Q: I'm surprised by the amount of high ratings that this restaurant has. And I can agree with the low ratings this place has. This place pretty much BLOWS and represents LV pretentiousness to the max. My friend and her boyfriend booked reservations for 4 people at 8p on a Saturday night. My friend was told it would be a 20 minute wait and was told that when a table becomes available, the restaurant would call us. Well...there was no call within 20 minutes and by 50 minutes, still no call so I decided to ask about the status of our table. Here's the conversation I had with the hostess. Me: Hi, could I please get the status of our table? We had a reservation for 8p. Hostess: Name please? Me: (tells the name it's under) Hostess: oh we called for this reservation 10 minutes ago; it was for 2 people right? Me: No. It's for 4 people and we didn't receive a call. What was the number you called? Hostess: Uh...(checks call log) we called 10 minutes ago. Well, there's a table right there for four now... Me: (frustrated and almost furious) Ok, let me get the rest of my party. So my friend didn't in fact get a call from the restaurant. Bad impression number 1. Bad impression number 2: We get seated and the menus aren't earth friendly--they're printed on paper and was used as a placemat. The bread was soft, decently flavored and they did offer packaged cracker type bread sticks...Not sure I'm diggin' that because this restaurant was kinda expensive so I don't think it was appropriate to offer packaged items like that.... At this point, I needed to order a half of bottle of wine to myself to somewhat enjoy the dinner. The wine selection was ok; I think it's equivalent to Olive Garden in my opinion. Items that I had a chance to sample and purchase--(Bad impression 2.75) 1.) clams: it was ok. The red sauce wasn't anything spectacular and the clams they used were meaty and big. 2.) Gnocchi: not good. I didn't even eat half of it. It was puny and reminded me of rice a roni....The sauce was overly meaty and somewhat gross. 3.) Veal: That was actually pretty good. Flavorful and made to the right temperature. Cheers to that DOCG. :P 4.) Margarhita Pizza: Nothing special. Sauce and cheeses kinda tasted like something you would eat out of a lunchables pizza kit. Definitely had SO much better. The restaurant service's was somewhat uncoordinated, and the food's quality/taste did not match up to it's prices. (lower quality tasting food for high prices...no thank you).

A: negative

Q: Avoid this dump. Firegrill represents everything that's wrong with chain restaurants - cavernous spaces, Holiday Inn low-rent decor, sauces and soups that come out of industrial-sized drums, and robotic waitstaff trained by some wage slave loser with a "MANAGER" pin on his polyester shirt. It just flat out sucks, and if you waste your time and money here you're wasting the opportunity to experience a cool bistro or cafe somewhere else in Montreal. Don't do it.

A: negative

Q: So without a single notion of what a Pasty actually was, I joined my usual "Find unique and interesting places to eat" group of friends to try this place out. And boy am I glad I did. We took a seat at the bar that overlooked the kitchen and I started off with a 20oz glass of one of my favorite wheat beers; Hoegaarden. As we sat there watching one of the employees make a batch of Pasties, my friends and I chatted casually with himself and a few other employees about the place and what was good to eat and such. Being adventurous I decided to try out one of the many veggie menu items and went with the Chicken Basil and Pesto Pasty. It featured vegetarian chicken and I was curious as to how it would stack up against the real thing. It was served quite prettily shortly after we ordered and I dug in. Delicious! The veggie chicken obviously wasn't a dead ringer for the real deal, but I felt it worked quite flawlessly with the rest of the contents of the dish. After that we decided on different desserts and I chose the chocolate rum bread pudding. It was different than any bread pudding I've ever had for starters because it was chocolate. Next it had a crunchy outer shell that contained the gooey goodness inside. I was informed that they were sadly out of the vanilla drizzle that normally accompanies it as well, so that would have also made it unique had they not been out. It's also worth noting that the employees were an absolute blast to interact with as they were playing quirky and fun songs off their iPod and were just being outgoing and fun in general. It was mentioned though that the manager was not there at the time and that usually had the place had more patrons (there were maybe 2 other couples in the place) in it they would have had to conform to more "professional" standards. Overall it's a shame I live so far from the place because I could easily see myself becoming a regular. Prices after pasty, dessert and 2 20oz beers and tip was just around 27 if I remember correctly.

A: positive

Q: Be careful when you order delivery from this Pizza Hut. It seems as if the delivery drivers/cashiers/managers, etc. like to bump up your total after you've signed your charge slip. They stole from me - you could be next.

A:
negative