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L'Auberge Saint-Gabriel
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426 Rue Saint-GabrielMontréal, QC H2Y 3A1
(514) 878-3561
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
6 reviews for L'Auberge Saint-Gabriel
6 reviews in English
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Review from Caroline S.
Montréal, QC
11/30/2011
This is a favorite and one of the few places I come back to repeatedly (there are just too many good places to go in Montreal). I've eaten in the restaurant proper as well as the bar several times and it has always been excellent.
As you walk into the restaurant you smell this amazing wood burning fire which I just love. It has a historic building ambiance with beautiful old brick, but really interesting modern touches with some of the design and artwork. The food is fantastic. Have tried several different dishes and it is consistently great. The charcuterie plate is highly recommended.
At the bar there is a really great group of people in front of and behind the bar. The staff is incredibly friendly, inviting and have a decent amount of regulars coming in to see them. There is also a party room (or 2?) for events so if that is of interest.... check it out. The downstairs is also a club later on in the evening. Have not been there (yet) when it is open, but it looks fab. -
Review from Sophie P.
4/22/2012
Fantastic!!
We landed there for lunch completely randomly, just strolling around Old Montreal's small streets right after arriving into the city.
The old brick building and "table d'hote" menu out front both attracted our attention.
Basically one picks a main course, and the appetizer and dessert come included (small supplement for a handful of items).
We were more in the mood for a sandwich or panini, but looking at the menu, we decided to give it a shot, and go for something lighter for dinner instead.
We walked into a wonderful old building, beautifully decorated (there is a majestic whale spine at the entrance), and were seated in the clear and reasonably quiet restaurant room (it was probably half full)
For appetizer, we had the charcuterie (it was "fromage de tete" that day) and the salmon (almost like a sashimi, really). Both excellent, and wonderfully presented.
For mains, we had the cod, with beans and a meat sauce (surprising at first, but really delicious and goes wonderfully with the flavorful cod), and the salmon, perfectly cooked medium-rare, with a few little fixings on the side (more for flavor).
For dessert, we had a chocolate panna cotta with raspberries and a St Honore cake with some apples (and again a ton of various flavors on the plate). The latter was the best and one of the most amazing desserts I've had in a long time.
The chef is really a master at presentation, and at elegantly mixing flavors that one wouldn't naturally imagine to put together.
I will also say that it is not all that common to find a restaurnant that excels at both savory food and desserts, so extra props for that.
This seems underrated today at 3.5, but again it's possible that the prices are much higher for dinner, setting expectations much higher... this review focuses on lunch, which costs CAD ~30 per person (+ tax + tip).
Service was excellent, friendly and attentive. -
Review from Daniel C.
12/9/2010
I wanted to try old town French food so our local host selected this rather modern restaurant housed in an old inn.
They had a selection of three course prix-fixe. A few appetizer items had an adder. Pan fried foie gras was a $9 adder.
I select duck+duck. The pate style foie gras was pretty good. The duck was de-boned and quite tasty.
We had a bottle of NZ cab then OZ cab. The NZ cab was a bit on the thin side but the OZ cab had body and robust. -
Review from J Jordan M.
10/18/2011
Maybe our expectations were too high...
We did 8 course tasting menu with wine pairing which usually turns out to be a really great experience. well in this case it was a total rip off!
We only got 6 of the 8 courses, the majority of which were not very good. A beaf Tatar with tomato sorbet that tasted like it was tomato paste strait from a can. Our main course was a tinny piece of beaf tenderloin half of which was over cooked, with a tinny piece of foie and a broken sauce.
They served almost every dish on these awkward tiles that the servers struggled to clear every time. All of the wines served were mediocre and we had to flag the sommelier down 3 times so he could poor the wines they were paired with, as the food sat there and got cold, or in some cases melted.
The cheese course was nothing but 3 small pieces of cheese on a plate put in the middle of the 3 of us to share, that's not a dish! Nor a course!
When we spoke to the sommelier about these concerns at the end of the meal he argued with us about it, and told of the champagne he gave us with desert ( a mistake in itself ) was a gift, as he was already over his budget on us. My god...
This dinner for 3 people was $613.00. From someone in the business this place is poseing as a fine dinning establishment.
Never again! -
Review from Charles H.
Montréal, QC
12/23/2009
Wonderful place to bring a date for dinner, very good food, courteous staff and nice ambiance.
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Review from Kim L.
8/19/2010
We were ready for lunch and wandering blindly past what felt like hundreds of restaurants in the Old Port on a hot August day when we found this place. There was lovely al fresco seating, but no place large enough for our group of six, so we went indoors. What a cool spot. Interesting art on the walls (and if you head into the bar, there's some really funky art!), comfortable and elegant seating. We ordered from the 3-course prix fixe lunch menu (from 19$-28$ cdn), and were presented with lovely -- and delicious offerings. In our group, we started with a martini glass filled with Shrimp from Gaspasia with a corn and tomato coulis that tasted like summer, a delicious fennel gazpacho, and a tuna tatake to die for. Entrees included taglitelle with summer veg and bison meatballs, fried liver with a frisee salad and salmon tartare. Desserts were appropriately small and extremely lovely. Their by the glass wine list included a couple of tasty Quebec wines. This place is a gem. Check it out!
