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| - My two friends took me here for my birthday. We each had the tasting menu which was $80/pp and consisted of eight shared plates plus two desserts. Please note that you do not get to pick what dishes you get served but the popular items on the menu do seem to be included. I left the restaurant feeling full and very satisfied. We each had one drink. I had the tequila Caesar. It was smokey and rimmed with steak spice. One friend had a cider and another had the Simon cocktail which was made of bourbon and pear juice with a cute little pear on top. The cocktails were very good. My only complaint was that there was a little too much ice in the cocktails .
We started with the cold tomato soup. For starters I don't like cold soup. For me soup has to be warm and there cant be fruit in it! The soup had chunks of tuna, fruits (blueberries, raspberries) and vegetables (tomato, broccoli, zucchini). It was very pretentious. My friends and I were worried that we made a mistake coming here but after the soup it got a lot better. We had the beef tartare + razor clam, sea urchin + tuna, venison tartare, and the tempura zucchini flowers. The tartares were very good. The tuna tartare had spicy mayo and rice crispies in it with blueberries on the side. The tempura came with a creamy white and green sauce. It was delicious!!! Inside the zucchini flower there was duck!! Then we had the beef done two different ways. One dish consisted of beef cubes cooked medium rare with mushrooms and potatoes and the second was braised beef in a dark sauce with strawberries. We then proceeded to have the whelk gratin with miso butter which resembled escargots in cheese and garlic with bread. The waiter told us to really squeeze out all the lime onto the gratin and so we did but then I found that the lime was a bit overpowering and probably would have been better without it or with very little of it.
For dessert we had a deconstructed cake. We were told it was sponge cake but it was more of an angel cake. It was fluffy and sweet. It included three scoops of raspberry sorbet and one scoop of cantaloupe sorbet. My friends loved, loved, loved the cantaloupe sorbet!! Besides the sorbet there was also strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. The second dessert was rhubarb sorbet with shortbread cookies, slices of rhubarb and strawberries. It was our least favorite dessert. It was very bitter. The rhubarb sorbet would have been better served as a palate cleanser rather than as a dessert.
Because it was my birthday, the staff came out with a huge squash and put two sparklers on top. They came out and sang and wished me happy birthday which was very nice.
Overall the restaurant felt very homey. The decor is very old school... dolls, and antique looking furniture. A lot of their dishes had tuna , fruits and fennel in it.
Each dish was beautifully presented.
I would have given Montreal Plaza five stars had it not been for the cold tomato soup.
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