I’ll be in Montreal next week with family and I’m looking for restaurant recommendations. We’re looking for a Chinese restaurant (dim sum would be good) preferably near the Viger Metro stop (which is where we’ll be staying). Some members of my family are less adventerous, so I’m looking for something more on the “tourist” side rather than “authentic”.
Just up from the Metro stop on Clarke is a large dim sum house. I don’t recall the name, but it is on the second floor on the west side of the street between La Gauchetiere and Viger. Anyone you ask around there (there being Chinatown) is likely to be able to help you find it.
That sounds like Kam Fung. We saw that one in a AAA guide and were planning on going there if they weren’t any other suggestions.
Yeah, Kam Fung sounds right. On weekends it is best to go there before 11:30 or you will have a long wait. There is another on the SE corner of St. Laurent and La Gauchetiere, also second floor that some people think is better than Kam Fung and is less crowded. But you know something? It is hard to go wrong eating in Montreal. Bon apetit!
Just don’t confuse “rue Clarke” with “rue Clark”. They’re on opposite sides of the downtown core, and the latter is the one that goes through Chinatown. Get off the metro at Place-des-Arts (green line) and walk downhill or Place D’Armes (orange lne) and walk uphill.
As long as you’re in that neighborhood, walk along St-Laurent boulevard (one block east of Clark) between Rene-Levesque and Ste-Catherine. This is just North (uphill) from Chinatown. Halfway along the block, you’ll find the Montreal Pool Room. Stop in for a steamed hot dog or two.
Ten or fifteen years ago there was a little place right down on the river in an old stone and brick warehouse that was recommended by the hotel. I had the best piece of beef there I have ever had. A rib steak with the rib bone left in. It seems to me that the restaurant was in the basement. I can’t think of the name or the street.
Is that perhaps a place called Gibby’s (on Place d’Youville near McGill in Old Montreal)? I’ve eaten there and it sounds like it might be that. The restaurant is located in what used to be a stable.
The way to find a good restaurant in Montreal is to pick the first non-chain place you come to.
It’s evidently against the law in Montreal to run a restaurant that isn’t superb.