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| - When in Montreal, live freely and be happy and one must eat at this Montreal Institution at least once in one's life time.
I started with a Long Island ice tea -- nice but they are much stiffer and delicious in NYC.
The table bread was nice but the butter was too hard. The coleslaw was exceptional -- likely one of the best item (free) at this Gold-Gilded era ambiance; actually the ceiling reliefs are "silver" in color.
I had the crab cake as an appetizer (at my waiter's suggestion; I wanted to try the lobster sandwich). The crab cake was alright; nothing special. It was only one, the size of a hockey puck.
My steak arrived in about 15 minutes -- 45-day dry-aged porterhouse. I had it done medium well. The crust was exceptionally delicious. The meat itself was nothing special and some sections near the bone still had some ligament. Overall, it's NOT worth $75; the portion is small for that price! (I had better steaks in Las Vegas and Albany, NY.). Total bill came to C$154.52 (including 20% tip of $25.75) which translated to US$118.74. Good thing the U.S. $ (my bank gives me U.S. $0.76 for C$1.00) is much stronger than C$. Otherwise, I would have stayed away. And the dinning room is very noisy! The wait staff (second tier) is very attentive but my own waiter (order taker) came only once or twice, to check on me -- maybe to make sure I hadn't choked on the ordinary (but sold as special) steak.
Regardless, I'm glad I tried this Montreal Institution -- Moishe's Steakhouse. But I'm unlikely to return here unless someone who is extremely wealthy pays for my meal here :) Even then, I'd go someplace else as this place is very noisy -- the entire dinning room is a huge room, like a huge dinning room you'd find in a prison (actually, I felt like a prisoner of must-do-when-in-Montreal thing). I couldn't even hear myself think. NO MORE NEXT TIME.
One can skip this old place; Montreal now has lots and lots of dinning options, and there are likely better steak houses. (Montreal is becoming a victim of its own successes -- way to much overbuilding of office and residential towers; but it would be nice to have a few more new hotels.)
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