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Garage Cafe
Categories: Restaurants Burgers Restaurants Pizza Burgers, Pizza [Edit]
275 Hickson RueVerdun, QC H4G 2J7
(514) 768-4630
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
3 reviews for Garage Cafe
2 reviews in English
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Review from H C.
Verdun, QC
1/27/2012
I live near this restaurant, and like the previous reviewer, its true, its hard to find decent places in Verdun. (I have to say it is improving a lot!)
I like Garage Cafe, cool atmosphere, and they make a killer mixed drink called Lili's. Their fries are great and their fare is decent. I think you get what you pay for. I personally like their salads (they are plentiful) and their pizzas are good too.
They are child friendly (they have two high chairs - be careful though, one of them has a broken belt!). They prefer that patrons speak in French, but I find that typical of Verdun and its fine by me! (After all, we are in Montreal!) -
Review from DAVE I.
Montréal, QC
6/3/2009
I'm still trying to discover new places to get some decent grub in my neighborhood but Verdun is not so easy. The area is replete with 99¢ pizza joints and littered with hot-dog stops. Respectable feeding is hard to come by.
But they're around and slowly I'll tread the waters. The other day I tried the Garage Café, a Pizza slash burger slash pasta restaurant. Reassuringly the place was packed and people were standing outside drinking. The place looks like the neighborhood food stop filled with regulars that simply walked to get there.
The décor is a bit patchy but has flair of its own, service is friendly but a bit slow but they try with all the traffic. The menu is varied but offers nothing innovating yet isn't boring either. Fun comfort food to have with beer, wine or sangria.
As is often the case, I'm in no mood for alcohol after work (Unless I'm not working the next day) so I ordered a Coca-cola and this was the interesting part, they serve it in a Mason jar that has a handle on it. Loved the idea so much I want some of my own now.
Not feeling the pasta menu because it's my fall-back plan when I don't know what to prepare for myself at home I hit the Burger Menu, something I never get bored of. I love a good burger so much I'd eat one for breakfast and I have in the past thanks to American Diners. So I went for the Four By Four.
The Four by Four is a healthy helping of Beef (of course) and Philly Cream Cheese, Bacon and fried Mushrooms and Onions. All ingredients I simply can't get enough. Sadly I didn't get enough. The patty was a whopper but seriously if you're gonna be a restaurant called the GARAGE CAFÉ, to me it seems like a grease monkey wouldn't eat a flimsy burger and with the price, gimme something to chew on.
Burger 101: A burger must be meaty, juicy, greasy and yes a sloppy mess. But also it's gotta be heavy on the toppings and I'm not talking ketchup.
If you tell me you're gonna put some Philly Cream cheese, don't scrape it on; slather it on thick. The mushrooms? I want them flowing from the sides. And the bacon... the bacon. How many times have I said this? Life has no meaning without bacon. This was the big epic FAIL of this Burger that coulda-been. When I go to my local La Belle Province - often derided for being the bottom of the barrel of fast food restaurants in Montreal - and order a bacon-cheese burger, the cook takes out 3 or 4 slices of fresh uncooked bacon and drops them on the grill before taking out the fresh burger patties and then making me a super fresh and tasty messy sloppy burger. But at Garage Café, I got one tiny slice of pre-cooked bacon. Come On! And the patty was to perfectly round and well shaped to be fresh prepared.
The fries were pretty damn tasty though and it was served with a side of very tangy and spicy mayonnaise that added some serious punch to the burger. The burger wasn't bad in the final analysis it just could have easily been an out of this world kick-ass burger with a few simple steps.
3 buns outta 5Listed in: My Neighborhood - Verdun
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