La Paryse

Le restaurant est désormais fermé !!! Mais la Paryse n’a pas changé depuis le début. Toujours d’excellents burgers et des frites a tomber par-​terre. Bref si ça ouvre de nouveau. Précipitez s’y vous.

So I got lucky and showed up just before the lunch rush. I ordered the special burger with fries and a V8. I enjoyed the burger but about half way through it became a mess. My guess is the cream cheese got all the insides wanting to get on the outside. The fries looked and tasted just like Frite Alors and that’s a good thing. Service was polite and friendly. My only two criticisms are the price, and the two groups i was sat next too where very loud. The noise I of course can’t falt the establishment but the price seemed just a little high. All in all I would go back again but this time I will order the club sandwich. They looked soo good when they passed me.

LE meilleur burger en ville!
Je prends toujours le spécial (avec fromage à la crème, bacon et champignons frais) et je partage une frite avec mayo. Super bon et nourrissant! Arrivez affamés et sortez de là la panse bien remplie!
Attention: dernière semaine pour vous bourrer la face! Eh oui, malheureusement, le resto ferme ses portes après 32 ans de loyaux services aux gourmands de tous genres… Bye bye!

WOW
Die Burger sind ein MUSS!!! Ich bin ganz sprachlos und sehr
beeindruckt. Es wundert mich nicht, dass dieser doch sehr kleine und
schnuckelige Laden eine solche Loka-​Medienpräsenz aufweist :)
Die Preise sind aus meiner Sicht OK, das Personal freundlich, flink und aufmerksam.
Ich
kann meinem Vorschreiber nur zustimmen, auch die Poutine sind lecker,
wenn auch auf den ersten Blick für uns Europäer gewöhnungsbedürftig.
Die Weinauswahl fand ich etwas dürftig, deshalb tat es ein Bier auch ;)
Eine Pflichtveranstaltung in Montréal. Viel Spaß und guten Hunger!

Un petit restaurant où le burger est la spécialité. Une déco agréable et intimiste, des prix raisonnables et des hamburgers délicieux. Un endroit à faire à Montréal

Lovely place for burgers, fries and the absolutely best milkshakes I’ve ever had. What can I say? Simple menu with simple food is hard to beat when it’s well executed. La Paryse know what they do best and they don’t pretend to be anything they are not. When you go in you can feel they love what they do, and it shows in the friendly service!
Definitely recommended for vegetarians. I had the pinto bean burger and it was excellent. Better than any other vege-​burger I’ve tried so far in Montréal.*
*edit: Comptoir 21 now has the best I’ve tried :)

Went last night to le paryse and was blown away! Great service, great food! I had le special burger with cream cheese, bacon and mushrooms. So delicious!

I’ve been to La Paryse a number of times, and I know to expect a number of things: I’ll have to line up (Montrealers will line up for good fast food), I will have a delicious burger, and I’ll have one of the best milkshakes I’ve ever had, every time.
I can’t recommend the place enough. Juicy burgers, smooth drinks, and delightful side dishes.

Stopped in at La Paryse for a late afternoon bite and got seated right away. My companion and I both got burgers and shared an order of poutine. GREAT food and a nice cozy atmosphere. The homemade lemonade was excellent, too. Definitely recommended.

Awesome veggie burgers

La Paryse né paye pas de mine de l’extérieur mais quand vous aurez gouté aux burgers vous n’aurez pas de doute sur le fait que ce sont les meilleurs de la ville! (enfin pour tout ceux que j’ai testé).
C’est toujours complet mais on arrive vite à avoir une table. C’est comme à la maison, on se sent bien, tout est dans la simplicité.
Rapidité, qualité et quantité, franchement c’est super! Il y a un bon choix de burgers et franchement la Paryse réconcilie les végétariens avec le concept du burger, ils sont délicieux! Avec frites maisons bien sûr! Et pour pas cher!
Franchement, allez y vous né serez pas déçus!

Cream cheese on a burger?! BRILLIANT. I can’t believe I haven’t tried or seen this anywhere before. The components of this burger alltogether were pretty top notch. My only complaint is that it’s a standard medium/​medium-​well patty and as far as I gathered, there was no option to have it any other way. It wasnt a particularly thick piece of meat though, so it probably wouldn’t have been such a good patty for, say, a medium rare burger. I went on a Tuesday at 11 and didn’t experience any line or any crowd, so that was a total plus too… especially since I was wandering in badly in need of some burger grease. I tried the fries, and enjoyed them with ketchup. I think they would have made for some great poutine, had I had the room in my tummy. I can definitely say I’ll be going back to this place next time I make my way up to Montréal.

Quand on me disait autrefois que les meilleurs burgers en ville se trouvaient à la Paryse, je né le croyais pas vraiment. Pourtant, ce petit restaurant a tout pour nous épater et nous rendre accros! Je conseille vraiment le burger avec le fromage à la crème!

It’s a good burger and fries joint… but the raves about it are likely the product of taste-​buds that are easily pleased. Good burgers. Not great. The basic cheeseburger is sloppy and falls apart in your hands. It is good. But for a great burger in Montréal I think Unilocalers should try the restaurant in the Gare Centrale that sits just beside the train queues. They grill the burger to your liking and OMG they are good. You add your own condiments… and buy whatever drink you want from the drinks cases and fountains. can someone help me here and remind me of the name of the place?

I was told that they had the best burgers in town. After waiting 30 minutes to get a seat after being told it will be 10, was not overly impressed.
Service was good and very friendly, but it was not worth the wait or trip. Burger de Ville in Montréal West has better burgers and less expensive.

I know there’s a line, but wait! Wait! Soon you’ll be seated and then you’ll have a burger and dear lord, it will be wonderful!
This is a cute little place that you’ll be glad you know about, since it’s got a nice atmosphere and the burgers are divine. The fries are good too, though I’m always annoyed when a restaurant makes me pay for them separately. C’mon, who doesn’t want fries?! Just serve them with the burgers, jeez.

Often touted as Montréal’s best burger, I had to discover whether this establishment was worthy of such fanfare. Having been warned about the lineups, I ventured to the Ontario eatery in my most bundled outfit to brave the cold. I was pleasantly surprised that the wait only took 5 minutes (we were indoors) and were seated in a decent amount of time.
As for ambience, the restaurant is quite cozy and casual. As you may have noticed from the pictures, there are crayons you can use to doodle on the paper placemats, which is pretty fun. Don’t expect much space in between yourself and the other patrons, however, so I wouldn’t bring a date here (well duh, it’s a burger joint…)
Finally, and most importantly, the FOOD. I only ordered one burger, and no sides. The burger I ordered was the SPECIAL, which includes all the regular fixins (lettuce, tomato, mayo, mustard, pickles, mushrooms) AND cream cheese and bacon. I must say, it was an excellent choice. Although the patty was juicy and delicious (it tasted home-​made), I would have preferred to have had the burger medium-​rare to bring out the flavours. The bacon was cooked JUST right, and the cream cheese and spicy mustard complimented each other in a very unconventional way (so wrong it was right). The show-​stopper, however, was not the burger so much as it was the fluffy poppy-​seed bun… simply delicious.
My conclusion is that it’s a fun restaurant that offers up a tasty (perhaps classier?) burger. I wouldn’t go out of my way to come eat here, however, since I prefer the burger at Burgundy Lion (where they do grill it medium-​rare if you ask). The combinations here are good, and there’s a nice selection of 3 vege-​burgers if that’s your cup of tea. I’ve heard the milkshakes are good here, too. I don’t know if I’ll go back again anytime soon, but it’s a decent place to try out.

I finally got to try this place after going there twice and finding it closed (I think it doesn’t open on Monday… Or something).
Anyway, once inside, it’s a little place with quite a few tables but it is by no means a LARGE place. I like that though. The atmosphere is friendly, and the design inside is like a mixture between artist hangout and diner.
We sat inside, and as with all my burger hunting around Montréal, I ordered the regular burger. When I go to a place to rate the burger, I order the classic so I can have a level playing field on which to rate the burger places.
This place’s classic involved mushrooms, some interesting cheese and a really original tasting bun. Me and 4 other friends sit down and we all bite into our burger and we all REALLY loved it. The only SMALL complaint was that AT TIMES, it seemed to be too stuffed with other things (mushrooms were a little overkill in terms of quantity) that the meat’s taste was a little overshadowed. Though that, by no means, is a reason for you to not try this place. I think people should definitely eat here as the burger’s taste is very original.
We also ordered the fries there, and those were okay. Not the greatest fries but I’ve come to accept that here in the cold north, they can’t grow a tuber to save their lives!
Another nice touch was that each burger is served with a slice of pineapple as a nice fruity punch after you are finished with your meaty indulgence.
All-​in-​all, we left really satisfied, and I would easily recommend this place to someone that wants a burger that’s different, but not Frites Alors! (that place makes INSANE burgers!) different.
A quick side note: 1 of my friends is a vegetarian, and she said the vege-​burger was good too, so take what you will from that. Personally I believe the vege-​burger is an insult to the holy burger.

The burger I received was so small, overcooked and without flavor that it wasn’t for the drenching of mayo (that I don’t think was fresh) the bits of burger may have had an easier time staying together. My burger patty itself was not much bigger than you would find in a regular McDonald’s burger (i.e. not the Big Mac or Quarter Pounder size), and was so plain tasting, the limp lettuce and razor thin tomatoes did little to give it any zing at all. My girlfriends Tofu burger was about twice the size of mine, and she didn’t care for it much either. Her salad (which we split) was also a sad disappointment. The tomatoes tasted off, the lettuce and cucumbers were limp, and all in all, even dressing couldn’t save it. She ate less than half before requesting we stop at a grocery store on the way home to get dinner.
The service was as shocking and disappointing. The place is small and well staffed, but they didn’t bother to clear our table after we’d finished the small portions, they weren’t overly nice, took ages to seat us even when there were two free tables, and weren’t remotely pleasant when it came time to settle the bill.
After reading the reviews we really wanted to give it a try. After reading what’s here and then experiencing that place, I can’t help but take my experience personally — it was SO MUCH WORSE than a lot of these reviews say… I just can’t explain the disconnect any other way.
There are a dozen other restaurants within a stone’s throw of this place that are also pretty well priced (3 Amigos, Zyng, etc.). I can’t urge you strongly enough to avoid this place at all costs and try somewhere else instead.

La Paryse a la réputation de servir les meilleurs burgers de Montréal… et elle né l’a pas volée. C’est vraiment bon et l’accueil est très chaleureux (comme presque partout à Montréal, d’ailleurs). L’endroit et propre et joliment aménagé, rien de luxueux, juste l’impression qu’on attendait plus que vous :)
Tout est copieux et savoureux, je me souviens avec émotion d’un burger bacon et fromage frais… une tuerie sans nom ! Pour les végétariens, on trouve également plusieurs variétés de végé-​burgers. Le sandwich le plus cher doit avoisiner les 7 $ (soit environ 5EUR), pas de quoi se ruiner !
Attention toutefois, aux heures de pointes, l’endroit peut être bondé. Mieux vaut y aller en décalé.

My friend was hyping this burger up as soon as I my plane touched down on the airport runway. I’ve had some good burgers before, so i was a bit skeptical. Finally we get to La Paryse. I really wasn’t sure what to expect. Fortunately the burger met and exceeded the hype that they made. It was a big burger as you can see in the picture. I had the double because i was hungry. Wow. I can’t really describe it because i practically engulfed while enjoying every bite. It is in my top 5 burgers that I have eaten. I t was really good. The side of poutine was good too. Poutine would have to be one of the best late night, drunk food. Its fries topped with cheese and gravy, can’t beat that. I want more of the burger. Hmm, you know, I should have taken one to go.

Une institution à Montréal, mais il faut être prêt à se salir les doigts!
Service correct, ambiance bruyante, parfois de longues files d’attentes. Mais ce n’est pas grave car on pourrait argumenter que ce sont les meilleurs burgers à Montréal.
Expérience à vivre!

Hamburgers in Montréal? Why not? My wife and I went on a Saturday night at 7pm and the line was beginning to form out the door. The restaurant is small with just over a dozen tables. The waiting area could probably fit about 10 people whilst blocking the door. The two of us waited for about 20 minutes before we were seated. If there are more than two of you expect to wait longer to be seated when it’s busy.
The burgers were pretty damn good and the fries were even better. I don’t know what’s done differently to the potatoes in Montréal but I like it! Accompany your burger with some blanche beer and you’re golden! If you’re looking for a cheaper dining option and don’t mind waiting a bit look no further.

Mit Abstand die besten Burger die ich je in meinem Leben hatte. Punkt.
Auf den Punkt gegrilltes Fleisch, mit frischem Salat, verschiedenen Käsen nach Wunsch und frisch gebackenen Brötchen mit einer Prise Mohn drauf. Sieht zum Reinbeißen aus, und ist so lecker!
Natürlich wird in Montréal (Québec!) Poutine dazu gegessen, Pommes mit zähem Käse und Bratensauce (hört sich ekelig an, ist aber himmlisch!) und Wein getrunken. Allein an der Weinkarte merkt man auch, daß man sich nicht in einem x-​beliebigem Burgerschuppen befindet, sondern in einem ordentlichen Restaurant, welches sich nun mal auf Burger speizialisiert hat: sie ist qualitativ und quantitativ gehaltvoll.
Günstig ist das La Paryse nicht, zu Viert haben wir 120 C$ bezahlt, für Burger, Poutine und 2 Flaschen Wein, gelohnt hat es sich trotzdem. Ärgerlich allein, daß wir diesen Laden erst an unserem letzten Abend entdecken durften.

Between m: brgr and Mr. Steerburger, La Paryse has consistently vied for the ‘Best Burger” title in Montréal and deservedly so.
Portions are just right, esp. if you order a large fries to split with a friend, this has been here for over 20 years run by lesbian business partners across the street from CEGEP de Vieux Montréal.
If you can only try one thing, get «Le Special» — cream cheese hamburgers which is literally right out of this world! Fries are great and their deserts are home made!

Although I’ve been told they make the burgers in Montréal, I felt like having a poutine and gave theirs a try as I was looking for a semi-​quick fix in the area.
The poutine was lacking two of the three key ingredients to a good poutine: squick-​squick cheddar cheese chunks (this was the wrong type and grated) and the sauce was quite blend. It tasted like one of those quick-​mix you buy at the grocery store. The fries were crisp and big, which prevented the whole thing of turning into a soup within 2 minutes (that is a good thing). The presentation was pretty and the atmosphere of the place is jovial and relaxed and the service is courtois. Altogether, my poutine experience at La Paryse was a pleseant one.
Looking at the next table I saw that the burgers do seem great, so perhaps next time I should stick to that. The poutine only really deserves a 2, but I’m sure there are better dishes on the menu… yet a part of me thinks that if you can’t do it right, don’t offer it.

Best burger I had, anywhere.

Ambiance: This restaurant is oh so very tiny with maybe 12 tables in all. And even then, its probably only best suited for a number less than that, which makes for something of a crowded experience. Subdued lighting, but not too much, and comfortable noise levels — it’s easy enough to have a quiet conversation with someone across from you with no trouble.
Food: This place is all about burgers so to order anything else would probably be a waste of time, although there are a handful of other options. This establishment is all about simplicity and focus and it shows. The burgers are both juicy and delicious and when combined with frites (fries) and beer make for an excellent meal. For people with vegetarian friends, fear not, for there are three different «veggie» burger options. Excellent place to get one’s «Belgian» on with frites, mayonaisse and beer on a cold, rainy day.
Service: Friendly and attentive. Although it can take a while to receive service, it’s certainly not for lack of effort. The menu is in French only, but the staff also speaks English quite well.
Price: Very reasonably priced. $ 10 – 15 per person (not including alcohol). Considering the quality of the food, it’s a value.
Hassle factor: Expect to wait to get in. We went at 5pm on a Saturday and still had a 20 minute wait to be seated. There is room for only 10 people to queue in line so spillover has to wait outside — which could be a problem on cold or wet days. Due to steps and crowding, this establishment is most definitely not wheel-​chair friendly.
Overall: 4.5 stars. Knocked off a half-​star for the hassle of getting in. Spartan, no frills menu, but executed very well. Great lunch date for couples. It’s also a good spot for informal business lunches.

We were told, «BEST burgers in Montréal!» so of course we had to find out.
This place is teeny tiny, but we were able to get a table pretty fast. The menu doesn’t have too many options, but we were there for the burgers so that didn’t matter. Ordered the burgers, along with some beer and a side of fries to share, and waited to see what the results would be.
Results — these burgers were no joke. So juicy and flavorful and big enough to fill you up but not too big to send you over the edge. The accompanying fries were also delicious and salted perfectly.
These really are some tasty burgers. Believe the hype.