Absolutely amazing and creative dishes, with well curated wine pairings. The food felt flawless and well thought out, very knowledgeable and warm
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fahad Malik
Beautiful
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
coco
the best food and the best service! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Shah G
Been here a few times over the years and the experience is always impeccable. The food is inventive, fresh, and delicious with a continuously changing menu. The staff are beyond sweet and knowledgeable. Absolutely recommend going whether you're a local or a tourist!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
ER Singer
Really really good. A little hard to find but very interesting food and so good. The parsnip in tomato sauce appetizer was incredible. So was the arctic char. But the really killer part was the honey as the final, final course. Paired with a honey wine. Worth the price of admission itself. Highly recommended. Would absolutely go back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Wine Pairings
Elaine
Attentive staff, innovative tasting menu, farm to table creations using local ingredients, incredible flavours.Note - Restaurant is difficult to find.....they did say it's at the back of the church. Take the regular roads and don't take the alleyways.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Hugo Vaillancourt
Just wow!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kamel al
I don't understand what's the hype about this restaurant, I paid 300$ for my wife's birthday dinner for lettuce and carrots and a subpar beef dish. The service and the staff was amazing. Please if you think you want a nice restaurant that offers fine dining you can find better places for much less. Or any average restaurant will provide the same food for far less
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 5
Weijia Wang
Amazing tasting menu, good foods, good vibes, all women business!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
d m
Disappointing...went due to a work event that was organized there. First, I didn't know about this restaurant and probably would never have gone there on my own. The restaurant is an open concept where you can see the action in the cooking area (that I thought smaller than a conventional restaurant kitchen). and uses Quebec sourced produce and ingredientsMenu was confusing, and hard to understand waiters had to go to every table to explain it. I went along with some goose dish which I found bland. One of the waitress at our table was acting exasperated and her patience was short (almost yelling at me for not understanding the menu). A coworker and I observed that she was likely embittered, fortunately we had other waiters attending as well.I didn't appreciate the turn around in attitude from another waitress when I asked for salt and pepper, she mumbled something as if to scold me as I was requesting "pepper" which is not a local Quebec produce...still she got me some salt
We sat at the bar and witnessed all the synchronization of the dishes and the attention to detail of the team. They are extremely attentive to small details and everything appears on the plate. It’s a cuisine that is constantly renewing itself and the desire to come back too. The atmosphere is frankly pleasant, unpretentious, something that I particularly appreciate, as is the choice of beers like Auval, which we find very rarely.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Marc
Impeccable food and service! Can feel the passion for food and local ingredients! Thank you for sharing your passion!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Wine Pairings
Arvid Y.
Good but not great. Small and cozy atmosphere. We sat at the bar which gave us a firsthand glimpse of the kitchen. Things I liked:- use of and focus on local ingredients - Brussels sprouts salad was great - leek, yogurt and mussel appetizer was amazing - friendly service- informal atmosphere- wine pairingsThings I didn't like:- prix fixe menu only (with 2 choices for main and dessert)- dishes were a bit one-note (too smokey)- oysters were not very memorable ($4 each - they were pre-shucked and then re-plated on shells- radicchio on my main was too bitter for my liking- plating was tidy, but also a bit too uniform and mechanical almost- dessert was also not very impressive (pear, honey, ginger cake was too dry)Maybe the day's menu just didn't appeal to me. I would probably be willing to try again, but does not compare favorably to restaurants like Bouillon Bilk, Hélicoptère and Mon Lapin in my opinion.
Vlad Nabok
Came here with friends, tried to enjoy it but just had an okay time. This place needs to be booked in advance. However, the menu changes often, so you never know what you are going to get. The menu is just two choices (fish or meat and for dessert either sweet or one-piece of cheese). I was faced with really tough choices as I immediately did not like either choice in our case, Peckerel fish or Guinea fowl. There are NO other options you can order, if not for our friends, I probably would have left before ordering. We had Brussel sprouts as first, and mussels over a bed of yogurt (what a wired combination of ingredients!!) For main course my wife chose Peckerel ( I personally don't like fresh water predator fish) and it was barely eatable with little fish meat and lots of skin fish , I chose guinea fowl (it was stiff like yesterday's reheated chicken). The tasting menu is offered with wine paring ($56) , i asked the waiter what are the wines and she could not recite it from memory, but said that there were 4 glasses of 3 oz each, one of them was a sweet wine and one orange. That sealed a d decion for me not to take parings. We decided to just order wine by glass, although they have quite an extensive wine list. There is only 1 white, 1 red, 1 rose, and 1 bubbly on the list by glass. For dessert, i took cheese (way too salty). I probably should have chosen the sweets. The only dish I really enjoyed was the Brussel sprouts appetizer. On the positive note, all the waiters and chefs were SUPER nice, friendly and accommodating. Not sure i will be back soon. Either I need a more predictable menu choices at the time of booking a few days in advance or more choice besides the tasting menu. Last point ... although set in historical building, the cieling in dining room is low, with full attendance it is hard to hear people even across the table and the noise is amplified by low cieling and close proximity of other diners.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brussel Sprouts Salad
Tim Lam
Pro tip: Don’t be an idiot like me and try going through the front doors. Candide is situated at the back. Facing the front there’s a walkway to the left that will lead you to a porch with an outdoor patio with hanging lights.We really appreciated our experience at Candide. From the locally sourced produce and livestock to the every changing menu you have to appreciate their mission to provide the best available options in a sustainable manner. From beginning to end our four course meal provided hit after hit. There were no bad plates and we made sure to clean our plates as best as possible. We were extremely satisfied after our last bite and would definitely consider going back the next time we visit Montreal.
Absolutely amazing and creative dishes, with well curated wine pairings. The food felt flawless and well thought out, very knowledgeable and warm
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Beautiful
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
the best food and the best service! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Been here a few times over the years and the experience is always impeccable. The food is inventive, fresh, and delicious with a continuously changing menu. The staff are beyond sweet and knowledgeable. Absolutely recommend going whether you're a local or a tourist!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Really really good. A little hard to find but very interesting food and so good. The parsnip in tomato sauce appetizer was incredible. So was the arctic char. But the really killer part was the honey as the final, final course. Paired with a honey wine. Worth the price of admission itself. Highly recommended. Would absolutely go back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Wine Pairings
Attentive staff, innovative tasting menu, farm to table creations using local ingredients, incredible flavours.Note - Restaurant is difficult to find.....they did say it's at the back of the church. Take the regular roads and don't take the alleyways.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Just wow!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I don't understand what's the hype about this restaurant, I paid 300$ for my wife's birthday dinner for lettuce and carrots and a subpar beef dish. The service and the staff was amazing. Please if you think you want a nice restaurant that offers fine dining you can find better places for much less. Or any average restaurant will provide the same food for far less
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 5
Amazing tasting menu, good foods, good vibes, all women business!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Disappointing...went due to a work event that was organized there. First, I didn't know about this restaurant and probably would never have gone there on my own. The restaurant is an open concept where you can see the action in the cooking area (that I thought smaller than a conventional restaurant kitchen). and uses Quebec sourced produce and ingredientsMenu was confusing, and hard to understand waiters had to go to every table to explain it. I went along with some goose dish which I found bland. One of the waitress at our table was acting exasperated and her patience was short (almost yelling at me for not understanding the menu). A coworker and I observed that she was likely embittered, fortunately we had other waiters attending as well.I didn't appreciate the turn around in attitude from another waitress when I asked for salt and pepper, she mumbled something as if to scold me as I was requesting "pepper" which is not a local Quebec produce...still she got me some salt
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
Restaurantji Recommends
We sat at the bar and witnessed all the synchronization of the dishes and the attention to detail of the team. They are extremely attentive to small details and everything appears on the plate. It’s a cuisine that is constantly renewing itself and the desire to come back too. The atmosphere is frankly pleasant, unpretentious, something that I particularly appreciate, as is the choice of beers like Auval, which we find very rarely.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Impeccable food and service! Can feel the passion for food and local ingredients! Thank you for sharing your passion!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Wine Pairings
Good but not great. Small and cozy atmosphere. We sat at the bar which gave us a firsthand glimpse of the kitchen. Things I liked:- use of and focus on local ingredients - Brussels sprouts salad was great - leek, yogurt and mussel appetizer was amazing - friendly service- informal atmosphere- wine pairingsThings I didn't like:- prix fixe menu only (with 2 choices for main and dessert)- dishes were a bit one-note (too smokey)- oysters were not very memorable ($4 each - they were pre-shucked and then re-plated on shells- radicchio on my main was too bitter for my liking- plating was tidy, but also a bit too uniform and mechanical almost- dessert was also not very impressive (pear, honey, ginger cake was too dry)Maybe the day's menu just didn't appeal to me. I would probably be willing to try again, but does not compare favorably to restaurants like Bouillon Bilk, Hélicoptère and Mon Lapin in my opinion.
Came here with friends, tried to enjoy it but just had an okay time. This place needs to be booked in advance. However, the menu changes often, so you never know what you are going to get. The menu is just two choices (fish or meat and for dessert either sweet or one-piece of cheese). I was faced with really tough choices as I immediately did not like either choice in our case, Peckerel fish or Guinea fowl. There are NO other options you can order, if not for our friends, I probably would have left before ordering. We had Brussel sprouts as first, and mussels over a bed of yogurt (what a wired combination of ingredients!!) For main course my wife chose Peckerel ( I personally don't like fresh water predator fish) and it was barely eatable with little fish meat and lots of skin fish , I chose guinea fowl (it was stiff like yesterday's reheated chicken). The tasting menu is offered with wine paring ($56) , i asked the waiter what are the wines and she could not recite it from memory, but said that there were 4 glasses of 3 oz each, one of them was a sweet wine and one orange. That sealed a d decion for me not to take parings. We decided to just order wine by glass, although they have quite an extensive wine list. There is only 1 white, 1 red, 1 rose, and 1 bubbly on the list by glass. For dessert, i took cheese (way too salty). I probably should have chosen the sweets. The only dish I really enjoyed was the Brussel sprouts appetizer. On the positive note, all the waiters and chefs were SUPER nice, friendly and accommodating. Not sure i will be back soon. Either I need a more predictable menu choices at the time of booking a few days in advance or more choice besides the tasting menu. Last point ... although set in historical building, the cieling in dining room is low, with full attendance it is hard to hear people even across the table and the noise is amplified by low cieling and close proximity of other diners.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brussel Sprouts Salad
Pro tip: Don’t be an idiot like me and try going through the front doors. Candide is situated at the back. Facing the front there’s a walkway to the left that will lead you to a porch with an outdoor patio with hanging lights.We really appreciated our experience at Candide. From the locally sourced produce and livestock to the every changing menu you have to appreciate their mission to provide the best available options in a sustainable manner. From beginning to end our four course meal provided hit after hit. There were no bad plates and we made sure to clean our plates as best as possible. We were extremely satisfied after our last bite and would definitely consider going back the next time we visit Montreal.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5