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  • I just had brunch here. Excelelent. Lot's of brilliance in this rarity in Westmount. The brunch menu was so interesting and the dishes were delicious. GOOD: This place has a lot of good things. 1. Coffee-great cup of espresso. Clean and elegant. 2. Eggs with truffles and braised beef-this was excellent. The presentation was wonderful-in a mason jar-and the eggs and braise were perfect (could have been more salt-but oh well). 3. Pain perdu-wonderfully made with brioche. Light and delightful. Perhaps could have put the caramel and yogurt off to the side. 4. Bacon-this is probably the best bacon of any restaurant in the city-better than Maison Publique (they cure it themselves) and Lawrence. 5. Service-incredible and friendly. They let me in 15 minutes before opening time-no snooty rule fascists here. 6. jambon serrano-incredible qualiyt serrano with a great machine. This serrano was better than the Iberico Bellata that I have had here in Montreal. The machine was amazing. 7, Eggs for children-they made a children's egg dish for my daughter, she loved it. They only charged $5 for a "children's meal". 8. Price was great for this quality of food-$12-15 per dish. 9. Bread was free (unlike Ritz's new Daniel Boloud restaurant). 10. Homemade rhubarb orange jam. 11. Great butter. (Salted-though I like sweet butter better) 12. Presentation-great. 13. Ambiance-great. 14. Service-fabuolous. NO angry people here. What's with Westmount? They need some angry people to ignore you. NEEDS IMPROVEMENT: 1. Baking-the baked goods have a ways to go. Chocolate cake and madeleines are not yet there. (The homemade bread, however, was very very good). 2. One cup of coffee was so-so. According to the waiter, it was a different coffee person for the first cup vs. second. RETURN: Absolutely. I want to try the buckwheat pancake dishes which looked compelling. MENU: I would have liked to see the dinner menu be a little less Canadianized (at least in the naming of their dishes). But I am not running a business, just eating. Even so-I am pretty confident that Thierry's amazing talent will shape things beautifully, and I look forward to trying the dinner menu. REVIEW IN GAZETTE: Strange and questionable. Whe was trained in France and got kind of irritable that it wasn't a classic Brasserie with sauerkraut, sausage and mounds of seafood. And she compared it to four of the best brasseries in Paris. But if you look at her other reviews on French restos-she doesn't hold them to Parisian standards (they wouldn't be close). And she doesn't get snooty about divergence elsewhere. She reviewed some Japanese restaurants that seem pretty Canadianized (all but 1) which to me don't have much semblance to japanese food (the exception was Jun-i which has a lot of great things going for it). Maybe she ordered the wrong things; she ordered spaghetti in a French Brassirie-enough said? She was snooty about "too much truffle oil". Us non-snooty (I am pretty snooty) eaters LOVE truffle oil. I can't afford real truffles, and I love the next best thing. A person who loves "Japanese" restaurants (owned by Vietnameses) that serve "California Rolls" should not get all uppity about truffles. I get irritated by overly snobby reviewers. But I get more irritated when they don't know anything about some of the foods they review. (She obviously knows French cuisine and has the training and background to review it.) But I think maybe her pickiness was in overdrive. But who knows, new restaurants have kinks to work out.
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