Bistro L’Aromate

We went with friends for the all you can eat tartar (beef, tuna, shrimp and seviche). The tartars were decent but not incredible. Service was friendly but nothing spectacular. Nice décor — we sat inside but there is an outside patio on de Maisonneuve.

Just pass on this one. There are bunch of other great restaurant around.
Service: BAD
Food: Nothing extraordinary
Price: High for the food and service quality
We had great experience in Montréal except this one for dinner.

Oh gods where do I start!
Service: The lady who was our server had no smile or even courtesy to explain the dishes.
Especially when you have a customer who is ready to spend 400 $ to 500 $.
Food:
Appetizer: Mediocre, nothing says WOW.
Entrée: Coworker and I ordered sole fillet, just a heads up don’t order it. I took one bite it gave me gag reflex, fish was smelling bad. We both had to return it back and the hostess responded that the chef is going to taste it and let us know.
Just heads up there are other places around which are a lot better!!!

This is a very fancy restaurant located in a downtown hotel. The décor is modern and romantic. The menu is very pricey with a good selection of items. We went as a group in town for business. We were seated promptly, and that was about as good as the service got. The waitress was so well-​meaning, but just so terrible at her job. She told us several times how it was her first day and apologized multiple times, but it was just so terrible for a restaurant this expensive. It took over 30 minutes to get our first cocktails to the table. I had to ask repeatedly for water refills. The food itself was excellent, once it finally got to the table. I had the salmon, which was outstanding in flavor and presentation. My husband had the beef tartare which was also very good. It seems the restaurant is known for the tartare. My friend had the salmon tartare and also thought it was good. For dessert we had the «opera cake» which was good but nothing outstanding. I’m torn between if I would return to this restaurant or not. On one hand, the food is great and the ambiance is nice. On the other hand the service was really subpar. I think if I was staying at the hotel I would return and maybe just sit at the bar. Otherwise I wouldn’t go out of my way to return here.

Excellent service, delicious food and great wine.
We had a large group on a Wednesday night. They were very attentive and took excellent care of us.
I enjoyed the vichyssoise and a beef with squash dish. I would like to eat that soup again and again. The vegetables on the beef dish were a bit sweeter than I would have liked, but I still enjoyed them.

Another one of those restaurants I always see on my way to the gym downtown. I’ve planned a sister date here for brunch (we were excited to try somewhere new!), and we got a spot on the terrace.
Good: Brunch had a limited selection, but it looked pretty. The décor is clean, the design is inviting and really gorgeous. I ordered the fish balls for an appetizer and it was really delicious. The grilled cheese (with duck confit) was amazing. That was probably my top 3 favorite grilled cheese.
Bad: I’ll start off with the service. We’ve waited a really long time for our appetizers to arrive. My sister ordered a yogurt, which had the consistency of porridge, and we were weirded out by how watery it was. Then after our appetizers, we waited about 35 mins to get our main plate. Seriously… I’ve watched other patrons that were seated after us get their meals before us. We also had a side salad, to which I’ve notice the greens aren’t even fresh… um this is a high end restaurant, I’d expect better. I had to flag our waitress to ask about our main plates because we’ve been waiting for awhile and she asked if we already finished our appetizers? Yeah lady, like half an hour ago, give me my food. After a bit of prompting, we got our food within 5 minutes. Was the grill cheese good? Yes. Was it worth waiting 35 minutes? No.
Bottom line: Not blown away by their cuisine, but if you want expensive (but delicious) grilled cheese with a nice terrace, then this is your spot. I’ll keep biking pass this place next time.

This is easily one of the best restaurants we visited in Montréal. The interior design is very artsy and warm. The Lobster Salad is an excellent choice and highly recommended. It comes with a whole lobster tail on the side, with the salad and generous helpings of lobster on the top. The lobster sauce, which resembled a creamy mayo/​hollandaise, was just the right finishing touch. The salmon salad is also very good. Try a duck entrée, you’ll see that the duck is prepared very moist and succulent. Best of all, no fat like Chinese restaurants! This restaurant is a must-​visit!

I just ordered the. Assiette de Cochonielles and it’s delicious, great quality of food with great presentation.,

Bön repas gastronomique, super table d’hôte! Si vous recherchez un hotel avec un bon resto et de l’ambiance, c’est la place! Prenez la tate au sucre réinventée!

Stayed at the hotel in this building. My filet mignon was cooked perfectly and the salmon tartar was also amazing!
Recommended and the wait staff was also friendly and courteous.

Food is discusting. Too expensive for nothing! No hostess,(in a supposed to be high-​end restaurant?) The manager looks very stressed and disorganised. Lack of communication between the staff for sure. He seems very arrogant and rude to his staff, a lot of tention there! I dont reccomend that place to anybody.

Went here on a Monday night during a recent trip to Montréal. We were wandering around looking for somewhere to eat at around 8:30pm and had trouble finding anywhere appealing and open. So, we ended up here.
I ordered a burger and my husband got a club sandwich. The waitress warned me that the burger would take about 25 minutes to cook and suggested an appetizer. Since I’d gotten the same suggestion at another restaurant the night before, and the appetizer also took 20 minutes, I opted out.
When the burger came half an hour later, it was understandable why it would take so long to cook. It had to be at least two inches thick. It was more like a huge slab of meatloaf than a burger. It was completely impossible to take a bite through the entire burger. Partway through eating it, I ended up slicing the patty in half horizontally and discarding half of it, just so I could eat the thing. Some of the toppings on the burger were tasty, but the burger itself was dry. The fries were also rather cold.
My husband got a club sandwich, which was also dry, but he enjoyed the fries.
The total bill for a burger and a sandwich and a couple of non-​alcoholic drinks came to over $ 60. Definitely not worth the price, and I wouldn’t want to eat here again even if it were cheaper.

Went there for lunch on a week day.
It cost 65 $ for two, no drinks.
The salad was good, I have to admit, but there were like 5 tiny slices of beet … :)
The salmon tartar was very ordinary. My roommate made one better than that, and I was very disappointed.
The beed was good, but too salty.
Overpriced. Though i enjoyed seating outside.
Service was so so… it took them 15 minutes to bring the bill (on lunch time. !)

I came to this restaurant several times for their good food. However, what always stands out is the terribly bad service. The waitresses are unfriendly and very slow. The food is over priced given poor service.

Mediocre at best. Service is terrible. Food is OK presentation is good. For the price you can do much much better in montreal.

Superbe endroit, bien situé, petit bijou du chef Jean-​François Plante.
La déco est moderne, la salle a manger sur 2 étages, salle de bain aux 2e en passant par l’escalier en colimaçon. Vraiment joli.
Ce qui nous a déplu se situe plutôt au niveau du rapport qualité/​prix. Et on parle d’un ’ major désagrément ‘.
Lorsqu’on paie 35 $ pour un steak d’entrecôte avec la mention AAA, on né s’attend pas a un morceau plus ou moins bon, dur, et sans sauce. en effet, cette pièce est goûteuse, mais pas tout a fait assez pour se passer d’un petit plus. Les a cotés n’ont pas déplu par contre, le gratin de pommes de terres fumées et les croquettes a la crème étaient meilleures que la viande.
Nous avons aussi pris les fonds d’artichaud au canard. C’était joli, bien présenté et bon. Mais 3 boulettes un peu méconnaissables pour 17 $ encore une fois, je m’attendais a vraiment plus.
Sans compter que nous nous sommes fait offrir du champagne en entrée, pourquoi pas… Sans nous mentionner le prix. Et nous avons vraiment fait le saut lorsque l’addition est arrivée.
Pour ce prix-​la, on a mangé au meilleur restaurant de Montréal en matière de gastronomie, et nous sommes ressortis repus et satisfaits et ’ flabbergastés’. Ici, Rien de Wow dans notre assiette, rien de magique dans l’ambiance. L’aromate né fait tout simplement pas le poids pour le rapport qualité/​prix, il y a trop de concurrence plus abordable.

C’est vraiment un beau restaurant, ya une belle ambiance, le service est bon mais le rapport qualité prix n’est simplement pas là.
C’est plate quand tu fini ton assiste en te disant tu aurais pu avoir mieux pour beaucoup moins cher.
Vraiment déçu.

Simply delicious! Came here at the recommendation of the concierge at our hotel.
Before you continue to read my review please be forewarned that I am an American city girl who knows nothing about French food.
The décor was modern, clean, upscale, and inviting.
We started off with a few cocktails. Not very strong and quite tasty.
The bread that was brought to us was pretty tasty, and the olive oil on the side (with olives in it) was a nice touch.
For appetizers I got the soup du juor, which was a delicious tomato basil. My friend got the special of the day, which was a tuna tartar. Hers was a little underwhelming.
For entrees I got the salmon tartar and she got the steak. Both entrees were absolutely DELICIOUS! And the French fries that come with were a perfect match. Our entrees were sooooooo good. We ate every last bite! We were nice and stuffed by the time we were done. Wish we would’ve left room for dessert!
Our server was very kind, but the service was a bit slow. Again I may be biases b/​c I come from a land of people who rush.
All in all we had a great experience. I would definitely return.

I visited a handful of times during my short business trip to Montréal — twice for drinks and once for breakfast.
The bar was pretty comfortable, and the bartender was happy to show off her mixing skills by coming up with something unique whenever I asked her to «surprise me». The drinks are pretty expensive though, which is unfortunate.
For breakfast on my way back home, I stopped in for the eggs benedict. It was beautiful. The eggs were PERFECTLY poached, the herb potatoes were delicious, and the meal was rounded out with amazing baguette toast. The entire meal was masterfully executed. The wait staff was attentive, polite, and friendly. Honestly, nothing but good things to say about my last visit here.

So we are visiting from NYC and staying in the beautiful establishment connected to the restaurant. We decided to sleep in and try the brunch offered down below in the Bistro L’Aromate.
After viewing the menu which displays exorbitant prices for EGGS… etc. we decide to just spend the money because, after all, if they are charging prices like this then it must be at least pretty good.
Sadly, NO. I don’t even know how one messes up eggs. EGGS. Scrambled no less. But this restaurant did twice. I received the Mishmash… which is scrambled eggs accompanied with sausage and peppers. They arrived and had so much oil that they were inedible. Then I kindly ask if they wouldn’t mind just giving me plain scrambled eggs. I didn’t want to complicate things. They are then returned again to me completely runny and just mushy and gross. Potatoes on my fiances plate were undercooked. This is basic cooking mistakes. We are not discussing flavor profiles here. Just make a decent egg.
Check is then received and for a couple eggs scrambled and a petite and I mean PETITE salad, I was charged for the dish alone 17 dollars. Are you kidding me???
Please, I am telling you… go anywhere else for at least breakfast. Do not spend this kind of money. I am upset and disappointed that we did. But lesson learned. I hope I can help you BEFORE making the mistake we did.
Overpriced and not good. Go somewhere else.

C est completement deguelasse cet edroit! On a attendu une heure pour avoir notre commande, et la moitie de la table a ete malade apres avoir mange la! Trop cher! Pas de qualite! N allez surtout pas la!!!

Un bel endroit, l’effort a été mis sur Le design, qui reste confortable. On gagnerait à baisser le niveau sonore de la musique, qui finit par géner les conversations.
Le service doit être amélioré, il n’est pas à la hauteur des prétentions du lieu. Le personnel est gentil, mais la formation semble inégale. Deux convives à notre table n’ont pas eu leurs couverts changés entre deux plats, on né vous ressert pas l’eau si facilement, et pour le vin, débrouillez vous. Les assiettes sont lourdes, difficiles à déposer, le personnel de salle a du mal à faire évoluer les plats naturellement.
Une très belle carte, mais qui né tient pas toutes ses promesses.
Les réussis testés ce soir: la figure fraîche et son chèvre, une mousse de volaille délicieuse, des desserts au rendez-​vous en particulier la poutine. Là je n’en dis pas plus, il faut goûter.
Des plats à améliorer: un risotto trop salé, le tartare aux trois saumons trop épicé, le ris de veau trop confit. La cuisine doit regoûter ses plats, avec humilité, et donner plus de place aux ingrédients et à leurs saveurs. C’est tout à fait possible car on voit bien qu’il y a du travail réalisé et un désir d’offrir une belle expérience au client.
Au total, un trois étoiles car le lieu ambitionne une exigence supérieure, en accord avec ses prix et sa carte. L’équipe en est capable.

I arrived with my group of 4 at your location downtown on Saturday Feb. 11^th. I was very dissapointed with the outcome of your hostess service. 2 of my group first came in and waited to be seated.
As there was no hostess, they sat themselves. I then came with my partner and waited 10 minutes at the entrance area and there was no one to confirm our reservation and seat us. This is considered a high end resto, you would think that a hostess would be present to welcome us and confirm our reservation?
Ate the end of our meal service, I had to go see the hostess who was chatting in the back to ask her if she can confirm me in the system as I had reserved through OPEN TABLE and her response was «Oh well that’s going to take me forever to find you in the system?»
Excuse me??? I am a customer that spent 260 $ at your restuarant to have your hostess comment me this? I don’t think so, her response should of been «Of course, what is your name i will take care of this right away and ensure you receive your Open table points».
I constantly eat out and I have never received such poor service like this, I am so insulted.

Bel endroit tendance, belle carte, terrasse urbaine en plein sur le trottoir. Portions généreuses mais mon linguini au canard était somme toute ordinaire, le canard un peu trop sec. Les prix sont correct pour la qualité. Hélàs, j’ai trouvé le service putôt lent, ce qui est est ennuyeux pour le midi, mais attentionné.

Had a very high-​end meal at Bistro L’aromate in their new location on Maisonneuve Ouest.
The restaurant is beautifully designed, its new, cool, lots of young wealthy people hanging around, and a bunch of babes that work there.
Upstairs it’s a little quieter and private– we were coming in with a group of 12 and placed upstairs by the bathrooms (not great) but were moved to another table over looking the downstairs of the restaurant.
For the most part people were ordering surf+turf which was presented as you’d expect (it had better be @ 80 $ a plate) and came with a little bit of lobster, a filet with mashed potato, and some scallops.
I think our waiter had the feeling this was going to be one of those «expense your business» dinners and was a little pushy with the wine suggestions. One person wanted a glass of Port but instead he brought out a bottle of desert wine insisting we have that instead– of course the majority of the table jumped on that bandwagon and he pops it quickly (oh look… it was 375 $). The type of stuff that would really drive me nuts if I was paying with my own dough. That doesn’t make it OK, though.
We had also called ahead and left a CC number for the meal to be charged to — but the restaurant didn’t know how to place the charge without having the physical card there. They said they couldn’t do it– but obviously they could… so it just took them apprx. 30 minutes to figure out how.
The meal itself was delicious in every regard — diners just need to be diligent and make sure things don’t get too out of hand with those drinks!