maneki reads as right for the neighbourhood.
dinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 734 reviews
123
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Spanish•Montreal•moderate
Casa Galicia
Casa Galicia has been operating out of Montreal since 1977, 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…
small platesdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 702 reviews
124
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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9.0
Based on 601 reviews
125
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.
winedinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 425 reviews
126
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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9.0
Based on 422 reviews
127
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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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9.0
Based on 370 reviews
128
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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.
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 282 reviews
129
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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8.8
Based on 935 reviews
136
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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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8.8
Based on 754 reviews
137
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.
dinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 565 reviews
138
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Tapas•Montreal•$$$
Taza Flores
Taza Flores suits a night out when you want tapas that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
date night
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8.8
Based on 564 reviews
139
Japanese•Montreal•splurge
Taiyo Cité Centre ville
Taiyo Cité Centre ville is a japanese pick in Montreal when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Sushidate nightdinner
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8.8
Based on 380 reviews
140
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French•Montreal•$$$
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
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
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
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
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
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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8.6
Based on 752 reviews
146
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…
dinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 644 reviews
147
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.
dinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 423 reviews
148
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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8.6
Based on 368 reviews
149
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.
dinnerdate night
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8.6
Based on 92 reviews
150
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French•Montreal•$$$
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
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
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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8.2
Based on 691 reviews
153
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Italian•Little Italy•moderate
Pizzeria Napoletana
Pizzeria Napoletana has been anchoring Dante Street in Little Italy since 1948 — 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
Guide • montreal
Best Date Night Restaurants in Montreal
Montreal date-night restaurants that feel lively, intimate, and especially good at carrying a longer evening — from Little Burgundy classics to the Plateau's most romantic bistros.
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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.
What is the best date night restaurant in Montreal?
Restaurant CoqCor du Parc - Parc Cité is among the top-rated options for date night in Montreal, with a 10.0 Google rating and 244 reviews.
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