Le Mas Des Oliviers

This was our pick for a «fancier» French dinner and it did NOT disappoint! With a plate of veggies and olives waiting on the table, this restaurant has plentiful and great table d’hôte options that come with either a soup/​salad, an entrée and a dessert.
My mom, brother and I each ordered off that menu and mom got the duck breast which was cooked perfectly in a delightful red wine sauce. She loved that it wasn’t too salty or heavy. My brother got the veal chop which was GINORMOUS and accompanied with some potatoes. He finished the whole thing and was extremely pleased with the cook. I got the cod ontop of mashed potatoes and the cook was magnificent. Drowning in a sauce (that was al little too heavy for my taste), the cod itself was flaky and not overcooked or dry. It was amazing and I had no trouble finishing it.
The table d’hôte came with a spinach salad with egg or a vegetable soup and both were large and filled with ingredients. Finally, we tried all three desserts that came with each meal being the chocolate mousse, profiteroles and a frozen nougat. Surprisingly, the nougat was our favourite since it wasn’t too sweet, pistachio filled and a nice palate cleanser. The profiterole was not very special but still good and the chocolate mousse wasn’t very dark but not too sweet either.
Overall, the ambience is really nice, great service and delicious food!

Very nice place to
friend had a birthday party here. Every body quite enjoy the food. I love the escargot herb butter.

The atmosphere at Le Mas Des Oliviers is rustic and homey. Please, don’t get me wrong, there are certainly elements of fine dining that show through, but a meal here is best thought of as being invited to enjoy a meal directly from the kitchen of your Uncle (who happens to be a world class french chef). Now add Michele, whose dry French wit and devotion to service established the comfy, yet professional attitude that surrounded us and you will begin to experience the beauty of Le Mas Des Olivier. The house patê was creamy, savory, and delivered on that spot on flavor you would expect from a perfectly prepared terrine. The pairing with cornichons, pickled pearl onions, and sweet caramelized onions was a scrumptious bite. The escargot melted in my mouth, along with the well balanced flavors of butter and garlic. The main course of steak au poivre was just as tender. The peppercorns in the sauce added just a slight bite to the perfectly done meat. The sides of scalloped potatoes were the perfect balance of cream, butter, and starch… and perfectly seasoned. The piece de resistance however, was the foie gras. I have never had liver that has been prepared so well. It was a decadent treat to add to an already delectable meal. Our dessert of puff pastry ice cream sandwiches with chocolate ganache was a wonderful sweet treat then end the evening. Please ask for Tony as well, the host who showed us what French hospitality truly is and that anyone that walks into the door of Le Mas Des Olivier can be called family. If you are a Montréal native, please give this place a chance, you will not be disappointed. Or, if you are traveller, like me, make this one of your stops… you can thank me later.

I’ve always gone here with lawyers or politicians, it’s a sort of man’s club.
Don’t let that scare you, it’s got it’s charm, starting with Tony who greets you at door.
Great to see free tapas on each table, very classy move.
Lots of great choices on menu, I very much enjoyed the shrimp appetizers and tuna steak. They also have a fantastic cheese selection.

I’ve been to this restaurant a few years ago and had a wonderful culinary experience. I had the filet au poivre and it was without a doubt one of the best dishes I’ve had in my entire life. The waiters are extremely friendly and attentive to your needs and the restaurant itself is lovely and very inviting.
The prices may seem high but it’s totally worth it because the quality of the food and service is like no other. It’s the perfect restaurant to go to for a romantic date or for a special occasion.

No problem accommodating a group of ten. Phenomenal food. This is the best description I can give. Attentive congenial staff. I mean when we finished and it’s pouring rain they called cabs and when they didn’t come our waiter went out and flagged them down. Cozy attractive décor. Authentic French cuisine! YUM! Willing to do individual checks.

This is such a cute little restaurant. I would recommend to everyone. The staff is nice, attentive and friendly. The food was great I would completely go back without a doubt.

Back here Oct 2014 and the service and food remains impeccable! Snails, frommage and an amazing black bass fish special were standouts. The waiters and the bartenders are exceptionally knowledgeable. Tradition reigns supreme.
Note: this is traditional French cuisine NOT Québecois — I stand corrected from my 2013 visit :)

Classy, quiet restaurant. You’ll see some white haired Montréal politicians every time. The place you’d go for a special birthday or anniversary. The waiters are polite, pleasant, and funny if you get them going. The food is downright perfect, french cuisine. Be sure to get the Escargot.

Service is excellent and everything we ordered was delicious. First time my kids ever had escargot and they loved it. House red wine was very good and a good deal at $ 33/​bottle. Expensive but worth it.

My friend Carol and I dined here in November 2012, the concierge at our hotel suggested it when we inquired after authentic French cuisine. The service was excellent, the staff courteous, professional with a dash of savoir fair. As neither of us are particularly familiar with French food, we asked our waiter for recommendations for food and wine. we were not disappointed! The Fois Gras was excellent as was the escargot. Both of us enjoyed out main dishes, as well, though I cannot recall what we had as I am writing this review a year and a half afterwards. We enjoyed the wines, and had dessert and coffee afterwards.
Let me put it to you this way… Carol (who enjoys fine wines and dining) was recently in MTL, she emailed wanting to know the name of Les Mas Des Oliviers. I looked it up for her, and thought it best to add one more vote for a superb classic establishment.

Montréal– Fantastic meal made to seem effortless by the staff an kitchen– escargot, wine and margret de canard was excellent start to finish

I can’t believe I’ve probably walked by this place millions of times but never tried it until about a week ago. It doesn’t look like much from the street but inside a truly fantastic food experience awaits you. The décor is cosy and the service is top notch. Their focus is on French food and they do that well.
When you sit down they bring you a plate of chorizo sausage, olives and carrots. While the sausage is tasty don’t fill up here because there is lots more to come! To start we split a platter that included confit de canard, grilled shrimps, grilled mushrooms and fried calamari. The calamari in particular were very well done. They were crispy and cooked just right. To add to that I ordered the duck in green peppercorn sauce. The duck was well done and fell apart. The sauce was a pleasant addition. You could really taste the peppercorns and it was salted just right. They also brought some fries to the table to be shared by everyone and those were quite good.
I finished off the night with a chocolate lava cake. This is one of my desserts so my expectations are always high when I order it. Fortunately this one lived up to those expectations. It was piping hot and they succeeded in leaving the interior uncooked.
Portions are huge so come hungry or be prepared to share with your dining companions. As for reservations they don’t seem an absolute must. While it was busy when I came you probably could have gotten a table without a reservation.

Not much to say other than simply fantastic food. Our waiter was hilarious and really accommodating to my baby niece! Our table tried the fois gras, the duck, the lamb, the steak and lobster surf and turf and the veal. Very good potatoes as side. On the pricy side but so so good.

The service was amazing. We stopped in based on the hotels recommendation and it wasn’t too bad. For starters, they have a complimentary bit of bread, smoked meat, carrots (weird?), and olives.
We skipped on appetizers and ordered a bottle of the house wine for the table and went straight for the main course. I ordered the stag steak, which wasn’t anything special by itself. The sauce didn’t really give or take anything from the flavor. By cutting up the onion and eating it together with the steak was when it really came to lfe. The stag could’ve used some more marinade or additional flavoring for the sauce.

Great little French restaurant that I would have never thought to go in just looking at it from the outside. The door has seen better days and looks like you are about to enter the Bar B Barn… but once inside, the décor changes significantly!
I had duck and veal and even ate all my vegetables! One of the tastiest dinners I’ve had in some time. The service was also fantastic. Very attentive, joked with us a bit, and suggested some food and wine.
The décor is classy, white table clothes and stuff. It’s quiet and rustic. I couldn’t help but notice the colourfully lit up breathalizer in the corner… didn’t really suit this type of resto but better safe than sorry I suppose!

Really good restaurant. Meat was perfectly done. Very friendly staff offering great service.
Excellent deserts as well.

This place is fine. Food is very French, very delicate. However, if you don’t want to ruin your night at this place, make sure that you won’t order the foie gras. It’s terrible. It tastes like crappy ice cream…

The short version: This is a very sober, competent, reliable old school eatery for grownups.
I’ve been in for supper a few times, always as part of a company group of about 50 sitting down to a very limited table d’hôte, and it still impresses under these logistically-​trying wedding conditions. As others have said, main course portions are generous. Our party has always been sufficiently staffed with busboys and waiters, and plates appear and disappear with alacrity. Bread barges are constantly renewed. Only service complaint last night was that the water glasses at our table were never topped-​off, though the wineglasses were being kept up. But otherwise, the service is reliably quiet, observant, courteous, and professional.
As for the food, be prepared for very dense, intensely-​flavored, richly-​sauced fare. The house palate has the tone and heft of a cognac ad in a 1970s Playboy magazine. Nouvelle cuisine, it ain’t. But the soups I’ve tried have been quite lovely, their Caesar salad is the best-​seasoned and tastiest I’ve eaten in the city, and the kitchen clearly knows its way around a lamb shank.
They also make a very credible gin martini– hard to find in Montréal.
I will gladly continue to eat here on the company’s tab, but it’s also on my short list of places in Montréal I’d take an intelligent, hungry friend for a few hours of serious conversation in a quiet corner. The service here seems particularly adept at enabling that.

This restaurant has amazing food! My colleague and I were looking for a good place that was in walking distance to the hotel. Based on the Unilocal reviews, we went here. We are so happy Unilocal didn’t let us down! Just as Frederick Y. said previously, a must-​go restaurant in Montréal.
We had no reservations and were able to walk right in. The ambiance is very quaint and relaxed, but not casual. We were seated and immediately dove into the complementary relish tray. The olives and sausage were a tasty prelude to the wonderful meal to come.
We both had the onion soup. Even though it became notably saltier as we continued to eat, it was good. The house red wine was very good, too.
Next, I had the lamb shank and my colleague had the duck. This was the most tender and flavorful lamb shank I’ve ever had! It was in a dark, rich gravy flavored by sun-​dried tomatoes and garlic. Even the root vegetables on the side were very good and not just an afterthought. My colleague thoroughly enjoyed the duck entrée, which was accompanied by an apple gravy. Lastly, even though both of us were totally full, we decided to share the profiteroles. They were filled with ice cream and swimming in a wonderful, semi-​sweet chocolate sauce. This was the perfect ending to a great meal.