Rumi

Came with several friends and acquaintances this past Saturday night for a birthday dinner. I’d never had Iranian/​Central Asian cuisine before, and man, did this place deliver. Beautiful interior, good service, great food (I was starving and ordered a truckload), and good company. The naan bread, lamb and beef appetizer, and plate of saffron rice and carrots with lamb hit the spot and left me almost unable to move from my seat by the time we were ready to leave! I will definitely want to be back next time I come to Montréal!

Notre dîner en groupe (10) était vraiment bien chez Rumi. Un service parfait et des plats absolument excellents. On commande des mezes et des plats, et on partage. Je recommande!

Delicious and affordable !
Just my type of place !
Food is great, tea is good !
Simple :) I’ll go back

Great middle eastern, with a creative twist, dishes. Try the lemon and mint juice, so refreshing and delicious. The grilled dishes were very good, but so was everything else really

Pour faire changement du sempiternel «deux oeufs, bacon», essayez le brunch de chez Rumi. Les saveurs et même le décor sont totalement dépaysants. J’ai testé et beaucoup aimé le tajine Jérusalem, mais tous les tajines semblent délicieux ! En plus, le service était impeccable. Ça vaut vraiment le détour.

Vert very bad value for money
Difficult to find something to really say about this restaurant, the food is your typical Lebanese food, ranging from good to ok
Unfortunately when we were there we could not order the hot plates and had to settle for cold and hot mezze
Humous was pretty blend the rest was ok /​good but not exceptional
Strangely if you order Humous, babaganoush or other spreads you don t get bred with it. You have to order it and pay for it and they don t even have Lebanese bred and only nan
This is my main problem with this restaurant is that they are taking you for a ride: order cold mezze you have to pay for bred, order $ 17 hot mezze you get 4 small ones poorly presented with nothing special
All in all $ 70 for 2 no alcohol just tea for an average experience if not below average … I let you judge but I m never coming back

Incroyable! Belle terrasse a l’ombré. La meilleure soupe dal de montréal!
Les brunchs sont aussi très originaux, ca change des oeufs pour une fois!

Lovely place, many dishes from all over Asia and Africa. Tasty but portions are ridiculously small. We thought it was a joke. The flavour is there, the presentation is there, the ambiance is lovely. Our waitress was clueless and indifferent. Would not recommend it as portions are too small fir your paying. There are many better restaurant in the area.

If you like middle eastern food and/​or you will find something (s) on this menu you will like.. .. not because you will find your favorite «signature dishes» but because you will have an affinity for and a general familiarity with the food.
The food was delicious — try the sweet potato tahini with naan as an appetizer.
The restaurant is in a leafy neighborhood; it was very relaxing to dine outside although the interior space was very inviting as well.
Some of the entrée items seemed overpriced but that was only ~20% of the menu
Servers were very friendly and likeable

Rumi, c’est la promesse de goûter quelque chose du Moyen Orient qui est très bon. Sans se centrer sur un pays particulièrement, c’est tout le moyen-​orient qui est représenté.
J’y suis été en groupe de 10 personnes et je dois dire que ça doit être la meilleure façon de découvrir ce restaurant. En groupe, le restaurant vous offre de faire le menu dégustation de groupe. Ce menu est en premier une dégustation sur pain naan de plus de 10 «trempettes» différentes. Ces trempettes sont très variées, il y a de l’humus, de la tzatziki et beaucoup d’autres choses qui goûtent bon. Ce qui est le fun, c’est que c’est illimité de pain naan qui est tellement moelleux sérieux. Donc, vous pouvez vous plaire à tous goûter et profitez du menu de groupe.
Le plat principal était le choix de 3 plats principaux: Agneau, poulet et légumes, tous apprêtés de façon Moyen Orient.
L’ambiance est très bien, on a un décor Moyen Orient.
Très belle expérience. Si j’avais à recommencer avec une sortie de couple, je prendrais 3 entrées différentes et un plat principal à partager.

The food here is DELICIOUS. Truly! The hummus was fresh & tasty, albeit a small portion, but it doesn’t come with anything — like pita!!! How can you have a dish on your menu that requires you to order something else just so you can eat it?!
The Kafke, wholesome all natural angus beef, was melt in your mouth sublime!
We were lucky enough to get comfortable in the one cushioned booth. I wish all their seating was like that. The regular tables & chairs lack the comfy authenticity that the food and general ambience boasts. Food quality 4 star, but comfort & pricey hummus solo just plain pissed me off.

What I like about Rumi is that they have hand picked some hard-​to-​come-​by dished from Middle East. Hence, the menu represents signature dishes of a culinary stand point and delicacies rather than well known and mainstream items. For example, the Sultan with orange-​zest and carrot rice on the menu, is a very rare Persian dish that is served only on very important occasions; The Rumi’s version is an absolutely delicious one.
Overall, Rumi is a place that permits exploring and enjoying good food from a vast geographical area.

Envie d’un brunch différent? Un brunch qui goûte autre chose que le gras et le cantaloup pas mûr? Essayez les brunchs du Rumi. Saveurs et dépaysement assurés. (J’ai beaucoup aimé le tajine Jérusalem.)
Attention toutefois, comptez 20 – 25 $ par tête.

Had a wonderful dinner at this resturant two nights ago. The service was very good, and our most attractive server very helpful with suggestion. We sat outside with lots of other people, a very cozy neighborhood atmosphere. I had the best soft drink of my life, «iced mint lemonade» unbelively good, lots of crushed ice, and vibrant, fragrant mint cut up very fine and of course the lemonade. Served in a attractive tall jar.
We had a rio of mezes, babaganoush, fresh cheese, olive oil, and spices and a new one on me Sunna squash with a dash of maple syrup and hot paprika, very good. And of course nanan. We, then had oven roasted leg of, lamb covered with spics and a thick tomato sauce, grilled vegetables and basmati rice executed perfectly.
Worth a try if you like middle eastern food.

Très bonne cuisine, un choix précis de saveurs et d’épices. on vient faire un petit voyage en orient, les mets sont délicats, les boissons et les desserts sont au même niveau de raffinement. Il faut apprécier des découvertes orientales, pleines de finesses, l’histoire et la culture des restaurateurs signent ce que vous dégustez.
On né vient pas là par hasard, on s’y attarde, une cuisine de grande qualité, très bien servie.

People seem to mistake Rumi for a Persian restaurant, or Arabic restaurant or Turkish restaurant or Afghan restaurant or Moroccan restaurant. In reality, it’s a mish-​mash of all of the above.
Run by 2 Jewish brothers who became Sufis (people who practice Sufism, which is a form of Islamic mysticism), Rumi is named after Jalal ad-​din Rumi, the medieval Persian poet and father of Sufism, who was born in present day Afghanistan, wrote in Persian and lived and died in present-​day Turkey and the restaurant’s décor and food is a testament to all these different regional influences as well.
The food is delicious, particularly the hibuscus flower drink and the roasted lamb shank with apricots. This is a wonderful place to come to for dinner with a friend or two.