Carte Blanche

This is the first time I have given a 5 star review to a place. Everything was on point. We were offered a 4 course meal for $61 each. I’ll start with the service. The restaurant is small so they only really had 2-3 waiters on the floor. Nevertheless, it seemed like they had it all under control - given the fact they also had to deal with a large party of 15 people. We started with the mushroom soup and green salad. I would say the taste was above average and one that is expected of a high end restaurant. 2nd course was better - a sort of salty crème brûlée and escargot. The taste was exquisite, and at this point we knew that we were in for a treat. The main course; we ordered the gnocci and kangaroo. Yes, kangaroo!! And my goodness, it was cooked to perfection. I don’t normally like my meat cooked anything under well, but the waiter recommended medium rare so I went with it. The meat was so tender and the raspberry sauce paired so well with it. Last but not least, we had the cupcake with vanilla ice cream and crème brûlée. They took a risk by adding raspberry to the creme brulée but it was executed so perfectly. A good mix of sweet and sour to end the night. Plus, you get to bring your own wine! Altogether amazing experience. Of all the places I have been to in Montreal, this one in my opinion deserves a Michelin star.

A Very Nice Restaurant!! My First Time trying Kangaroo!(not Bad!) With a 2018 Chateau Dauzac! Desert looks Very Good as Well Apple Pie Turn Over was delicious!

BYOB restaurant. Food from good to excellent. The slow cook foie gras is excellent. Salmon tarter is good. Very good service. There is a live music every weekend.

Had the tasting menu, 6 courses, all very good, interesting flavors, enjoyed every thing. Lovely service, Antoine our server was very accommodating. It's a bring your own wine restaurant, always nice. I recommend it.

Booked reservations for 6pm Saturday. Not extremely busy. Service was amazing and food was delicious. Bring your own wine is a nice touch. The desert with homemade caramel sauce was devine. Cant recall the name. Stayed for 2 hours and had a lovely evening.

Went with friends to celebrate my girlfriend’s birthday and we had an amazing time. The 4 courses were delicious and were just enough to satisfy. The soupe was heavenly, the tempura shrimp suculent and the chocolate dessert with ice cream was a perfect finish! The live band took the night to another level. Thank you Carte Blanche!

I have been here a week and this the first restaurant that wouldn't accept my British Columbia vaccine card. The waitress was nice, the menu looked good, but unfortunately, the manager was not welcoming to people from out of town and wouldn't even come out to greet me. Good luck!

Very lovely place, courses were fantastic, wait staff was attentive. I found the entire evening spent there delightful. Highly recommend

Bring on 3.0! Yes, 2.0 had seen it's better days. Food was good, but nothing outstanding. Skip the 21$ up charge fois gras, toast point was burnt, overall pretty bland for something which should be decadent. Butchers cut was good, didn't ask how I liked it prepared. One waitress for the whole place, while she was great a bit under staffed. Churro at a french resto? So many better BYOBs. Oh the AC wasn't working.

Zagat's label from 2012 in the window, which was perhaps the last time the very ambitious/pretentious menu was well prepared. Each of the five courses served at incorrect temperatures, including the bread (?!) which had clearly been microwaved. Soup served scorching hot in an attempt to disguise its lack of taste; soggy escargot feuilleté served with over-powering but unexciting sauce, completely masking any taste the snails might have had; extremely bland and poorly cooked cheap piece of lamb (as noted by others below) which even looked clammy; followed by rock hard vanilla ice cream labelled as a soufflé that had clearly been brought straight from the deep freeze, where it had been kept since who knows when. No alcohol licence and so drank water all night, which admittedly was an appropriate pairing for each of the dishes.

Thank God the waiter was nice! Other than that, it would of been 1 or 1/2 star... The menu is ok nothing new since the early 90's. We started of with stale bread with butter, olive oil and burn in your throat balsamic vinegar. Then Felix ordered the kangaroo tatar as an appetizer and the flank steak. I ordered the grilled octopus for the appetizer and the braised lamb shank. So... The tartar was so overwhelmed with the taste of green onions and capers that the kangaroo was nowhere to be found. The tiny green salad was useless. The grilled octopus was yes, tender but seemed more braised and lacked that smoky flavour that you would get if it was grilled well. It sat on top of oily well cooked but too salty vegetables. Plus, my plate had dried food from the previous seating. 20 minutes later... The flank steak excellent cooking temperature! Small. No. Really small. Buried by caramelized onions. Felix had to toss some on the side. Ughh! The useless salad again! Fries were crispy and tender inside. Just like we like them. But then again. How hard is it to make fries? My so called "5 hours" braised lamb shank felt more like a "2 hours" braised lamb shank. It came with a piece of carrot, a piece of orange bell pepper with the skin still on it and some green beans. The sauce tasted like powdered sauce and there was very little on both mains. They also sprinkled some Montreal steak spice all over! Trust me. I grew up with a father that would use it like cocaine! I know when it is being used!!! I didn't finish my plate. 45 minutes later... They remembered that we wanted to share a cheese plate. It came. I had to flag the waitress so she could describe the cheeses to us. The "homemade" raspberry compote tasted more like it came from a tub. But the tiny pieces of cheese were good. I would guess about 30g tops for a 12$ cheese plate. Oh ya...that useless salad garnish follows. No forks to eat it with though. So i guess it was there for a touch of colour?! All-in-all, this place to me, seemed to be run by a self proclaimed cook (not even chef) and failed miserably. Hidden behind some dix30 style decor. How is it that it has been opened this long??? I gave it two stars because even though the wait in between was long, the service was actually great and the waiters were attentive and apologetic! Would i come back? No way!!!

Carte Blanche has been open 11 years and lately has turned into a BYO bottle of wine dinner experience. This was our first time dining here. Two local friends and I had each different meals: bavette steak, tuna steak, and salmon. All were prepared well - perfectly done. The appetizers were very good also. We had the soup, salmon tartare and a shiitake mushroom appetizers. Serving sizes were ample but not overly done. We were satisfied with the appetizer and meal so didn't have dessert. No fee for BYOB. We ordered items individually but they have specials for appetizer, meal and dessert and also a tasting menu also. It was a nice surprise for us and we enjoyed our meal and time at Carte Blanche. We will be back.

I really enjoyed everything about this bistro. It has a charming ambience and a relatively low level of noise.The menu is small but with interesting options that change frequently. My dinner companion had kangaroo steak which is not an option I have seen elsewhere. The waitstaff were very friendly. I also liked the fact that you can bring your own wine.

Awful food, service, and atmosphere. I have no idea how so many other reviews say this place is great. What a disappointment. I don't expect much, but the food definitely didn't look like these photos and the waiters seem to hate their customers. Worst three hours of my life.

For our first dinner in Montreal, a friend selected Carte Blanche based on some excellent reviews on other sites. It's a quiet. beautifully designed contemporary restaurant, a bit out of the way, but well worth a short walk. Either of the two price fixe options, at $25 and $35 are great deal, and since we were a group of eight, we sampled just about all the items on both of them. There is a small, but well-selected wine list. We were pleased with the inventive cuisine, although more detail on the menu may have led us to make other choices. For example, the vegetable soup was pureed and served cold, not at all what we were expecting on a dreary, rainy night. I also enjoyed my veal ravioli topped with foie gras but if I had known that they were served in a broth, I might not have ordered both soups. Overall, though, we were pleased with Carte Blanche, and would be happy to come back again.

Easily the worst restaurant we ate at in Montreal. We started with oysters. They looked shriveled and off-color, one appeared so butchered we didn't want to eat it. I ordered the salad from the Table d'hôte "Gastro" menu. It was just rocket with too much dressing and small raisins which just fell through to the bottom of the plate (gravity always wins). The fish was dry and overcooked and the "risotto" was just mushy under-cooked rice. We also heard a microwave beep 7 or 8 times while we ate and there was an ant on our bread. I feel like I got hustled out of $150.

My friend and I visited Montréal for a few days and this was the restaurant for our last nice dinner together. We found it online and were surprised that there seemed to be little reviews, but we wanted to try some French cuisine. The restaurant was a bit of a walk for us form our hotel in the chilly weather, but it was worth it. The atmosphere was romantic and classy all at the same time. We were greeted with a tasty menu. Having a later reservation, we were the last table to be eating, but the staff made no indication or pressure for us to leave. They were very keen to see that we had a great meal. The food was amazingly prepared and left us pleasantly full and happy. We were particularly pleased with their vegetable soup and their dessert sampler. Great Food, Great Wine and Awesome Atmosphere.

Our hotel concierge told us about Carte Blanche, as we wanted excellent food as well as to be able to open a superb premier cru Burgundy we brought. The food surpassed our expectations- unique dishes like scallop ceviche (I would call it scallop sashimi) and kangaroo tartare showed care in preparation, high quality ingredients, and beautiful presentation. The fact our server knew a lot about wine (unusual for a BYOW) was a bonus, so we shared a glass with him. Overall, top flight on the price:quality ratio. Dinner (3 courses) was a prix fixe of C$47, + $5 extra as we ordered a plate of 3 delicious Quebec cheeses for dessert and the venison as a main.

My wife and I visited this restaurant this past weekend while in town for a short vacation and the food absolutely blew us away. It was one of the best meals we've ever had. Great presentation, the atmosphere was great, and the waiter was very helpful. We would highly recommend trying this place out.

ce restaurant merite qu'on s'y arrete le temp d'un repas plus que corecte

The chefs tasting menu was a real treat. Getting to try unique dishes like the scallop civeche are so much fun. The space is cozy and staff was very attentive. All combined for a great evening