Jeff S.
Yelp
TL;DR lovely host(ess), kind service staff, great food, stiff drinks, and we closed the place down.
My group of four visiting Montreal from NYC for the weekend made a dinner reservation here for Thursday evening. We got cocktails nearby while we waited, and then walked on over.
I'd already interacted with the host(ess) when we popped in to put our name down for reservations, and she was fantastic.
When we made our way back, I was first while the rest of the crew were paying the tab for drinks nearby. The host(ess) sat me, and we made jokes together that I'd lost my friends somewhere.
There was initially some confusion, I think, as to who was going to serve us, as initially the kind host(ess) brought me/us 4 menus, and then another young gentleman (named Jerome, but I didn't find out til later) came over with menus and jokingly mused "oh, someone else beat me to you!" - we smiled at one another, laughed, and he walked away while I waited for my group.
After my group arrived, I assume that since Jerome thought someone else beat him to serving our table, no one was actually aware that we didn't have a server... until another gentleman noticed us (probably mostly me... lol) was hungrily looking around for someone to flag down to place drink and food orders with. His name was Alex, and he came over and said he'd be helping sort us out while our server was activated to serve our table. We placed our drink orders with Alex, and then Jerome came over and introduced himself -- very nice fella, and together they got our drink orders in. Jerome came back to take our food orders and brought our drinks, and we ordered and sipped. Drinks were delicious.
Jerome later brought out our food, which was absolutely perfect and as ordered. Our group closed the place down, and we got to know Jerome a little bit on a personal level -- he is kind, pleasant, accommodating, and just an overall very helpful, friendly, nice guy.
Jerome, if you have the opportunity to read this, good luck with your final semester and I hope you make it into Vet School if that's what you decide to do!
Host(ess), if you have the opportunity to read this, I love your style, your hair, your ink, and your disposition. It was so great meeting you.
See you again soon I hope.