Chef Deck says:
O Magnan restaurant… you have the reputation of a magnum bottle of Grey Goose when in fact you remind me of a 40 oz bottle of Colt 45 (your high class in a low class sorta way). We walked into your taverne and there was an overwhelming likeness to the Super sex lunchtime [...]

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Chef Deck says:
There is a little good and a little bad to all Montreal breakfast restaurants and Oxford Café restaurant is a fine example of both. The good is the thin and delicious fruit filled pancakes (though me I’m a salty breakfast lover), the great cheese omelets with real cheddar (except for when they’re undercooked [...]

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Chef Deck says:
Nothing makes me happier than a Montreal breakfast restaurant with those little soft boiled eggie cups that my grandmother used to serve me her soft boiled eggies in on an overcast Vermont morning. I know what your all thinking… yes slightly creepy, but sorry ladies and gentleman it just makes something ordinary [...]

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Chef Deck says:
Last time I was at Tre Marie was about two years ago and it left me with a warm fuzzy feeling inside, however last weeks experience at Tre Marie Restaurant in Little Italy, Montreal left me highly disappointed. I needed to see if your spaghetti and meatballs was actually better than Il Piatto [...]

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Chef Deck says:
To Il Piatto Della Nonna (Grandmother’s plate) restaurant, you made me happier than R-Kelly in a back alley in Thailand. G-Dubbs introduced us, but I feel like we must have broken bread in another life. Your spaghetti and meat balls were spectacular (perfect sauce to pasta to veal meat ball ratio), your sausage [...]

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Chef Deck Says:
L’ Entrecote Saint-Jean my pet name for you will be Jean Le Comfort. Why you ask kind Sir. Well because if I ever want consistently amazing steak frite in Montreal, you’re always my familiar companion. I have been eating your delicious creamy soups, walnut and walnut oil dressed salad, perfectly cooked steak with [...]

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Chef Deck says:
To Le Barcelos Grillades Restaurant, though you’re only Janos younger brother doesn’t mean that you’re not just as special… in fact you’re pretty much an identical twin. Finally a Montreal restaurant has arrived on Price Arthur Street that won’t give you dysentery. Everything on your menu is just superb. I love your charcoal [...]

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Chef Deck Says:
Claremont should only remain a restaurant frequented by Westmount mommies who are too drunk at lunch to be able to distinguish fine food! For those of you who don`t have as large of a disposable income from your bourgeois husbands, buyer beware. Though not very expensive the prices should at least justify being [...]

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Part 2 of Chef Deck’s review of the Montreal Mirror BOM awards 2006. For those of you that missed the first part, ChefDeck Reviews the Montreal Mirror BOM Awards
Best Japanese
1. Kaizen Sushi Bar (various locations)
2. Mikado (various locations)
3. Kanda (2045 Bishop, (514) 845-8868)
4. Sho-Dan (various locations)
5. Miso (4000 Ste-Catherine W., (514) 908-6476)
How the [...]

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On Cluny Art Bar Chef Deck says:
Who would have thunk it that a pooch could inspire such fine cafeteria cuisine. A pooch you say? Yes a pooch I say. Cluny is in fact the owners K9 companion and sent mind bullets through telekinesis to create some of the bestest lunch in the city. All the [...]

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Chef Deck says:
As per much demand we ventured to Swiss town Des Laurentides “Val David” for some say the greatest poutine on earth (though I say best sauce and cheese curds!). Cal’s is the best example of the Greco restaurant monopoly because even in a town of 5000 French Canadians, 37 Jews, and 7 Greeks [...]

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Best Pub Grub
1. McKibbin’s Irish Pub (1426 Bishop, (514) 288-1580)
2. Cage aux Sports (various locations)
3. Peel Pub (various locations)
4. Claddagh Pub (1433 Crescent, (514) 287-9354)
5. Ye Olde Orchard (various locations)
Good call on McKibbin’s, Ye Olde is my number 2 and everyone knows second is the best, Cage and PP you both suck fat recycled [...]

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