So one of my favourite Montreal date nights is to pick a place from my long To Try list up in the Cote-des-Neiges area and go for a food adventure and then a weird movie experience at the Star Cite cinema nearby (so weird. So great.) Last night I took my baby to Pocha de Marie and we had such a lovely meal and great chats with Steve, one of the owners, I can't wait to go back.
We shared a tofu kimchi jjigae and a daily special with 6 mushrooms and though both dishes were hefty and bountiful we couldn't stop eating and we polished it all off. The house hot sauce was awesome on everything, and the Beau's beer on tap was a bonus. They also had the Ippon beer by Jukebox on tap which I had never tried before but got to sample and it's so great and such an awesome choice to pair with these flavours.
We also rediscovered the toasted barley tea and were able to take home a big bag of tea bags, organic, for 3$, the perfect thing for winter.
This place is small and unassuming, decorated very simply if a little choatically but perfectly clean. I'd suggest removing any unhealthy looking plants, that always gives me bad vibes, and taking down any unnecessary decor, and really just keep focusing on doing the amazing job they are doing with thoughtful, clean, interesting food and drink.
The vegetarian options were super excellent and in general we just loved it.