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    There is a nice revolving restaurant at the top of Le Grande
    Hotel(5 star), near the train station and old Montreal.
    
    Also just walk any of the narrow streets of Old Montreal and 
    look around at the many fine restaruants.
    
    Brian 

Try Schwartz on St. Laurent, close to Prince-Arthur.  It's anti-swanky but
it's the best smoked meat in town.

Mario

    
    For a really "swanky" place with very fine french cuisine I suggest 
    Les Trois Arches. It`s in a town west of Montreal called Pierrefonds
    along the Riviere des Prairie. The restaurant is in an old stone mansion
    that used to belong to one of Canada`s ex Prime Ministers named Arthur
    Meighen. The house is huge and has 3 arches in the front hence the name
    of the restaurant. Fantastic food with service to match. A real treat.
    
    To get there, take either highway 40 or 20 going west. Then take
    highway 13 going north. Off 13 take the Gouin blvd. exit going west.
    Drive between 5 and 10 klics and turn right on Meighen st. (SP?) Go to
    the end of the road and your there. (Meighen street is right after a 
    big church on the right called "Marie Reine de Paix" or Mary Queen of
    Peace.) Enjoy
    
    Ben

    To continue this note a little further, could someone please explain to
    me what Table d'Hote is? I can only imagine that it is the "house
    special" for the day and therefore changes daily????
    
    Also, can any natives comment on the following as good places to eat?
    Thanks!
    
    Paris-Express (St. Denis Street)
    Les Filles Du Roy (Consecours St, Old Montreal)
    Les Trois Freres (St. Laurent Blvd)
    Le Bistro D'Autrefois (St. Hubert St)
    Les Halles (Cresent St)
    Alpenhaus (St. Marc St)
    Le Castillon (Bonaventure Hotel) Sunday Brunch
    
    Thanks mucho!

    Les Filles du Roi.
    
    Thanks to remind me of one of the best restaurant I have been in my
    life (also one of the most expensive :-)).
    
    Richard
    
    P.S. If you go over there, you should take a look at the guest book,
    there is a couple of names I'm sure you will recognize.
    
    Richard

    Table d'hote is essentially the entrees on the menu and not the daily
    special ...

    My wife took me to all her favorite restaurants in Montreal during
    a four day stay. Unfortunately, it's something of a blur for me. Also,
    she lived in Montreal while attending McGill and was on a tight
    budget, so I'm sure she didn;t sample the very expensive restaurants.
    
    Anyhow, I remember a very good Italian restaurant called Bacci, a
    bunch of very good/inexpensive Greek restuarants in a place called
    King Arthur Square(?), great smoked meat at Ben's (is smoked meat what
    we call pastrami here in the states?) and fantastic deserts at
    Le Tulipe Noir.

    Pastrami is certainly a smoked meat ... but I'm sure not the only one.
    
    Stuart

 <<Pastrami is certainly a smoked meat ... but I'm sure not the only one.
    
    Stuart, do you mean you prefer to smoke meat rather than other
    substances, or that you are a pastrami amongst others?
    
    Korff

    I have no desire to smoke any substances in the sense you mean!
    Yechhhhhhhhhh!
    
    

    Would smoking pig's knuckles be considered the same thing as smoking 
    joints?
    
    Sincerely,
    
    Ford Prefect

    
    Not to the pig, I think.
    
    Pat

re Les Filles du Roi

We went there several years ago, and I loved it, especially the atmosphere
(musicians, waitresses playing the spoons, etc.)

Went back last year, and there was no entertainment and the food wasn't
anything special.  Every other restaurant we went to that trip was better.

/john

    Hi,
      My wife & I will be heading to Montreal in September, and I was
    wondering if anyone can recommend a Belgian resturant in Montreal.
    
    Thanks in advance,
    Brian
    

    Funny you should ask. I've heard that the Montreal resaurant L'Actuel
    on Rue Peel is a) quite good b) belgian but I have not been there
    myself yet, on the list for the next business trip there.

       re .15/.16:
       
       I can recommend l'Actuel on Peel, between Ste Catherine and Rene
       Levesque.  The have a bar that serves sandwiches and light meals
       on the ground floor, and the restaurant is 1 flight up.
       
       The menu and atmosphere is indeed very Belgian.  Mussels and
       steak-frites are the house specialities, and excellent beers are
       available, including Rodenbach, Duvel, and Mort Subite.  At our
       table, we had mushroom toasts and mussels in garlic & butter for
       appetizers, and we both had steak for a main course.  All main
       courses are accompanied by frites, and mayonnaise is offered with
       them.
       
       The food was excellent, although the mussels were a bit smaller
       than the ones I'm more accustomed to.  (This might be due to the
       season -- according to my wife, who spent the first ~30 years of
       her life in Belgium and would know about such things, the best
       time to have mussels in in months that have an `r' in them.)  I'm
       also told that the mushroom toasts and fries w/mayonnaise
       definitely pass the good-enough-to-be-served-in-Belgium test.
       
       I found the prices at l'Actual to be slightly on the steep side:
       appetizers were in the $7-11 range, and steaks were in the $22-29
       range.  Although fries accompanied the main course, vegetables and
       salads were extra.  The dining room is casual (on a Friday
       evening, more men were wearing sport shirts than suits and ties),
       and, as is often the case in Montreal, the smoking section was in
       a nicer part of the restaurant than the no-smoking section.
       
       --Mr Topaz