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| - Staff: 5/5
Ambiance: 5/5
Food: 3/5
I think I'm the only person in Montreal who's not an exceptional fan of Milos. Don't get me wrong, everything is well cooked, and the restaurant is absolutely lovely with great staff, but the food is exceptionally overpriced (appx $100/person), and mildly underwhelming.
We had dishes in total: Fried Calamari, Lobster Pasta, a Greek Salad, Grill Shrimped, Charred Octopus, Fried Zucchini and Eggplant chips. But I'll break it down one by one.
Entrées:
The Fried Calamari was exceptional. It's lightly battered, nice amount of salt and pepper, and the freshly squeezed lemon added a dimension to the Calamari that pushed it off the edge of being subpar. I find it difficult to cook fried calamari well, and I thought Milos did a great job, and there wasn't an unpleasant rubbery texture that you find with so many other restaurants that also serve fried calamari.
The Charred Octopus was cooked well. It wasn't rubbery, and it wasn't dry and that tends to be what you look for in a good octopus dish. That said, the Octopus had no flavour, and even when you mixed with the capers and the onions, it didn't really help the octopus itself. Mixed with the char on the octopus, it made a bitter vinegary taste that wasn't terrible, but just didn't stand out.
I guess the same could be said about the Grilled Shrimp. The grilled shrimp comes with beans and a small micro greens salad. It's a lovely concept but neither the beans nor the shrimp had any flavour, and it was underwhelming at best.
The Greek Salad was incredibly fresh, but lacked salt.
Fried Zucchini and Eggplant Chips were EXCEPTIONAL. By far, my favourite part of the meal. It's not oily, has a great tzatziki sauce in the middle, and there are these fried cheeses on the side of the dish that you eat with the chip, and it's just incredible flavours and textures in your mouth. If I'm going back to Milos, I'm going back for this.
The Tuna was lovely. It's cooked rare and it's everything a good tuna dish should be. Rich in flavour, it's very well done.
The Lobster pasta was way too expensive for what it was. The lobster is well cooked, but there's not much of it, and the pasta is (very) lacking in flavour - especially salt, but if you add a lot of lemon, the dish becomes much more enjoyable.
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