text: This was our favorite restaurant of we visited in Montreal As others have noted the menu emphasizes local Quebecois ingredients with contemporary French technique and lots of creative farm to table choices There is a small but well curated list of wines by the glass my husband barely drinks so I cannot comment on bottles The location in Old Town is convenient to many hotels and sights but the restaurant itself is on a quiet street and the outdoor terrace tucked behind an iron gate is a very sweet place to sitnnI was puzzled by the complaints about servicewe visited earlyish on a Friday night so things were not too crowded and we had consistently excellent friendly attentive service The woman who took our orders may have been the sommeliershe was very knowledgeable about the wine list and recommended a pairing that was fantastic just right for everything we ordered I cannot emphasize this enough in response to the other comments At least when we visited SERVICE WAS THE BEST WE ENCOUNTERED IN MONTREAL FROM THE START TO THE FINISH OF OUR MEAL And this in a town where restaurant servers seem on the whole to be a pretty professional bunchnnWe ordered four dishes a cheese plate with two local cheeses that were terrific a generous green salad that we easily shared sweetbreads in a coffeebased sauce and the housemade agnoletti wth guinea hen confit All were fantastic I consider sweetbreads to be a true test of a kitchens abilities they are delicious when well prepared but an obvious disaster if the chef cuts corners on the prep or does not know what she is doing These were spoton Ditto the housemade pasta with a light but creamy sauce and that fantastic confit guinea hen Portions are closer to the tapas end of things but given their richness and flavor and the crazy supersizing of meals at some other Montreal places we visited that was fine with us nnWe ordered two desserts a plate centered on a delicious deeply flavored rhubarb semifreddo and another featuring white chocolate lime and sesame The latter was a little subdued for my husbands taste more acidic notes would have livened things up a bit but it was still delicious just subtle nnHighly recommended I think this place deserves another look and would be willing to bet they have taken Yelpers service complaints to heart This is great food fairly priced with a terrific front of the house staff