On a warm Friday night I found myself with a group of friends wading through the crowd on St. Denis, we worked up an appetite but everything around us was packed, to make matters worse, one of the guys was a vegetarian. I fired up Yelp for assistance and eventually we decided on Tibetan.
Chez Gatse sounded promising with a long history and a location just off the main strip. I called to see if we could get a table, turns out the place was dead, which was the first hint that something was amiss. The owner, who was very nice and who took my call, already had a table set for us in the rather large terrace out the back of the restaurant.
The food was a big let down. The bulk of the menu could be found in any of your average Chinese restaurants in Montreal. I had one of the more Tibetan dishes "Lhasa Chicken" which was a chicken leg and thigh batter fried and then drenched in a brown gravy. It was edible, but I wasn't impressed.
I was expecting something different but instead I got mediocre Canadian Chinese food. Their one saving grace is they have a liquor license and a nice terrace. Regardless I can't see myself going back, the food was forgettable.