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| Welcome to Go Montreal Livings French restaurant section. Here you will find a vast selection of Montreal French restaurants to choose from. Whether you are looking for fabulous bavette or nouvelle cuisine we have a French restaurant to suit your pallet. Here are some interesting tips if you are interested in “nouvelle cuisine”: Read more... |
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Alexandre & Fils
1454 Peel
Montreal, Qc
514.288.5105 |
Elegant bistro-restaurant exudes a charm reminicent of the traditional great cafes of Paris.Your choice of elegant dinning room, terrace and second floor pub. |
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Bonaparte
447 Saint-François-Xavier
Montreal, Qc, H2Y 2T1
514.844.4368 |
Three delightfully decorated halls in the Empire style that dominated the Napoleonic era give the restaurant the intimate character that guests treasure. |
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Chez Queux
158 St-Paul East
Montreal, Qc
514.866.5194 |
Deep in the heart of Old Montreal lies a romantically elegant restaurant known as Chez Queux. As though stepping back in time, perhaps to 1862 when it was built. |
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Le Paris
1812 Ste-Catherine W.
Montreal, Qc
514.937.4898 |
Delighting Montrealers with traditional French specialties since 1956. Enjoy steak & fries, coq au vin, poached salmon or their famous eggs and mayo. |
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Le St-Amable
410 Place Jaques-Cartier
Montreal, Qc
514.866.3471 |
Come experience fabulous french cuisine in the heart of Old Montreal. Whether you want to enjoy lunch or dinner, a visit here is a must! |
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Les Chenêts
2075 rue Bishop
Montreal, Qc, H3G 2E8
514.844.1842 |
Located in the heart of downtown Montréal, in an historic house with a contemporary cachet that combines elegance and luxury with an impressive collection of warm brass cookware displayed on it’s walls. |
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Les Beaux Jeudis
1449 Crescent
Montreal, Qc, H3G 2B2
514.288.5656 |
The authentic French bistro that has enchanted more than two generations for the past 30 years. Rustic cuisine offers many pleasant surprises. |
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Newtown
1476 Crescent
Montreal, Qc
514.284.6555 |
The brainchild of the celebrated Formula 1 racer, Jacques Villeneuve, Newtown offers everything you need to spend pleasurable hours of relaxation absorbed in the delights of the senses. |
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Verses
100 St-Paul O.
Montreal, Qc
514.788.4000 |
Verses Restaurant offers a contemporary French cuisine heightened with regional and Oriental ingredients. |
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Narcisse
97 de la Commune E.
Montréal, Qc,
T:514.392.1649
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Narcisse Bistro & Wine Bar will charm you with its warm and contemporary décor. Rich colour schemes, stone walls, dark wood panelling, and soft lighting all contribute to creating an intimate atmosphere. |
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Pégase
1831 Gilford
Montreal, Qc H2H 1G6
514.522.0487 |
Restaurant Pegase a delightful and enchanting restaurant located on Gilford Street in the plateau area of Montreal offers some of the best French cuisine in the City! |
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Thursday's
1449 Crescent
Montreal, Qc
514.288.5656 |
Offering you everything from three star dining, French brasserie, intimate piano bar, lively singles bar and a popular disco, all under one roof. |
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Méchant Boeuf
124 St-Paul W.
Montreal, Qc, H2Y 1Z3
514.788.2040 |
Méchant Boeuf Bar-Brasserie is a chic pub with a British flavour and French accents and it has some real character and personality. Méchant Boeuf is friendly, has a great atmosphere… and the DJ plays classic rock all night long! |
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Le Homard Fou
403 Place Jaques-Cartier
Montreal, Qc
514.398.9090 |
In the center of Old-Montreal, this cordial restaurant is known by its grills and its Great selection of fresh fish and lobster of the market. Le Homard Fou with its kitchen of Master and its accessible decoration, can ravir its customers. |
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Sauvagine
115E St-Paul
Montreal, Qc, H2Y 1G7
514.861.3210
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Located in the very heart of Old Montreal. French restaurant offering wild game. |
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Hélène De Champlain
200 Tour de l'Isle
Ile Ste-Hélène, Qc
514.395.2424
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Beautifully tucked away on Ste-Hélène Island, Hélène de Champlain is both a masterpiece of décor and dinning, offering an enchanting escape for every occasion-business or pleasure. |
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"nouvelle cuisine" , people have often wondered what exactly the term means and what its coiners strove to accomplish. French Nouvelle cuisine was soon popularized by food writers eager to discover something new, and by journalists, who over praised it. It became the rage, a new creed, and the intellectuals of the movement were the French journalists Gault and Millau. They not only extolled this new way of cooking but set down the cuisine's bylaws with the help of some of the great chefs of France.
A moment in cookery, started in 1972 by two food critics, H. Gault and C. Millau, with the aim of encouraging a simpler and more natural presentation of food. The movement combined a publicity campaign with novel recipes and a new ethic, although the idea itself was not new. Foreshadowing the apostles of nouvelle cuisine.
Advocates of nouvelle cuisine reject the over-rich, complicated, and indigestible dishes that are no longer suitable to a generation conscious of the health hazards of overeating, especially of fatty foods, known to contribute to obesity and cardiovascular disease. To counter this—and the increasing use of processed food—they espouse authenticity and simplicity in cooking. The nouveaux cuisiniers seek to uphold a concept—their theorists even talk of a world vision—that combines the professions of medicine and dietetics. Their guiding principles are: absolute freshness of ingredients, lightness and natural harmony in the accompaniments, and simplicity in the cooking method. This means less fat, no flour liaisons, no indigestible mixtures, and no 'disguised' dishes. Instead, they advise light sauces based on meat juices, stocks, essences, and spices; vegetables prepared so that their natural flavors are retained; and rapid cooking without fat, which allows the food to retain some of its texture. This entails dry cooking in the oven, or under a grill (broiler), steaming, stewing, cooking in a bain-marie, or cooking en papillote. Dieticians agree that quickly cooked food retains maximum nutritional value. |
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