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    Restaurant Ruby Rouge

    2.9 (118 reviews)
    ModerateDim Sum, Cantonese
    Open 8:30 am - 11:00 pm

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    main staircase to 2nd floor
    Amelia M.

    We were so happy to find Ruby Rouge and great dim sum in Montreal! It's on the 2nd floor up a main flight of stairs. We completely over-ate stuffing ourselves with all the expected goodies: har gow, chicken feet, sticky rice with lotus leaf, tofu skin, shu mai, shrimp/beef rice roll, fried pork dumpling, bbq pork bun, tripe, baby squid, beef short ribs, fried pork dumplings, hot sour soup, calamari, fried noodles (4 different kinds), mixed vegetables. The waiters were terrific and ensured we had lots of tea and ice water. Dim sum operates differently here than NYC. In NYC, it's a blood sport to get a table on a weekend - they open around 9am and if you don't arrive by 10-10:30am, you're going to be waiting an hour. So we arrived at 10:07am discovering that Ruby Rouge doesn't even open until 10:30am with the carts starting at 10:45am. They were very gracious and allowed us to enter and sit at a table. Same carts being pushed around with tasty treats and a main table with a few more offerings. Excellent and comparable dishes to our favorite NYC dim sum. The sesame balls had different inside filling than we are used to. We did not find taro cake or the skinny crispy shrimp egg rolls - can't win them all. We also noticed a cart with what looked like churros - we didn't try them - maybe next time. We will definitely be back!

    Sylvio L.

    This is the first dim sum restaurant I have visited after COVID with numerous cravings for this kind of food. We arrived just after 10am on a Saturday, thinking about what it used to be in terms of opening hours and trying to avoid the big crowd. Guess what? We were the first one in and the waitress at the door insisted that they are already opened. Reluctantly, we got seated and were served Jasmine tea. Gradually, more customers start coming in and an hour later, the push carts ladies came with food, and we ordered spare ribs, stuffed tofu skins, mushroom & pork dumplings, shrimp and pork dumplings, sticky rice and finally Cantonese fried noodles. Service was unusually pleasant. However, unless my taste has changed or the food is no longer tasty as it used to be pre COVID. Having eaten at home for so long, I am now allergic to greasy food and recycled vegetable oil. The fried rice was ok, but the meat was tough. I will continue my search for pre COVID dim sum.

    Blake A.

    Our goal was to get cart-wheeling dim sum. We came in at 2pm, after the usual lunch rush crowd. The dining room was nearly empty, so we got our choice of seating. We tried about 10 dishes (not all pictured), all very tasty. Nothing in particular was a stand-out, but we also were not displeased with anything. The service was... interesting. We felt like our server warmed up to us over the course of lunch and by the end of our meal we had a few friendly exchanges. We chalked the quirkiness up to a cultural divide.

    Justine S.

    Really good Dim sum. Went with a couple of friends in the late afternoon and it was empty so the food was very quick to arrive. Everything we ordered was hot and delicious. No complaints whatsoever. They also cleared the table often so no trouble with an overcrowded table. Easy to split the bill so it's ideal for groups.

    Ribs on right. Beef balls on left. And the chicken feet on top (fav). Cha siu bao not in photo was also big and tasty
    Anna A.

    Grew up eating here. Very fast and kind people servicing you! Very easy to get a table. Big portions and consistant taste. Dinner banquets are always held here and basically have had these family dinners since I was little. Great to see them surviving post pandemic

    肠粉 changfen/ roll with beef
    Eden L.

    I ordered delivery. Their specialty dishes are Dimsum. Dim sum is a snack size dish from Guangdong,China. It's equivalent of brunch but in smaller portions to share. People would meet each other and talk while eating. During the pandemic we can't meet friends and I miss a lot about the dim sum experience, not only the food but also the chance to meet friends. Almost over a year, I miss dim sum but I am was afraid that the quality of the food delivered would drop drastically so I never ordered delivery. I am glad I tried them. They limited the menu, only keeping the popular items good to be delivered. You can also order wok fried dishes and fried rice kind of Chinese food too, be sure to include some dim sum to try.

    Exterior
    Jonny M.

    Surprisingly, I've never been to Ruby Rouge before but it's located inside and upstairs a Chinatown plaza. We dropped in Saturday evening (around 8:30pm). The inside is massive; Chinese banquet style. We were a group of 8 but they took us without delay. Place was not busy at all. The menu is in typical Chinese style. Service was rough; we asked and double, triple checked about an allergy and they gave the okay that everything was fine. First dish they brought out had peanuts in it. No apologies or anything. Unacceptable. Trip #1 - House soup - Rice - Shanghai noodles - meh. Noodles lacked texture. - Duck with taro in coconut milk - this was pretty different. Duck was tasty. - Sweet and sour chicken - wasn't a fan. Sauce was too sweet. - Honey garlic spare ribs - pleasant texture to the ribs. - Five spice bean curd with tendon and beef - five spice is prominent and up in your face but I liked it. - Steamed chicken with bok choy - Gai lain - Black fungus with pork - Beef chow fun - we always get this dish. Much more satisfying than the Shanghai noodles. - Salted pepper pork chops - this was legit. Good spicy heat to the pork chops. - Snow peas with mushrooms and chicken Trip #2 We came on a Sunday afternoon for dim sum. What a change, the place was packed to the brim. Prices were decent; most around the $3.75 mark. - Lo bak goh - Seafood dumplings - Shrimp vegetable dumpling - Beef, beef tripe and potatoes - Beef cheung fun - Ha cheung fun - Fu jok guen - Curry beef tendon - Shrimp tofu - Fung jeow - Wo guk Standard Chinese food. Nothing stands out for dinner but dim sum is better.

    Dim sum
    Shaun Z.

    A typical Chinatown restaurant, which means do not expect too much service (my rating is also excluding the service score). If a good service is important to you, I simply suggest you avoid this place, especially during peak hours. I have come to this restaurant quite many times through many years. Globally their dim sum is mediocre but this is the situation in Montreal in terms of dim sum (I am also a frequent of other dim sum restaurants in Montreal). If there is one reason that makes me coming back all these years, it has to be the custard bun or "nai huang bao" that they serve here. It is my all-time favourite dim sum dish. This restaurant serves pretty decent custard buns and it is worth it just coming for this dish. An extra note for this dish is that it is not the same as the egg yolk bun or "liu sha bao". The former is more creamy and less liquid and absolutely does not include salted egg yolk in the filling, while the latter has salted egg yolk inside and the filling is more fluid. Sometimes you might see in some menus "custard egg yolk bun" and in this case it is definitely not the "custard bun" because it has egg yolk inside. It is getting more and more common that the custard bun is not included in the menu or push carts in many dim sum restaurants. It is primarily due to two reasons: first, it might be of low profit and difficult to make this dish. Second, typical (senior) Chinese customers do not exceptionally like this dish. However if you like to finish your dim sum with sweet dessert buns, I highly recommend this dish. If you do not like the saltiness in the egg yolk, please be super cautious when you order this dish as many waiters confuse these two dishes too!

    General tao
    Aimee H.

    I wanted to go to another Chinese restaurant but that one had a long wait time and the weather being uber cold, we decided this was the lesser of the evils. Decor, I would say this building got stuck in time. I'm sure there once were the glory days of Chinatown and this was a relic of those former days. Carpets, drapes and chairs are somewhat stained, dated and tattered yet nobody seems to mind that they should've been replaced 15 years ago. Which IMO is why this type of restaurant continues to live on. Now onto the service. It's as friendly as you'll get in a typical Asian restaurant, which for those who know, is not a lot. However, you're here for the food, not the service. Ok let's talk about food. The dishes are acceptable for the price paid. Your standard Chinese fare with little fanfare. We ate a functional meal that satisfied our hunger without spending much at all. It's the type of place you go to when you're somewhat out of options in Chinatown and you want Canto styled food and to chi fan!

    Sweet and sour pork
    Xue L.

    Not the best but definitely one of the cheapest considering the portions they give. I got the sweet and sour pork as well as the cantonese chow mein. The take out plates were so full that we had to transfer the food out. The taste is pretty good.

    Wai L.

    I came here with my family. We always come here because it is one of the few dim sum restaurants in Montreal. They still have carts where you can choose your dishes. You can also go to the hot tables and pick up a dish if you don't want to wait for the dim sum carts. We always have the classic dishes like pork shiu mai, shrimp hai gow, chicken feet, steamed ribs. etc. The quality is consistently good. Ruby Rouge is a very large nicely decorated restaurant. But if you come on the weekend, prepare to wait a while for a table. On the weekdays, it is not crowded. Would we come back? Yes, it is one of the few dim sum restaurants in Montreal and the food is consistently good.

    Ruby Rouge
    Jando S.

    When I was having trouble finding Montreal's most famous Dim Sum restaurant, a la Maison Kum Fung, I ended up stumbling to this banquet style restaurant, which came recommended to me by some Chinatown locals. It's located on the 2nd floor of a Chinatown mall, where it was an absolute zoo when I arrived. The stairs were filled with patrons all waiting for their number to be called and the crowd only got thicker with every stair step to the top. There was almost little-to-no room to move and getting to the front to collect a number felt like an impossibility. Not to mention I had 10 people with me and no reservation. I some how made my way to the front, where I managed to play nice with the manager, who was busy handing out numbers to folks. A crowd of close to 100 became a crowd of no more than 15 in a matter of minutes, due to the diligent seat assigning from the hostess. Talk about a deceiving wait, I almost convinced the group to leave for another restaurant but was glad I stuck it out. My group was given a nice private room overlooking the restaurant and not a moment too soon, since we were all starving. Service was a little overwhelmed and was not able to clean our table or get food to us right away. The staff was a little slow and getting attention to the room was marred by the fact they almost seemed too busy to tend to us. Eventually the Dim Sum ladies wheeled their carts into room and managed to serve us heaping plates of Dim Sum goodies. While most of them spoke some broken French / English, most of them had a tougher time speaking Cantonese than they did Mandarin. Food portions here are ginormous. I've never seen Dim Sum in bulk like this, not even in the South where everything was fatter and greasier. The wu gok (fried taro dumplings) looked like they were the size of grenades and when stacked on top of eachother, looked like a hairy nest of eggs or unpeeled kiwi fruits. Ha Cheung (shrimp crepe) and Ha Gao (shrimp dumplings) were both also massive, to the point where it took only a few dishes to make everyone full. Zha Hai Kieu (fried crab claws) reminded me of jawbreakers and the Siu Mai was plenty thick with more meat than rice wrap. Bigger isn't always better though, as most of the food was just adequate enough not to be mediocre. I prefered most of the cart items than fetching items from the long table in the banquet hall area. Most of those plates looked old and overly greasy. Given the price and the portions, I think I could stomach another visit here in the future. The final bill was a modest one, which came out to be $120CAD for roughly 10 people. Surely the same Dim Sum rules still apply - come hungry, get a good spot, and arrive before noon. A reservation here probably doesn't hurt either, something of which I'll consider next time I bring a big group.

    Soy sauce noodles
    Coty S.

    Compared to Maison Kam Fung, I was happier dining at Ruby Rouge for the traditional dim sum brunching. You walk into a small shopping mall, and as soon as you come off of the staircase you will appear in the center of the banquet hall. This can be rather intimidating if you arrive during a busy hour and there are people waiting everywhere. If you arrive between 10:00-11:00am, then you should have no problem getting nice seating. By 11:30am, they were officially slammed with customers and there was a wait. They do have many tables for two and four, so sharing a table should not be a necessity if you arrive in time. The set-up here is slightly different than any banquet hall dim sum dining experience I have had so far. Mostly because of the layout and how you acquire the food. Hot tea is complimentary. Speaking in French is best, because some staff does not speak any English. You will need a "runner" for your table if there are specific items you are looking for or you want the best items fast. The runner for my table was me, of course. There is a bar with noodles and desserts, you will need to bring your bill ticket and request those items to have them fresh and carry them back to your table. The meats are also carved at that same counter on the spot at your request with your ticket. The pork here was sensational and came with a side of minced scallion sauce. The soy sauce noodles were also good. The crullers are here, but the congee is on cart. Don't get me wrong, there are still carts going around all over the place, but the Montreal culture is much different, so you will not have cart "pushers" like you would in other cities. You will need to ask for the items or ask to see what is on the cart, otherwise they will not bother you. I am used to NYC, where staff will just put random food on your table and say, "Eat! You will like it!" Nothing like that happens in Montreal, and the pace is much easier. Vegetables are sometimes needed to break up all of the gluten and meat eaten, asking for ong choi or gai lan is recommended. It took us a while to receive our totaled bill and paying at the front counter is a must. They do accept credit cards, but you will want to tip in cash. Best of luck to you in your food gathering!

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    Don't miss this if you are staying near Longueuil. Our first time and won't be the last. The…read morepictures do not justify this authentic and freshness of the foods served. We love a good dimsum and esp cheongfuns but this is AMAZING! Come here for the great selection! Even the desserts were on point and also the drinks!! Who needs Chinatown when you can enjoy Hong Kong food this side of the river!

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    My wife and I were in Montreal for vacation and we checked out Montreal Chinatown, and tried dim…read moresum at Kim Fung. Kim Fung is a in a shopping center and was pretty full but we were able to be seated right away. They brought up dishes on carts and we were able to order even though our table was in the corner. While we were there, the fire alarm was ringing. It did not seem like there was a fire, and three fire trucks even came to check things out, but no one inside the restaurant seemed concerned so everyone kept eating. The food was good but it was a little annoying eating with the fire alarm on. We ordered a lot of dim sum classics that we eat back home in California but it seemed like the prices were lower than what we normally pay back home. The bill once we figured our the CAD-USD conversion seemed very reasonable. If we're in town again and the fire alarm isn't loud, we'll try it again.

    We had come here beforehand and enjoyed the food, but the cleanliness and service were…read morequestionable. This time around it seems they took my advice (lol!) as dim sum ladies were very friendly and the restaurant itself taken care of better. Food was tasty too. The disappointment came in the form of a small hair in my dumpling-- it happens! Not the end of the world, but did put me off. as well the chinese broccoli was the most expensive dish we got, and the veg was super bitter. still for the taste and service we would return.

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