Café chez Téta
Lebanese restaurant · Saint-Louis ·
Lebanese manouché flatbreads, dips, salads, cardamom coffee
Lebanese manouché flatbreads, dips, salads, cardamom coffee
"Steeped in memories of co-owner Antoun Aoun’s own teta (grandmother), Café Chez Téta brings Lebanese food traditions to Montreal’s bustling cafe scene. The room is sparse and airy with concrete flooring and white walls, walnut furniture, lots of natural light, and a traditional gas-fired red brick oven imported from Lebanon. This popular Plateau spot keeps things simple and straightforward, with fattoush salad, dips like labneh and baba ghanoush, and made-to-order manouché flatbreads topped with za’atar, minced meats, cheese, and more. Finish with a slice of turmeric cake, a halva latte, or a cardamom coffee served in traditional red, green, and white Lebanese cups. Make space on the table for some “tawlet zaher,” a board game similar to backgammon that’s played on the streets of Lebanon. Teta would approve. Know before you go: The café is packed on weekends, so consider stopping mid-week instead." - Valerie Silva
"A Plateau newcomer and 2021 Eater Award winner, this café’s name honours its founder’s “téta” (“grandmother” in Lebanese.) A simple formula of Lebanese salads, dips, and piping hot manouché flatbreads with spiced meat, za’atar, cheese, and more has proven to do the trick, especially when followed by a hot cardamom or halva latte and a slice of sfouf (turmeric cake)." - Joel Balsam
"Specializing in manouche, round flatbreads topped variously, this Rachel Street shop also highlights Lebanese coffee (with or without cardamom), plus all the typical caffeinated beverages you’d expect at your local café." - Daniel Bromberg
"Designed by local firm Ivy Studio, the luminous next‑generation Lebanese café on the Plateau combines walnut furniture, smooth concrete and marble surfaces, and rusty red details that echo the gas‑fired brick oven in its open kitchen; run by partners chef Antoun Aoun and Mélodie Roukoz, I enjoyed wondrous manousheh (Lebanese flatbreads) alongside a pared‑down selection of dips and salads and cardamom‑infused coffee poured into traditional Lebanese thimble cups." - Valerie Silva
"Teta means grandmother in Lebanese Arabic, and co-owner Antoun Aoun’s grandmother is the inspiration for Plateau newcomer Café Chez Teta, a sunny café offering lahmajoun along with Lebanese cardamom coffee and manouchés, flatbreads covered in zaatar and a range of other toppings." - Ivy Lerner-Frank