Delicious picks for MTLàTABLE 2017
And it's a sixth time in a row for the MTLàTABLE festival, playing matchmaker between foodies and Montreal’s fine food establishments. From November 2 to 16, choose from $21, $31 or $41 multi-course meals to start your culinary journey right here in Montreal. Here’s what’s on the menu at some of the restaurants taking part. Please note that they may be modified without notice. [image credit: Lavigne/Ariane Thibeau]
La Khaïma Cuisine Nomade
142 Av Fairmount O, Montréal, QC H2T 2M5Welcome to African cuisine, reinvented. First up: mezze with eggplant or chickpeas and lemon. Then it's a choice between the olive chicken with lemon confit, date beef with plums, apricots and figs or the platter of local (to Quebec) vegetables, with cabbage, carrots, beans, potatoes, zucchini, chickpeas and couscous. Before you go, don't forget to try the fruit cake or almond dates. - $21
Bar Tapas Taza Flores
5375 av du Parc, Montréal, QC H2V 4G9Tapas is happiness. Find yours here with a first course of fried almars, a tilapia ceviche with coconut milk or dill-marinated salmon. After that you'll have the choice between cod acras, aubergine pizza with grilled vegetables or bacon dates (YES PLEASE!) stuffed with nuts and chorizo. Then, just as you're about to head for the door, your expanding belly is offered a flaky mushroom pastry, garlic sautéed shrimp or grilled chorizo with caramelised onions. Who needs sleep anyway. - 31$
Chez Ma Grosse Truie Chérie
1801, rue Ontario E, Montréal, QC H2K 1T5Have a seat, this one could be long. And filling. And happiness-inducing. Here we go then: pâté en croûte, liver mousse, etc. or warm squash salad or apple and smoked bacon pea soup with pork jowels. Then, as if that weren't enough: Lac-Saint-Jean tourtière (venison, pork, blueberries), pan-fried char or pigs foot and boar spruce tip ragout. If your heart's still beating at this point, finish it off with an apple crumble or deconstructed pumpkin pie, with a flavoured meringue flambée.- 31$
Chez Lavigne
4274, rue Notre-Dame O, Montréal, QC H4C 1R6This St-Henri establishment puts fruits front and centre on their MTLàTABLE menu. Begin your meal with a Jerusalem artichoke and blue crab soup or roasted eggplant served with pine nuts. Continue with a choice of grilled mackerel with pumpkin and pears or roasted guinea fowl confit with rutabaga, beans and blueberries. To finish it off, choose between profiteroles served with strawberries, blueberries and chocolate sauce or the maple aspic with creme fraiche and apples. - 31$
Accords Bar A Vin Resto
212, rue Notre-Dame O, Montréal, QC H2Y 1T3Your head and stomach will be in Accordance. First course: Haidacore tuna with pepper mayo, fried tofu with shiitake, cranberries and sake or veal tongue. Then you have a choice between the duck breast, smoked cavatelli or farmed char with sea urchin from Rimouski. As if you needed a third course, remain seated for the Neige ice cream cider baba, or the chocolate mousse with a sea buckthorn and taffy trifle. - 41$
Bistro Licence Iv
143 Rue Saint-Paul O, Montréal, QC H2Y 1Z5A wonderful mix of flavours awaits you. First course: Quebec farmhouse terrine with pickled vegetables, or a grilled shrimp and corn salad. Second up: house bouillabaisse (shrimp, mussels, cod, octopus), or a Lake Brome duck à l'orange, with apples, shallots and Brussels sprouts. For dessert: millefeuille or profiteroles. - 41$
Bonaparte
443, rue Saint-François-Xavier, Montréal, QC H2Y 2T1Place your right hand inside your waistcoat and start out by sampling the seasonal salad with almonds, homemade game terrine, with caramelised onions or flavoured mushroom ravioli. Ditch the mobile phone and give in to the duck breast with maple jus, the fish and seafood linguini or duo of lamb loin and shank with sweet garlic. Talking of sweetness, for dessert: maple and blueberry cheesecake, key lime pie or chocolate mousse. - 41$
Restaurant Mastard
1879 Rue Bélanger, Montréal, QC H2G 1B6Chose does 'les choses' with finesse, with a smoked and pickled herring steak or venison heart tartare to start, followed by a pork loin, confit leg of rabbit with pistachios, apricots, cipollini, wild rice, and tarragon, and a crème brûlée with cardamom baked in an apple, or a pumpkin cream, spice and chocolate pot to... how do we put it politely... finish you off? - 41$
