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| - I recently had a lovely dinner here with my mother. We came early, right when the restaurant opened for dinner, so the place was fairly empty and we were able to choose where to sit. We opted for a table by the window facing St. Catherine Street (so nice to watch the busy street scene and all the passers-by. And always great to have a window seat anywhere at dusk in Montreal, to see the sky changing colors and the moon coming out).
My mom says she's dined here before a few times and it's always been good. She pointed out the patio area outside, saying it's a wonderful terrace for outdoor dining in the summer.
I ordered the rigatoni with meatballs and it was delicious! Ver filling, though, so I ended up bringing 2/3 of it home. My mom ordered the Caesar salad and she said it was great (she had ordered this in the past). I liked how the menu had a lot of dishes I'd call "comfort food with a twist": traditional but not boring. They also had 3 or 4 specials of the day written on the board by the entrance, and these dishes appeared to be more contemporary (and pricey).
Beautiful looking old-fashioned bar. And nice open kitchen to see the chefs in action at the rear.
It was odd that we had different people/servers who took our order, brought us our dinners, checked up on us mid-meal, and who brought us the check and my doggie bag of left-overs when we were done (three different servers in total!). Weird. But I can't say that we were left unattended at any point: our water glasses were always kept full and we never waited long for anything. And all our various servers were friendly and nice.
When we left, the restaurant was over half full. Looked like there were lots of regulars there, too. That's always a good sign.
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