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| - We dined at Bouillon Bilk on our second night in Montreal. It was good but not great in my opinion. Maybe I expected more from all of the stellar reviews? I'm not sure.
We both started with the amuse bouche, which was sea urchin the evening we were there. It was pretty good. My husband wasn't a fan, but that's likely because he wasn't super familiar with sea urchin to begin with. I had the steak special for dinner, I can't remember what my husband had. The food overall, aside from the amuse, was rather unmemorable. I had to look back through pictures to remember what I had. Comparing that to other meals we had while in Montreal, which I am still remembering fondly, is enough of an indication that we aren't really interested in returning.
The service was okay. Our waitress was kind of spacey. They accidentally misdelivered a dessert to our table with birthday candles on it (it was neither of our birthdays). Someone, who I assumed was the Maitre D, came over didn't introduce himself and made a weird comment about our choice of dessert (strawberry something) was good even though the weather in October calls for something richer (wtf?). I thought he was going to apologize for having the wrong dessert sent to our table, buuut I guess not? Seating was cramped in an irritating, not cozy or intimate, way.
Again, overall it was fine, but unmemorable. For the price there are plenty of other restaurants in Montreal we'd return to first.
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