Dînette Bardèz

COQCOR — the name is a contraction of *Le Coq Coréen*, Korean Chicken — commits to that premise without apology.

Cam's Déjeuner has built genuine word-of-mouth along Saint-Laurent before the critical apparatus caught up — which is usually a reliable signal that a place is doing something right for the neighbourhood rather than for the camera.

Ethiopian cooking is architecturally communal — everything arrives on a shared spread of injera, the soft, tangy flatbread that functions as both plate and utensil, and the meal only works when the whole table leans in.

Côte-des-Neiges rarely enters the burger conversation, which says more about where people are looking than about what's actually there.

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.