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| - I was showing friends around town and wanted to bring them for a classic Montreal experience (don't worry, we hit up Schwartz's and Fairmount Bagel too), and Leméac was recommended to us by other hometown friends. For some reason they told us it was kid-friendly (we would be out with two infants) and when I read up on the reviews, I didn't really get the sense that it was. However, we ended up moving our Saturday early dinner reservation to brunch the next day, and I would say that no one batted an eye about the children, even on Saturday when we already had the babies in town and were trying to move the reso to a later time. In fact, the staff were very accommodating in trying to arrange for a spot that would fit a car seat and high chair. There is a beautiful terrace on the side of the restaurant too.
The brunch menu is served until 3pm on weekends but you can absolutely still order off of their regular menu. There are lots of classic dishes such as frites moules (fries and mussels), steak frites (steak and fries, which I've heard is excellent), and calf liver with onions. They have offer a $27 table d'hote available after 10pm with a decent selection of items. Noteworthy choices from our brunch included the French toast - a super thick slab drizzled with chocolate - my friend (who loves French toast) declared it one of the best he's ever eaten; duck leg confit - crispy and melt-in-your-mouth; and my salmon pot au feu. The salmon fillet ever-so-gently poached in a delicate sea salt (buttery-tasting and savoury) broth was still rare in the middle, and the assortment of root vegetables were tender-crisp and flavourful.
I would say that the one downside is the service. They were extremely busy, even for my 1:15pm reservation, and it took a while for the hostess to even appear - there were four groups ahead of us and none of them had been helped when I arrived just after 1pm. The waiter, while friendly, also took a while to appear, and when he did, it was to order everything (drinks and food) at once - I would have loved to be able to finish my cava before my food arrived. In any case, I still enjoyed the meal, and would come back.
Oh! There is valet parking offered for the area and conveniently, the car drop off is right in front of the restaurant (heading west but I think you get there heading east as well, since the drop off is on the median). $5 for 3 hours, and $2 every hour afterwards.
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