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20 Best Restaurants in Montreal

Montréal's reputation as a food town is founded on a love to eat that spans cultures and financial brackets. Some of our most iconic restaurants are takeout counters and smoked meat joints, and though they surely enjoy eating there, too, the city's most progressive chefs offer a whole range of options themselves—from rethought sushi to menu-less market cuisine to high-brow gastronomy. It's no wonder this city has got the greatest number of restaurants per capita in North America. When it comes to where to eat in Montreal, our list of editor's picks has it all: the casual and iconic, new wave and progressive, high-brow to low. You won't waste a meal.

Yokato Yokabai

Yokato Yokabai is hidden on a side street just on the corner of Rachel in the neighborhood of Plateau Mont-Royal, and is the first ramen-ya in the city to serve a classic tonkotsu broth, made with pork bones boiled for 12 hours. There's also a chicken version, a vegetarian version, and a kara-miso broth. Sit at the table, grab one of the small forms and a pencil, and note your choice of protein (slow-cooked pork, tofu, etc.), level of saltiness, and add-ons like nori or soft-boiled egg. The tabletop condiments add even more oomph: crunchy fried garlic, toasted sesame seeds, spicy chilli oil, and pickled ginger.

Toqué

With floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking one of the prettiest squares in Old Montreal, Toqué! gives a charming first impression. While it offers a relatively casual three-course lunch, the real way to get everything you can out of the restaurant is to choose the seven-course tasting menu, which, with wines, will set you back about $250 per person. The ever-changing lineup melds the molecular with the approachable; you'll find perfectly tender discs of suckling pig loin layered atop golden oyster mushrooms, broccoli, cauliflower, green herb oil, and lemon thyme sauce. Like everything on this menu, it's a feast for the eyes as well as the taste buds.

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