Kick back and let the chefs do the work: Here are the best holiday menus in Montreal for Christmas and New Year's Eve
We hate to say it again, but with a inbound lockdown coming on December 25, the holidays are cancelled. Who knows, maybe you’re glad you don’t need to listen to your uncle’s opinions over turkey this year. Maybe you will if he's coming over, thanks to the permissions during Montreal's lockdown. Maybe you’re bummed out that you won’t show off those new knife skills you learned in the first few months of the pandemic. Whatever you’re feeling, find some consolation in having a local restaurant supply you with dinner for Christmas, New Year’s Eve, or both with bubbles included.
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Grab a very Beba Christmas menu with pintade en cotechino with lentils, tarte fine aux pommes & foie gras, radicchio salad with sour cherries from last summer, squid, whelks and mussels en escabeche, plus bacon and chestnut bread pudding and a Cuatro Leches cake with passion fruit curd and chocolate and coconut alfajores to top it all off.
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Show a little bit of love to Chinatown this Christmas by ordering up some whole or half roasted birds for your table. Nothing gets better than the BBQ masters here.
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"Create a memorable dinner with our tasty trout or half chicken," this new blood on the Montreal restaurant scene says. "Your roast will be even more delicious with our varied sides. Your order of each of the dishes on our menu will easily allow you to feed a family of four. Above all, leave room for dessert."
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$80 for 2 or $150 for 4 gets you house breads, foie gras torchon, pickled veggies, apple butter, a 'tourtière-style' pie, and other nibbles and significant plates from this New French restaurant that recently opened in Westmount.
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Their Christmas menus are sold out, but they're still taking orders for New Year's Eve. Have a very propah Bri-ish suppah with one of two supper packages for 2, 4, and 6 people. The main is either roasted goose or a roasted turkey, plus a lentil and wild mushroom loaf served with mushroom gravy and all the other fixings. Add booze to the order while you're at it.
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From now until December 19, the clock is ticking to order up $180 chic lunch boxes for two. All you have to do is assemble and reheat everything when you want it. Call the restaurant to reserve your order, or dive into their pasta and cocktail menus with the link below.
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Good booze—we mean, good news! If you don't want to bother with any of that Christmas dinner stuff, Beau Temps will happily make you amazing, finger-licking sandwiches that you won't soon forget. On top of that, they're selling crates of top-value wine on the cheap, so get drunk and be merry—just wipe your hands before you pick up that game controller or remote.
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Two different Christmas baskets are on offer right now for up to four people: Hunger required. Grab either the "Famous Boneless and Stuffed Whole Chicken (focaccia, sausage, mushroom stuffing)" for $190 or 1885 roast beef for $280. Either comes with: Vegetable soup with wagyu beef broth, lasagna Bolognese, roasted carrots and parsnips, BBQ brusselsprouts, Potato Gratin with leeks and Gruyère, triple chocolate bread pudding, caramel sauce and—AND—a bottle of hot sauce. Enjoy.
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Try something different with one of four holiday boxes (or all four), made with classics revisited: Perles et Paddock is doing 5 à 7 and apertifs for one or two, plus a vegetarian menu and a festive brunch. If you want to send one as a gift, they'll personalize your holiday box with a local graphic designer.
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For their Christmas menu, Pastel has 3 different formats for two, four or six people. All menus are full meals with appetizers, main dishes, desserts, wines and goodies to top it all off. Hurry on this one, though: Reservation must be made before the 18th at 7pm. Spoiler: They're looking like pure Christmas, were the concept of Christmas edible.
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Fill out this massive scorecard of a festive menu before the 22nd and you can get your hands on everything sweet and savory you can dream of. See how much you can put back this season.
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Thanks to Eater Montreal for this one: Dim sum is a great way to spend the holidays, and doubles down as a way to support what's normally a bustling restaurant in Chinatown. If dim sum doesn't tickle your fancy, then think of just about any other spot you'd normally go to, and order from them.
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$75 for two and $135 for four gets you a delicious gathering of cream of potatoes and artichokes with salsa verde plus cheddar and bacon rolls; buffala mozzarella with Tuscan salami and rapini salad with portobello, sundried tomatoes, olives, and sweet garlic honey for antipasti; pasta course with squash agnolotti in a porcini mushroom sauce with lardons and sherry; all topped with a chocolate and rum dessert with caramel icing.
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Offering menus for both New Year's Eve and Christmas, H4C is offering tourtière, pig's feet stew and a chestnut log at Christmas, or beef Wellington with morel sauce with some chef's choices and black forest cake for New Year's Eve. Full menus are up top in the IG post.
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Gift boxes full of wine and snacks, Christmas boxes for two, and New Year's Eve boxes for two. Each comes wih a different variety of plates, snacks and excellence. Check out the full menus below.
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Cakes and Yule logs to order top off a huge feast of a Christmas menu here, all of which amounts to one of the the swankiest holiday opportunities on this list. The price is par for the course at five distinguished bites for two people, $250, but—in the words of Takeda—oh myyyyyy. All you need to do is reserve a week in advance.
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Get this: Rye focaccia grilled on a wood fire with whipped butter, ravioli with squash and black truffle, chestnut, burnt onion and an herb cream sauce, beef tenderloin from Prince Edward Island stuffed with foie gras from La Canardière farm and sliced black Périgord truffle paired with seasonal vegetables, salsify purée and brown butter meat jus, and a caramel and iced chestnut St-Honoré cake. All that for $150. Need we say more?
Oh, and there's another menu on top of that. Link below.
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Not 'Christmassy' or specifically for New Year's Eve, but delicious nonetheless. Here's a sample: Foie gras terrine with pistachio & grapes, chutney and brioche; brusselsprout salad with walnut oil, parmesan and a chestnut polenta; braised beef chuck served with gravy, red wine shallots and a truffle mash sided with potato chips; “bratapfel” stuffed apple with almond, currant, amaretto, custard, and pecans.
Can you tell we're hurrying this up so we can try to decide what to order?
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$95 gets you an immaculately prepared French fine dining menu here composed of five courses that includes the likes of a beef filet, celery root remoulade with truffle, and a Chantilly chocolate cream dessert with cherry and coconut—and that's not even everything it'll contain. At that price, spend the savings on a bottle or two of wine.
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How about an omakase dinner for two for $65 from one of the best sushi spots in town? Park's holiday table d'hôte is composed of three services, starting with squash soup (pumpkin and kamboucha) with coriander and ginger cream, then warm and dried plums, blue cheese, and a sushi rice puff dressing, and finished off with a confit duck leg, fried brusselsprouts with spicy honey, and a chickpea cassoulet with crispy stuffing.
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Order up Indian: Why not? It's from one of this city's most highly regarded institutions that's been serving the city for over 20 years. There's no particular menu on offer, but it's up to you to make it special by loading the table up with anything your heart desires.
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One of Montreal's most expansive restaurants is doing both Christmas and New Year's Eve dinners that, while not included, you'll want to pair would good wine or bubbles—depending on what you choose. Take their Christmas menu for example: Squash soup with XMAS spices, their signature beet
salad, turkey ballotine stuffed with chestnuts and mushrooms, classic Jean-Paul muffins, pig's feet stew, roasted Brusselsprouts, "grandma-style" potatoes and carrots, gravy with Boreal spices, condiments thrown in, bread rolls, and a chocolate- paw paw fruit Christmas Yule log from Quebec. For four six people for $250. Damn.
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