Stash Café

Very good food and nice atmosphere. The piano player was there and that was a nice touch. The beet soup is amazing. Salty but in a good way. Nice and clean. I had the Charcuterie plate. It was pretty good. The cheese wasn’t anything special. I liked the Lard and the meat with prunes in the middle. Finally I finished with two kielbasa. They were amazing, nice and crisp and fresh, not as salty and fake tasting as store bought.
Try it out. It was worth sitting at the bar since it was Valentines day and the tables were all booked.

We were visiting from the US, and while wandering Old Montréal decided on Stash. We had an exceptional meal with a very friendly waiter who took the time to answer questions and make recommendations. Prices were very reasonable (especially for Old Montréal), and portions were sizable. Polish doesn’t seem the obvious choice for Montréal, but we are so happy that we decided to eat there. Whenever we make a return to Montréal, we will definitely return to stash for another delicious meal!

If you’re looking for Real authentic polish food, look no more! Thankfully, I went through the trouble for you .to find you real authentic polish food. This place is situated on St paul Ouest in the old port right on the other side of Bonaparte resto qnd the tokyo Sushi Bar. It’s little hard to see it. It’s tucked away and pretty dark at night. I think the point of it is to make it super exclusive and hard to find. Lot’s of people coming in and out. It was very busy and polish food doesn’t take quick to prepare if it’s prepared with quality.
The ambiance is very calm and sophisticated. The age for people may vary! I came on a Friday at 9pm and I saw people around their 35 – 45. I guess it attracts an older audience who would like to discover something else other than poutine ahaha
There was live music at this bar. It was a man playing piano. He’s got really cool skills and he was very into it! Kudos to you !!
Service: I waited around 20 minutes for my food. I don’t think it was long at all! I think it was great that it took them long because like I said quality is important over quick service. However, The waitress took my order very quickly! She was very pleasant and sweet! I was asking her trick question like if there was any spaghetti or rice just to make sure the restaurant is authentic. To my surprise, they only had traditional polish dishes.
I had the soupe Flacki. They were a little bit undercooked but the flavours were there.
I had patato pancakes «Placki» i found it was way too breaded and not enough potato mash. It was also a bit too greasy in my honest opinion.
For my main course, I had Golabki. Really awesome! The beef was perfectly tender and not too saucy. I really adore the dill «cucumbers» it’s not the boring pickles but they marinated a cucumber and sliced it into many thin pieces and tastes marinated with dill! Awesome thumbs up.
The patatos were not the best. They were dry and blandd. I used the sauce from the golabki to get it some seasoning hmmm geez.
There is nothing else to add other then it’s a perfect choice for polish authentic food.
Will definitely be back with polish friends! I know they will appreciate it very much !

Pour le deuxième fois nous sommes ici. On a juste fini demander les plats maintenant, mais je me sen pas bien parce que l’attitude de ce serveuse est très mal. C’est une première fois que je sen ça à Montréal.

We were staying in Old Montréal during a conference my husband attended in late October. We were looking for a family friendly restaurant near out hotel with decent food and this fit the bill and the food was excellent, I’m half Polish and know good Polish food.
We had pierogi, potato pancakes and cabbage rolls and all tasted like my grandma’s homemade dishes, only better (sorry grandma). The waiter was pleasant and social and when we forgot our bib after our meal, he called our hotel and let us know!
Great food, great atmosphere, live piano during dinner – all around great experience! Will visit again when we return to Montréal.

Ahhh so delicious!!! My Polish teacher took me out for a beautiful lunch here at Stash Café. In the past they are not opened on Mondays, but we were both surprised they were open November 30!!! A Monday and Andrzejki (St. Andrew’s Day)!
The lovely lunch at 12:30 was peaceful, 3 – 4 tables of customers. Very quiet. The interior is absolutely gorgeous. You can impress anyone here!
Stash makes good traditional Polish dishes such as
— pierogi $ 13 we asked them for a mix. So we had some with meat stuffing, some with cheese and potato (l love this one), and the rest with mushrooms and cabbage, topped with caramelized sweet onions
— krokiet $ 4.50 one crispy roll (like a fried dumpling) with mushrooms or meat. I had the mushrooms and it was great, I gobbled it up fast.
— barszcz soup, which is beets soup, deep wine red in colour and supposedly spicy. Stash’s is not spicy at all, but still flavourful and quite nice. It’s best when hot so don’t let it sit!
The best Polish dishes are perhaps at your Polish friend’s home, but Stash Café fills the void and with wonderful service. They have Polish beer and wine, as well as the incredibly delicious crepes with cheese, topped with sugar, sweet strawberries and fruits. You do in fact eat this as dinner in Poland, but here in Montréal this is a dessert. And it was sooooooo delicious. This is officially my favourite crêpe of all time.

One reviewer below went on & on about how she knows Eastern European food & how Stash is probably good for tourists who basically don’t know better. I must strongly disagree with everything that person wrote. We have had a lot of Eastern European food, both in Europe, San Francisco and New York & Brooklyn. Good friends of our are Polish & have cooked for us as well. Additionally, we’ve made at least 18 long trips to Hungary where they serve food similar to Polish cuisine so we’ve had our share of sausages, borscht, etc.
We ate at Stash Café twice during a visit to Montréal in August this year. On our second visit we also took a German friend. Quite frankly, we all loved this place and the food. Two other of our friends dined at Stash Café in the last month & also loved the food. The interior is cozy & has some nice Polish artworks on display. On both our visits were walk-​ins, but it does tend to get busy, so perhaps reservations are a good idea.
We had numerous dishes between us: bigos, pierogi, kielbasa, golabki (stuffed cabbage), & a wonderful charcuterie plate & even the smalec (a spread of bacon fat). Everything we had was delicious! Service was friendly & helpful. On our second visit the place was mobbed so the orders took a bit longer but, heck, we were on vacation so we just enjoyed our beer & conversation & the very nice, live, piano music.

This place is fantastic. Staying in town from California and ate here twice in a week. The service was really friendly. The food was delicious. And there was an old time pianist playing pop songs. It looks like NY mafia place without the kitsch. I recommend.

Always visit the Stash Café when i come to Montréal!!! It’s one of my favourite restaurants.
It can be hard to get a table, so we always try to arrive early.
Love the piano accompaniment with dinner.

Hello everyone !
Were at this place about month ago. For dinner. Came especially because of live piano music. Came around 8.30 pm for dinner and live music was already finished. What sense to lie people that you have dinner with live music? Do both understand .
I definitely know what means polish food same as all European food as we are from eastern part of Europe. PEOPLE ATTENTION: this place is extremely overpriced and they have no any idea what is Eastern Europe food ! This is probably interesting for tourists who never tried European food and not aware how it should look like. Prices are overpriced but if it was good real authentic polish food I would never write this kind of review !
!!!Polish borsch !!!: it was just water of beet color without nothing inside. Just water !!! Looked like liquid from CANNED BEETS ROOTS from grocery store for 2 dollars a can .OMG it was disaster, not borsch ! Just go google and check real photos of polish borsch and thin ten times before ordering borsch at this place !!!
We ordered two glasses of wine and never even see our waitress again to propose us any other wine or water or whatever … BECAUSE SHE WAS BUSY !!! She was having her dinner just in from of us at bar counter. She was eating so rushly and greedy, tasting all her fingers all the time !!! After 20 min we ask another girl what problem with our waiter and she just answered — she is busy she is eating habits !!! SERIOUSLY !!! You have customers oh my god and you are in Canada, what kind of service you provide to your customers for prices you take from them!!!

Nice restaurant in Old Montréal. Customer service was friendly and especially I liked the interior design, fresh roses on each table.
We ordered Bigos dish but were brought Stroganoff instead (I think the waiter mixed up the orders because we did have some questions about their Stroganoff). We wanted to return it at first but we were in a hurry so just kept the dish, and it was good. I did not like the fact that Stroganoff came with potato pancakes, that’s just too greasy, I would have preferred boiled potatoes instead.
I ordered barszcz soup and it was just a simple beet broth. I was told this is traditional Polish barszcz. It was good but I prefer regular borscht that comes with beets and veggies inside. So I think that $ 5 for just a broth is too expensive.
We also ordered Pierogis appetizer: 4 different Pierogis (meat, cheese and potatoes, and cabbage and mushrooms). I was not a fan of this dish, also very expensive ($ 7).
I would come back to try another dish, but wouldn’t order their small and expensive appetizers.

Super happy with our meal. We enjoy Polish food when we can find it and this little restaurant is a gem. we started with the Borscht, a beet broth soup that was served hot with a dollop of sour cream. Then some fresh Rye bread with butter. For the main course we all ended up getting the mixed plate. It had Perogies, a Potato Pancake, a meat croquet, and the most delicious sauerkraut! It was rich and filling. The sauerkraut was cooked with beef and sausage providing a flavor that was out of this world!!! The meal ended with coffee and a fruit cobbler of choice. I had the peach with crème-​fresh on top! The ambiance was comfortable and the service was wonderful. We felt welcome as guests of the restaurant and our server made sure that all of our needs were met. If I lived closer, I would become a regular.

On our first night in Montréal we walked over to Rue Saint-​Paul and over to Stash. The restaurant was chosen from the Unilocal reviews and it was pretty close to our hotel. Rue St-​Paul is an awesome little street with numerous restaurants and shops.
I have had Polish food in Philadelphia but Stash is different. The Polish places I have I been to before were mostly in bars or semi cafeteria style but Stash is a really, really nice place. The space is very old world inside and warm with a wood and stone interior. We were there in June and the windows were open. They had a live piano player that only added to Stash’s charm.
Everything we had we really great, including the Pierogis. I had the Polish Stroganoff and that was pretty darn incredible. The potato pancakes were the best I have ever tasted. The dessert was also excellent. Our server was great and helped us with our choices. The prices were reasonable.
Stash is a great restaurant to try in Old Montréal. It won’t disappoint.

Wow! We weren’t expecting to have old-​world Polish food on a warm June evening, but man, was it good! We enjoyed the perogies, potato pancakes and duck, among others. The Borsch was a consume and a little too salty for my taste, so that would be the only thing I would avoid. The service was friendly.
Oh yes, the piano player was a nice touch too. Varied and fun song selection.
Try it, you’ll love it! I will be back!

There was live music! The piano player was a talented gentleman who sat at the entrance! The music added to the yummy food eating experience. Went for dinner with a good friends of mine on 4÷18÷2015.
For drinks we got a bloody caesar, vodka with tonic, and vodka with club soda. For dinner we ordered bigos (roasted meat, sausage, and lots of cabbage), krokiety (breaded meat and mushroom crepes with a side of salad and side of potato salad), and golabki (cabbage rolls stuffed with pork and rice with side of pickled red cabbage). Bigos was well made and tasty but did not look so appetizing. Krokiety had two separate crepes, one was meat and other was mushroom. The salad and potato salad were not so different from the American versions. Golabki was good as well and the pickled cabbage was a good compliment in regards to flavor but a lot of cabbage on the plate.

Darling, warm, and inviting Polish restaurant in the heart of old port Montréal with live music, and helpful staff.
PROS: delicious food, inviting ambience
CONS: it’s a little pricey for what you get
If you’re nervous about Polish food or don’t know what to order, get the polish sausage dinner; it comes with two sides of your choice and anyone would love it, even picky eaters!

This is fancy Polish food. I’ve only been to homey, blue collar Polish restaurants in the US. I got my favorite dish, Bigos. It wasn’t the best Bigos I’ve ever had but still really good.
They have Zywiec. You should drink that when eating Polish food. :)
There aren’t a lot of good, not too overpriced restaurants in Old Montréal, so this is a gem!

Wooden furnitures, red and orange lamps, cozy cottage, this place screams Old Port. We were seated by a very welcoming waitress which kept a smile throughout our entire meal. Since it was my first time trying Polish food I went with the beginner’s plate which offered me pierogi, placki, krokiet, and bigos. Genius isn’t it?
The plate was like a Christmas present to me because I was excited to try everything but I wasn’t sure what to expect. Everything was delicious especially the pierogi (dumplings) and the krokiet which was a roll covered in breadcrumbs with a meat filling. I don’t know which kind meat the krokiet’s filling was (maybe beef) but it didn’t matter because it quickly slid down into my belly! As for the pierogi, those were heavenly. The dough was al dente and the filling was rich. I want more of those miniature pillows!

Loved the food so much we went back the next day for drinks and appetizers, before we went over to Garde Manger. Really impressed with the selection and quality of the food, and highly recommend getting a number of appetizers to share. Once you decide on the appetizer you like the most, order it as a meal if you’re staying for dinner.
My favourite are the potato pancakes and make sure to ask for both the sour cream and the Apple sauce. Apple crumble for dessert if you have room.

So why go to a Polish restaurant while visiting Montréal? Well if it has great reviews, looks really inviting, and if it happens to be snowing and freezing outside (like it was when we went), then I think those are good enough reasons.
Actually I had one of the more distinctive soups that I’ve ever had at this restaurant, hence the four stars. I’ve looked everywhere but I really haven’t found a place here in the Bay Area that could duplicate the «zurek» soup (sour rye malt soup) I had here. Simply wonderful…
Sure the sausages and pierogies were great as well, but on a cold winter’s day that soup is what I remember most.

Polish colleague of mine brought me to Stash Café years ago and the restaurant was on my list to revisit since then. We were a group of nine and at first we started kind of slowly with the drinks and orders, as soon as our choice was made appetizers and mains started coming quickly, and orderly.
The food in Stash was perfect for the rainy fall evening, filling, warming and quite delicious. I had the tripe soup, which was amazing, very well seasoned and the tripe was excellently cooked. The two starters we tried were the herring, single piece of fish garnished with apples and sour cream, and the potato pancakes. The potato cakes were just Ok, but I’m a big fan of the herring. The main courses were perfectly prepared. If you opt for schnitzel you would not regret and it comes with wonderful red beet salad. The star of the dinner with no doubt were the pierogi, there are three flavours to choose from, the meat ones being my favourite. We naturally went with the Polish and Czech beers as a drink choice, but the menu offers good wine list and some vodkas if you’d like to consume your herring appropriately.
The restaurant has cute atmoshphere, the little benches used for seating may be a little bit uncomfortable if you fit three grown up people in them. However, the good food compensates for it. The live piano performance is wonderful. I can easily see myself coming again for some soup and pierogi, and glass or more of wine.

Avant de commencer, je dois dire que je né connais rien à la cuisine polonaise et que ce restaurant constitue mon premier contact avec cette cuisine. Tout ce que je sais de la cuisine polonaise, c’est qu’elle comporte beaucoup de patates. Allons y maintenant pour la critique.
Côté ambiance, ce petit resto est parfait. La déco fait très «vieille Europe» et l’édifice historique dans lequel il est sis y contribue grandement. Je sais aussi que le soir, on y retrouve un pianiste qui joue de la musique très vivante et que l’endroit est souvent bondé en saison haute.
Côté service, c’est là que ça se gâte un peu. Les serveuses sont toutes très gentilles, mais bon Dieu qu’elles sont lentes! La journée où j’y suis allé, c’était un après-​midi pas mal calme. Elles étaient trois au bar à né rien faire et ça leur a pris beaucoup trop longtemps à me remarquer dans l’entrée. Cette lenteur aura été caractéristique de notre repas, l’allongeant bien plus qu’il s’en faut.
Côté bouffe, c’était bon, mais sans plus. En fait, je dirais que c’était ordinaire. Sourtout le dessert. Peut-​être que c’était de l’excellente cuisine polonaise, je n’en sais rien, mais je né sais pas si j’y retournerais… Le meilleur plat que j’ai mangé — surprise totale — c’était mon entrée: du hareng mariné servi avec des oignons rouges, une salade de pommes râpées et de la crème sûre, ça m’a beaucoup plu. Vint ensuite, un sanglier en daube aux oignons et au vin, avec chou rouge braisé et pommes de terre. Le sanglier était trop cuit pour être un rôti (ce qui était écrit au menu), mais pas assez pour être «en daube», donc relativement dur. La sauce était goûteuse, mais très grasse et les patates très fades. Mon élément préféré était le chou, qui acidulé, coupait bien le graisseux du reste de l’assiette. Vint enfin le pire élément du repas: une espèce de croustade aux pêches assez infecte. Le croustillant était mou, dans le genre «j’ai plusieurs jours de réfrigération derrière moi» et les fruits criaient la conserve. Le seul plus de l’assiette: le tout était noyé de smetana, une crème sûre sucrée. Hélas il n’y en avait pas assez pour masquer complètement le goût désagréable de cette chose. Mon compagnon, pour sa part, avait commandé le barszcz (version polonaise de la soupe aux betteraves ukrainiennes) goûteux, mais liquide, suivi de l’assiette du débutant, constituée de patates, de choucroute, de patates, de saucisse, de patates, le tout accompagné de patates. Ah j’oubliais: il avait aussi des patates. Son assiette n’était pas froide, mais pas chaude non plus, probablement à cause de la lenteur du service. Déjà que des pierogis ce n’est pas excellent, imaginez s’ils sont à peine tiède! Son dessert lui, était identique au mien, mais farci de pommes, ce qui le rendait un peu plus agréable, malgré la trop forte dose de canelle.
Voilà ma critique du Stash Café. Mon verdict? C’était intéressant de découvrir cette cuisine pratiquement inconnue, surtout au Québec, mais je n’y retournerai probablement pas. Par contre, si jamais j’y vais encore, je m’assurerai que ce sera à une heure de plus grand achalandage. Le service sera sûrement plus rapide et les plats encore chauds.

Le meilleur restaurant Polonais de Montréal, dans une ambiance chaleureuse et tellement typique. Un pianiste accompagne le repas bien copieux et délicieux… Dans la pure tradition Polonaise. Au passage, si vous y allez la première fois, choisissez le menu débutant accompagné d’un vin blanc Hongrois ou d’une bonne bière.