Restaurants D Lafleur

Lafleur est un classique ! Leurs Poutine est excellent avec de bonne frites fraiches et croustillantes du fromage en grain frais et une bonne sauce pas trop épaisse mais juste assez pour enrobé les frites ! Le service est très bon et ils ont même des Tofu-​Dogs et des Végé Burgers c’est définitivement un plus ! Les prix sont dans la moyenne des casse croûte.

If you’ve never been to Lafleur on St Denis it isn’t much to look at. Sure it has a great corner location across from historic Carre St Louis, but the Lafleur chain’s green and white colour scheme — albeit fresh and new — mark this place as a slightly unappealing fast food resto from another time. Inside it’s all tile and arborite surfaces. It’s clean and neat in a ‘don’t stick around too long’ kind of way. At night — your most likely time to visit — it is over lit and a shock to eyes that may have a hard time adjusting due to the influence of strong drink.
Your first impression as you get up to the order counter may be that the staff are sad barely legal youths with bad skin and goofy grins, chafing under their polyester uniforms. But this is where Lafleur starts to get interesting. We’ve all seen the teenage fast food worker at various burger places doing a slap dash hash of their simple tasks. We’ve seen the eye rolls, the dopey faces, the disinterest, the pure boredom. But not here. These youth are god-​damn fast food heroes. They always seem super friendly, (they look out from behind the counter with a smile that says «I know you are loaded and we are here to take care of you.») they seem like they enjoy their work, and they perform with an above-​and-​beyond-​the-​call-​of-​duty joie de vivre.
Because at 3am when the place fills with drunken idiots, and the line snakes to the front door, these Lafleur employees become hot-​dog and fries ninjas. The kitchen is an open square, and you can see all the action. Even at the busiest times, the cashier/​poutine operative will drop back and smash a couple dozen freshly peeled potatoes through a giant potato slicer. The others work the back area, flat top grill, hot dot vat, and most importantly the bun steamer. There is not enough time in the day to discuss the age old debate over toasted bun or steamed bun — suffice to say, whatever your preference, they make a great dog. My standard is a steamie all dressed. Which to those outside of Quebec means it comes on a steamed bun, with a pickley cabbage slaw, and mustard. The slaw makes the Quebec dog a superior food. The fresh veggie crunch balances the salty nitrate soaked meat tube perfectly and (maybe I go too far but) lends it an air of health.
The fries are great, the poutine is always surprisingly tasty. I can’t vouch for anything else. And before someone gets bent out of shape — I have eaten here totally stone cold sober on several occasions — just so you know.
I would say Lafleur was a cultural institution, but that would be doing it a great disservice. Culture institutions are often past their prime, resting on their laurels and generally more curiosity than quality. Lafleur and their employees seem to care about what they do and for that they get five stars.
I refer those interested to the following rundown on the Montréal dog.

I personally love this place
They make great bog standard hot dogs, poutines, fries.
Its the totally standard quebecois casse croute food I do really enjoy.
Love the fries.
Yes the buns+weiners are plastic, and so is the gravy, but its kind of the same everywhere isn’t it?
I’m into it.

When u have the munchies you’ll eat pretty much anything right?! Well… This is what anything taste like. Dry patties, almost no condiments in burgers. I guess they can make ok hot dogs. I’ll stick to that next time I’m up at 2am

Lfleur is a Montréal-​based chain that specializes in Quebécois fast food. It isn’t fancy, but the poutine at LaFleur is the real deal. The fries are squishy and swimming in way too much gravy, the cheese curds are clearly high fat and most aren’t even melted, and the whole thing is so obviously unhealthy that I’m afraid to finish it (but cant stop). In other words, all is as it should be. :)
There are tons of places in Montréal that will top poutine with additional items such as bacon or Montréal’s famous smoked meat, and the really fancy bistros will add more high-​falluting ingredients like green peppercorns or even fois gras. But my favourite will always be the unadulterated kind found at LaFleur.

Real fast food, greasy and full of fat. It’s the only place where I’ll always pick the hot dog over the hamburger (their burgers aren’t that good actually). The Hot dog’s and fries/​poutines… My god heaven.
If you’re looking for «classic» fast food that hasn’t been tainted, or tried to become «healthy» this is the place.
It’s greasy, full of fat and awfully delicious.

While experiencing Montréal, I saw a sign for Poutine. After falling in love with the gravy and cheesey goodness, i set on a mission to try different places that serve Poutine.
Not the fanciest place in the slightest, seems to me its like a McDonalds of some sort. I order a few various varieties of Poutine, some were a bit whierd to me. Like the spaghetti sauce one, but all in all, this place is serviceable for a quick Poutine fix.

Three stars. Sometimes I feel like it should be more like four, given its extreme convenience and marked superiority to La Belle Province, but this is not the place to subject to rating inflation. It’s fast food at its finest, and it’ll survive even if it doesn’t have shaved truffles and gold leaf on it. The all-​dressed hot dog was pretty mediocre, but the poutine was awesome. The guy behind the counter was gregarious, to say the least. The décor is so out-​there, it’s almost a parody of trashy Montréal casse-​croûte. Good enough to dine at while sober, convenient enough to stumble into while hammered.

It takes either a spectacularly good or spectacularly bad place for me to bother reviewing it. This was the latter. Inedible even for fast food. They put at least ¼ cup of mayonnaise on my veggie burger– both sides of the bun. Vile. They certainly don’t skimp on the amount of fries they give you, but they were all soggy and didn’t even resemble something that had been fried. They were just a big pile of soggy mess (a really big pile, but more of something horrible isn’t really a benefit). They tasted awful and I had to throw away most of them. And throwing away french fries is a tragedy. But not with these.
I can’t imagine where the other reviewers were eating, but this place is just terrible.

This place gets a solid 3 stars.
This Lafleur Restaurant is one of a chain of local restaurants that feature what is apparently Québécois fast food (at least according to their wiki entry): hamburgers, hot dogs, fries and POUTINE. Having never had poutine, I was excited to try for the first time. This location is on the smaller side and maybe 4 feet below street level, which makes for an interesting people-​watching perspective of passers-​by.
I ordered a combo of two hot dogs and upgraded to a small serving of poutine. The hot dogs were in a type of bun that I have never before seen in my life: like two top ends of a slice of bread on the sides, but whole on the bottom and a perfect encasement for said hot dog. No complaints on the h-​dogs.
The poutine: It was alright. Definitely a healthy portion, but I guess I was looking for a little more flavor! Perhaps it’s the gravy that is a little lackluster — not really sure. The cheese curds are interesting — they partially melt after awhile under the gravy.
Overall, the food was good, filling, inexpensive. They also have vegetarian options (veggie burger, veggie hot dog), which I give them additional kudos for.

Normalement je né suis pas très copine avec les fast-​foods (Mc Donald mis à part, mais c’est une histoire d’amour qui remonte à si longtemps!!!). Mais j’avoue que pour Lafleur, je fais une exception. Je né connais pas d’autres resto Lafleur que celui du carré St-​Louis, alors cette revue né vaut que pour celui-​ci. Je né suis fan ni de leurs burgers, ni de leurs hotdogs, combien même ceux-​là seraient végétariens, végétaliens ou quoique ce soit d’autre. Non, clairement mes burgers je les prends toujours chez Buns. Mais justement, en revenant de Buns, je fais un léger détour par Lafleur pour… leurs frites! Car elles valent littéralement le détour! (c’est le cas de dire!) Par moments –j’avoue– j’en mange même pour mon 4 heures! Juste comme ça, sans rien d’autre. Enfin ci, une petite mayonnaise maison faite avec une moutarde cognac-​noisettes que je trouve chez IGA et qui déchire tout. Bref, le repas spécial grand froid qui rivalise avec une poutine! D’ailleurs ça me fait penser qu’il parait que leur poutine est pas mal non plus… Je vous fais signe, dès que j’ai testé!

This is the first place I ever experienced poutine as a child. This stuff is DELICIOUS.
:mouth water:
I have never poutine better than I remember eating it from here, so, just for that, Lafleur earns five stars. If you’re ever in Montréal, make sure to stop in and clog up those purdy arteries.

This place is total fast food and normally I stay far, far away from fast food. That is of course, unless I see the words tofu and/​or vegetarian on the menu. AWESOME. We ordered tofu dogs and vegetarian pou