La Salamandre - Montréal

A very beautiful French restaurant at affordable prices to Montreal. nice service. for dessert lovers at the plate is the place to go :)

We were four and we all took the gourmet table, the meal was so good. The apple-pearl soup was well seasoned, nice and nicely presented entries and well-controlled meat cooking. note that the duck in trilogy was divine. When desserts, they are as beautiful as good. The service was courteous and pleasant throughout the meal. In the end, this restaurant offers a good value for money and I highly recommend it, I will return with pleasure

We had a good meal at La Salamandre on a couple of occasions, but things seem to have gone downhill recently. For about $50 per person, the meal consisted of a very bland soup, poor appetizers, and main courses that really fell flat. Even the desserts! How about a chocolate creme brulee that sounds interesting, but doesn't deliver any wow at all.The only part of the meal that was nice was our wine, which we brought ourselves, since it's a BYOB restaurant.But there's more: a waiter who speaks almost no English, and rattles off the menu items so fast we couldn't understand most of what he was saying. Plus, his attitude left a lot to be desired - very unfriendly. The bathrooms are tiny and badly need renovations; not suitable for a restaurant trying to be in this category. I've seen better restrooms in fast-food joints. The equally old sink is outside of the bathrooms, facing the kitchen (not very cool) and the area around the faucet was literally dirty!It didn't take long to understand why the place was less than half-full, while other similar high-end restaurants in the area were fully booked. And yet we also waited forever for our food to be served.We obviously won't be returning, and neither will the friends we were with. We were sorry that we recommended the place to them

Very good restaurant bring your wine on the plateau. good location for a dinner with friends. We took the big gourmet table and we were not disappointed. The beet soup was well seasoned. The crab ravioli entrance was delicate. the trilogy of duck magret made it want to take a second plate and dessert was greedy with its decadented chocolate content. I recommend this place and I'd go back without hesitation to spend another good time.

My food group went to Salamandre and I was looking forward to this neighborhood restaurant. The place was small and cute. The food was bipolar. Soup was Vichyssoise (potato leek) with apple. This is usually a lovely soup, a puree. The one at Salamandre was so bland none of the 12 of us could figure out why. Finally the woman who runs the group had the waitress bring the pepper grinder and had a copious quantity of pepper infused into her soup. Several of us did the same, and it helped, but just tasted like a vague potato soup with pepper, nothing near to what this delicious soup usually is, so no points to the resto for the soup. Or for the appetizers. I shared mine with 1 person. It was crab in a kind of open ravioli with a sauce and, again, beyond bland, not doing what an appetizer should do which is stir the appetite, unless no taste of crab and an overload of dill do it for you. The other offering from my share was a grilled shrimp, the sauce the only thing that gave it some ooph. Onward to the mains; mine was lovely and I was happy to finally have something worth the price of admission. The canard (duck) from Lac Brome came in three small versions, one tartar (almost rare), one roasted, the other tiny strips of a kind of grilled version. The duck and the sauce was amazing, and there were 4 or 5 green beans and the entire thing circled in pureed squash. Magnificent! Dessert was a bust--creme brulee with chocolate. It was not creme brulee at all, no crispy crust that had to be cracked to get to the good stuff. It was a double chocolate pudding, in my view, and even though I love chocolate, it was too intense, so one bite and I passed it around the table. The wine (it's a bring your own wine place) was excellent, a pinot noir from France, 2011, Baron Philippe de Rothchilde, light and flavorful and easy to drink. I'd go back but just for a main--what came before and after needs serious work, and I wouldn't be such a critic if the prices were not so high.