Kitchen Galerie

One of my two best restaurant experiences ever. the other one was Ma Maison in Los Angeles, which had an UNLISTED phone number and was the launching pad for Wolfgang Puck. At Kitchen Galerie, all the owners are chefs, all the chefs are waiters. The menu is in French, We know no French. One of the chefs, turned out to be an owner, sat at our table and translated the menu word for word. Incredible. We ate there two out of five nights in Montréal and it was one of our highlights of the entire trip. The food is fantastic, I recommend for meat lovers the house special. You won’t forget it. I would have expected to pay at least double for a meal of that quality, with that dining experience. We ate our way across Montréal and Quebec City, and no doubt, hands down, Kitchen Galerie was the best by a large margin.
P. S. Thanks guys for taking my request for a chocolate dessert for the second night and making an unforgettable one!

Un des meilleurs restaurants à Montréal. A essayer absolument. Apparemment le foie gras est à l’honneur et tout goûtait divin.

If I had to choose a last meal this would make the list. Had a great bottle of wine, had the most expensive thing on the menu the steak for 2 with truffles and fois Gras, worth every penny.
Had the dishwasher cooked pâté (it’s salty be warned must eat with the jelly and ask for extra bread) and the cheese ball appetizer = yum.
Had the dessert to go the cheesecake and brownie were awesome. Ate it the next morning soo good wish we had room to eat it at night.
Word to the wise wear layers so you can peel them off when the open kitchen heat goes from nice to over the top.

I really enjoyed the food in that restaurant. The atmosphere is casual and fun. The fact that you’re served by the chefs is cool and you can tell they love and care about food.
The seared foie gras was perfectly prepared (which is definitely not that common). The fish I had was very good.
Overall I really liked the place.
Also the price was much better than what the 4 $ signs suggest. I recommend it.

This can be short because the offense is egregious and obvious. The device I’ll use is a timeline.
Tuesday: we research great places to eat for a special occasion dinner
Wednesday: we make the reservation at Kitchen Galerie
Friday: we fly from San Francisco to Montréal
Sunday: we show up for our reservation, excited to eat a great meal, and arrive to a closed restaurant. No lights. No people. just a sign. Closed for a couple of days,
That’s right. They took a reservation from out of towners and chose to shut down the restaurant less than 96 hours later, and not call us to let us know.
To make matters worse, it’s not like this restaurant is in a hopping neighborhood. We wasted maybe 90 minutes on the round trip and had to scramble to find a place to eat with zero notice.
I hope the people who made this possible may someday travel to San Francisco and find themselves in a strange, dead neighborhood in front of a closed restaurant with their wife and wonder how to recover the evening in a different language on a moment’s notice.

This a must-​reserve restaurant. It’s small but the experience is well worth the tight space. There’s no waiters. Well to be precise, the chefs are also your waiters.
The chefs here are pros. They get all their produce from Jean-​Talon Market and the menu changes constantly. It’s all about what’s in season. You probably will never get the same meal twice. Though they have the
The meal was truly an experience and well worth the infinite attempts to get in. Though, I’ve head some people get lucky and are able to get a same day reservation for two people.
The most memorable dish was the stingray dish. My first time. I was surprised at the texture but was happy I ordered it.

I don’t know where to start with this one– it was absolutely amazing.
I visited the location in the Old Port and I had this idea in my head that this was going to be another pretentious, overpriced place with snobby service and mediocre food.
It was completely the opposite.
The meal isn’t cheap. Main courses run from $ 25-​$ 35 and it’s one of those places where it’s impossible not to have an appetizer. Go for the oysters, you will thank me later. NIce selection of wines with most bottles in the $ 50 range.
You have the choice of ordering from the board (list of fresh fish) or from the menu. Don’t underestimate the standard menu! I had scallops, shrimp and blood sausage on mashed potatoes with crispy onions and i would order the same way next time too!
The guys that work there know their stuff and are so happy to sit down and chat about the menu.
Do yourself a favour and go here. It’s worth every penny. Your palette deserves this hug.

This is one of those few restaurants that does not need reviews. Either you will go there or you won’t.

Absolument fantastique!

Best meal I’ve ever had in my life. Granted, I haven’t eaten at any of those fancy Michelin-​starred restaurants, so those might be better, but I can’t possible imagine how. Kitchen Galerie is out-​of-​this world fantastic, and was the dining highlight of our honeymoon trip to Montréal.
So here’s the deal. The restaurant is located a stone’s throw away from Montréal’s largest market. The menu changes every day based on what the chefs buy that morning. Oh, and the two chefs (and one sous-​chef, at least the night we were there) are the only guys that work there. They’re the maitre d’s, waiters, sommeliers, bussers, and dishwashers. There’s an open kitchen so you can actually see how they manage to do all of this themselves — it’s quite the sight!
Neither of us had used our French in almost a decade, so we struggled a bit with the menu. One of the chefs actually sat next to the table for a good ten minutes, explaining every detail about every dish on the menu… the origin of each ingredient, how it was prepared, etc. (He also bought us a couple of nice glasses of moscato with dessert when it found out it was our honeymoon!)
Getting into the details of of dinner won’t help you much, since the menu changes so frequently. They do always have the foie gras atop a tarte tatin (goose liver on a caramel-​apple tart, for the Anglophiles), which my wife just swooned over… even I liked it, and I don’t like foie gras. Our main courses, a pork chop and a seafood pot-​au-​feu, were simply fantastic. Our desserts, a hazelnut chocolate tarte and a crème brûlée, where the perfect finale to a great meal.
I don’t remember exactly how much dinner for the two of us cost. It was expensive, but not shockingly so, and I think a great value for the money. It’s definitely a «splurge» kind of place, but well worth it.
The restaurant is a short walk from either the Jean Talon Metro station (blue and orange lines) or De Castelnau station (blue line); otherwise, it’s street parking.
Any time I hear someone mention even thinking about taking a trip to Montréal, I tell them about Kitchen Galerie. While I don’t usually like to repeat my vacation destinations, I might just have to head back across the border to dine here again.

Wow. All that I can think of is wow — what a dining experience like no other that I have ever had! We went to the Kitchen Galerie with a group of 10 for a business dinner. To understand what it is to eat here, you have to understand the concept which is unique in my experience. The venue is a small nondescript store front about 6 blocks south of the Jean-​Talon Metro station and holds approximately 40 people (so make a reservation!). The chefs, who are also your waiters and someliers in this open kitchen environment and who my wife referred to as «the band of brothers» head out every morning to the Jean-​Talon farmers market to see what is available fresh that day. From what is available, the evening’s menu — which differs daily based on what is fresh — is planned. There are a few menu staples that last from night to night like the spectacular foie gras with half a dozen or more different preps — each of which are taste bud elation! One of the foie gras preps involved cooking it in a dishwasher! No joke! Between the 10 of us, we sampled virtually every menu item for the night. Not a single member of our party was disappointed. Everything was exceptionally prepared from the pan fried scallops, the filet of dore to the 1.5kg filet of beef for two (sit across from your sharing partner — the plate is huge!). You must save a bit of room for dessert which shouldn’t be difficult as I am convinced that there is a separate stomach for desserts when they are as good as those at the Kitchen Galerie! The wine list is second to none and the service was spectacular, being friendly and informative. Our chef/​waiter/​somelier Matt made everyone feel like a very honored guest. After reading this you might think that you would have to break the bank to eat here but that is not the case. Every item was very fairly priced including the wine. Whether you live in Montréal or are just visiting the Kitchen Galerie should be on your list of the finer places to dine!

This is the best restaurant I have ever ate at… That’s big coming from someone who lives in San Francisco AKA the city of food! I had to stop after ever bite just to remember the flavor of all the different froix gras. The steak tartar was perfectly spiced and the oysters were amazing. I was only visiting Montréal for a few days for my birthday and my friends thought KG was right up my alley and boy were they right. I will have to fly to Montréal once a year now just to eat at KG because It’s just that irresistible.