If you are at the Palais de Congres, Keep Cuisine Cantonaise on your radar. It is only two blocks from the convention center. The food offerings in the Palais itself are super-weak. Unlike most other cities, there are not a ton of fast food places near the convention center to service the congress attendees. But strangely, while most convention center restaurants are super-packed during a congress, Cuisine Cantonaise is 80 percent empty. There are always tables available. And this is despite the fact that the food on Cuisine Cantonaise is really good. I don't know why this is happening, but I ain't arguing. I ate here five times and was happy each and every time. * * * The cooking is Old School Cantonese. A distinctive feature is that the house is not big on sauces. They like their food plain or with a simple Chinese white sauce. (That nearly invisible stuff that makes the food shiny.) The white sauce is fine. They also do a sweet and sour like sauce that is absolutely excellent. The food you get will be unadorned or with one of those two sauces. Some items get a light sprinkling of black beans. * * * When you serve your food "up close and naked" like that, the basic ingredients have to be pretty darn good. Their basic ingredients are pretty darn good. Everything I ate was good - but the star dish of the week was something they called "Cantonese Chow Mein". I am sure it has another name in real Cantonese. This was a dry crispy noodle nest with white sauced Chinese vegetables and chicken on top. I could eat that all day and all night. But I never ate a bad dish there in five meals with two to six dishes ordered at every meal. The menu is vast - although not as big as it seems - since many of the plates are quite similar. For the record, the team of men and women who work here are ancient ... I believe the restaurant goes back a long way. In Canada, Chinese food shows up in two forms. There is Chinatown food that captures a first generation of Chinese-Canadian cuisine. It is in the old centers of Chinese residence of the early twentieth century. Cuisine Cantonaise is of this Old School. Canada is enjoying a delightful insurgence of young Chinese techies, professionals, and children of wealthy families back in China. They are young, hip and spend heavily on urban amenities. Their first rate restaurants are out of the traditional Chinatowns, in the new chic neighborhoods where they have apartments. I personally prefer the younger generation's choices in food and restaurants. But I can be induced to go traditional. When a traditional restaurant is near my convention - and it has a lot of seats and is good - count me in. If you are at the Palais, you should count yourself in too. read more

Visiting Montreal on vacay and my parents wanted Chinese, so a short walk to Chinatown brought us here since they were open late. Service is ok, pretty typical Chinese restaurant and the food had some hits & misses. First, don't bother with the dim sum; it's all just reheated frozen items. Also, HK wonton soup was a miss. As was the deep fried tofu; nice concept, but not enough tofu and too much batter. The good: seafood noodles were nice and crisp w/plenty of seafood. The pork chops were tasty w/no fatty parts and tasting like my childhood. And the crab was delicious and fresh. read more

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They were polite and courteous. Had 2 noodle dishes....both were prepared as requested Food was ok/good read more

My friend and I were looking for some late night Chinese food in the area and while there were several options, this place was surprisingly packed even at 9pm on a Sunday. We were seated pretty quickly and the setting was casual dining. We ordered the crispy noodles, fried prawns with mayo, and sweet and sour pork. The food came out very fast (within 5 minutes). The portions were very large and the pieces of meat were very plentiful. The fried prawns were the least appealing to me, and were not like the honey walnut prawns you might normally see at other Chinese restaurants. read more

We stopped into this chinatown restaurant purely based on the fact that it was the least crowded (all the other places had a huge line). We were seated fairly quickly. what I noticed right away was that the menu was separated into three sections - an english one, a chinese one, and a vietnamese one. My chinese reading skills aren't great, especially for traditional chinese, but right away I noticed that the menus were different! The english one was way less diverse, with mostly American chinese food. I asked the staff if there was a translation available, and they just said no and walked away. I was quite upset that I was relegated to the 'english' menu, without any offer of help. We ordered a beef dish and a mixed vegetable dish. They came at a reasonable pace and were decent but not spectacular. I would have really liked to have tried more 'traditional' dishes...I realize it's mostly my failing for not studying my Chinese properly as a kid, but having some help from the staff to answer a few questions would have been much appreciated. read more

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Open late, hard-working staff, decent food. This Chinatown restaurant is open til 2am! We arrived at 10:15pm when many other restaurants had turned us away. The place was packed and hopping with several large parties wrapping up. Lucky for us the other parties left and things quieted down. The staff looked tired but the serviced was very good. The late-night Chinese food hit the spot! read more

As one of the few restaurants that opened past 10pm in Chinatown, I was expecting true, authentic and awesome Chinese food. Sadly I was disappointed. To be fair, the soft shell crabs dish was tasty enough to eat with white rice. I should have stopped there and called it a night. Wonton soup was subpar. Spring rolls (I was expecting Viet-style spring rolls since menu was in Viet too) but no, it was egg roll style. The egg rolls were weird with a curry taste. Service was fast and efficient though. Whatever else I ordered was also deep tried and subpar. read more

Excellent and quick service. Came during lockdown for takeout to celebrate chinese new year. 75$ menu included cantonese fried lobster, a very generous portion of chicken, fish and brocolli and beef that i switched out for seafood tofu fish for 5$. Was ready in 20mins. Warning- hold the takeout boxes by the bottom- they all have a lot of sauce and leaked out when i held the bags from the handles read more

Cuisine Cantonaise - Cantonese Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

After a relatively late night and quite a few drinks I wanted to have some type of soup noodle before going to bed. It was around 1:45AM by the time my cousin and I got back to Chinatown, which was where our hotel is located. We tried to go to Keung which was nearby but that closes at 1:00AM. Lucky for us Cuisine Cantonaise opened till 4:00AM. We walked in and were seated immediately. I was surprised to find it pretty busy but then again it was the only place open this late. The menu has a few pages in English and French and then several pages at the end in Chinese. Too bad my Chinese isn't good enough to order from that menu and the English/French list for soup noodles had maybe 5 options. My cousin in his broken Cantonese asked the waiter what options of soup noodles they had. He ordered a wonton noodle soup with wide flat noodles and I ordered the beef stew noodles. I thought my dish was decent, of course full of MSG and the beef didn't have the chewy and skin parts that most beef stews have so that was slightly disappointing. My cousin thought his wontons were too small. And of course I responded with "That's what she said." Anyways, now to the real draw of the place. It's an awesome people watching place at night apparently. After sitting down for a bit and waiting for our food, 3 middle aged Chinese prostitutes came in with their pimp. They had hot pot, so if you're craving late night hot pot you can get it here. I watched the table of prostitutes closely cause it was really interesting. 2 guys came in to talk to them within a 10-15 minute span of time. With the first guy, I had no idea what was going on and second well he talked to them and also the guy at the counter. The guy at the counter apparently lost a lot of money on a race... I know I totally went on a tangent but to sum it up. The food is decent, there's a huge menu you can choose from if you can read Chinese, and there's awesome people watching at night! read more

Cuisine Cantonaise - Beef noodle soup. - Cantonese Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

This is definitely a solid spot for dinner. Came on a weekend without reservations and was seated right away. The restaurant has an authentic Asian vibe to it. They have a really extensive menu - there's definitely something here for everyone. My group decided to get a couple of dishes and share - amongst them included shrimp chow mein, Bok Choi, sautéed shrimp, a fish dish and some others that were meat/chicken (so I couldn't try those). All the dishes were prepared quite swiftly and came to the table piping hot and sizzling. The shrimp was well cooked and the sauce was a nice. The noodles were a bit crunchy for my liking - this was the first time I've ever had crunchy noodles but it was an interesting experience. The ambience for this restaurant was very chill - everyone in my group enjoyed their experience here! read more

Came here on a Thursday night. Got the Chefs Combo Dinner for three: - Wonton Soup: super flavorful and amazingly light dumplings - Spring Rolls: light, crisp, delicious - Dumplings in Peanut Butter Sauce - yum - Lobster - excellent - Prawns - Bok Choi was great as were prawns - General Tso Chicken - average - a little chewy and too sweet - Canton Fried Rice - excellent We also ordered a bottle of cold sake but this was merely hot sake that they then put on ice - so I would not recommend it. Overall though the food was really good and the portions were large (three guys couldn't finish) and the combo meals make ordering very easy. Finally - it was cheap!! Awesome. read more

Cuisine Cantonaise - Restaurant Cruise Cantonaise - Thursday night - Cantonese Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

We were a group of 7, ordered quite many items. Food arrived pretty quick, taste is so so, but, the behavior of the people their was extremely rude. And when I say Rude, it is that Rude. You can get food anywhere, its the service, or the behavior that makes the difference, which they all need some loooong courses on. I usually tip the waiters whenever I go to a restaurant, but we were soooooo disappointed by their service and behaviour that we decided not to tip them a single dime. And after the bill payment, the owner asked us was it correct that there were no tips at that table, so we said that yes, we did not tip because we did not like their services. Then, there was a lady at the billing counter, she told us to our face, "Do not come here again, because we do not want people like you in our restaurant". I read some other reviews, looks like this restaurant have a reputation for their rude behavior and bad service. I will never recommend this restaurant to anyone. There are lots of other Cantonese restaurant where you will get the same taste, with good and friendly service. read more

Down an alley in Chinatown, with not great ambiance, and the only way this place could have been worse-named was if it was called "Chinese Restaurant". I had salt and pepper squid. Not fab, not horrible. Waiter was personable. This place was just about as boring as my write-up here... read more

In NYC Chinatown we have a good ole tried and true restaurant called 69 (Bayard street) to go to for tasty post partying Chinese food. Based on a recent late night experience in Montréal, it sadly seems to be that their equivalent of 69 is a place with horrible service and bland food. The waiters here are very weird. Never mind that they were ridiculously (size 24 waist) skinny. They provide unfriendly service. I saw they have a separate menu for Vietnamese food. I inquired about this to the waiter asking if they really served Vietnamese food and he tapped the menu in my hand in an annoyed way like some guy flicking an ant off his picnic table as if to say "duh idiot. What's so weird about a Cantonese restaurant having a separate Viet food menu"? The seafood pan fried noodle dish here tasted bland with mediocre seafood and noodles that were not very crispy but at least it came with a lot of veggies. read more

I was glad to find this place. It was great service, folks were attentive, it was ok size place and good amount of tables. The food is better than I have had in recent days, keep trying to compare it to West Coast experiences in San Francisco and Vancouver. West side keeps winning hands down. Best experience thus far, Great service but just ok food. Good Luck. read more

Montreal Chinatown is mostly Toi-San cantonese people (my people!) and so when we went here at 1:30 in the morning and this was one of maybe 3 restaurants that was open. Now...i'm from NYC. I've been going to Chinatown's and eating late night dinners over and over again since the early 2000's, this is the food i remember from then. OK so i admit i was a little tipsy hanging out with my buddies grabbing a late night bite. I got, the ever-so-important beef chow fun and it was cooked exactly as i remembered from my youth. It wasn't revolutionary, actually it was only ok - but it was very nostalgic. It's somewhere that everyone goes to at night if they're around chinatown and looking for a relatively cheap eat at night...so it's also a good place to look around and watch people (as someone else said). If i'm partying kinda late and we were hungry we'd detour here to get some pretty good canto food. Oh and if you want something off menu and you speak canto - they'll probably do it for you. read more

Worst food we had during a week visiting Montreal. We tried many different cuisines of different restaurants, several Chinese restaurants among them during the visit. Overall we enjoyed them. However, we did not like the dishes we had here. They are not fresh, not "Cantonaise", ....... We walked out after the meal very disappointed. read more

This place is located in the heart of Chinatown, the reason we decided to try it out was because we were asking around for a good chinese place and we happened to stubble upon the owner's daughter along with her friends. She told us the restaurant is good, and we believed her, simple as that! The decor was bad and next to our table were the electrical wires that lit up the street sign, it was a little scary, because one move and you turn into the fried duck they were serving the table next to us. Anyway, we were blown away by the food. seriously!! I got the beef and chinese broccoli and my friend got the spicy shrimp and scallops, and we got the fried rice. It was one the best chinese meals I had in a while now. I will definitely come back when/if i am back in the beautiful city of Montréal. read more

I was at this restaurant when I visited Montreal a couple weeks ago. We went fairly late for dinner (around 1am) and decided to try out this place. The atmosphere was pretty dirty and the location was a bit sketch. The food however was pretty good! I got the hot and sour soup as well as the chili chicken and was pleasantly surprised with the taste. Everything was well made and tasted good. The service was average, nothing too special but not bad either. Overall, I would recommend this location to a friend however beware of the sketchy area! read more

Mediocre food, Expensive, and Bad service We were visiting Montreal and wanted to try a local Chinese restaurant. We went here based on the menu posted outside. The staff who seated us and took our order was rude and impatient. We were in the mood for dumplings, but they did not have the dish we requested; I then asked if they had any other dumpling dish, to which he responded: "Didn't I tell you we don't have dumplings?" Okay.... We then inquired about a few other dishes, which he rushed us through. Our bill for two turned out to be $40, which is a lot for Chinatown and commands excellent food; the latter was definitely not the case here. All of our dishes were average or below, including Porridge With Pork and Preserved Eggs, Beef Tripes, and Water Spinach. Overall, we didn't enjoy our dinner. The next night, we had a nice dinner at another Chinatown restaurant, Delicieux Xiang, with better service and a smaller bill. So I can say there are better options in Montreal Chinatown than the bad service and overpriced mediocre food at this restaurant. Not recommended. read more

Not having Yelp or internet access during a trip is like a Superman without his super strength-flying abilities, Spiderman without his spidey-sense + webs, Batman without his... [crickets] he's just Batman. Since my father was in the mood for a family-style cantonese dinner, I resorted to figuring it out the old-fashioned way: gauge the clientele and volume from the window. I was a little hesitant about Restaurant Cuisine Cantonaise since they seemed to cater to a lot of fried-rice-kung-pao-chicken types. I was reassured to find their walls covered in handwritten "authentic" offerings. Everything was decent from the garlic sauteed gai lan veggie, pork 'n lotus, and cantonese-style steamed oysters. For Montreal Chinatown visitors, this was a solid choice for an old school dining experience. Come in and get your fill on familiar favorites and leave satisfied. Although I was a little taken aback that they gave us fortune cookies at the end of the meal. No sweet soup or fruit? read more

2 and half stars The decor was ugly, but that's usually a good sign when it comes to authentic Chinese food, right? I tried the dumpling soup, and while the broth was tasty, the dumplings were way too doughy. Pea sprouts were all right, a little tasteless. We also got the congee. Maybe it was our food selection but this place is definitely medicore at best. Suddenly the ugly decor didn't look so promising, it just looked drab. I think I'll just try the beijing restaurant next door next time I am in the area. read more

I go to this place one time per month....the food is ok..it's not the best in Chinatown,they offer the soup and the Chinese sweet soup free,this is the point I comme here...they make the Chinese dessert red bean soup,it's my favorite!!! read more

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Bonnes assiettes , free tea, busy place, my friend took poulet general tao and this classic dish its really good here. read more

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Don't waste your time and money here. The food is not well cooked. Seems like they change the chef. The woman cashier force you to give more tips, even the tips is more than enough. Extremely rude for the service. They do nothing and force you to give more tips. read more

Hello again food lover, this time we will talk about Chinese Restaurant. Well The people that give this restaurant one star and two stars they do not show there face, I was wondering about that so, i said i will take the serious ones. The noise level is high but tolerable. I ordered Tilapia fish Cantonese style. Let me tell, it fresh out of the tank so equitant. Every one who complain agree on one thing food is good. I say excellent you will not forget it, provided I do not eat enough Chinese food. I really, impressed with food afraid to say in "love with it". If you looking for change some time try it and let me know. You will not regret that one. Hope you let me know was the food nice, Hot, Clean or not, despite the noise. very, very affordable, too. read more

Avoid unless you like terrible service and like to be ignored. Was not even served after waiting over half an hour - Chinese customers were served as soon as they were seated. Not surprised to see other reviews stating the same thing. read more

Stopped by for a late dinner. We ordered three items: Special Buddhist Delight, Ginger and Green Onion Oyster Claypot and Beef Chowfun with Black Bean Sauce. The orders were a good size and tasty. The service was a little slow. It was funny to see that they had many plastic covers on the table. When a customer is finished eating and left their table a mess, the waiters just pick up the ends of the plastic cover (dishes and all) and haul it away. read more

Late night eats. When everything else is closed this place is open so you can fill up. On our first night in Montreal, we stumbled upon this restaurant and jumped right in since we haven't eaten for the day. The menu is full of Cantonese favorites. We ordered some noodle soups and clams in black bean sauce. The wonton noodle soup was lackluster unfortunately, but the clams were fresh and flavorful. There's a full menu including hot pot, so there's something for everyone. read more

I don't know if it was because that I am from Boston, and we have larger portions? But everything was definitely mediocre. Portions were probably HALF of what we would have got based off of Boston. Food took ages for it to come out. With the portions, definitely overpriced than what I was expecting. I've also never really seen several layers of plastic table covers before. When we sat down, the previously one seem rather dirty. Mistake for us to try this location, either that, or I am not used to the culture here. read more

I came here really often, mostly while being drunk or really tired after an 8-9 hour shift. They have hotpot at the restaurant, which comes in 3 different sizes I believe (small, medium, large). I usually went there with 2 other people, so we would always take the medium one, which was plenty for 3. For the hotpot, you can decide which meats or seafood you want, and it comes with tofu, veggies, noodles, and fish balls I believe. They have a really spicy sauce which I love, and the hotpot is feels really hearty, which is perfect for winter nights and for cleaning myself of the fatigue accumulated at work. In short, I really love their hotpot. When I would be with more people, we would order from the main menu. I let my cantonese friends order for me, they never picked anything that was not good, and knew the waiters. So the waiters were really nice with us, and gave us an efficient service. Place is good for hanging out with friends, satisfy a 2-3AM craving for chinese food, or even have a meal with your family. Well deserved 4 star! read more

Really bad restaurant, the one star is just for they are opening late. The food is not good, the staff is lazy and impatient, the cashier/boss only cares about money, and just let customers wait. Not recommended read more

I don't know about others, but when I traveled Montreal 2 weeks ago, I got a cockroach in the dish and my wife was freaked out. The old male waiter and the owner were very rude and refused to replace. We had to call police and they came and said it was not in their jurisdiction. Everybody left and we were disappointed. Other restaurants in Chinatown were much better. Hope we were just an exception. read more

Be careful what you are ordering. They are very dishonest in billing. On Feb. 19, 2018 I ordered a small size of soup and they charged me a medium size. And their serving of the food is much smaller than others at the same time they demand for big tips. No way !!! This resto doesnt deserve any star. read more

This i restaurant is ok when you are looking for chinese food after 10pm. Some stuff we ordered was ok most of it wasn't. I wouldn't go here if other options present itselves. read more

Went here last week and got terrible service. There was only one waiter and they were terribly rude. After waiting 30 minutes before even being greeted, 5 tables were ignored and left without getting any service. Waiters forgot about us and a few other tables a couple times. Waiter forgot to serve tea to people and so one table took a teapot from a table who had already got up and left because of the service. Absolute nightmare, definitely will never be going back. Much better places to eat Chinese food in Montreal. Save yourselves!! :( read more

came to montreal for vaca. My flight landed got to Montreal at 1am. got hungry. don't know my way around on first night and nothing were open except this chinese restaurant and Couche-Tard (just 7-11 store). food is terrible. only one waitress and she is very rude. read more

Fairly speaking, the food is okay; however, the service is really the Worst I've ever seen. Always check your invoice carefully to see if it contains only what you ordered. From my personal perspective, it's not the serving attitude; I have to say it's a moral issue. Especially for the lady with short hair. After I pointed out the amount is wrong, she didn't give neither any explanation nor apologize. She was super unhappy, whispering in a language I couldn't understanding and kept shaking her head. read more

I brought a friend of mine here for his birthday, since he had never had a proper chinese food experience. I have come here twice before, and they were always so accommodating to my orders. It is Cantonese in terms of styles of food, and like many chinese restaurants, they serve fast. The restaurant had many large round tables and is located upstairs, so if you blink you might miss it. The decor looks like they could use some refreshing, for some reason when I go in there, I always feel like Im in the 90's. We ordered 4 dishes to try and brought the rest home. It was a bit different of an experience because I had a guest there that didn't like shrimp or tofu, and a few other things that were specified. In the end we ordered a dish that was more newbie friendly such as their spring roll (imperial roll for the Montrèalais) and mixed veggies, then we got a Singapore Vermicelli, and a curry dish. It was tasty and delicious, but I would have liked to order stuff that was a bit more traditional. So till the next time! read more

Attentive service, open very late, the food came out right away and it was one of the best Chinese meals I have EVER had. I've been to China Town in Boston, San Francisco, and many other major cities and this food stood out. Will not be forgotten! read more