Forty minutes northeast in Repentigny, La Chaudronnée Suisse offers, as the name suggests, classic Swiss fondue and raclette, as well as crepes and a wide range of desserts (including chocolate and maple fondue). An extensive list of options for dipping — vegetables, meats, seafood — is available for individuals or pairs.

Another spot worth trekking outside of Montreal for, Terrebonne’s D’Artagnan does classic Swiss fondue as well as hot pot. The cozy, family-friendly restaurant is especially proud of its Belgian chocolate dessert fondue, served with fruit and marshmallows. 

A few minutes north of Montmorency station, La Fonderie in Laval has both cheesy Swiss and brothy Chinese and bourguignonne fondues on offer. If the Swiss fondue doesn’t satisfy your cheese cravings, try the raclette or fried brie appetizers. 

The go-to spot for raclette in Montreal for over 30 years (along with now-closed downtown resto Alpenhaus), La Raclette is one of the best spots for Swiss cuisine you’ll find in the city. The menu goes far beyond raclette, too, with an array of roasted or grilled meats. Bonus: it’s BYOB.

While a few places on this map offer chocolate-based dessert fondue, this local chain is probably your best bet if you have a hankering for it. It comes with an array of fruit, waffles, and marshmallows for dipping, and you can choose which high-quality chocolate the fondue is made with.

Old Montreal’s Crêperie Chez Suzette may be more popular with francophile tourists than locals, but it’s still a decent place to indulge your cheese cravings. Chez Suzette does three fondues — Swiss, Chinese (read: hot pot) and chocolate — all of which are available for tables of two or more. It also does a great onion soup (if you’re not already all cheesed out). 

This Old Montreal spot is certainly geared the tourist crowds who find the city “so European”, but there is both fondue (served with charcuterie) and raclette on the menu, and it’s cute, if a little kitschy.

Way out in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, La Fondue du Prince is another restaurant that hasn’t limited itself to one dippable dish, with both cheese fondue and hot pot available. There’s a particularly winter-friendly, homey quality to the wood-panelled interior of the restaurant, and the fondue menus are large and meaty.