Michelle S.
Yelp
This was my first time visiting Montreal so I wanted 2 things for dinner: Montreal Smoked Meat and Poutine! Because of my hotel's location I decided to try this place out for poutine, and hoped that they might have some smoked meat too. No luck on the meat, but there was a lot of poutine on the menu (as the restaurant name suggests).
However, dinner was ultimately a disappointment. I've had poutine many times before, and this one was just not very good. First of all, the gravy was watery and didn't have much depth to it. I ordered the poutine with fried chicken on it, and the chicken tasted freezer burnt to me - really dry and stringy. The curds and fries were decent, but poutine really shouldn't be difficult to make so this was really disappointing. It was really expensive for what it was too -- $10 for a beer (is this a normal price in Montreal? Seems expensive) and $13.50 for the poutine...I could have gone to KFC for a poutine at half price that would taste miles better.
Finally, I guess because of the time of year there wasn't much going on in Old Montreal. There was only 1 other table when I arrived, and they left before me so it was a bit awkward to be the only person eating in the restaurant. Not really the restaurant's fault so I take no stars away for that, but still worth it to note. I probably wouldn't have gone in at all if I could have seen what the situation was like from outside, but as it is, the restaurant is located upstairs so by the time I saw that it was a ghost town it was too awkward to leave.