Le Balthazar Quartier DIX30

The atmosphere was good even if the music was very loud to the point of screaming to be heard on the other side of the table. Music was not my style, so I do not know if it was good but for me repeating the same drum beat for 20 minutes is not very good.
The beer was good and the selection was great. As for the food, wow that was bad! My wife took the onion soup and she told me it was the worse she ever had. In all fairness the spinach dip was not bad, just ordinary. As for me, I took the trio of tartar. They were bland and extremely cold, right out of the fridge. It was evident that they were prepared in advance and kept in the fridge. Normally a tartar should be served to almost room temperature, just fresh not icy cold.
Since the prices are much too high for the quality I will not be back.

Great place to try a variety of local Quebec micros but WAY overpriced. $ 8.50 for a pint that is $ 6 at their proper establishments. Average food menu that’s paired to the beer that they serve. Hit or miss on that count. Better than going to 3 Brasseurs… OK mega mall box store atmosphere. Helpful staff that will suggest their favourites as long as you don’t ask them what the name of the beer they’re serving. Also they have screw top wines on display in their contrived wine cellar.

Nice beer list, but they are out of stock on a few of them at any given time. Location is convenient, food is ok. All and all its a good place to have drinks and talk with friends. Much better then the public house. Service is «ok» as well nothing to wright home about.

Malheureusement je dois dire de ce restaurant que le service est pitoyable et l’endroit est beaucoup trop bruyant. La qualité des assiettes né justifie aucunement la prix élevés.
Semble que le resto se spécialise dans les bières, mais j’avoue avoir vu et bu mieux.
Un endroit que je né risqué pas de remettre les pieds de sitôt.
Unfortunately I have to say the service of this restaurant is aweful and the place is too noisy. The quality of the plates does not justify the high prices.
Seems the restaurant is specialized in beers, but I confess having seen and drank better.
A place I will not go back there anytime soon.

Grosse déception. L’endroit a du potentiel mais malheureusement le service trèd moyen à gâché l’expérience. Nous étions laissé à nous même et c’était très long avant d’avoir nos plats. Nous étions déçu aussi car il n’y avait plus de soupe à l’oignon :(

We had a seat on the terasse in the shade on a beautiful sunny day. The breeze and scenery was sheer perfection. I ordered the Balthazar burger (with swiss cheese, mushrooms and bacon + yummy fries) and it was super delicious. My friend ordered the pulled pork tacos and she let me take a bite, so good! The service was super fast and quite friendly.

I never write reviews but this experience was such a disappointment that it motivates me
Great location and terrace and I was super thirsty for a beer but took 30 minutes to get served then got a new waiter for no reason so had to start over
Ordered wings and stressed Extra well done but they were so raw and mushy and disgusting that could not eat them
My wife ordered poutine and soo salty also could not eat it
When complained to waiter just got a «sorry»
Overall would go for the beer but since the service is so bad it will not wash away the bad taste in my mouth

Super bonne ambiance. Superbe belle terrasse qui vous permettra de bien zyeuter les passants.
Très grande salle à manger aussi on s’entend. Parfait pour party ou autre.
Très bonne sélection de bières, car c’est ça leur spécialité! Je conseille la bière blanche aux trois thés. Sinon, vous pouvez demander à leurs bièreologues!

The worst service. We have been here at least seven times. We come back out of convenience, it is close to home and the terrasse is great, with a good selection of beer. But be prepared for a staff that regularly ignores your needs and your meal and beer to take a really long time. Even when it is completely empty. The wait staff is generally more interested in chit chatting with each other than taking your order… While Mile Public House is an alternative, their terrasse is small and often packed and the beer selection is limited… We are hoping someone will give this place competition soon!

loud. obnoxious. big. snob. douchey. south shore. napoleon complex? maybe.
that’s pretty much what balthazar is in a nut shell. its definitely not my kind of place. it feels like being in downtown montreal but way worse. it does fit south shore to a T.
the food on the other hand is not bad at all. i had a tuna salad. tuna was done correctly. melting in your mouth with a nice seared. it taste fresh. the salad which was mainly a shit load of baby spinach was ok. it lacked vinaigrette even though the bottom pile was drenched wet but didn’t had much taste. it wasn’t bite size though. after being used to Mandy’s perfect bite size, it is very disappointing as i had to fight with it to fit it on a fork. portion wise, its huge. like fucking huge. price wise, pricier than Mandy’s or Aux Vivres for that matter and definitely not as good.
the long island iced tea i got with was solely lacking in booze. one long island should hit you and make you wonder if you took one too many. this, on the other hand, was more tea than booze.
as for service, it was decent. took a while to get my food and then, one of the server thought that my date ordered the salad. fuck you bitch! can a guy order salad and not have weird looks? you never had Mandy’s eh!
as for the place, its sooooooooooooooooooooo loud! TVs everywhere. the only places that didn’t had a TV was the bathroom and looking down on your table. other than that, they are everywhere and all 50 inches or so. lots of music too. and tables are very close to each other. could totally hear the next table complaining about work and being quite vulgar about it. i personally didn’t mind considering it came from a very pretty foul mouthed looking Ygritte.
there’s a terrace to sit at but you pretty much need a reservation for it as it fills up quite fast.
would i go back? i hope not!

My boyfriend and I had been wanting to try this place for quite sometime once we heard about it, so last night, for our anniversary, we decided to go. Had a 6pm reservation, as we were seeing a movie at 7:40pm.
The restaurant was not busy at all at this time, yet we were seated in a long booth connected to where a family of 5 were sitting, so we were directly next to them, almost touching elbows, when there were about 30 other tables available in that section. On top of that, we were by a window and the sun was right in my boyfriend’s face. So we asked to change seats.
We got our new table, much better, but it took another 25 minutes for a waitress to come see us. We asked to try the samplers of beer, advertised at 4×4 oz beers for $ 8.00. We were told that they don’t do that in the evenings on weekends.
We ordered our pints and food. Pork in pastry appetizer to share, $ 13 for 3 small pastry, not even 4 so each person can have 2. Then the meal, I had fish and chips which was bland and tasteless, and wild boar ribs were not wild, did not have a gamey taste or texture.
On top of all this, the appetizer plates that were on the table were filthy.
All in all, not a great experience at all. Will not be back.

This should have been a 5 star review.
In the middle of the dix30 huge shopping centre, this is a paradise for beer aficionados.
50 beers on tap. 100 beers from quebec from 22 different breweries.
You’ll find the perfect beer, for a perfect sunny afternoon on the really nice terraces upstairs.
They have food and I have one thing to say: best pulled pork Poutine I tried so far. This is it, I said it. This was the best one. Pulled pork was juicy and tasty, great.
I actually stole some from my partner because, and this was the only problem during this night out: the service.
Don’t get me wrong, friendly service, enthusiast waitress, overall nice staff.
But.
There’s always a but.
While waiting for a beer, twice another waiter asked if we ordered this or that. We didn’t.
The Poutine arrived. I waited for my burger.
We finished the Poutine. I was still waiting for my burger.
I ordered another beer. It came 5mn later and I was about to give up on my burger. But it finally arrived. Maybe 20mn after my partner finished her meal. Not great.
I asked for mayo: Heinz mayo pack like in cafeteria. For a 16 $ burger: not great.
Burger and fries were really good though. Good homemade mayo is ALWAYS a very big detail. Take note restaurant and bar owners.
Overall a success. It was game night and it’s a huge place so I can understand the difficulties but this is something they could work on.
But I will definitely go back, you can’t say no to 50 different great local breweries beer.