EatwellMontreal is calling out all the horizontally challenged, bulimics, and those skinny people who go 5-10 times a day (with huge appetites), to join our eatwellmontreal eating club.

The goal of the eating club is to go to all you can eat restaurants across the city, and literally eat them out of all there food stock. We will reserve restaurants to capacity and pile in the biggest eaters in Montreal to give them one night of regret a year for offering all you can eat.

To join the club please rsvp to chefdeck@eatwellmtl.com or join the eatwellmontreal eating club group on facebook.

By the way our first event is at Restaurant Le Milsa on April 16th June 18th at 7:00pm so hop to it and join our cult.

Chef Deck signing out!

UPDATE: The date of the event has been changed due to the playoff game of nos amours. The event will now be held June 18th 2009, 7:00 om

*UPDATE: See our coverage of the one year anniversay of restaurant L’Orignal

Monika Terlecki and Travis Champion two of the people behind Old-Montreal hot spot Garde-Manger, have opened a new restaurant, L’Orignal right around the corner. They have already created a buzz, hosting a party before the official opening for media, and friends, with champagne, oysters, apps, and fun. L’Orignal’s menu will feature traditional Quebecoise cuisine (fish, game meats and top local products) with a modern twist. The decor features features plenty of wood and original stone walls and is located in a heritage building. If you are looking for a new place to try in the increasingly popular western Old Montreal area check it out. Look for rue Saint-Alexis the small street (almost an alley) one block east of Saint-Pierre, L’Orignal restaurant is on the right with a little moose on the door.

click the read more link below for the full menu at restaurant L’Original.

479 Saint-Alexis, Old Montreal
Phone: 514 303 0479
Payment: Visa, American Express, Mastercard
Hours:
Mon – Tues: 12:00 pm – 12:00 am
Wed: 12:00 pm – 3:00 am
Thurs: 12:00 pm – 12:00 am
Fri: 12:00 pm - 3:00 am
Sat: 6:00 pm - 3:00 am
Sun: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Chef: Francis Cote
General Manager: Shannon McGarr

MENU

Entrées ~ Appetizers

Endive salad with red wine vinigrette and aged cheddar $7
Simple garden salad $6
Arugula salad with sesame dressing $7
Salmon gravlax with maple syrup and trio of salt $11
Marinated mackerel filet $10
Scallop ceviche with gingerale and orange water $15
Lamb mini burgers with Migneron cheese $9
French onion soup $6

Tartares
Concombre ~ Cucumber 7$
Thon épicé ~ Spicy tuna 16$
Saumon ~ Salmon 13$
Canard et foie gras fondant 32$
Duck and foie gras
Bœuf ~ Beef 15$
Cerf ~ Venison 16$

Principaux ~ Mains

Filet Mignon with Foie Gras and Maple Whiskey $52
Filet Mignon in chanterelle sauce $35
Ribeye Steak with green peppercorns and fries $25
Braised lamb shank $21
Seared duck breast in coca-cola and cinnamon $26
Surf’n turf 35$
Absinthe sauteed scallops $28
Chai poached salmon $20
Seared tuna steak with white truffle oil
cornflake cod fish and chips $18
Sauteed shrimp in cream back bacon and lime leaves 24$
Duck leg confit served on salad greens $18
Mushroom risotto $19

Desserts

Trio of sorbet $6
Chocolate lava cake with lavender cream $7
Fromage Quebecois 2 pour 10$ 5 pour 22$

On restaurant Rotisserie Panama Montreal Chef Deck says:

When i was just a little tyke two staples in my diet were Ruby Foo’s poo poo platter and Rotisserie Panama’s lamb chops. They both helped make me into quite the portly child and left me with fond memories of deliciousnesses. Recently my family ventured back to restaurant Panama (unfortunately not Ruby Foo’s cause it was demolished but we still have a brick) to see if the memories would hold true but were highly disappointed. All the meat (lamb chops, veal chops, chicken) was under spiced, mediocre, and lacked that coveted charcoal flavor. The greek salad was OK, the tzatziki was tzatziki, the grilled octopus was undercooked and horrible, and the fried calamari was nothing to write home about. The only worthwhile mentions were the fried zucchini and eggplant, the horta, and fabulous honey balls. Sorry Rotisserie Panama but you’ve lost that Olympian statues.

Service: Friendly Greek mother figures/10

Food: 6.645676987/10

Crushing my memories like Lenny crushed that poor bunny: Shed a single tear for me/10

Chef Deck signing out!

Rotisserie Panama Restaurant Information

789 rue Jean-Talon Ouest, Montreal, QC
Phone: 514-276-5223
Payment: Cash, Major Credit Cards
Hours: Weekdays 11 am – midnight, weekends 11 am – 1 am

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Chef Deck is sad to say:

I’m sure most of you have heard that our city has lost 3 great Montreal institutions in the past month.

Le Continental French bistro and bar Barouf burn down

One Monday we lost Le Continental French bistro and the great bar Barouf. I’m sorry to say that if the insurance money is not enough to cover the costs to rebuild; they will both be no more. I say that we should all hold hands and pray for the return of beer bongs and wildly entertaining free flow urinal troughs.

Katsura Restaurant closed

Our other loss this month was Katsura Restaurant (yes I wept like an over achieving high school girl who only got a 79% on her Canadian history exam). This 35 year old Japanese institution closed its doors unexpectedly on June 30th. I have such fond childhood memories there of chicken teriyaki, moriawase Katsura, fried onions, and the coveted kneeling tables. You were my first and I’ll never forget you.

Chef Deck cuts his tie, sits on a little chair, and signs out!

Link: Gazette coverage of the St. Denis street fire