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Le Beaver Club
Category: Restaurants French French [Edit]
900, Boul René-Lévesque OuestHôtel Fairmont Le Reine Elizabeth
Montréal, QC H3B 4A5
(514) 861-3511
- Hours:
Thu-Sat 6 pm - 10:30 pm
- Attire:
- Dressy
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
-
$$$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
5 reviews for Le Beaver Club
5 reviews in English
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Review from Bill D.
Montréal, QC
10/9/2011
The Beaver Club exemplifies elegant dining.
We made a reservation a month in advance and I brought a jacket and tie especially for dinner here.
We expected a traditional formal dining evening and were not disappointed.
The restaurant has a formal, but not stuffy setting.
After being seated were greater by the "Champagne cart." we had to have a glass of champagne to celebrate our special night out.
The menu included complete dinners of three and five courses as well as à la carte. I chose the five course option and my wife the three course. I selected the cold and hot fois gras with the duck breast. The wine captain assisted with finding an earthy red that we reasonably priced. Everyone assisted in a friendly comfortable manner.
The fois gras was delicate and creamy. The duck crispy on the outside and tender inside cooked to my desired medium rare finish.
Desert was a perfect crème bruleé served three ways in egg shells. Pistachio, traditional, and grand marnier. The presentation was elegant as was the delicate composition.
The only downside was a large group that arrived near the end of our meal and was seated next to us. The group was noisy and required the attention of our team of servers.
For a traditional formal evening with an comfortable, classic setting with excellent service, food, and presentation, The Beaver Club delivers. -
Review from Steve G.
3/13/2012
First, a disclaimer. I haven't dined at Le Beaver Club in many years. I had heard that the grandeur and glory which was Le Beaver Club had been dismantled in the '80's, but restored in recent years. The restaurant holds far too significant a place in my personal progression of understanding and appreciating a fine dining experience to go without a review. Now that things are again right, I'll write my piece.
Having just graduated high school, Montreal was where I most wanted to visit for a few days of get away. The "fancy" dinner for this trip was Le Beaver Club. An evening which began with some griping about getting dressed up for dinner, ended with my first appreciation of how a truly extraordinary meal had the power to excite my senses, to transport them to places I had never known to exist. The elegance was apparent in everything which caught my eye, and yet remained approachable to this eighteen year old on his best behavior. The differences between "eating" and "dining" were suddenly neither semantic nor subtle. I can't honestly recall what I had for dinner that evening, only that it was an important cog in my first true dining experience.
Le Beaver Club was revisited several years later, while on our honeymoon, with the recollection that what was great on the first visit was even better on the second. A fresh visit will be needed to assess this gem of a restaurant among my adult dining experiences, thus a star is withheld-- for the moment. -
Review from Jim B.
5/28/2010
This might not be entirely fair but I want to share a little history of the Beaver Club. Back in the 70's this place was top notch. One of my wife's favorite restaurants. That was a time when the Queen Elizabeth Hotel had a half dozen excellent restaurants down along the concourse.
Years later the whole complex was scaled back or closed.
The Beaver Club was cut back in space by 50% or more and went from top notch to tacky under different operators.
I can see from the new web site that the space has been transformed to its original elegance. Can't wait to go back and try the menu. -
Review from Kris T.
6/12/2010
I was here when the exchange rate was a bit more favorable, so my excellent experience was had at a steal. The atmosphere was polished, and, strangely, quaint, the service was very attentive, and the price was quite reasonable.
My flank steak, cooked on a bed of fresh spinach leaves, heaped over potatoes, was cooked exactly as I asked (med-rare), and the portions were generous. The chocolate mousse was rich and delicate, and the whipped cream was, of course, homemade.
What really stood out here was the coffee service. Never in my life have I had a better, or more memorable, coffee experience, while dining. For under $3, I was brought an apparatus- the only way I can describe it.
OK, to be more specific, coffee was served in a brass coffee brewer that operated from a candle, and, over the course of 10 minutes, brewed, filtered and poured (by front spigot) 3.5 mugs of fresh coffee, right at the table. The coffee was accompanied by an entire tray of accessories, including three types of sugar, homemade whipped cream, two typed of shaved chocolate, etc. As someone who usually drinks my coffee black (if the quality warrants it), I couldn't help but try some of everything. It was exquisite. The complementary chocolate truffles were a nice finishing touch (though, there were so many of them, I might have skipped dessert, had I known).
This restaurant will always be on my to do list for any trip to Montreal. -
Review from Marisa T.
9/7/2010
This was a great experience, from beginning to end. My boyfriend had gone to Montreal (from NYC) for a bachelor party a while back, and being foodies, the boys had tried to get a reservation, to no avail.
So, when we headed up to Montreal with friends for Labor Day, we made reservations three weeks in advance for Saturday night.
Located in the Fairmont hotel, the restaurant itself looks less fancy than I would have thought - very hotel restaurant-y. Yet the service and food was excellent, from beginning to end.
Appetizer: They first brought each of us a small bite of salmon, which was unexpected, and as good as a small, uncooked piece of salmon can be. For the actual appetizer, I ordered the asparagus wrapped in goat cheese. It was TINY but unbelievably good.
Main: Two of us ordered the blackened cod, which was excellently cooked - the fennel puree, carrots and asparagus on the dish were delicious (and I've never had a delicious carrot before). My boyfriend had the arctic char, which came with a sauce so good that we were almost licking the plate at the end. The veal, ordered by our fourth, was also excellent (or so he said).
Dessert: In between our entrees and dessert, they brought out a little fruit cuppy thing, which everyone was split on. Not the best, but certainly not bad. If anything did detract from the experience, it was the desserts. We had a tiramisu (which was good), two types of chocolate cake (both just really okay) and a strawberry mousse cake that some enjoyed, but overall was not a big hit.
Coffee came with 3 different types of sugar, shaved chocolate and delicious whipped cream. I was in heaven.
The waiters, maitre d and sommelier were wonderful and seemed to genuinely enjoy having us there. As we were leaving (we were the last group to leave), they wrapped some chocolate orange peel in a napkin for us, while one waiter profusely apologized to us - it took a while to realize that he was upset that my boyfriend at one point picked up our wine bottle to pour us another round and that he himself hadn't been quick enough on the draw.
Overall, it was a wonderful, delicious experience.
