On Montreal Restaurant Griffintown Chef Deck says,

You know how when you play broken telephone the phrase “I want to eat a banana” becomes something like “is your sister eating a lama?”? Well Chef Deck has a feeling that somehow the phrase “Café Griffintown is so so” turned into “Café Griffintown is the bomb yo”. After many recommendations I had great expectations for this Montreal resto, and though I was excited by their menu, the food was relatively bland (needless to say it was no Liverpool House). We started with Buffalo Mozzarella and ham cheese sticks which were just wrong. This is not a cheese you deep fry because it releases the water, and the ham they used just overpowered this fine delicacy. We also started with gravlax on toast that was decent but nothing to tell mommy about. For the mains we ate a duck, lamb, and beef Burger which was good, and pasta which supposedly had duck confit in it (I could barely find a piece though) and truffle oil. I think they also forgot to salt the water for the pasta (big no no) because it was bland, and they really went cheap on the truffle oil. So don’t let my message get convoluted, because this Montreal Restaurant is just not worth the hype!

Tastiness: 6.23412847128 / 10
Ambiance: Bleh / 10
Price: mains $15-$25 / 10

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Griffintown Restaurant Information

1378, Notre Dame West
Montreal, Québec, H3C1K8
Metro: Lucien-L’Allier
Hours: Tues – Sat: 10 am – 10 pm, Sat – Sun brunch 10 am – 4 pm
Payment: Interac, Visa, MasterCard
Telephone: 514-931-JAZZ (5299)
Email: info@cafegriffintown.com
Web: Cafe Griffintown Website
Features: live music Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

On Joe Beef Restaurant, Montreal Chef Deck says:

Joe Beef reminds me of a fat man by the name Frank Portly whose eating addiction made his bed his toilet, his toilet his bed, and he only believed in wet naps not showers. Ya I know you’re all thinking that this does not sound very appetizing, but au contraire mon frere, what could be more appetizing then food that’s so good, it fully negates your brain functions related to being full. Oh yes this is our great Joe Beef! The original restaurant opened by Allison Cunningham, Frédéric Morin and David McMillan that spawned a Montreal, Notre Dame street empire (Restaurant Liverpool House, Restaurant McKiernan Luncheonette and Wine Bar). This particular time we started with about 30 oysters (some wankers ordered to many so we got the spoils of their over zealous eyes), then had the most amazing Fois Gras parfait served with fried toast and cinnamon sugar apples, and for the last app a charcutarie plate with a variety of yummy animals (pâté de Campagne, sausage, roast pork, jambon de bayon). For the main we all shared a mixed grill with duck breast, seared fois gras, two types of sausage, and hanger steak all accompanied by decent fries and the fattest asparagus you’ve ever seen. For dessert we had a peach polenta ice cream covered thing, that was the perfect end to an almost perfect meal. So you all know that game about what would you do for a million dollars? Well I’m switching it to what would you do for a meal at Joe Beef?…and I would do Frank Portly!

Food: 9.12133612361212/10
Service: Sexy/10
Décor: flee market chick/10

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2491 Notre Dame Street W, Montreal
Metro: Lionel-Groulx
Phone: 514-935-6504
www.joebeef.ca/
Hours: Tues – Sun, 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Pay: VISA, MC

On Montreal Restaurant Mckiernan Chef Deck says:

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Lock your doors, board up your windows, and don’t let your kids out of sight. The chefs/owners of Joe Beef and Liverpool House restaurants (Allison Cunningham, Frédéric Morin and David McMillan) are stormin up Notre Dame street with guns a blazzin, after opening up yet another Restaurant, and well on there way to a full hostile takeover of the street. Mckiernan is a new lunch joint/wine bar that follows the Joe Beef recipe for gluttonal success, but now on lunch a budget. The menu offers an array of different sandwiches, soups, salads, and cheese plats all of which are traditional with a twist. We had a Wollenski type sandwich with two types of melted cheddar, a roast pork sandwich with caramelized onions and melted cheese, and a grilled cheese with bacon that were all gut busting and delicious. The restaurant also morphs into a wine bar featuring a beautiful selection with surprising low markups. So boys and girls when should we expect the breakfast place to open up, and complete the wind water fire earth thing so Captain Planet will rejoin us.

Food: fatty yet delicious/10
Decor: chalk board comfy/10
Population weight growth expected to rise by 38% this year thanks to too the trio/10

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Restaurant McKiernan, Luncheonette Bar a vins

2485 Notre-Dame Ouest, Atwater Market, Montreal
Métro Lionel-Groulx
Phone: 514-759-6677
Seats: 14 + bar

On Montreal Restaurant Liverpool House Chef Deck says:

A long time ago (nineteenth century), in a land not so far away (Old Montreal), there happened “the great battle of the perfect pull” between Joe Beef Tavern and the Liverpool House. Nowadays the battle’s been resumed (much friendlier though…no more battle axes and trebuchets) thanks to the same owners as Joe Beef (Allison Cunningham, Frédéric Morin and David McMillan) and Liverpool house is a triumph! We started with a charcuterie plate with home made head cheese, prosciutto, coppa, mortadella, Jambon de Bayonne, salami and more which was the finest example of its kind in the city. We then had clams casino, home made ravioli and the grilled cheese of all grilled cheeses that were all mind-blowingly delicious. For our main courses we ate a veal scaloppini stuffed with Parma ham and topped with Mozzarella de Bufala, Osso bucco on top of a saffron risotto, and home made shrimp pasta all of whose originality and taste shined brighter then the reading rainbow. The meal set the precedence for fabulous desserts of beignet’s covered in an espresso infused chocolate, and a trifle type diddy. So after that experience I have to say that I’m looking forward to having to 2.3 children and growing old in Montreal at the Liverpool House restaurant.

Tastiness: 9.34345321/10
Ambiance: Barnyard friendly/10
Service: Geisha esc/10

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Liverpool House Montreal Restaurant Information

2501 Notre Dame Street, corner Charlevoix, Little Burgundy, Montreal
Métro Lionel-Groulx
Phone: 514-313-6049
Payment: Interac, MasterCard, Visa, American Express
Hours Tues. – Sat open from 6:00 pm; Closed Sun & Mon
Cuisine: Market, Similar cuisine to Joe Beef with an Italian twist.

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