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| - After calling about 10 places at 9pm on a Saturday night trying to get reservations for 9 people an hour and a half later, Le Continental was the first place to hook us up with a large ad hoc reservation.
Some of us arrived earlier than others so we could savor a drink first - my friends were happy with the staff's wine suggestions, and I thoroughly enjoyed my cosmopolitan.
Since none of the 9 of us spoke a lick of french, receiving a french menu in a french restaurant we were trying to discern what exactly it was we were looking at in terms of food. The handsome, good-natured waiters brought us out some english menus, and though people ordered a wide variety of food items - the lamb, the duck, the steak frites, the flank steak, apps of calamari, figs, and beef carpaccio, all of us were extremely pleased with how tasty everything was, as well as how reasonably priced it all was (save for the Canadian tax, which is shockingly high, so it winds up evening out to still solid American pricing). We all split up desserts - I had one of the largest creme brulees I've ever seen, and some other folks got the house layer dessert. We ate dinner from 10:30pm until 1:00am, never felt rushed, and the best part was that they had already split up the check for our large party, even with distinctions of half-desserts on each bill for those of us who had split them!
Le Continental may not have been the first place we called or even that 9th, but my cosmo, flank steak, and creme brulee were all extremely delicious and even after tax and tip I only had to shell out $42 Canadian at this ritzy jam.
Highly recommend to anyone touting around Montreal - they were great to our large party - accommodating, sweet, and the food was totally worth it.
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