Montreal recs for 8

[robert]

L’Express is great.

Montreal and toronto, june 2019

Went to L’Express Thursday night. What a great place. Classic food, great wine list, as unstuffy as can be, very reasonable prices, kitchen open until 2am. Absurdly appealing menu: I could have picked any four or five dishes at random and been happy. To convert CDN to USD, knock off 25% and round up. [morgon] Lovely cool Morgon ($62), goes with everything. [cornichons] Every table gets a big jar of cornichons and a pot of mustard. [salad] Warm beet salad ($11.75). Hit the spot, I wanted…

I probably wouldn’t go back to Au Pied de Cochon.

Montreal dinners -- advice please!

Went to Au Pied de Cochon at 9:30 on Saturday. They’d sold out of most of what I was going to order including andouillettes and white asparagus. Bread was excellent. Great butter. Foie gras cromesquis were fun. Breading seemed a bit heavy, never had another version to compare. Fries in the regular poutine were great when they first came out. Got soggy fast. Curds were not squeaky. [amandine] Fiddleheads (not mentioned on the menu) were the best part of the amandine. Maple syrup worked bett…

Two downhill alerts for Joe Beef:

December 2023 Rundown

We did. Wish I could say it lived up to the legend but they seem to be running on autopilot now. Oysters were fantastic, though.