Byblos - Le Petit Café

Beautiful place for lunch and a lovely neighbourhood café! The staff are great and polite. Prices are fair and the menu is very diverse and interesting. Every time I go for lunch, I ask for the "plat du jour" (meal of the day) and they always have an interesting option as a meal. It can get busy really quickly during lunchtime, especially during summer. The food is really good and the Iranian tea is amazing.

I'm in love what can I say? from the service to the spectacular food we ate there at least twice over only a couple of days in Montreal. It was my favorite restaurant there. I would go there all the time if I lived in Petite Laurier. The feta omelette, wonderful tees, and Brad's and amazing selection of jam. Mine glowingly good especially love the orange blossom and the one with rose. Delightful I would be happy to send any from there and know that they would have a wonderful experience. If I'm lucky, I'll get to go again on our next trip to Montreal.

Byblos is a very pleasant neighborhood cafe with Iranian food. The interior of the restaurant is beautiful, especially if you sit in the front window.

This is pretty good Persian food. You will have had better. I started with feta and bread. But the greens (mint, basil, parsley and dill) were not fresh. For the main I had stewed lamb and rice. Tasty enough but the lamb was very fatty and everything was bland.

The very nice young woman waiting on the tables was a bit overwhelmed after her colleague left at 2:00. Time to hire more staff?

Amazing cafe. The environment is so live and full of Persian culture. The food is spectacular and unique. You cannot find this food in any Persian restaurant. Last but not least, the tea in teapot is the cherry on the top.

I went there for brunch and had the shakshuka with minced meat. For those of you wondering what a shakshuka is... basically it's eggs sunny side up prepared in a delicious tomato sauce and well spiced. I have had shakshuka at other restaurant and can say this one is pretty legit. I never had it with minced meat and really liked it.

I would recommend this dish to anyone who wants to try something more exotic than pancakes and basic eggs and omelettes :-)

As for the restaurant itself it is really cozy and they offer a great selection which makes it hard to make a choice. I will definitely go back for dinner and try their other items.

The Turkish coffee is delicious. Just the way I know Turkish coffee.

The environment is cozy and the painting on the wall is breathtakingly stunning.

I wish I lived closer to Byblos so I could have breakfast here more often.

Silky-soft feta omelettes, rich and fragrant Turkish tea, an abundance of soft, warm bread and a jam selection with a variety of delicate, sweet, floral, and fruity flavours - a meal so appealing to the senses that I can almost taste it just by thinking about it.

It's a cosy little place in an extremely gentrified neighbourhood (surrounded by the kind of shops that sell $100 plant pots and rugs, or expensive clothes for babies in a range of neutral tones) but Byblos itself feels authentic and down to earth.

(You know a place is good when the review makes you extremely hungry.)

Please, PLEASE order the feta omelette. It's not what an omelette might look like normally to you, but it's rich and buttery and salty and one of the most beautiful things I've ever eaten.

Such a cute little cafe! I went with my boyfriend who is Persian and though I thought he would declare something about how it's not "authentic Persian". We ordered Persian tea (chai) and the Persian pastries. To my surprise, my boyfriend said "oh these are my favorite!" It was all so delicious and a perfect dessert. Not too much, not too sweet (especially with the tea). A hidden gym.

Let's jump right into it, I'm not Persian but I am no idiot either. Byblos makes yummy dishes that allow us to experience textures, spices and flavors that you commonly wouldn't otherwise.
First, you want to get there early enough so you don't have to wait. Unless, of course, you don't mind that part, like me.
Second, sit near the windows on a summer day.
Lastly, get a spread of items. Don't do the American style of one HUGE dish of one item but rather get the small plates of sides/mezzes and share them. It's likely that you haven't tried any one of them before.

Sip tea, eat soft breads with tantalizing marmalades, chat, laugh, eat slow and leave wanting to keep strolling around the neighborhood.

Located on a quiet block in Montreal, Byblos has plenty of local business. We walked into this spacious, family-owned restaurant only to be greeted by friendly host.

Then, the owner himself came out to give us a rundown of the menu with passion and of course, thick Persian accent. He recommended we ordered the set menu for 4, which includes appetizers (bread and 4 dips), 4 entrees and 4 kinds of desserts. We accepted without protest.

The dips are outstanding with flavors including yogurt with cucumber, beans, garlic and another meaty one. They go perfectly with the warm house pita bread. For entree, we got chicken, lamb and beef and they all come with different style of rice. I love lamb the most because the rice is the tastiest but also the lamb is cooked to tender and flavorful.

We ended with 4 types of puddings and sorbet in a martini glass. I really enjoy the cucumber sorbet because it is truly refreshing and unique.

The restaurant is lovely with Persian arts on the wall and you don't feel rushed or too loud dining inside. I enjoy the food and company here and would recommend to tourists and locals alike.