Accords

Very extensive wine list with knowledgable staff. The service was great. We shared some small plates. The ambiance was very nice.

If you are looking for a wine bar, this is it. Great selection and extensive options. I remember the server saying that this bar has the largest amount of wine selections in the country.
The service was a great and knowledgable.
Also ask about their cheese plate, they don’t have it on the menu but is available!

It was my second time dining at Accords. My initial draw to the restaurant was that they were able to accommodate wheat/​gluten allergies (I have celiac disease), and they have items very clearly listed on their menu that do not contain gluten.
But what drew me to the restaurant again was the welcoming atmosphere, attentive – but not overbearing – service, and creative but unpretentious cuisine.
Instead of ordering off the à la carte menu on this visit, we opted for the chef’s tasting menu + wine pairings. I’d strongly recommend doing the tasting menu.
We were treated to four, perfectly-​sized courses and wine pairings that just got better and better as the evening went on. The meal began with braised baby Boston lettuce with duck fat potatoes in a leek cream sauce, paired with Champagne. (A delicious pairing of a homey dish with a luxurious wine.) Next, was Gravlax served with baby button mushrooms and herbed mustard butter, which was paired with a subtle red that was really bursting with cherry notes. (It paired surprisingly well with the delicious salmon.) Then, came a delicate poached cod with 3 types of broccoli (roasted, pureed, and blanched) and a flavorful razor clam sauce. It was perfectly paired with an oaky white wine. And finally, my favorite dish of the night: a seared hanger steak served with black currant compote and roasted endive in rich chicken stock. The meat was so tender and perfectly done (a little pink inside, perfectly seared on the outside), and the compote provided this sweet and tangy counterpoint to the richness of the meat and stock. It was paired with a big, bold red that had lots of fruit. A truly inspired «big finish» to a great meal.
Also, the pacing was perfect. The servers did a great job explaining the pairings and dishes and had a knack for knowing when to check in and when to let us nosh.
Highly recommended.

Une surprise comme on les aime. Nous avons choisi ce restaurant sur les simples avis Unilocal.Nous n’avons vraiment pas été déçus !
Nous pensions prendre un plat chacun avec un verre de vin. Il s’avère que les plats sont en fait de taille «entrée» et que n’en prendre qu’un allait être juste.
Nous avons donc décidé de nous orienter sur le menu à 45 $ composé de quatre plats, avec le supplément «accords» d’un verre de vin par plat pour 30 $ supplémentaires. Très bon choix ! Le nom du restaurant prend tout son sens à ce moment là.
Le sommelier était vraiment passionnant à écouter, bien qu’après le troisième verre (bien chargés) nous n’étions plus vraiment attentifs …
Les plats du menu sont inconnus, c’était une surprise ! N’hésitez donc pas à signaler toute allergie ;-)
La cuisine était vraiment excellente, fraîche et raffinée. Je n’avais pas envie de faire de grand dîner ce soir là, j’ai regretté de né pas être venu plus tôt.
Toute l’équipe est très serviable et souriante, l’ambiance est douce et idéale pour un souper romantique en tête à tête !
Vous né regretterez absolument pas votre soirée, et même si cela peut paraître un budget important, il en vaut vraiment le coup.
Foncez !

Excellent food and wonderful, helpful staff. Had the tasting menu and it was great, the wine pairings were spot on. Finished with a poached peach for desert… something I never normally order… awesome!

EVERYTHING was perfect, from the food (we had the tasting menu) to the wine (pairing wines) and the staff was extremely nice and professional. The outdoor dining area is pretty and cosy. We had a wonderful experience of Montréal’s food scenery! Thanks to our friends living in Montréal who brought us there ;o)

Oh joy! Oh joy! Diners and gastronomical enthusiasts everywhere — rejoice! I have found a French restaurant that will put fire in your belly, contentment in your heart, and bliss in your palate– a restaurant to exceed all others. Hyperbole? Wait until you savor their pork belly with mussels and devour their baba bourbon. If tHeir beef tartare does not make you weep with joy, then surely their blood sausage «boudin» will elevate you to another world. Be warn. Their heavily Gaelic inspired cuisine is not for the economically faint of heart. You will have to shell out big bucks for this sensorial immersion event. But then again, what is money when your palate has just experience a transcendental event like what I went through today. Enough said. Tis time for thee to make a reservation.

After returning late from QC, staff at our Hotel Le Place D’Armes suggested a wine bar and small plates restaurant around the corner but by an incorrect name. We stumbled upon Accords quite by accident and what a wonderful surprise it was! The team from chef, sommelier, and wait staff are superb. For the best experience, select the menu carte blanche paired with the wine selections. You will not be disappointed!

I just finished dinner here and I can tell you that it is a wonderful place. I ate at the bar as I was by my self on business and the lovely lady at the bar took care of me like I was at her house. I had the cheese platter and then octopus and a wonderful pumpkin flan. Everything was paired to a wonderful glass of wine. You must give this place a try. And to the staff, merci for a great night. I will be back when I return to Montréal.

Beautiful restaurant. I love the old stone walls. Feels like I’m dinning in a wine cellar. Staff are knowledgeable, food is exquisite, and wine selection is incredible.
I love this place & always stop by whenever I’m in Montréal.

Some colleagues and I had supper tonight at Accords last night. It was really nice inside.
I debated about whether to order the Smoked Paprika Guinea Breast or the Beef Shoulder. Our server suggested the beef so that’s what a lot of us got. I swapped the beets for potato. We all found the beef chewy, kind of tough and tasteless … a couple didn’t eat theirs and sent them back. I ate a bit of mine and passed the rest around for others to try. When we commented about it to the manager, she tried some and said that she found it was tender like butter (???). My colleague next to me had the guinea breast and I tried a bit … it was delicious! I should have gone with my first instinct.
When we got back to our hotel afterwards, we had a drink in the bar and ordered snacks.

Food is really good. The small portions are not not very filling unless you eat really slow and savor every bite. Which we highly recommend. The menu changes often so the Unilocal pics dont match the entrée’s but irrelevant because its is a truly great taste. Menu is simple yet creatively tasty.
Service is good, but heading out now for another small meal or great dessert, bcs it wasnt enough.

This was our favorite restaurant (of 4 we visited) in Montréal. As others have noted, the menu emphasizes local Québécois ingredients with contemporary French technique and lots of creative farm to table choices. There’s a small but well curated list of wines by the glass (my husband barely drinks, so I can’t comment on bottles). The location in Old Town is convenient to many hotels and sights, but the restaurant itself is on a quiet street, and the outdoor terrace, tucked behind an iron gate, is a very sweet place to sit.
I was puzzled by the complaints about service – we visited early-​ish on a Friday night, so things were not too crowded, and we had consistently excellent, friendly, attentive service. The woman who took our orders may have been the sommelier – she was very knowledgeable about the wine list and recommended a pairing that was fantastic, just right for everything we ordered. I can’t emphasize this enough, in response to the other comments: At least when we visited, SERVICE WAS THE BEST WE ENCOUNTERED IN MONTREAL, FROM THE START TO THE FINISH OF OUR MEAL. And this in a town where restaurant servers seem, on the whole, to be a pretty professional bunch.
We ordered four dishes: a cheese plate with two local cheeses that were terrific, a generous green salad that we easily shared, sweetbreads in a coffee-​based sauce, and the house-​made agnoletti wth guinea hen confit. All were fantastic. I consider sweetbreads to be a true test of a kitchen’s abilities: they are delicious when well prepared but an obvious disaster if the chef cuts corners on the prep or doesn’t know what s/​he is doing. These were spot-​on. Ditto the housemade pasta, with a light but creamy sauce and that fantastic confit guinea hen. Portions are closer to the tapas end of things, but given their richness and flavor (and the crazy super-​sizing of meals at some other Montréal places we visited), that was fine with us.
We ordered two desserts: a plate centered on a delicious, deeply flavored rhubarb semifreddo, and another featuring white chocolate, lime and sesame. The latter was a little subdued for my husband’s taste; more acidic notes would have livened things up a bit, but it was still delicious, just subtle.
Highly recommended. I think this place deserves another look, and would be willing to bet they have taken Unilocalers’ service complaints to heart. This is great food, fairly priced, with a terrific front of the house staff.

This wine bar /​restaurant was recommended by a local friend, but we had a very bad experience. Summary: Excellent food, decent wine, poor service.
My wife and I were seated with menus — and no wine list. At a wine bar. We had to ask for the wine list twice and the waiter, who seemed overwhelmed with everything, said something about having trouble finding one — at a wine bar.
Service was slow and inattentive. After finally getting some wine and ordering some cheeses to start, we ordered four small plates and asked them to be brought out two at a time. We had already been there an hour before we finally got the busy waiter to take our order beyond cheese.
Things were taking too long (we had budgeted two hours for wine and food before a concert) and the first small plates were taking too long, we asked to cancel the last two. They tried bringing all four at the same time even though the table wouldn’t have been big enough.
The place was hardly full at 8 pm yet the waiter and apparently the kitchen seemed overwhelmed. Again, food was excellent and creative — once we actually got it.

Cadre fort sympathique, assiette de charcuterie à tomber, pieuvre grillé excellente, tout comme la mousse de chocolat blanc. Petite deception sur le fondant au chocolat qui n’avait rien de fondant. Les accords de vin proposés par le sommelier étaient parfait. Service à la hauteur.

FOOD IS FIVE STARS! Come for the food and consider the wine a bonus; let’s hope they improve the service.
In detail:
I was incredibly disappointed in the food and drink scene in Montréal, which seems to be trying to be a foodie town and charging ridiculous prices for it. I come from the San Francisco Bay Area, where Michelin-​starred restaurants are QUITE a bit more affordable, and our sales tax is only 10% and not 15%…for such expensive excursions I wanted to be in culinary wet panties land. So so SO didn’t happen here (and I flat-​out refuse to pay more than $ 27 for an entrée – I eat only fish + vegetarian).
Accords WAS AMAZING. VERY farm-​to-​table oriented with a creative menu that rotates with the seasons and farms. Everything well presented. Had I been in Montréal one more day or week I’d have returned at least once to experience more of its offerings (LOTS of delicious seafood options, as well as veg too) and get some quality.
The ambiance is lovely – woody, subterranean, atmospheric, very quiet on the night I went. Would be nice to avoid the rowdy and touristy bar crowds.
My one complaint is the service. Normally I would actually knock off a star for this but I wanted to keep the 5-​star rating to praise the food. It was almost empty when I went, and three different servers could have helped me get water/​acknowledgment/​order taking sooner, but it took foreeeeever, especially due to how empty the place was. I was parched and should not have waited for water AND a menu AND getting my order taken when people who arrived after me were attended to sooner.
I was very insulted by that, and if I come back and it happens again the rating will be adjusted. But OH the wonderful FOOD! And nice wine selection too.

What a fabulous dining experience… where do I begin?
The four of us were half an hour early for our 7:15pm reservation but not to worry, we were seated immediately and enjoyed cocktails before we ordered. We decided to sit inside but there is an outdoor option. I was there for the wine so I asked her for something different that I can’t just get anywhere. She was very accommodating and brought me 4 ounces of Cotes Catalanes, Riberach número 8 (10 dollars). I thoroughly enjoyed it. The girls wanted cocktails so she also made something called «j’aime la vie». I tasted the fun purple drink that came and it was quite tasty.
We ordered 7 plates for the table and shared everything. Makes it a bit hard for pairing with wine so we got a bottle for the table and ordered 4oz each of the pairing that went with the agnolotti described below. For 50 bucks she suggested a bottle called Langue La Ferma. Great recommendation. The wine pairing that went with the agnolotti described below was an orange wine (what!!!) called «Que Pasa» from France, domaine leonine which was 13 bucks for the 4oz. Very enjoyable, especially to my friend who tends to prefer white over red.
Now for the 7 plates we ordered! All incredible… nicely plated and so delicious.
Mushrooms flaky pastry salsify purée, cipollini onions, crispy Parmesan. The favourite at 18 bucks.
Agnolotti stuffed with guinea fowl confit, green olives, gre des champs cheese, gunpowder mixed spices for 15 bucks. We ordered two since it only comes with 4 agnolottis.
Cornish hen, flageolet beans, fried sage, sauce perfumed with juniper berries. 18 bucks.
Trout declination. (Three ways). Caraway rillette, gravlax, unilateral cooked, confit garlic yogurt. 17 bucks.
To get our veggies in we ordered the Asparagus 2 ways for 15 bucks and had the most delicious quail eggs.
Duck tartar, black fig, foie gras in a cloth. Cabernet Sauvignon vinegar reduction for 15 bucks.
I loved that they split the bill into 4. Before tip the bill was 73.30.
Excellent food, wine, service, knowledgeable staff… can’t get any better!

Pairing food & alcohol is always a fun dining experience for me. While visiting Montréal, I wanted to take my mum to a restaurant that was a little more quirky than a regular eatery.
We shared 2 plates of oysters, paired with a glass of bubbly. Then we shared the «Crunchy Smokey», along with a glass of wine they paired with the dish.
The oysters were small & well cleaned. Big oysters make me gag, so does a rouge piece of shell. They were served on salt, with a lemon wedge, but with no side. Had to ask for hot sauce. Granted, the oysters themselves had a wonderful flavor, but I do like a hint of something on my oysters. The glass that the bubbly was served in was kinda neat. The bubbles streamed up in the glass in one solid stream. It was nifty.
The «Crunchy Smokey» was interesting. It was paired with a glass of IGT Sicilla, Grillo 2011, Italie. We started by tasting the wine before the meal, and it completely transformed with the food. Crunchy Smokey was good, but not fantastic. It was a fairly earthy dish, that tasted pretty good when you combined all the ingredients together. I’m not sure if I should say it was bland… there were flavors that stood out, but nothing that really popped. Kinda one note. Didn’t really excite my pallet.
I would have ordered something else on the menu, but I was sharing my meal with my mother, who only eats fish.
The setting was lovely. Rustic, dark & underground. A take on a wine cellar. The woman’s washroom had a lovely art installment of a mirror that also had moss within it. Very unique.
Overall, I don’t believe it was worth the price we paid. I understand that the wine’s are of a higher caliber, but for how much we ate & drank, it was a very expensive dinner. Not entirely sure I would suggest it, maybe if you’re with someone who’s willing to foot at 300+ bill.

Tout à fait correct, sympathique et agréable mais pas original ou mémorable non plus. Une option parmi d’autres pour un lunch d’affaires. Pour une soirée, pas sûr.

My friend and I are in Montréal for the weekend and we picked this place because it had good Unilocal reviews and we could get a reservation on Opentable. When we arrived, the entire restaurant was completely empty — that should’ve he been our first clue.
Our next clue should’ve been when the bread arrived… still frozen in the center. We asked our server for new bread, and he abashedly took away the offending bread and brought us a new loaf that was cold, but not frozen.
Then, we ordered. I don’t eat any pork, so I asked if the guinea fowl dish could be made without any lard, and the server assured me that he could do that. Shortly after, he returned and told me that the guinea fowl is actually baked with lard under the skin, so they couldn’t make it totally pork-​free. I changed my order to the squash dish — which my friend had also ordered, and added a half-​pour of the wine they recommended to accompany the dish. The wine was delicious — and the source of the second star — with the squash dish, and while the squash was tasty, it got boring quickly.
The server was not particularly attentive, which was weird since we were literally the only people eating there, and I felt kind of uncomfortable not speaking French. Then, without asking us if we wanted dessert, handed us dessert menus and wandered away for five minutes.
I live in a suburb of New York and attend school in Cleveland, so I’m used to New York-​quality food at New York prices and Cleveland-​quality food at Cleveland-​prices, but this was Cleveland-​quality food at New York prices.

Amazing terrace. Their lunches are very good, so is the dinner menu. They have interesting wines and good service, but the price to me is a bit expensive for what you get. Still, cute and cozy place in the Old Montréal.

Quel bel endroit!
Une ambiance calme (peut-​être plus occupée certains soirs, mais en début de semaine c’est parfait pour un souper en amoureux).
Pourquoi on y va? Pour tout: service impeccable, plats mémorables et très grand choix de vin.
C’est un bar à vin… Évidemment, le restaurant propose une carte des vins bien remplie. Des bouteilles prestigieuses sont exposés sur un des murs du restaurant. Le plus plaisant? L’expertise des serveurs à l’aise de répondre à toutes nos questions.
Les plats… Wow tout simplement! Savoureux et si bien présentés! (Mention spéciale pour le tartare de canard servi avec foie gras et figues: un délice!)
De plus, on nous a offert des digestifs à la fin de notre repas! Pourquoi? Aucune idée… mais ça a rehaussé encore plus le bonheur de la soirée.

Incredible resto… The place is very nice and great atmosphere. The service was PARFAIT. Everybody was incredible.
The food? Amazing and great choice… And the wine selections? Just phenomenal.

C’est un restaurant que je vais retourner de temps en temps. Oui, c’est dispendieux, mais bon, c’est une expérience. Je vais dépenser plus pour un billet de hockey. ;-)
Pouvoir boire de l’excellent vin au verre, différent à chaque plat, ça coûte pas mal plus cher quand on le fait dans un resto. Sinon, l’alternative c’est de se contenter d’une bouteille. Mais combien de fois on va prendre une bouteille dans un repas mais que le vin va bien avec un plat mais pas avec l’autre? Ça arrive trop souvent. Pas chez Accords.
Chaque plat te suggère un verre de vin en accord typique avec le plat, et un plat en accord non typique (en désaccord).
La nourriture est excellente. Les huitres en entrée sont superbes. Je vous conseille de prendre un verre de scotch en apéro, un Lagavulin 16 ans, et mettre un peu de scotch dans chaque huitre, c’est superbe.
Les entrées sont succulentes. Le rack de bison est débile. La cocotte de saucisse se liche jusqu’à la dernière goutte. La poitrine de pintade est tendre et juteuse.
Côté ambiance, c’est très beau, très élégant. Un peu trop éclairé à mon goût, mais juste un petit peu. J’aime quand c’est moins lumineux, mais ça c’est personnel.
Bien entendu la sélection de vin est débile mentale, mais il y a un bar complet. Quelques scotchs, mais pas assez. ;-)
C’est un restaurant qu’on se paye une fois par année. ;-)

You must try St. Michel’s Prettiest Brest (that’s actually the name of the dish)!
Guinea fowl breast with mushrooms, cauliflower, parsnips, and foie gras — amazing.
I don’t often write reviews (the last review I wrote was about 2 yrs ago), but Accords really wowed us our first night in Montréal coming from NYC.

The boify picked this place for us to relax during our Montréal trip — from a guidebook, no less! Awesome choice, boif ;)
We arrived around 5pm on a Saturday and we were the only patrons. Since the place is pretty booked for dinner, they let us know that we could only stay for 2 hours, which was fine for us as we were just stopping by for some vino. The indoors is decked out in cork/​wood and I felt like I was inside a wine barrel! The outdoor seating is so intimate and relaxing… absolutely perfect!
We asked the sommelier to help us choose a refreshing, not too fruity, white wine within $ 30 – 40. His choice was good — albeit little dry and tart — & affordable. We had a lovely time there just soaking in all of Montréal’s beauty. When we left, the outdoor area began filling up with dinner patrons… must be a popular place!
Oh, we heard the manager of the restaurant giving the entire waitstaff a little pep talk before the dinner rush — so cute! ;D

Accors est un bar à vins principalement, je vous conseille de prendre un bon vin (ou plusieurs!) avec un plateau de fromages vous né serez pas déçus!
Puis le restaurant semble délicieux aussi avec des menus gastronomiques alléchants!