Toqué!

Reviews

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  It doesn't get much better than this for fine cuisine dining in North America. I have eaten here many times (even once at their original location in Plateau-Mont-Royal). Each visit was superb! Chef Normand Laprise is a master, and his talented team prepare some of the most innovative and flavourful dishes I have ever tasted. (I worked as a restaurant and hotel evaluator for 15 years and have eaten in hundreds of high-end restaurants). Toqué! is unquestionably one of the best in North America.
  By Brian Boyer, April 19, 2017
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  We celebrated our 10th year anniversary here and had really high expectations. From all the great reviews, and being ranked the #1 restaurant in all of Canada, they definitely had a lot to live up to. First lets get the great things off the table (so to speak...). The service was great and our server was always checking on us making sure each course was ok. The food was presented beautifully and precisely as you can see from the photos I attached. It was also delicious and balanced, but I have to say I have tasted better. They offered a tasting menu but it didn't include some of the dishes we also wanted to try. So we created our own, we chose a 9 course personalized tasting menu with oysters to start along with a champagne tasting. It ended up being more expensive, but at least we got to eat what we wanted to. So for the negative points, let me start by reiterating that I had extremely high expectations for this restaurant from everything I read online, as well as the price of the meal (it's definitely not cheap). Nothing extremely horrible happened with our meal or our experience. However, at this level of restaurant I expected the simplest things to be perfect, for example the oysters shells were not cleaned off. So when we went to eat them we were left with so much grit and shell fragments in our mouths, we had to clean our mouths out after each oyster. There was also one oyster that was not shucked off the shell where the muscle was still attached, so unfortunately it needed to be scraped by us. I know this is not the end of the world (first world problems) But it's not what I expected from a high end restaurant, when you're paying a pretty penny for an outstanding experience, these things should be perfect! All-in-all I would recommend this restaurant if you're looking for a beautiful culinary experience. I just wouldn't go in there with extremely high expectations if you've read all the food critic posts and restaurant ranking websites.
  By Bryan Victoria, December 25, 2016
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  The dishes are not bad. My friend and I had venison loin and sulking pig loin for main. One certain piece of pork loin in the dishes are super impressive, the rest are just doing an average job comparing to similar price level restaurants. Also, waiting time is really long(first course to main). Considering the value, this is not my favourite in Montreal. Worth experiencing once because it's number one on the rank.
  By yun zhu, October 02, 2016

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