text: We ate here during a visit to Montreal this summer August Hating rejection I emailed a week or so in advance for a reservation and they phoned me back to confirm After a day of hoofing it around the city we walked right past this place twice since it does not have a sign However upon calling them for help we found it right there in plain sight We were seated promptly and then sat there forsaken and forlorn for about ten minutes my pet peeve The reason for this was apparently that there was just one waitress for the front seating area and she took all the time needed to explain dishes and answer questions for each table hence the wait Some selfabsorbed diners love to inordinately monopolize servers with their inane queries instead of using the internet Anyhow if you did your five minutes of homework you know to order pork and foie gras We started with the delicious fried zucchini blossoms and a simple salad then on to the stuffed pigs foot with foie It was awesome and awesomely rich My wife who is nearvegetarian threw herself with gusto into disassembling this earthy collagenladen treat served atop mashed potatoes cooked vegetables and a thick demigravy Whatever magical treatment they did there was absolutely no stink of cochon associated with this trotter only yummy goodness Yes we did finish it but there was no room for dessert We had a French red the details of which now escape me The place is pretty loud and tightly packed I would not call it comfortable more downtothebusinessofeating a money mill A table of Asian tourists nearby provided diversion in the form of ordering and photographing endlessly an entire pigs head served with a lobster as crown Wish I had room for more