text: Les Filles du Roy was the highlight of our stay in Montreal It was recommended to us by a friend who had been there twenty years ago and it made such an impression on him that he insisted we try it nIt would feel amiss to assign a decor to les Filles as it has no air of any conscious staging but rather the organic aesthetic of a fine manorial home that is hundreds of years old The atmosphere is simply exquisiteboth quality with silk curtains stately gilt appurtenances and massive carved antique furniture and comfortable and livedin with unplastered old stone walls an inviting fire blazing beneath the imposing mantel thriving Boston ferns ancestral portraits and even charming avian residents including Pedro the Blue Macaw Chico the African Grey and Coco the BudgienThe service was similarly impeccableour server was charming attentive and friendlynThe food was excellent hearty Quebecois farethe hot rich goat cheese puff pastry was particularly welcome in the freezing weather My dining companion ordered the maple cake for dessert on the recommendation of the server but I passed not being a fan of mapleand I deeply regretted after I tasted it The maple flavour was very delicate the texture was airy and creamy and it had some description of delectable crunchy flakes in a middle layernnNow I want to return in order to stay in their rooms