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| - After four or five visits I summarize that PDC is a five star experience with 4 star food.
Everything is mostly super not superb , but, you are going to have the quintessential foodie experience here. M. Picard has put it all together in this Montreal must go place. The elements of greatness are: an unusual and super creative menu.cool and casual atmosphere and an extremely high level of service. If you are reading this you probably already know about the ultra "rich" food. Most of the menu items involved some unique amalgam of pork, fois gras - hello California come to Montreal -and duck. If you want you can even eat healthy with nice roasted sea foods and salads. During the summer months there is also a fresh seafood "bar" offering extravagant selections. Our most recent choices for our a table of six were mostly the standard PDC items with the Pig's foot swimming in gravy just OK, the duck magret very good and the standout this time the Ploque a Champlain, a crepe like pork and fois gras combination.
PDC is a foodie mecca and is most always crowded with a well healed clientele ready to drop a few hundred bucks if need be to experience this place. On a hot summer night this past June the place was still rock'n after 11pm and we saw a few celebs at a nearby table. The staff were apologetically late with our table, we had to wait almost 45 minutes after the reserved time to be seated, but they made up for the inconvenience by leading a few of our party to the bar and providing some nice wine and an appetizer plate gratis. Very classy and unexpected.
The servers were friendly,extremely knowledgeable about everything on the menu, and were of the highest calibre which adds so much to the overall experience. The wine offerings were extensive and expensive, but, we managed to find some nice bottles in the mid $40 range and our party managed to knock off four or five bottles.
So for all you Yelpaholic restaurant ,mavens, officiandos,doyens like me,this is the kind of place that we live for !
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