Montréal’s award-winning restaurants
Gastronomy Restaurants
Montréal is one of North America’s most celebrated culinary destinations, home to an exceptional range of award-winning restaurants. From fine-dining tasting menus to innovative neighbourhood bistros, the city’s chefs and restaurants consistently earn top honours on prestigious lists such as the MICHELIN Guide, North America’s 50 Best Restaurants and Canada’s 100 Best. With outstanding flavours and unique culinary experiences in every neighbourhood, Montréal continues to rank among North America’s top food cities. Bring your appetite and discover the restaurants that have put Montréal on the global gastronomic map.
Mon Lapin
North America’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025: ranked number 2 and co-owner Vanya Filipovic earned North America’s Best Sommelier Award
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 2 (no. 1 in 2023 and 2024) and Vanya Filipovic and Alex Landry voted Best Sommeliers
MICHELIN Guide: recommended
Mon Lapin is a vibrant, market-driven restaurant in Little Italy, celebrated for its inventive seasonal small plates and exceptional natural wine program. The ever-evolving menu highlights Québec ingredients at their peak, while the relaxed yet refined kitchen turns out bold, surprising dishes. Set in a warm dining room designed by Zébulon Perron, Mon Lapin offers a lively, generous experience that has become a gathering place for wine lovers. The playful, perfectly balanced Croque-Pétoncle has become a signature favourite and is an absolute must-order.
150 Saint-Zotique Street East
Beba
North America’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025: ranked number 50
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 7
MICHELIN Guide: recommended
Two Joe Beef alumni brothers open an Argentinian restaurant with heavy Italian and Spanish influences on a sleepy corner of Verdun and it instantly becomes a hit. Beba serves magnificent, flavourful comfort food in a lively ambiance. It’s the kind of restaurant you wish was on the corner of your street so you can indulge in its beautiful food, service and unmatched vibe several times a week.
3900 Éthel Street
Monarque
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 17
MICHELIN Guide: recommended
Monarque’s grandiose Old Montréal project includes a brasserie, a fine dining restaurant and an impressively long bar. The entire space’s design is absolutely stunning! The brasserie menu includes classics such as lobster Thermidor and escargots as well as more seasonal dishes while the dining room’s menu, designed as a three-course tasting menu, leans more towards fine dining. Wherever you decide to sit, you are guaranteed a memorable evening.
406 Saint-Jacques Street
Montréal Plaza
North America’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025: ranked number 22
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 20
MICHELIN Guide: recommended
A meal at Montréal Plaza Restaurant will always surprise and delight. The dining room has a modern and warm ambiance with quirky accent pieces that will make you do a double take (wave hello to Elmo!) and the buzzing vibe is like none other. Try the tasting menu to sample some extraordinary dishes or order items to share with your dining companions. All will result in a great night out.
6230 Saint-Hubert Street
Cabaret L’Enfer
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 22
MICHELIN Guide: recommended
Cabaret L’Enfer showcases chef Massimo Piedimonte cuisine and experience honed at Le Mousso and Noma among others. His cooking combines French technique with his Italian background to create a unique take on refined cuisine. The minimal plating is like a work of art at this Plateau restaurant, and the service is always on point, with an ambiance that’s fun and unpretentious.
4094 Saint-Denis Street
Alma
North America’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025: ranked number 43
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 24
Culinaria Mexicana 2025: Best Mexican Restaurant Outside of Mexico
Contemporary Mexican restaurant Alma is rooted in Chef Juan Lopez Luna’s Mexican heritage while showcasing Québec’s seasonal ingredients. Sprinkle some traditional nixtamal tortillas to this small Outremont jewel and you’ve got the perfect recipe. The warm welcome, excellent wine list and intimate dining room complete this exceptional dining experience.
1231 Lajoie Avenue
Bar-St-Denis
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 27
Bar-St-Denis’ stunning dining room features an orange bar with a corrugated front that flanks one side of the space while the facing brick wall is lined with dark reflective tables. The space is mostly designed with a dark palette, which makes the imposing light ceiling and its brass honeycomb pattern shine even brighter. Located around the corner from the Jean-Talon Market, the seasonal menu changes often but is always on point, technically flawless and elegantly plated. Splurge on any of the seafood dishes, they will never disappoint.
6966 Saint-Denis Street
Parapluie
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 35
MICHELIN Guide: Bib Gourmand
Parapluie is an intimate neighbourhood restaurant that hides big flavours behind its unassuming Little Italy façade. The interior is cozy and charming with an open kitchen that provides a direct view into the action. The evolving menu is rooted in French cuisine and features local and seasonal ingredients and chef Robin Filteau Boucher’s special touch.
44 Beaubien Street West
Mastard
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 40
MICHELIN Guide: One Star
Mastard’s cuisine is a market driven, highly creative affair featuring the best of Québec’s seasonal produce as well as exciting wild ingredients to discover. Chef Simon Mathy’s plating is minimal and elegant and always spotlights the best of the season. If his legendary lettuce tart is on the menu, don’t miss it.
1879 Bélanger Street
Joe Beef
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 46
MICHELIN Guide: Recommended
Trailblazing Griffintown restaurant Joe Beef is still making waves on the local and international food scenes. Over-the-top refined Lyon-inspired cuisine, a boisterous ambiance and a flawless service are what set this restaurant apart. The back terrasse and garden are a slice of paradise on a warm summer night.
2491 Notre-Dame Street West
Sabayon
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 48 and chef Patrice Demers earner the Best Pastry Chef Award 2025
MICHELIN Guide: One Star
Sabayon is an intimate, MICHELIN-starred tasting-menu restaurant in Pointe-Saint-Charles, where Chef Patrice Demers showcases refined, market-driven cuisine rooted in Québec terroir. With just 14 seats, the experience feels personal and precise, from the elegant presentations to standout desserts. Thoughtful service and wine pairings by co-owner (and life partner!) Marie-Josée Beaudoin complete the journey.
2194 Centre Street
Restaurant Toqué!
North America’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025: Icon Award 2025 for chef Normand Laprise
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 67
MICHELIN Guide: Recommended
Legendary chef Normand Laprise’s restaurant is built on his passion and commitment to shedding a spotlight on Québec’s local and seasonal ingredients. Beautiful and delightful dishes and exceptional service make a meal at Restaurant Toqué! an experience to remember. There’s a reason this restaurant has been a staple on the Montréal dining scene since 1993 and a part of Canada’s Best 100 Restaurants since 2015!
900 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle
Au Pied de Cochon
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 76
MICHELIN Guide: Recommended
A couple of decades on and chef Martin Picard’s legendary restaurant Au Pied de Cochon remains at the forefront of Montréal’s food scene. For fans of foie gras, Québécois cuisine and over the top dishes, this is a Montréal must. Classics include foie gras poutine and duck in a can with seasonal dishes making an appearance on the menu.
536 Duluth Avenue East
Juliette Plaza
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 77
Montréal Plaza’s little sister Juliette lives next door on “The Plaza” in a more intimate dining room but with the same playful agenda. The décor features Smurf figurines, Astérix wall art and loads of fun tchotchkes that are a hoot to look for. That playfulness is carried through to the menu, which is a market-driven, nostalgic marvel plated simply but with elegance. Don’t pass on the Red Lobster scallops with cocktail sauce and spicy mayo, an instant classic.
6220 Saint-Hubert Street
Heni
Canada’s 100 Best restaurants list 2025: ranked number 83 and number 7 on the Best New Restaurant list
Heni focuses on the culinary heritages of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). The contemporary and elegant menu maintains a strong link to the traditional ancient cuisines from Iraq to Morocco and everything in between. They also have some very unique privately imported wine bottles from Lebanon and beyond that pair perfectly with their dishes.
2621 Notre-Dame Street West
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Mayssam Samaha
Mayssam Samaha is a food and travel writer and blogger and the founder behind the blog Will Travel for Food. She travels the world in search of the next culinary discovery. From Iceland to South Africa, she’s already visited over 36 countries and there’s nothing she enjoys more than wandering around a farmers’ market in a foreign city. She is also the founder of the SAISONS intimate dinner series highlighting Québec products and chefs.