Fine arts bistro

We’re visiting from out of town and wanted to spend an afternoon here and decided to roll the dice and eat at the bistro instead of one of the many places nearby. The food was OK. Not great. Kept us from starving. Got a Caesar wrap and a Caesar salad. Both seemed to have been made earlier that day. There are bags of chips and other packaged food and drink items for sale. It’s a bit of a disappointment for a top notch museum to have such a simple bistro, but we were glad it was there.

Good choice, but many better restaurants around in downtown. Still, many snacks but also possibilities for real warm meal, tasty, great portions, healthy and vegan alternatives too. Very clean. Wheelchair accessible, easy to manage.

Nice ambience but with a very short menue and very average quality , a limited number of pastries plus 3 types of wraps and sandwiches It is a quiet place, good to relax for few minutes and have a coffee, tea

The wrap was good and the area was very clean.

I used to come to this restaurant when I was younger, with my parents, and it was a lovely, civilized place to have lunch in downtown Montreal. But lately the food has been terrible (a full plate of dull and still-wet lettuce with an unappetizing dressing and stale bread with prosciutto on it, sad-looking filets of fish that were dry to the taste), and the service has been even worse: they forgot our drinks, then they forgot to provide us with cutlery. There were three of us at the table and the meals arrived at different times. The fruit salad served with brunch one day was watery, mushy, and of the same appalling quality you'd find at a hospital or high school cafeteria. I was stunned and saddened. This doesn't show Montreal or the museum in a good light at all. Avoid until the chef and staff have been drilled in the art of decent (if not fine) dining.

Amazing chic Easter lunch with kids. Thank you chef for the eggs on the chocolate tart. Fine food, warm ambiance and staff. A treasure downtown , great for Business Lunches or Family treat before museum.

Very disappointing. Overly priced for the quality. The Foie Gras was not tasty and the under vacuumed fish was very bland, cooked in a broth. No special flavor to the cooking. Vraiment rien de spécial pour le prix. Plenty of nice and fine cuisine around the Museum.

We had lunch at this restaurant on Nov 8, 2017 and it has been very unpleasant. We have been overcharged and mistreated by the waiting staff. We ordered the “table d’hote”, or what is called the prix fixe menu, and instead we have been charged the itemized version of it because we ordered espressos instead of regular coffees. The waiter did not mention this when we ordered the coffees and instead we have been told that had we been from Montreal (sic?), we would have known that that is a no-no. The waiters have been very rude and condescending. Do not recommend this place unless you are getting a kick out of being duped. Whatever the efforts of the chef, the wait staff is undermining it. The experience has been so unpleasant, I do not even remember the quality of the meal. Either the management is unaware of the goings-on, or endorses it, this is not something that should happen. What the waiting staff forgets are two things: (1) once you do this you forgo your tip/gratuity and (2) nowadays there is social media and it is not forgiving at all, hence this review. Even with jobs-for-life, as in Canada, this can’t be good for business and in consequence for their employment prospects. In conclusion, I strongly discourage you to attempt eating there. You will be overcharged and abused. Reply 11/24/2017 - In response to management’s reply: it is not a question of you placating my review by inviting us back, on the contrary, it is a question of making sure you do right by your future patrons by not letting this happen again. Offering us a resolution in the form of an incentive (freebie?) is not the solution, as it is a very low likelihood we will travel to Montreal again. What you and your staff need to be aware of is that most of your patrons are well-travelled (you are the restaurant at the Musee des Beaux Arts after all) and have likely dined in establishment like yours, or better ones. Being lectured by your staff on the fine points of menu choices while in Montreal, would not sit well with anybody. The implication was that we were not used to such an establishment as yours, especially in such a metropolis as Montreal. You do understand that there are places with far more, and more sophisticated restaurants around the world, I am sure. This being said a better reply would have been about what measures the management has taken to make sure that this does not happen again, and living up to those measures.