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This place is fantastic. Pork, pork, pork and more pork - with some excellent twists!
I've been twice and food has been excellent both times. Their poutine is the best I've had, and on my most recent visit I tried ''le porc'' which, although being slightly heavy on the corn, was delicious. As others have noted, it really did resemble a shepherds pie made with pork!
I already can't wait for my next visit and I know exactly what I'm going to try - 'Le Deluxe' sandwich. Just read the description - 48 hour marinaded BBQ pulled pork,with bacon and caramelised onions - if this doesn't in itself justify a return trip to Montreal, nothing will!
I must add that our server was probably the nicest, friendliest, most genuine waitress I have ever encountered. So friendly, smiley and helpful. We arrived in Mache having walked out, disgusted, from a nearby competitor and our server's friendliness and bubbliness completely changed our moods instantly. She randomly decided not to charge us for my coke, for no apparent reason, and upon overhearing my bf mentioning that it was my birthday, gave us a free dessert of our choice. We went with the double chocolate brownie and it.was.SUPERB. I'm still thinking about it. Easily one of the warmest, gooiest, over the top rich chocolatey marvels I've ever had!!!
Few restaurants are perfect though, and I'm deducting a star from Mache as they couldn't accommodate my request (for my initial choice, le ''New Style'') to substitute sweet potatoes for regular mashed potatoes . The reason being that the dish had been already ''made like that''. That sort of sucks. I don't expect entire meals in restaurants to be pre-made and just waiting to be heated up.
That being said, the bottom line here is that the food tastes great, and the service is unbeatable. Will definitely return.
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