If any Muchentuchen joint can compare to Phantom Muchentuchen it would be the great Montreal institution Boustan (I wish to have Tasty Delight attached). Boustan is one of the greats, and has been stuffing my belly as long as I can remember. They make their chicken, shawarma, kaffta, veggie, and fallafel pitas grilled on charcoal to perfection. Chef Deck’s standing order here is an all dressed chicken pita (don’t call it shish taouk!), with omelet, spicy sauce, grilled and well done (gotta mention the fact that they are the only joint that adds coleslaw). They are a Crescent street late night hot spot, and you might even run into some stars (hockey players, Tom Selleck’s mustache, Trailer Park Boys, and once upon a time the late great Mr. Trudeau). So if your budget can’t afford l’Express and you’re not into La Banquise, try Boustan but don’t blame me if you get addicted. Boustan you warm my hart with garlic and love, so XOXO until the next drinking binge!

Tastiness: 8.723123812/10
Ambiance: Drunk frat boys peeing their pants/10
Price: under $10 a person/10

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Restaurant Boustan Information

On Montreal Greek Restaurant Orama Chef Deck says:

My grandparents love the chicken and the early bird special. It has been difficult to find a deal and quality, but our happy compromise these days is one of my Park-Ex favorites, Orama (some of my others are Tripoli, Halal 786, Marvin’s, and Village Grec). As far as quality, freshness, and price Orama is hard to beat. They make delicious charcoal whole grilled Greek chicken (among top 3 in the city), good Greek salad, bad-ass wedged home cut fries, and an interestingly spiced rice. They are extremely consistent and have yet to disappoint. I gotta tell all of you how nice it is to not always have to go to Deli Boys anymore, because it was truly messing with my libido.

Tastiness: 7.9999559/10
Ambiance: usually a like a ghost town/10
Price: $12, max $20 per person/10

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Orama Grillades Grecques Montreal Information

7000 avenue du Parc, Montréal, H3N 1X1
Phone: 514-278-3505
Hours: Mon – Fri 6:00 am – 9:00 pm, Sat & Sun 4 pm – 9:30 pm
Payment: Major Credit Card, Interac, Cash

On restaurant Cabane a Sucre Au Pied de Cochon Sugar Shack Chef Deck says:

I’m in love OINK! I won’t be able to sleep until the next sugaring off season OINK! My Spoon Man is now Marin Picard OINK! I need that sweet maple syrup OINK!
This was one of my top 5 meals ever (and added my favorite 5 pounds to my sweet man belly)! As far as your preconceived notions about sugar shacks, poop scoop them, put them in a paper bag, light it, and leave it on Bobby Flay’s doorstep (because Martin Picard, chef of restaurant Au Pied de Cochon has reinvented the cabane a sucre (sugar shack). The highlights of the mains were:  pea soup with lardon and fois gras, the oreilles de crisse salade with ham, walnuts and mixed greens, buckwheat pancakes, fluffy skillet omelet with cod and scallops, deep fried lobster and beet sushi with maple syrup soya sauce, and a meat dish with magret de canard, rabbit, feve aux lard, and other yummyness. For dessert we ate pancakes cooked in duck fat, a burnt marshmallow maple ice cream baked Alaska, and a banana split with maple syrup cotton candy, candied nuts, burnt marshmallow, and hardened sugar pie filling stuff. The restaurant is now closed for the season, but if you want to partake you should think about reserving now for next year’s maple syrup season. We also have to thank Martin Picard for giving us these great pics for our gay website. So all in all this redone barn rocks harder then Alanis Morissette’s naked video(you know the one)!

Tastiness: 9.567864826/10
Ambiance: the barn from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly/10
Price; $45 fixed menu + drinks and tax /10

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Cabane à sucre Au Pied de Cochon Sugar Shack Information

11382 Rang de la Fresnière, St-Benoît de Mirabel
Laurentians, Québec J7N 2R9
Phone: 450-258-1732
Email: reservations@cabaneasucreaupieddecochon.com
Hours: Thurs – Fri 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Sat & Sun 11:00 am – 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Payment: Credit Card, Cash, Interac
Web: cabaneasucreaupieddecochon.com

On Montreal Restaurant Bar et Boeuf (Sea Bass & Beef) Chef Deck says:

One of the perks of being a Chef Deck is being invited to try new restaurants in order to do biased reviews. Luckily I’m a man of great honour (like Frank Dux, like put up your dux) and would never review a comped meal. What I do have to say about this reinvented bistro (formerly Wilson) is that the ambiance, menu and prices are fresh, original and decent. They also have a great wine list which is reasonably priced. Another perk is that they got restaurant Le Local`s chef Alexandre Gosselin who is bound to keep things creative, and who introduced a 4 and 7 course taster menu ($49 – $59) with wine pairings ($79 – $109). So eatwellers, I’m gonna leave the reviewing up to you on this one, go with your most discriminating pallets and let me know if you think it’s worth the hoopla!

Food presentation: geometric/10
Price: $8-$22 apps and $17-$30 mains/10
Tastiness: Up to our loyal followers/10

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Restaurant Bar et Boeuf Montreal Information

500 McGill (corner Notre-Dame), Old-Montreal
Metro: Square-Victoria
Phone: 514-866-3555
Email: info@baretboeuf.com
Hours: Lunch Tues – Fri 11:30 am – 2:00 pm; Dinner Tues – Sat 5:30 pm – 11:00 pm
Payment: Visa, MC, Amex, Interac
Website: baretboeuf.com

On Montreal Restaurant Mechant Boeuf Bar & Brasserie Chef Deck says:

Angry beefs are few and far between. As a child I used to go Vermont where my cousin and I would go cow tipping, four wheeling in the pastures, and have occasional b.b. assaults on the poor animals (I’m sorry PETA, I do feel regret to this day). Even with that constant harassment the beefs remained truly docile, and never became so called angry beefs. At Mechant Boeuf Montreal, this is not the case. This is because since the silver fox and his team took over they’ve been angrier then Howlin’ Wolf, for finally they’re being whipped into shape. The quality of this beef house restaurant has gone up by miles. I had the tartar app (tuna, salmon, and beef) which was excellent, an amazing burger (with Gorgonzola and bacon served medium unlike mbgr restaurant), a so so New York strip, and the pièce de résistance, one of the best filet mignons in Montreal with a pepper sauce. So silver fox, keep those beefs angry because restaurant Mechant Boeuf is back on my list!

Tastiness: 8.4124124114/10
Ambience: casse-croûte meet the Q/10
Price: $20-$30 a person/10

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Méchant Boeuf Bar & Brasserie Restaurant Information

124, Saint-Paul West, corner St-Sulpice, (attached to the Nelligan hotel)
Old Montreal, Québec
Phone: 514-788-2040
Hours: Diner, Sun – Wed, 5:00 pm – 11:00 pm, Thurs – Sat, 5:00 pm to 1:00 am
Payment: Credit Card, Interac, Cash
Cuisine: Burger, Steak, Casual
Website mechantboeuf.com

On Montreal Restaurant Hoai Huong Chef Deck says:

P.E.T.A activists like pho fur, some women like pho nails, some men like pho hair, and some Brett Michaels like pho breasts, but Chef Deck is tired of only Pho Vietnamese Restaurants popping up on every Montreal street corner. For this reason Vietnamese restaurant Hoai Huong is one of my all time favorites in Montreal (don’t get me wrong I love Pho Bang but I need a little change). Though Hoai Huong does have delicious soups their meals are what make them truly spectacular. I adore their lemongrass chicken, perfect imperial rolls, bird nest, the pancake meal, and just about everything they have to serve. They remind me of a restaurant in New York called Saigon Grill that never disappoints. So pho sho sho I will frequent Hoai Huong until the day I’m to fat to get out of bed (unless they start to deliver)!

Tastiness: 8.934583433/10
Parking: beware of other driver’s/10
Price: $10-$15-$20 a person/10

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Restaurant Hoai Huong Information

5485 Victoria, corner St-Kevin, Montréal, QC H3W 2P9
Métro: Côte-Ste-Catherine
Téléphone: 514-738-6610
Hours: Tues – Thurs 11:00 am – 3:00 pm, 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm; Fri – Sun 11:00 am – 10:00 pm, Closed Monday
Payment: American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Interac, Cash
Cuisine: Vietnamese

On La Louisiane restaurant Montreal Chef Deck says:

Austin Leslie would’ve been proud of restaurant La Louisiane last week because the food was in my opinion almost perfect. The problem with this Montreal cajun, creole restaurant is that eating here is about as consistent as Ray Charles’ dart game. On this particular occasion we started with the firecracker shrimp which were battered, deep fried, shrimpsensations. One main we ate was the prime rib and it was just amazing (seasoned, cooked a perfect medium rare, and as tender as a Roy Orbison ballad). For the other main we had a baked salmon filet in a dill crust with a roaster red pepper sauce that was truly out of this world. I hope with all my heart that La Louisiane keeps it up because last weeks meal was one to remember.

Tastiness: 8.92691273 /10 (sometimes 6.1213132442/10)
Drinks: Rampage Jackson / 10
Price: avg $20 mains /10

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La Louisiane, Montreal Information

5850 Sherbrooke Street West, NDG
Montreal, Quebec
Metro: Vendome
Telephone: 514-369-307
Website: lalouisiane.ca
Hours: Monday: Sun, Tues, Wed: 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm, Thurs: 5:30 pm – 10:30 pm, Fri + Sat: 5:30 pm – 11:00 pm, Closed Monday

On Montreal Restaurant Les Délices de l’ile Maurice Chef Deck Says:

WARNING: For all of you discriminating snobby eaters read no more.

You are about to experience a look into one of the most entertaining, deliciously different, Mauritius cuisine (mix of Creole, Asian, French, and Portuguese), type eateries in our grand city of Montreal. Sylvester is the definition of la joie de vie, he is a man who wakes up in the morning with a cold bottle and believes that there ain’t nothin better then a ridin the rail (or spending 5 weeks a year in Cuba with his “sisters”). Every meal starts with an amuse bouche of fried cabbage, with onions and peppers, accompanied by four sauces being spicy, coriander vinegar, I forget but good, and I forget but better. You then move on to a choice of appetizers, Creole chicken, shrimp salad, or smoked salmon salad all of which are phenomenally tasty. Next you get the soup of the day that’s great. For the main course you have a choice of shrimp, scallops, squid, sea base, salmon, some other seafood stuff, chicken, beef, lamb or ox tail, in your choice of curry, Creole, saffron, tomato, garlic butter, or honey sauce. All of the meals are amazing but not for the closed minded, health conscious, or pretty bird type eater. This is the perfect place to kick you in the balls, smack you across the face, and help you remember what’s really important in life (living free and peace of mind).

Atmosphere: Sylvesterish feng shwayish/10
Food: Sylvesterish amazingness/10
Price: absolutely absurd that you can eat so much and spend 10 buck a person/10
After 10pm: Just go on a Friday or Saturday G-D dang it and find out for yourself/10

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Les Délices de l’ile Maurice, Restaurant Information

Address: 272 Hickson, Verdun, Montreal
Metro: De l’Église
Phone: 514-768-6023
Hours: Closed Sun & Mon 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Payment: Cash Only
Bring Your Own Wine, Apportez votre vin (BYOB)

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