La Porte Grecque Estiatorio

I love this restaurant. The food is so amazing, fresh, and authentically Greek. I also love the cozy ambiance. It looks like a cute little cottage. I never feel like I am at a restaurant there. I feel like I am eating at a person’s house! Love the service and food!

Will not return. Bugs all over table inside and owner kept saying he saw nothing. Pic worth a thousand words. Horrible food and service not so good. Don’t eat here. We left our food on plates.

Was here for dinner and received some pretty bad service. The food was very average. The wait staff seemed frustrated to be working that day. I had to ask for water 4 separate times. The owner seemed more concerned that our table with seating for 6 had only 4 people on it, than the lack of service his restaurant provides customers. The most amusing part was the restaurant was nearly empty. This place is dark and dingy and you feel like you are having dinner in a dungeon. My first and last time eating here.

Food decent, but don’t ever leave your camera there and call to see if they found it. I was told I must have left it somewhere else. I insisted I left it there because I remembered just that. I got hung up on. Twice. Management and owner are total d-​bags!

Great meal… what a way to start off the new year 2014. The only thing that I did not like was the parking. but all in all everything else rocked.
LIFES GOOD!

Great cozy ambiance and charming waitress who chicken in on how we were doing quite often. Food was affordable and quite good for the price. I had the lamb for $ 15. Bread was complimentary.

We ate at La Porte Grecque as part of a party of 40 (dinner after a baptism). The location of the restaurant and the ample parking made it ideal for group events. There were 2 indoor sections and 1 outside section allowing for lots of options. We were in the larger of the 2 indoor sections.
Service was good considering the size of our party. We were offered a nice menu and they happily accommodated any dietary concerns with off-​menu items.
The food was just ok. The starters were small but tasty (choice of feta and olives (2 whole olives…), tzatziki or vine leaves (3). The mains were big but the food was pretty dull. Desert was a cake.
The restaurant is a BOYW joint which is nice.

Pure crap. You’re better off eating grass at the curb. All the food is full of MSG, over cooked, soggy. Terrible service. Yet it’s packed. What people won’t do for a $ 12.99 meal and bring their own wine. Ridiculous !

I’ve been here a couple times over the years. I always found the food fair. I don’t go home a brag about how great my meal was, but I’m not totally disappointed like a few others have reviewed here.

I went to Porte Greque tonight for my first time tonight (Monday Night) and I was very dissatisfied. I went because I had a coupon – 2 meals, each with soup and dessert for 20 $ – that I received for supporting a local sports team.
The soup of the day was white bean soup. It was okay but nothing special. I ordered the Shish Kabab; marinated pork tenderloin skewered with onions and green peppers. I have to admit that the pork was very good and moist, but the kabab had only 2 tiny pieces of pepper and 3 tiny onion pieces.
The salad was an obvious cheap-​out. A huge bed of iceberg lettuce with a quarter of a tomato, a few cucumbers, and barely any dressing. (Was it a store-​bought dressing? I don’t know… I could barely taste it over the blandness of the iceberg.)
The rice was the standard yellow rice that is served at so many other Greek restaurants. The potatoes were nice and crispy on the outside but bland on the inside.
There were no choices for dessert other than chocolate cake. It was okay, but I am not a huge fan and would have liked something other than chocolate cake.
The service was okay; our waitress was friendly and helpful. Parking was not an issue because it is a private lot.

Went to Porte Grecque again reluctantly, it was my sister’s birthday. This place was good about fifteen year ago especially when there were no Greek restaurants in the west island, somehow their food has lost its taste over the years. The food was just too greasy, service was kind of slow. We started with the over fried vegetables zesty pikilia platter, made me feel queasy later. The Calamari was also too greasy and soggy. I had the lamb chops, scallops covered in bacon and scampi, with a salad that looked like it came out of bag and I barely touched it. Lamb chops were okay, so were the scampi and scallops, but I would no go to this restaurant on my own free will. My nephew loves this place, as he says you get a good bang for your buck. This is an average Greek place kind of on par with Casa Grecque, if that’s your thing, go ahead and enjoy.
One more thing they seated us upstairs, but on Feb 18, 2012 it was 25° outside and it was boiling up there however in winter it is pretty cosy.

Français après —
I think 2 stars is a bit too harsh and I think 3 stars is too much. 2 ½ would be my real score. the strongest part of the meal I had there? the price. This place is cheap, you can get out of there for less than 20 $ especially on Special days. Otherwise, the food is utterly ordinary, the service without heart and obviously a place to bring an unsecure grandma that have been there 20 times or be lazy and organize a birthday there instead of a more decent place. So overall, it’s just a boring typical menu with cheap chicken dry rice (you know the yellow one that tastes like Lipton soup?). Chicken overmarinated in a sauce to hide the lack of freshness. Overall a place to go when über depress and without a penny AND in this area.
Je pense que c’est un peu trop cruel que de juger un 2 étoiles pour cette place et trop généreux de mettre 3 étoiles. Je mettrais réellement 2 ½ étoiles. L’aspect positif de cette place? C’est le prix! C’est en bas de 20 $ pour un lunch là. Surtout durant les speciaux. Sinon le service est amateur et l’ambiance est celle D’un resto ou t’amènes ta grand-​mère insécure qui n’aime pas essayer de nouveaux endroits et qui a manger là une vingtaine de place. Sinon c’est un endroit ou on fait un party de fête à un ami que l’on aime pas trop et surtout pour qui on né veut pas trop se casser la tête pour trouver un meilleur endroit (aussi cher). En fait, c’est vraiment un resto nul avec un menu typique avec le typique riz sec qui goûte la soupe lipton et du poulet mariné (un peu trop) qui sert évidemment à cacher la fraicheur douteuse. En gros, c’est vraiment un endroit déprimant ou pour y retourné il faudrait que je sois coincé dans le coin, avec une faim de loup, sans trop d’argents dans les poches.

I have my favorite restaurants and my favorite dishes from around the world… dishes that I talk about to everyone I know and restaurants that I MUST visit while I am in town and this is definitely one of them!!! I thought this restaurant was unique, cozy and very charming! I love the fact that you can bring your own wine and they will cork it for you (not many restaurants like that around)!!! The food is good and the calamari is simply the best that I have had anywhere! I can’t wait to return!!!

T’was a birthday dinner for my aunt meaning 15 people were needed to be seated comfortably. Porte Grecque has got this down! They have plenty of large tables for large groups, even a second floor full of them. For an 8:15 reservation we had to wait about 20 minutes. Even once we got to the table they were still setting up around us with cups, cutlerly, menus, etc. Which is fine. I mean, I’d rather wait at the table than wait in the crowded front of house but next time, give the menus first! Otherwise, that’s just a tease.
Appetizers were ok. The garlic bread could have been more evenly garlic-​y and the cold appetizer platters were just ok. More tzatiki needed. I also had a white bean soup of the day that was lacklustre. Just like a consume with small beans, lentils and vegetables sunk at the bottom. Not the hearty thing one would expect!
My meal also fell a bit flat for me. For starters, my fillet mignon was not the desired medium rare or even close to that. I’m not picky! But that was medium well. I whole heatedly enjoyed the Greek rice and potatoes. Both were perfectly cooked and flavourful. The salad that came along took up half the plate could have used a kick of feta cheese but was all right.
Desserts were presented on platter and the options were seemingly endless. I wonder if they make all/​any of them. I tasted the apple pie and the cheesecake. The apple pie was yummy, a little more soft than I’m used to but great with the scoop of vanilla ice cream. The cheesecake was a lot to handle with the overload of chocolate but pretty good too.
I’ve got to hand it to the servers! They did a great job getting to everyone, handling so many varying orders and never letting the little things slide. It’s a shame that the food fell a bit short with me but for the ranging tastes and large number, it worked for our occasion.

As a Greek native I found the food to be sub par. The lamb chops were overcooked and overpriced. There calamari leaves much to be desired. There are much better Greek restaurants in Montréal, Elounda and Mythos come to mind. But if you must stay in the West Island and want to eat Greek, La Porte Grecque offers a decent Greek fare.

My favorite Greek restaurant in all of Montréal! Home made style Greek food with unbeatable prices!
Their home baked potatoes are always moist with a hint of lemon.
Their feta and tzatziki is fresh and full of flavor.
I also love their cozy atmosphere and the fact that it’s bring your own wine. They’ve been open for years and I try to make it at least once a year when I’m back in Montréal. It’s really that good!
FYI — Their website says they’re open weekdays until midnight but in reality they close around 10:30PM. They’re open late on weekends though.