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12 Restaurant Deals to Check Out for MTL à Table 2018

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MTL à Table is upon us — the festival, which is roughly equivalent to a Restaurant Week event — takes place from Thursday November 1 to Sunday November 11.

Some 150 restaurants are taking part, offering table d’hôte menus across four price brackets — $23, $33, $43, and $73 (plus tax and tip, alcohol isn’t included, but some are BYOBs).

With set prices, it’s not always clear what the best deal is — but we’ve scoured the menus and come up with some hot recommendations. Some are big-name tables with a great value menu, some are long-time classics worth revisiting, and some are neighbourhood spots that might be undiscovered for many Montrealers — and all merit your consideration.

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Rose Ross

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This Rosemont resto is a supremely underrated spot for market-fresh food that’s both homey and refined — for MTL à Table, you’ll put down $33 for options like a beet carpaccio with goat cheese and blackberry, Gaspésie turbot with root veggies, or black pudding with bacon, apples, and celeriac.

Brussels sprouts, cilantro, and peanuts
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Chef Mario Navarrete doesn’t stick to one cuisine at his New Latin restaurant, instead playing with styles from across South America, from a classic ceviche to calamari with onion escabeche and panca pepper sauce, and a dulce de leche-pumpkin mousse to finish off. It’ll cost you $33, and bonus: it’s BYOB. The same menu is on offer at the Fleury Madre in Ahuntsic, too.

Le St-Urbain

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Marc-André Royal’s Ahuntsic restaurant is a well-established staple for distinctively modern Québécois cuisine (with a few international touches) — with chef Adam Ganten at the helm, the MTL à Table menu is no exception — see: steelhead trout with Gaspésie aonori, kimchi and daikon, or a fall-friendly barley-rye risotto with mushrooms.

Both of Marie-Fleur St-Pierre’s Villeray restaurants are doing MTL à Table (see also: Tapeo). At Mesón, that means Spanish staples like bechamel-serrano croquettes gussied up with black garlic, or Catalan-style coca flatbread laden with pork belly and mahon cheese. It’s $33 for the table d’hôte.

Catalan-style coca
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Lannes & Pacifique

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This French BYOB isn’t afraid to take a few liberties with flavours and sidestep tradition — read: borscht with Thai basil or crabcakes with nuoc mam hollandaise on its $33 table d’hôte. Mains like pork cheek with mushroom duxelles or roasted turbot with polenta feel positively fall feverish.

Cul-Sec

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Martin Juneau’s wine bar-ish nook on Beaubien has the cheapest offering of any restaurant on this map — for $23, get a truffle oil potato soup, classic tartare, or smoked salmon with corn “milk”. It’s on the lighter side, so for a full meal, consider Juneau’s main restaurant Pastaga, around the corner with a $33 menu.

Manitoba

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Wielding possibly the most Canadian vibe of any menu in the city, Manitoba’s $43 MTL à Table offering is a little less out-there than the regular menu (no seal, for example), but still a mouthwatering mix of forest and sea flavours, with Arctic char, beets, and jus or beef with turnips and smoky sour cream among the mains, finished off with a squash mousse with Labrador tea for dessert.

Les Fillettes

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This Outremont bistro mixes France and Quebec with flair — for the $33 table d’hôte option, that means a choice between skate wing with grenobloise sauce and cauliflower remoulade, or duck ham with maple and rutabaga on an all-round comforting menu.

La Chronique

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Often considered more of a special occasion spot, the $43 menu makes for an excellent excuse to try out Marc De Canck et Olivier de Montigny’s extraordinarily refined French fare — tuck into duck foie gras terrine, guinea fowl with Swiss chard and black garlic, and seafood fregola.

Another pricier destination, Stelio Perombelon’s M.Mme seems like a total MTL à Table bargain with a $33 menu of duck, Arctic char, and foie gras torchon — but of course, you’ll have to pay extra to taste any of the extensive, well-selected wine options.

Moleskine

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Frédéric St-Aubin serves some of Montreal’s finest Italian at this double-level resto on the edge of the Plateau — for MTL à Table, the more formal upper level is in play for $43, with roasted duck on polenta or octopus-calamari-n’duja cavatelli, and creative crudos to start.

One of the hottest new arrivals for 2018 was this Old Montreal restaurant from the owners of Griffintown’s Le Fantôme — but as critic Lesley Chesterman noted, it’s not the cheapest, so the $43 MTL à Table option seems a steal. Chef Jason Morris is keeping dishes simple in terms of elements, with a foie gras “mosaic” and halibut with foraged vegetables among the options, and the mysterious “bonfire chocolate” for dessert.

Rose Ross

This Rosemont resto is a supremely underrated spot for market-fresh food that’s both homey and refined — for MTL à Table, you’ll put down $33 for options like a beet carpaccio with goat cheese and blackberry, Gaspésie turbot with root veggies, or black pudding with bacon, apples, and celeriac.

Brussels sprouts, cilantro, and peanuts
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Madre

Chef Mario Navarrete doesn’t stick to one cuisine at his New Latin restaurant, instead playing with styles from across South America, from a classic ceviche to calamari with onion escabeche and panca pepper sauce, and a dulce de leche-pumpkin mousse to finish off. It’ll cost you $33, and bonus: it’s BYOB. The same menu is on offer at the Fleury Madre in Ahuntsic, too.

Le St-Urbain

Marc-André Royal’s Ahuntsic restaurant is a well-established staple for distinctively modern Québécois cuisine (with a few international touches) — with chef Adam Ganten at the helm, the MTL à Table menu is no exception — see: steelhead trout with Gaspésie aonori, kimchi and daikon, or a fall-friendly barley-rye risotto with mushrooms.

Mesón

Both of Marie-Fleur St-Pierre’s Villeray restaurants are doing MTL à Table (see also: Tapeo). At Mesón, that means Spanish staples like bechamel-serrano croquettes gussied up with black garlic, or Catalan-style coca flatbread laden with pork belly and mahon cheese. It’s $33 for the table d’hôte.

Catalan-style coca
Mesón/Facebook

Lannes & Pacifique

This French BYOB isn’t afraid to take a few liberties with flavours and sidestep tradition — read: borscht with Thai basil or crabcakes with nuoc mam hollandaise on its $33 table d’hôte. Mains like pork cheek with mushroom duxelles or roasted turbot with polenta feel positively fall feverish.

Cul-Sec

Martin Juneau’s wine bar-ish nook on Beaubien has the cheapest offering of any restaurant on this map — for $23, get a truffle oil potato soup, classic tartare, or smoked salmon with corn “milk”. It’s on the lighter side, so for a full meal, consider Juneau’s main restaurant Pastaga, around the corner with a $33 menu.

Manitoba

Wielding possibly the most Canadian vibe of any menu in the city, Manitoba’s $43 MTL à Table offering is a little less out-there than the regular menu (no seal, for example), but still a mouthwatering mix of forest and sea flavours, with Arctic char, beets, and jus or beef with turnips and smoky sour cream among the mains, finished off with a squash mousse with Labrador tea for dessert.

Les Fillettes

This Outremont bistro mixes France and Quebec with flair — for the $33 table d’hôte option, that means a choice between skate wing with grenobloise sauce and cauliflower remoulade, or duck ham with maple and rutabaga on an all-round comforting menu.

La Chronique

Often considered more of a special occasion spot, the $43 menu makes for an excellent excuse to try out Marc De Canck et Olivier de Montigny’s extraordinarily refined French fare — tuck into duck foie gras terrine, guinea fowl with Swiss chard and black garlic, and seafood fregola.

M.Mme

Another pricier destination, Stelio Perombelon’s M.Mme seems like a total MTL à Table bargain with a $33 menu of duck, Arctic char, and foie gras torchon — but of course, you’ll have to pay extra to taste any of the extensive, well-selected wine options.

Moleskine

Frédéric St-Aubin serves some of Montreal’s finest Italian at this double-level resto on the edge of the Plateau — for MTL à Table, the more formal upper level is in play for $43, with roasted duck on polenta or octopus-calamari-n’duja cavatelli, and creative crudos to start.

Pastel

One of the hottest new arrivals for 2018 was this Old Montreal restaurant from the owners of Griffintown’s Le Fantôme — but as critic Lesley Chesterman noted, it’s not the cheapest, so the $43 MTL à Table option seems a steal. Chef Jason Morris is keeping dishes simple in terms of elements, with a foie gras “mosaic” and halibut with foraged vegetables among the options, and the mysterious “bonfire chocolate” for dessert.