Marché Méli-Mélo

Excellent! Poulet en sauce et légumes broyé avec le riz collé et quelques bananes plantains… et je me prend toujours des noix de muscade ils né sont pas cher. Des gens critique le temps d’attente, ce n’est pas un fast food guys? Allez chez Mc do si vous êtes pressé de manger vous n’allez pas attendre. La bonne nourriture prend du temps à préparer parfois.

La nourriture est excellente, rien à redire dessus, c’est exactement l’endroit où vous devriez aller si vous voulez manger de la bonne (et authentique) cuisine haïtienne. MAIS (en majuscules oui), si vous êtes patient, je veux dire très très patient et que vous en avez vraiment envie, je vous souhaite bon courage car le service est lent et c’est pourquoi j’ai abaissé ma note.

J’ai voulu commencer l’année du bon pied et c’est avec volonté et conviction que j’ai pris la résolution de diminuer ma consommation de viande … le seul problème c’est que j’ai été initié à la cuisine Haïtienne au même moment.
Le marché Méli-​Mélo est situé près du métro Jarry et l’apparence très modeste de ce commerce né laisse pas deviner qu’il se cache un véritable bijou à l’intérieur.
La cuisine haïtienne est riche en saveurs et mérite que l’on s’y attarde. L’un de ses plats les plus célèbres est le griot, ce plat haïtien est préparé avec des morceaux de porc marinés dans des épices qui sont par la suite frits ou cuits au four. La viande est accompagnée de riz collé (riz aux fêves rouges), et de bananes plantain frites. Les morceaux de viande sont savoureux, croustillants à l’extérieur et moelleux à l’intérieur. J’ai également essayé le poulet frit … l’un des meilleurs que j’ai eu l’occasion de manger dans ma vie.
Je vous conseil de prendre les plats en «Take-​out» car la salle à manger est très petite et peu accueillir de 6 à 8 personnes.

Summary: incredible food and the slow service could be improved.
I have been to Marché Meli-​Melo on a regular basis for the past few years. I always get griot, acras and cola champagne. The pork is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The sauce is savoury and complements the rest of the plate perfectly. Good job!
As for the service, a smile would be a minimum.

This was our first Haitian food experience, and it was excellent! We found our way to the back of the store where they prepare your orders, but the guy working the register was helpful enough to notice us and let us know that we need to order back at the register. He even let us know about their generous portions, and recommended that we order just one meal for the 2 of us. This was great advice — it was a ton of food! We ordered the griot (pork), which came with a couple plantains and an absurd amount of rice and beans. The rice was perfectly seasoned, and the meat was very tender.
Based on other reviews here, we were hoping for some good food, but the friendly and helpful service really put it over the top!

J’ai habité 5 ans à côté sans jamais oser entrer dans ce commerce. Vous devez essayer leur griot (porc mariné), riz collé (riz avec des fèves), plantain avec un extra acra si vous aimez la friture.
Si vous avez peur d’avoir l’air d’un touriste: vous entrez, aller à la caisse, commander votre plat, payer. Vous recevez un papier que vous allez donner en arrière où se trouve le casse-​croute. Vous aurez un gros lunch savoureux et bien gras.

based on the 2 patties i had, MOTHERFUCKING YES!
i heard about this place years ago from à la di stasio but completely forgot about it until recently when i had a nice chat with jesse from l’artiste affamé. and since i was in the mood for some homey cheap eat which is frankly, the best kind of food, i had to stop by despite a very hot sunday.
the grocery store is easy to miss if you don’t pay attention but if you’re walking or biking, its almost impossible to miss it as you’ll hear the music quite loud and clear. very hard to miss with that part of the neighborhood being quite dead.
as you enter, stop at the cash register to look at the menu, make a choice, pay and bring the receipt order to the back for your food. that is if you’re not getting patties as they are in the oven next to it.
patties are $ 1.25-$ 2 depending on either haitian or jamaican. as for the plates, most of them are around $ 10 after tax. mind you, they take cash.
now, the patties. the haitian one is made with puff pastry therefore extremely flaky and filled with beef. i didn’t ask if they had other kinds. quite good but very flaky. best eaten with a drink in hand to wash down the flakes.
as for the jamaican patty, full of beef, full of spices, quite spicy and full of flavor. definitely prefer that one over the haitian beef patty.
will definitely be back to sample their plate offerings but so far so fucking good!
ps. there’s the grocery part of the place since its first and foremost, a grocery store but i didn’t look around as i was all set on the food.

Woohoo! As good as it gets!
I knew I was in for a treat when there was a Romados-​esque lineup to order. Got myself the griot to go, and ate it on a bench outside. This was somewhere in my top 5 meals ever in this city, and dear God was there a lot of it. You get a very generous helping of pork – I think marinated in that bitter orange stuff – and fried plantains and rice and beans. There’s a bigger cup of some sort of vinegary sauce, pea sauce I think, not very hot, and a little cup of pikliz, which is sort of like coleslaw at 100,000 Scoville units. I ate the pikliz in a bite or two and then drizzled the juice over the whole thing – delicious!
Unfortunately the zip ties on my bike basket disintegrated a few days ago, or I would have come home with like 69 jars of that pikliz in tow. It’s that good.

Awesome Haitian food. Super authentic, the smell will drive you wild. I have no idea how they get such a great flavor so far from Haiti. The boulet, grio, and kabrit are all well worth the wait — 30 min for a Thursday night. They serve it with excellent pikliz, if you need more you can buy a jar or two there. This was definitely the high point of our trip to Montréal. Its one block walk from the nearest Metro station so you have no excuse for not going there.

Bön spot pour des produits antillais. Service un peu lent pour commander, durant les heures de pointe.

Short and Sweet!
I don’t really buy anything else there than a few spices, and plates of food.
This place always lives up to my Haitian food cravings. Being Haitian, the food at Méli-​Mélo is always good, and always leaves my tummy full :)
The plates of rice and beans and choice of meats are about 10 $ bucks. I always have some left over. Its a lot of food.
I recommend this spot. Order your food at the counter, take it home, and enjoy your Caribbean goodness!

Méli-​Mélo has a little bit of everything for those who are interested in Haitian and Carribean food and culture. There is a grocery store, with giant sacks of beans and rice, cans of interesting fruits and spices, and fresh fruits and vegetables including sugarcane and whatever kind of mangoes are currently in season in Haiti. There is a hot food counter, with wonderful Haitian meals to go, and pâtés Haïtiens at the cash register. There is a case full of Creole-​language books and some Creole magazines and newspapers. There is even a service for sending food or flowers to your friends in Haiti.
A typical Haitian meal consists of meat with rice (usually riz collé — rice with beans, or riz djon djon — flavoured with black mushrooms), plantain (fried), and maybe some salad or pickleez (spicy pickled cabbage).
Griot is cubes of fried pork. Cabri is stewed goat meat. Lambi is conch meat (seafood) and is a special-​occasion dish. Chicken (either grilled or in stew) is also typical but I don’t know if it has a special name … c’est juste du poulet.
To vary your starch (or add to it), try maïs moulu (similar to polenta) with bean sauce (sos), or véritable (breadfruit).
Acra is a kind of cod fritter (savoury) served as an appetizer.
Pâtés Haïtiens are different from the more-​familiar Jamaican patties (though Méli-​Mélo also sells those). You have a choice of beef (rectangular), morue/​codfish (triangular) and sometimes chicken (semicircular) filling surrounded by flaky puff pastry. Eat over a plate so that you don’t miss the crumbs that are sure to fall off. You can take your pâtés home and reheat them, or take them along to a soccer (football) game if you want to be a real Haitian.
Bön appetit !