Chez Victoire

Such a classy ambiance for some meet and greet with my fellow Unilocalers. It was during a wine tasting event for all the montreal Unilocalers on the second floor. On the outside, you can barely notice this little resto. However as you enter, the place is huge! You can fit around 100 people. There’s 2 floors. The upper level are for private events I’m guessing. I think it’s great because it doesn’t affect business and you don’t really hear much of the crowd on the 2^nd floor so that’s perfect!
I was hungry and was in the mood to order something off of their menu. I decided to go for their Roasted cauliflower and ordered a different white chardonnay wine glass instead of the orange cheap wine they were making us try at the Unilocal event.
The service: A+++ service ! Maybe it was just that night that made a difference since they knew Unilocalers would be there. Regardless, it was very awesome. I had my meal prepared within 5−10minutes. Waiters were very enthusiastic and eager to please.
The Food: Exploding flavours Melting in my mouth. I loved savouring every last bite of the huge cauliflower head roasted and drizzled with a white creamy sauce. I was very impressed with how big my cauliflower head was! I never thought I would get half of a whole cauliflower head! Especially how they’re very expensive now a days!
They’re definitely not cheap with food portions and I definitely recommend this option if you like roasted veggies or if you’re a vegetarian it’s VERY VERY FILLING. You won’t leave here hungry after this.
Overall, this is a beautiful place to discover. You can barely notice it from the outside and it seems so excluded. It’s a foodies dream place! Therefore, when you discover such a gem you feel as if its all yours and it’s this giant exclusive secret ;)

Nice place to meet up with friends for after work drinks or have a romantic date. The service is excellent and I love the décor!

First, I am easily corrupted by blood pudding. If a restaurant have it on the menu, I go crazy and fall in love with the place almost immediately. The good news is, that place have a really good one and it’s home made!
Second, I am easily corrupted by oysters. (yeah I know … I will suck at being a good country leader) They serve fresh oysters with a good choice of toppings at a great price. (Not too expensive and not dangerously cheap).
Third, they have a very interessting wine selection and I tryed orange wine for the first time there!
The place is lovely and the staff is really great! Give it a try :)

J’y suis allé pendant Montréal à table. Les variantes de menus étaient très intéressantes, les entrées, plats et dessert étaient très bons. Le staff peut vous conseiller sur les vins.
Prix un peu au-​dessus de la moyenne mais ça vaut le coup!
Ambiance chic, beaucoup de couples

Vraiment ravie de ma decouverte de la semaine! Chez Victoire m’a présenté des bons prix, et je recommande le plateau de charcuteries, né prenez pas l’option fromages pour 7 $ de plus parcontre, c’était une perte à mon avis. Les huitres sont à bon prix, 18 pour 40 $. J’ai aussi pris un drink avec de la coriande et j’étais très impressionnée, il était délicieux.
Le smoked meat avait une sauce BBQ sucrée, pas trop dans mes cordes mais ça dépend des goûts. Pour ma part j’ai commandé le thon albacore servi avec une sauce Wasabi, je donnerai un 7/​10, le poisson lui-​même était impeccable mais le mélange des saveurs n’était pas si harmonieux.
Service: Gentille serveuse mais elle nous a apporté nos plats séparément, donc chacun notre tour on a du regarder l’autre manger son repas principal. Elle m’a dit qu’elle avait mal compris, je n’ai aucun problème avec ça, mais lorsqu’on se demandait où était le deuxième plat je crois qu’elle était aux toilettes puisqu’elle était introuvable pour 15 minutes.
Pour l’endroit, mignon restaurant mais vous devez être confortables avec les tables longues communes, celles ou on est assis à côté d’étrangers. Heureusement Chez Victoire n’était pas occupé donc personne né nous touchait les coudes à la table ce soir là.

Such a pleasant surprise! We arrived after randomly choosing this restaurant for the «MTL a table» event this week and the group of us were each extremely impressed. They had a huge drink selection of all price ranges, a nice atmosphere, fantastic wait staff and delectable multi-​course meals. Dirty plates were not kept in our way for long, water glasses always filled, and a service check was done after each course to be sure of our satisfaction (without being annoying!) while the event is a discounted menu tasting, their normal menu seems to have very favourable prices considering the type of food you get! Needless to say, I will be back.

We went on a Sunday evening, when they have a crazy good deal with three courses for $ 22. Each plate we tried — and with a table of four we tried nearly everything available — was delectable and exciting. The contrast of the corn in the lobster bisque was mindblowing. The service was top notch. I don’t know how they manage to pull it off, but it was full when we went so I imagine the great deals coupled with the volume makes it possible. So nice to see a restaurant living up to its potential!

3 X and each meal was delicious and with great service from the waiters. Love the Sunday night special price for the fixed menu choices. Great place for special meals with out of town visitors.

So good I totally forgot to check in!!! I came with 7 people and we decided to go for 5 different plates x 2 and get a charcuterie to start. Everything was super delish, but what stood out for me was the Roasted Cauliflower with Truffle, such an amazing dish!!! The other dish that I thought was outstanding as well was the Cavatelli! So much flavour, and so many clams! Honourable mentions goes to the Carpaccio of Céleri Rave, the Beet tartare, and I can tell my table loved the charcuterie (it’s not my thing personally) but the bread was awesome as was the pickled brussel sprouts and moutarde en grain.
Great ambience, and wonderful service, the food came out timely and we all had a lovely time. Definitely recommend it!

Restaurant testé lors de Montréal à table.
Très bonne expérience tant au niveau de l’ambiance avec des serveurs sympathique mais surtout au niveau du goût.
Les plats sont raffinés. Même si les petites quantités peuvent donner une certaine appréhension au début, la qualité est telle que ce détail est rapidement oublié. Les associations de saveurs sont parfaites et équilibrées.
Tout cela donne envie de revenir pour tester à nouveau.

Definitely overpriced for the quality of food, wine, and service. They seated us in a cramped spot next to the drafty windows, and then took about 15 minutes to take our order. The oysters and octopus were quite good, as was the beef filet, but the risotto was plain and the wine (at $ 42 per bottle) was of poor quality. I wished we had sent it back… But I didn’t want to make a fuss. Such is life… All of our other meals were excellent

Very good quality food, awesome service, a bit pricey but definitely worth it as the portions were quite big and the food is absolutely delicious !
I took the risotto as an entrée and then I shared the three desserts dish with my friend and that was quite an experience !!! The three desserts were DELICIOUS.
With three desserts in the same dish, you would expect smaller portions than a regular one dessert dish, but we were served the portions you would get by ordering each dessert separately and that was HUGE, it was a wonderful and very tasty experience!

good comforting food that makes you happy when you’re having a shitty day!
so this was my last stop for taste mtl/​mtl à table and i was looking for it based on the braised shoulder pictures i’ve seen floating around.
got there, sat at the bar like usual and off we go. took a look at their wine/​drink list. lots of expensive wines, something i’ll never be able to afford. anyway, settle for a jasmin virgin which is a tea lemonade. the citrusy taste was perfect for me and prep my taste buds ready.
for appetizer, i got the seared scallop with celeriac purée/​soup with cauliflower and espelette pepper oil. you could definitely smelled the lovely scallop sweet scent. scallop seared perfectly, the celeriac purée was creamy while the cauliflower added that textural element. didn’t taste the espelette pepper though. it was a good app. once i took a sip of my tea, that’s when the scallop sweetness really made my taste buds sing. i like that!
then came the main, braised shoulder with potato cheese curds purée and bourguignon garnish and sauce. simply comfort food at its best! not only did it smell really good, it was simply sublime. fork tender pulled apart pork shoulder, the creamy cheesy purée and the tender green beans and the bourguignon garnish and sauce really elevate the dish. paired with the suggested red wine, it just reminded me of how it was like when mom would pick me up and sing a lullaby to put me to sleep. it wasn’t «wow, amazing» but more along the line of «this makes me feel really good inside»
and for the finale, a creamy panna cotta with apple purée and cinnamon crumble. creamy luscious panna cotta and good apple purée. couldn’t detect the cinnamon on the other hand. the crumble did gave a needed texture crunch to it.
despite the shitty cold windy evening, i had a lovely meal that made me feel good and that’s what matter.
a big thumb up to the awesome music despite not really being dinner appropriate. a mix of 60s-​70s music that just makes you want to sing out loud and dance.
bill came to about $ 60 with tips.
ps. i will not mention the lady next to me that wiped out her ipad to watch a movie in the middle of dinner. a fast food joint, i don’t mind. neither at a coffee shop but at some fine dining? right…

En arrivant on est impressionné par le volume du restaurant, espace ouvert et disposition original de l’espace avec une table en longueur, parallèle à l’imposant bar, l’inconvénient c’est qu’il n’y a pas beaucoup d’espace pour circuler. Concernant le service rien à dire, agréable et rapide. Pour moi mon tataki de bœuf, mon cochon braisé et le riz au lait, tout était parfait bien assaisonné et en plus assez copieux. Concernant les autres plats, on pourrait dire qu’un pétoncle était un peu light pour une entrée, et qu’il y avait un peu trop de saveur différente pour la truite. Pour accompagné tout ça une carte de vin assez complète. Pour finir un prix plutôt correcte 45 $ pour un menu complet avec du vin. Nous y retournerons.

Very solid all-​around performance in the Plateau area; my wife and I felt like we were a part of the scene and maybe away from other tourists since this was a relatively busy Friday night meal.
We tried the scallops with black pudding, the calamari and the ravioli appetizer, and a lamb shank main dish (we wanted the pork chop, we were told it would be lamb that night, but it still tasted like pork to us!). All pretty tasty, nothing truly amazing, and the wine by the glass prices were close to reasonable. And warm bread served as a starter also worked well. Our server was very attentive and I love any place that lets me book on OpenTable.

Nul doute que de bons produits sont cuisinés ici. Le problème est que les plats né goûtent absolument rien. Aucune saveur. Aucun condiment, ni corbeille de pain à disposition, sur les tables. Les assiettes sont plutôt bien présentées, mais elles laissent à penser que les serveurs ont besoin d’avoir une bonne prise en main, vu le néant occupé sur un gros tiers.
Belle carte de vins, mais s’accrocher pour les prix qui font d’autant plus mal quand votre bouteille de rouge commandée n’est pas à température ambiante, mais aussi froide que votre verre d’eau.
Il s’agit tout de même d’un bel endroit, avec des serveurs sympathiques, mais attention aux collisions fréquentes dues à l’étroitesse des couloirs de passage. Une personne en chaise roulante aurait bien du mal à se déplacer ici.

Tres Bön plats, un peux Cher. Service est lent. Si vous prenez l’option a 5 plats, soyez prets a rester 2 a 3 heures.

Best charcuterie board to date. They kind of give you too much, but it’s all quality.
The smoked beef burger is pretty juicy and good.
Come here if you want to satisfy your hunger for at least 1 – 3 meals…

Actual rating: 3.5
Food: very good. The flavors and the cut of meats were very well selected and well prepared. I had the pork and it can out extremely tender.
Good wine list.
Service: we were seated up top and I did feel like we were somewhat forgotten; we had to flag the waiters.
Décor/​ambience: just meh. There was nothing special with it, TVs kind of killed it for me.
Overall: yeah the food was good, but I expected something more considering the prices. I don’t know what it is but it just fell short of something. Not a bad place at all, but not my first choice.

We hesitated visiting this spot because we were trying to avoid pricey dinners during our Montréal trip. We walked by this spot several times (a block from our rented apartment), and finally caved. The best meal we had in Montréal!
–Went on Sunday night around 8pm; 4 course meal for $ 30 on Sundays!
— both ordered same courses: mozzarella/​tomato/​edamame appetizer (mozzarella melts in your mouth!), second course was salmon tartare (salmon and fennel /​radish relish was great, bread a bit soggy); 3^rd course was wild mushroom risotto (really rich but so freakin’ good!); 4^th course was dessert, chocolate lava cake (great quality chocolate)
Service was impeccable; accidentally brought out 1 of our courses too quickly, so gave us glass of wine in the house! No service like this at home in Miami.
Worth it!

Not good,
expensive, and disappointing
I’ve tried it for happy hours and breakfast.

This place is absolutely fantastic. The very best in Montréal. Even my picky boyfriend loves it. The ambience was romantic. We were there for there late night menu. I got the veal liver. Omg! The texture is just stunning. The dish had a great balance. The soup was good. I got chocolate lava cake for dessert. Awesome too!

Classy ambiance, incredible service and high end food.
I’d been drawn to this restaurant for weeks just because of the gorgeous art deco-​style painted windows facing the street. Even before I got inside, while standing at the doorway inspecting the menu posted there, some of the evening’s guests came out to stand on the street for a cigarette. They raved about the food and assured me I must go in and give it a try. I was not disappointed!
The cocktails were good, and my very large scallops seared to perfection. My date had the smoked meat sandwich, which in all honesty was the best in the city that we’ve found so far. This place is worth the cost, if you’re looking for a fancy dinner out.
The music was great the entire time, and the lighting perfect. Cozy and comfortable even though we were seated very close to other couples on a romantic date.
Oh, and before I forget, IMPECCABLE service. The restaurant was packed to the rafters but we were still attended to like royalty. Just a very high class place, but still with a casual vibe if you don’t feel like dressing up.

Mmmmmh that was a good find! I shared a huge steak with a friend and it was HUGE! One thing though, we took foie gras on top and it wasn’t good… And I know my foie gras!

Went there for happy hour last Wednesday. Food was great. We shared a couple of appetizers and a full course meal. I got to say that the highlight of the evening was the wine selection. The waiter was passionate about wine and about us finding the right match to our meal. Loved it!

Excellent! Toujours satisfait… Les tables d’hôte a 30 $ le dimanche soir… Régaleront vos papilles!

Très sympa ! Service génial, repas très bon, 40 dollars pour un 3 services de qualité !
Bön le vin est pas donné (mais tres bonne carte) il se rattrape la dessus je dirais mais dans l ensemble très fun !

Très bon et service très agréable

There are somethings in life that are so delicious, so sumptuous, that it’s hard to describe, hard to give text to an experience. Hard to give them the proper justice they deserve. Many of these things are food, and while the entire meal at Chez Victoire was one of the best I’ve ever hard they served a french onion soup the likes of which could only be rivaled by Sense Appeal in Toronto.
It’s hard to describe the pure bliss it was to taste that soup, but if I were to take a simple stab at why the experience was so amazing I would say this, balls. The french onion soup is a ball, a croûton ball with liquid soup on the inside and on the top of said ball is a thin sliver of gruyère. When you bite into it your mouth instantly becomes the french onion soup bowl. Stunned.
Also, I had oysters, gin cocktails, and risotto. All amazing. Get there and try it!

tout à envier avec l’arrivée du Bistro Chez Victoire
Reçue comme une reine, le service et l’ambiance étaeint impeccable. Repas savoureux, carte des vins recherchée. Nous avons été comblées de A à Z. Il est définitivement l’un de mes restos coup de coeur!

Toujours un vrai plaisir que d’aller prendre un verre au manger Chez Victoire.
Petit spot découvert à l’été 2010, essayé qu’au printemps cette année et tout de suite adopté !
Premièrement, l’endroit est bien décoré — on dit que la déco intérieure est presqu’identique à celle du Pistou (resto qui occupait le même local avant l’ouverture de Chez Victoire), mais puisque je n’y ai malheureusement jamais mis les pieds, je né peux me prononcer là-​dessus.
— J’aime beaucoup les photos format géant des années 60 – 70 affichées sur les murs du resto.
— On s’assoit sur les grosses banquettes, au bar ou aux tables hautes au milieu de la place, aux petites tables à l’avant du resto ou, en arrière, sur la mezzanine (espace idéal pour les party privé ou souper de groupe).
— La musique est bonne (parfois un peu forte… mais bon); on y retrouve un DJ live juste au dessus du vestibule !
— Dès que Miss Météo le permet, on peut manger dehors à leur petite terrasse sur l’Avenue Mont-​Royal.
Secondo, le service est super; les serveurs et serveuses sont très gentils et le proprio est souvent sur les lieux. Je né sais pas si c’est pour nos beaux yeux, à mes copines et moi, si c’est parce que nous y allons souvent, ou si c’est de coutume au 1453 Mt-​Royal E., mais on se fait toujours offrir un petit shooter à la fin du repas (une petite concoction maison avec, entre autres, de l’Amarula et de la crème chantilly). C’est aussi très cool et apprécié de se faire reconnaître dans un établissement quand on y retourne souvent (en fait, selon moi, c’est la moindre des choses que de se faire «acknowleger»… dommage que beaucoup de restos/​commerces/​services né capitalisent pas là-​dessus; faut bien les traiter nos bons clients !).
Terzio, la bouffe ! Ici, on mise sur les classiques, le comfort food aussi, et on y ajoute quelques punchs ici et là. Je né peux pas dire que je n’ai pas tout aimé ce que j’ai goûté; jusqu’à présent, tout est délicieux :
— Oeuf 67° (Faut absolument essayer cet entrée cuite sous vide !)
— Salade de poireaux + oeuf poché (Délicieuse et réconfortante.)
— Salade de tomates heirloom et Tartelette de heirloom (Les deux entrées: hyper léger et frais !)
— Tartare de saumon (Servi avec des crevettes popcorn croustillantes, du wasabi…)
— Boeuf 1855 (Viande est tendre à souhait, bien cuite et servie avec un beurre aux herbes.)
Le shortcake aux fraises (Divin.)
Sans oublier les cocktails maison ! Mon préféré: le Plantation; un cocktail à base de gin (Bombay s.v.p.) et de jus de pamplemousse aromatisé de basilic frais et de citron. Slurp !
*La liste, évidemment, n’est pas exhaustive; je n’ai pas encore tout goûté (je reprends souvent la même chose); je me laisse l’occasion d’y retourner… souvent !
Bien chic ou décontracté; la semaine ou le week-​end; en groupe ou en couple; pour bien boire et/​ou bien manger: Chez Victoire.
NB: sans le savoir, lors de mon dernière passage, j’ai été agréablement surprise; nous sommes arrivés Chez Victoire après 22 h… et TADAMMM ! Nous avons pu profiter de la promo 20 $ après 22 h; une sélection d’entrées et de plats principaux offerts à un très délectable petit prix. J’aime !!!