Oh man, what a pleasant discovery! From the sweet, smiling and helpful waitresses at the entrance,…read moreall the way to the clean bathrooms and then back in between with the unique Filipino food, this place defines the term "hidden gem"! After bookmarking it months ago, I finally dropped by to verify the hype and also because every once a while your body tells you to have something different from the 5000 regular choices out there. Filipino food happens to be on my rare list because we do not have many choices in the city and the ones I've been to, weren't anything much to rave about. This place changed the game for me for that cuisine. Surely it doesn't look much from the outside. Located in a shopping outdoor plaza and easily missed while driving by. Once inside, it's a different welcoming world. Contemporary, elegant yet casual decor with a hint of "hey come on in, this is our home, not just another restaurant" versus the usual "Just eat, gimme your money and lemme see your backside soon please" kinda attitude. Well hell, Bingo! That's what I mean. Give that waitress a cookie and an extra star just for that! The name is Angela btw. My first dish here was the Pansit Bihon. It was a day where I wasn't craving red meat so had this on a Saturday for lunch. It hit the spot and more with the added fish sauce and a few squeezes of lemon recommended by sweet Angela, who's the daughter of the owner by the way. Also worth noting at this visit that I asked for a sample of Sisig just to test the waters and make a comparison with another place I'd had that with a major disappointment in the past. After finishing my sample, I was surprised with the super tasty, tangy delightful taste. Couldn't contain myself so told Angela how much I liked it. At this point she said this dish is their specialty and also her mom comes from the Pampanga region where Sisig is originated. Cool! Guess what's my next main dish will be on my next visit. I returned the next day Sunday to give their buffet a try and get well acquainted with Filipino food. This is held from 10-2:30 on Sundays only and the menu rotates every week. If you're fussy about your food, better call ahead and find out what's on the menu. You can do so on Saturdays also if planning to go there for next day buffet. Again, everting from A-Z was super good. 7-8 dishes every time to savour. Really delish, fresh and very light on the stomach. My personal favs were the Misua soup, fried Tulingan (fish), Pork Adobo, chicken Caldereta, and of course a new discovery called Pork Dinuguan. Mouth is watering as I'm writing these. Thumbs up... all the way up up! Excellent job guy! Oh, and try their Ginataang Munggo, a red bean pudding dessert. Mmmm!! Some side notes, they don't have license for alcohol yet but they accepted my suggestion to have a BYOW at least with a smile and said they'd look into it. Other than that, nothing negative to report and I'm very happy to add this place to my "Top Picks" bookmark. Check it out. Cheers and bon appétit :)

Spent 120$ (delivery) to feed 4 people and nobody enjoyed their meal…read more Tasted like regular white people fast food or shopping mall cafeteria quality. It's like they're trying to compete with the "Chinese" restaurants here, which if that's what I wanted then I could have spent 50$ instead to feed everyone from one of those places. This food was not Pilipino and very expensive. Sad that some of my family members had eaten at this restaurant in the past and really liked it, but they really didn't like it this time, the quality went down and it became less exotic and more quebecois style of fast food. 6pc Fried Chicken: Only 5 pieces. Tender inside, everyone favorited them, but all agreed that this was not a foreign recipe, tasted like local white-people fried chicken. Even the gravy reminded me of KFC lol. Surprised it came with fries, felt like I got a delivery from a fast food place, even smelled like it. Pork Bar-Beck-Que (3 skewers): Moist, tender, and many pieces, but the meat was too thin and the sauce was overpowered by sugar, no other flavors noted. Siopao Asado (steamed pork buns): Very plain and cannot taste what's inside. Was favorited by one person and he wants to order only that again. Palabok (sauteed noodles w/shrimp sauce & minced porc): Very bland and greasy. Minced pork was not noticeable, pieces of shrimp was raw and translucent. Pansit Canton (Fried noodles topped with mixed vegetables + pork belly slices): Bland, greasy, but vegetables were nice, big and crispy. Crispy noodles that softened with the sauce on top was a nice texture. Pork belly was just thick pieces of fat and skin, which is alarming because usually the fat is melted off and actually has meat. I've literally had this exact same recipe at a Chinese buffet when I was young, but without the pieces of fat and skin. Sizzling Beef (Marinated beef with onions): Disgustingly strange texture, like it's been beaten to death or marinated too long with an enzyme acid, exterior of each piece was shredded. Flavor was unpleasant and hard to describe, but I think I ruined the "flavor" when I added their vinegar sauce ontop. When a foreign restaurant throws in parquets of taco chili sauce when you ask for hot sauce... I know I'm in trouble lol One of our group bit into a hot pepper and burned her tongue badly, which really surprised me because I didn't notice any spiciness at all from anything I ate. It looks like they don't know how to cook since the spiciness from the hot pepper did not disperse into any of their dishes and just stayed inside of itself. When placing my order, the system automatically locked the delivery to an extra 15$ fee and set the tip to 5%. I didn't change the tip, since 20$ is already enough to pay extra on food that's around 90$. It wouldn't surprise me that I was wrong and that's why they took away one of the pieces of chicken. I thought about calling to verify, but no point since I don't plan on buying from them again since I didn't find their food worth it. I should have known better though. I was taken away by all the good reviews online, but am only noticing now that they're all mostly white people, despite the fact that there are many non-whites in this city. This is clearly a place where most foreigners avoid because it's just another fast food place for quebecers who are known to not like exotic flavors. I think the only thing that was Pilipino here are the employees. The delivery guy was very nice though.

Really good service . Very fast and they do really good pork . See the picture combo 1 no expensive…read moreErrol

I am a matcha lover and this place have different menu for matcha of course I mixed matcha and UBE…read moreit was one of the best mix ever. The cashier was helpful by helping choosing the drink Mix

What a spot!! Came here 2x on our trip based on a recommendation and then coming back on our own…read more Was out of the way but definitely worth it. Drinks were great but the sandwiches were really where its at! Friendly staff...cool decorations, will be back again the next time I'm in the area!

This place is tiny, humble and seats max 20 people. They have 4 tables of 4 and 4 counter seats…read more You know it's legit when it's pretty much Filipinos coming to eat or do take out here. During the weekday lunch, the place was full and had a steady stream of takeout patrons. We got there early so we managed to snag a table. The kitchen staff double as wait staff so if you don't see anyone greeting you at the door, they're in the kitchen. Don't be shy to ring the bell to signal your presence! We asked the guy who took our order to recommend Filipino faves so he suggested the fried spring rolls called Lumpia Shanghai as an appetizer. Also popular was option H, rice and pork skewer and chicken BBQ and the Bulalo soup. We decided to order the three items to share and it was a perfect portion for lunch. We devoured the 8 spring rolls and asked for more dipping sauce cause it was so good! They are a bit oily but that's to be expected. Great flavor and filling inside. We absolutely loved how flavorful and wonderfully caramelized the pork skewer and chicken leg were. It came with a good portion of rice. You really need to try this plate! We loved the soup and how naturally beefy it tasted and had a good amount of veggies in it. We weren't keen on the two small pieces of corn on cob rounds as they were a bit mushy but otherwise delicious brothy soup. There were also big chunks of beef simmered till tender. I'd love to come back or do takeout next time!

I was looking for a good Filipino spot, and multiple times on Yelp I came across this restaurant as…read morea go to spot for good Filipino food. This place did not disappoint! The food was amazing, and the restaurant took classic Filipino dishes, added some twists of their own to make it fancier, but the taste of each dish was amazing! The waitress was kind to explain parts of the menu to help understand some of the dishes. The Lechon (pork belly) was one of the best I had! I love how the outside is crunchy and there was plenty of juicy meat on the interior. 10/10 The buto buto was a first for me, I loved the ribs because of the sauce combined with the toppings of herbs and fruit was delicious and paired very nicely! The meat on the ribs came right off and were cooked nicely. 9/10 Overall, definitely recommend coming to this spot if you want to try other Asian cuisines during your stay in Montreal!

My boyfriend and I were so happy to find a Filipino restaurant during our stay in Montreal! Junior…read moreis not like any other Filipino restaurant we've been to. The ambiance is comforting and tastefully decorated with different elements of Filipino culture. It's also very clean and the service is excellent. The waitress asked if it was our first time at Junior and explained the menu. The bistek onglet was a 5 out of 5! It's not like the traditional dish but I love how they added their own flavors and creativity, such as the chimichurri and a bit of sourness to the sauce. The beef just melts in your mouth! They added uniqueness to each dish on their menu and it works in their favor. Overall, if you're looking for delicious, elegant Filipino food, this is the place for you. Highly recommend!

Some good food here. We were visiting Repentigny from the San Francisco Bay area, which has some…read moregood Filipino restaurants. This one is also quite good. The shared platter serves 2 hungry people. We had the pork one, and the roast pork portion of it was very good. Tasty and tender, with a good meat to fat ratio. I often cut off the fatty bits, but for this, I ate the whole thing. The lumpia is pretty good too. Other parts of the platter were good too - deep fried shrimp and rice noodles. All very authentic. Service is friendly. We'll be back.

The ambiance was pleasant and the food was delicious. However, the customer service was very poor…read moredue to the attitude displayed by one of the waitresses who took our order. She was quite unwelcoming and did not show a professional demeanor. I hope this brings attention to the management for awareness and improvement.

The Good: Overall delicious food…read moreOpen kitchen Good service The Bad: Nothing really, perhaps lack of ambiance The skinny: Go for it, even for those not familiar with this cuisine I just read a large recent poll that Filipino Food was the near the bottom of favorite foods in the world. They must not have had my late mom's cooking or food at La Republika. Either way, they would've polled way way higher. Too many people mention Balut, the boiled duck embryo egg with baby feathers and dinuguan, the pork blood in vinegar with coconut milk with chitlins as perhaps among the most well-known gross out foods of the world. Even if they only knew pancit (noodle disk) and egg-roll cousin "lumpia" the world might be impressed.. However, most FIlipino restaurants in So. CAL and elsewhere are mostly turo-turo which means point-point for what you want in tired Filipino food, cafeteria style,steam tables. So La Republika was a breath of fresh air. There is patio seating as you enter. If you want to eat inside, like on a very cold winter's day, a rainy day, or a sweltering summer day, you might prefer to eat indoors. There are some tables as you walk inside with meh ambiance, and another nicer back room. It's not really an intimate, romantic place. But the complaints stop there. This is an open kitchen, so you can see if someone is doing something bad like some restaurants do behind closed doors, i.e. accidentally dropping then picking food from the floor and serving it...or spitting on the food of an impolite diner. Yes, it happens. But here, no worries because you can see everything happening. Better year, you can see your food being made to order. Service was prompt and courteous. When my super cute little nephew started in on the halo-halo (mixed preserved fruits, evaporated milk, crushed ice, and ice cream, the wait person nice instructed him and his mom, "It's better if you mix everything first...if you don't you only taste the crushed ice" We started off with the lumpia appetizer. It was good but simple.The 2-piece grilled chicken was excellent, with dark meat marinated and grilled, served with rice and sauteed zucchini. I loved the chicken wings appetizer, moist on the outside. Had it with a side of rice. French fries were excellent, as was the citric infused pancit with red bell peppers, cabbage, and radish in boiled rice noodles, then mixed with chicken broth. The food was not totally old school, but some modern improvements in the food was delicious. We shared the halo halo desert. Total cost was $55 before tip. Excellent place. I'd make this a permanent go to place if I lived here.

Food taste is fair. Expected a more filipino tasting experience. We ordered pancit and we were able…read moreto consume it at the car and to our surprise, the cabbage tasted plastic! So we let it cool down and tried to heat it up and to our frustration, it tasted even worse and now plastic to rubber. It us now think if we really did eat real food. They have a combo meal where you get 2 dish, rice and a drink for 12$. No parking space. Tight table spacing

Pinoy Pansitan is an exceptional restaurant. This place is a serious surprise in how good, fresh,…read moredelicious and downright awesome the experience is. If you haven't tried Filipino food realize it's unlike most anything Asian you will find. Lots of dishes revolve around pork and they also love their seafood and fish! Another difference is Filipinos love the condiment mixture of soya sauce and vinegar. For selection of menu offerings it was upon the recommendation of a good Yelper Charles that we try out the noodle dishes. I coerced the fellas I was with to give the sizzling sssig a go and it was the highlight of the night. Ssssig is a mixture or pork jowl and liver with other not as eaten pork bits chopped up into smaller bits and seasoned with lemon and spices. It's a delectable delight. The other dishes we sampled were the regular pancit bihon which had a mixture of fish cake vegetables and some tender lechon (grilled pig). The pancit was very solid also. The last dish we had was the palabok pancit. This is a seafood pancit (noodle)which is done differently depending on the chef. I've had it before very strong seafood gravy before (made by Filipino friends relatives) and this version was milder served here. It was good but not as amazing for me. The inside setting is very casual. Lots of Filipino families and others watching TV in Tagalog at the picnic type tables. Chowing down and enjoying a meal or snack. The inside decor is lots of wood. The restaurant is simple unpretentious. Don't come expecting much. The food is out of this world.

The food was definitely not fresh -- everything tasted stale. We ordered the platter for two: the…read morecalamari was overly greasy and tasted more like grease, like it was from the bottom of the pot and the meat was lukewarm, reheated and the white rice was tasting like day old rice. Nothing was hot, and nothing tasted fresh. The service was excellent, but we're paying for the food as well, not just the service. I paid 88$ and was not worth it. Unfortunately, I can't recommend this place.

Went on a Thursday evening, and enjoyed our family dine-in as we have the place for ourselves…read more There are many patrons picking up orders or ordering take out. We ordered the sisig, ginataang gulay, and crispy pork with atchara. The food is what I expected. Delicious and satisfying. Considering this is in Montreal, the food, ambience, and hospitality, made me feel like I'm truly in Manila!