Escondite Monkland
5626 Monkland Ave, Montreal
(438) 380-5626
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Festive and slightly noisy atmosphere. Fast and friendly service. Excellent food!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Love this place its my perfect spot for my solo date! Good food, great service!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent food, service and a really enjoyable spot, I really recommend this restaurant.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Such a great experience, highly recommend! :)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
decent food/ rude service
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 1
The food was nice, but unfortunately, the service left much to be desired. The waitress came off as rude and pretentious, which significantly dampened the experience.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 1
Feedback on Your Restaurant
This message goes out to the owner. I really was unsatisfied with your menu and the food variety. What came into your mind when you decided to create a mix of a Mexican-Asian restaurant? Did ChatGPT give you the idea? You have a poster of Nacho Libre on your wall, and God damn it, I was hoping for at least some nachos. But no, you decided to offer fairy tale land bull crap. Dumplings in no case what so ever should be considered natchos. Thats like calling poutine spaghetti. WHY? Whyyyyy???? Dude like legit insulting for a hispanic. I'd be humiliated to serve such a horrible dish to someone.
You have a beautiful team of waitresses, and you put them through the demand of customers asking, "Do you serve nachos?" What a poor business plan. Honestly, I want Gordon Ramsay to show up and smack you across the face. You have everything to make an amazing business, and you decided to go with an Asian-Mexican fusion? Get some help if you think that way.
Also, never in my life have I seen a picture of sangria going for $55—that's freaking ridiculous. I'd rather have a beer at Ye Old Orchard for $7. What a scam of a restaurant you run. I enjoyed the food, but I was really disappointed with how this business was run.
You also serve warm water? Why not cold water with ice I know its warm in mexico but hell we live in Canada if I wanted warm water I could just drink my shower water at home. What is wrong with you man?
To add one final point: your menu is confusing, and I don't see any pitchure of what I will be ordering. This is a big fail on your part. I’m sorry your waitresses have to put up with your bull crap mentality. A 5-year-old could run your business better...
10/10 for your amazing team 0/10 for your idea of a mex-asian resto. 10/10 decor
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 5
Beautiful festive atmosphere
Large bay window which opens onto a landing terrace. Tacos Camerone and New El Paso were excellent.
Kateryna offered us attentive, fast, and pleasant service. She is very sociable.
A remarkable evening
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
All the food has the same flavor nothing special but ok.
A bit expensive for what it offers
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Restaurantji Recommends
The waitress recommended a small dish as a starter which was delicious and the tacos were lovely.
They were all smiling and serviceminded ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Just awful. Very expensive for very small portions of very bad food served by very pretentious waiters. The diameter of the tacos is closer to a Loonie than a saucer. One imagines kitchen staff using tweezers to handle food. If the effete snobbery of the waitress is any indication, they feel virtuous not using a spoon or ladle to serve their precious food for which they charge so much money. The one redeeming quality of the waitress, when I ordered a pair of mole tacos, was that she warned me that I would be hungry if I ordered it. When I asked for salsa (normal condiment served proudly with fresh tomatoes and peppers in every other Mexican restaurant), she brought us a tiny pinch prep size bowl with a dark red mucilaginous substance that appeared to have come from a factory off the NJ Turnpike visited by Kilgore Trout. The taste was worse than expected from the ultra-processed industrial texture, like the bottom of a latex paint can. When I said it tasted bad, and tried to offer to help them save face by musing about whether the cap had been left off the bottle on the counter all night, the waitress sniffed, "we make it here." Given the highly processed homogenous color and consistency, I doubted it. Another waitress (#2) brought us a tiny bowl of tomatilla sauce, which was over priced but edible, even tasty, and had evidence of real tomatillas, not a chemical concoction from a petrochemical plant. When I complimented waitress #1 about the tomatilla salsa that was very good, and so much better than the red stuff they called salsa, she doubled down and said, "we don't serve 'Old El Paso'" [maybe they should, and drop the attitude] and lectured me that the red sauce had a "smoky" flavor and repeated that they "make it here." I resisted the temptation to call it "burnt" not smoky. Whatever the provenance, the color and paint-like consistency were not palatable. It matters not whether the hyper processing occurs in a Monkland kitchen, or a DuPont Corporation factory, if the result is a petite puddle of this yucky stuff, which bares little relationship to fresh wholesome food. So, if you want to pay a lot money for very little and a heaping dollop of arrogance, then this is your place (half of the old joke about bad restaurants: "the food may not be good, but you get a lot of it."). On the good side, the porch gives you a ring side view of the pedestrian street scene. They keep the street safer by serving very weak and small margaritas (with suspiciously colored red salt perhaps bought from the same chemical company as the salsa). You would go broke before you got drunk, so that's probably a good thing for public safety.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 1
Amazing food, even better service! Maddy, Laila, Devon took amazing care of us. Going to escondite felt like coming home
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fantastic and fresh with fast service and a perfect vibe. If you like mexican food in a fun and artsy space, this place takes it up a notch with unique twists. Be sure to try the gyoza nachos for a totally unique appetizer and the Nutella churros for a hot and sweet dessert. Our waiter Claudio was also awesome. I'll be coming back for sure!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Way too pricy for small tiny tacos.Anyone can make these even better from home.Waste of money.
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