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 perfect sauce, perfect fries, and kick ass profiterole for 15 years and I’m still not tired of you. All I have to say is WOW!
Food: 9/10
A small taste of Paris: 10/10
Chinese cooks makin traditional French cuisine: 137/10
Chef Deck signing out!
L’Entrecôte Saint-Jean Restaurant
L’Entrecôte Saint-Jean Website
2022 Peel, Montreal; 514 281-6492
Hours: Mon to Fri: 11:30 am – 11:00 pm, Sat – Sun: 3:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Pay: VISA, MC, Interac
Price: Special Entrecote: $18.95, salad with walnuts and strip loin steak with french fries or Table d’hote: $23.90 includes Special Entrecote plus Soup of the day or tomato juice and Profiteroles au chocolat.
Reservations are to be placed by phone and for lunchtime only
4 responses so far ↓
1 Oded G // Jun 15, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Sorry, Chef Deck, but i have to disagree with you on this one (rarely happens!!!) . Now, i am sure this is not going to to earn me some extra cookie points with most Montrealers, but i believe this is probably one of the most overrated & overhyped resto in mtl! Not that it’s that bad, of course, but not that good either! Personally, i ate there twice and was never really impressed (especially with the ‘lets throw some walnuts on a bed of salad and pretend to be simplistic and sophisticated’…pure French hubris, and horribly executed on top of it!). Not to mention, the service could strive for higher standards- the last thing i feel like getting when i eat my petty salad is an old, grumpy, waiter/tress for no reason- i mean its not as if they have a headache from memorizing an entire menu for an hour…
Concolusion:
Decent food (7/10) for a tad higher than decent price!
Oded
Keep on the terrific job though!
2 Chef Deck // Jun 17, 2007 at 6:06 pm
No reason to be sorry friend Oded for disagreement is what makes our free world free (and that was our best comment to date). I do want you to understand though that I don’t feel it’s as good as a Q bone in filet mignon ,but its consistency, and I feel price, deserves some applaud. And yes the waitresses are like the walking dead however I think that’s part of the French appeal.
3 dubers // Aug 2, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I agree with Oded G. I think their business model is amazing…how many other restaurants do you know that serve only one thing and are packed all the time. Entree salad is totally bland. Fries great, mystery sauce OK, meat is cheap cut but so is the price.
4 Traveller // May 6, 2008 at 11:38 pm
This is definitely a tribute to the group of French restaurants with basically the same name. Walnut salad and everything!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Entrec%C3%B4te
I’ve been to the one in Bordeaux, and I don’t think this Peel street location is up to the same standard. Maybe it was an off night, but the cut of steak wasn’t that great (but it was less than $20 so what should we expect) the sauce wasn’t al that great. Perhaps because I’ve been to a similar restaurant elsewhere, I know how really great this model could be.
I also noticed there is another one in old Quebec city. They offer a slightly different menu, so maybe they aren’t connected:
http://www.entrecotesaintjean.com/
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