Last updated July 25, 2010
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VEGETARIAN RESTAURANTS
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Interesting comparison of Aux Vivres and Crudessence on Midnight Poutine, February 8.
Aux Vivres
4631 Saint-Laurent Blvd.
55 bus
514-842-3479
Facebook page
Organic vegan food, eclectic inspiration. Also juice bar and take-out counter. Service is said to be leisurely.
Burritoville
2055 Bishop
514-286-2776
Metro Guy-Concordia
Mexican-style veggie food at a reasonable price.
The NDG location has closed.
Café Juicy Lotus – Santé Vous Bien
5568 Monkland
514-487-7575
Facebook page
Metro Villa-Maria
Catering and take-out: vegetarian and vegan.
Café Lola Rosa
545 Milton
514-287-9337
Facebook page
Vegetarian food with a Latin American flair, near McGill University.
The NDG location has closed.
Casa del Popolo
4873 Saint-Laurent Blvd.
55 bus
514-284-3804
Soups, salads, sandwiches. Terrace out back. Widely known as a live music venue by night.
Chu Chai
4088 Saint-Denis, corner Duluth
between Metro Mont-Royal and Sherbrooke
514-843-4194 (delivery in the area)
Mock chicken, fish, shrimp and beef in traditional Thai styles, also tofu dishes. No dairy, but some dishes have egg. Food tends to be rich and sweet with coconut milk and sugar. Liquor licence, outdoor dining terrace in summertime. Fairly pricey. Next door at 4094 Saint-Denis is Chuch, same owners, offering take-out and a more casual restaurant setting, a little less expensive and allowing you to bring your own wine.
105 Rachel West
51-271-0333
55 bus
Organic raw vegan caterer, vegetarian lunch service, plus cooking lessons and other features. Some of their products are showing up in health food stores.
La Faim du Monde
4110 Saint-Denis, Montreal
514-906-0432
between Metro Mont-Royal and Sherbrooke or 30 bus
Eclectic offerings, eat in or take out.
Fuchsia
4050 Coloniale, in the old P. Gillman store at the corner of Duluth
55 bus
514-842-1232
Inventive vegetarian food made with edible flowers.
Le Cagibi
5490 Saint-Laurent
55 bus
514-509-1199
The Pharmacie Esperanza died but now Le Cagibi is in the same space, running the same kind of funky vegetarian hangout.
Le Commensal
1720 St-Denis (Metro Berri-UQAM)
1204 McGill College at Ste-Catherine (Metro McGill)
and several suburban locations
Quebec's best-known vegetarian buffet sells its food by the gram. Many choices: hot food, salad bar, dessert bar. Beer, wine, coffee and tea, tisanes. Some of its products are also available in grocery stores.
Le Divan Orange
4234 Saint-Laurent Blvd.
55 bus
514-840-9090
Vegetarian café with performances in the evenings.
L'Escalier
552, rue Ste-Catherine East
Metro Berri-UQAM
The Café l'Utopik has been resurrected as l'Escalier.
La Lumière du Mile End
214 Bernard West
80 bus or 160
514-658-4949
Describes itself as a vegetarian resto with lots of vegan options, including vegan burgers.
Ming Tao Xuan
451 Saint-Sulpice in Old Montreal
Metro Place d'Armes
514-845-9448
Tea house and exquisite vegetarian nibbles. Website is still full of lorem ipsum.
La Panthère Verte
66 Saint-Viateur West
55 bus
514-903-7770
Facebook page
Organic, vegetarian, lunch delivery in the Plateau and Mile End, now open for dinner on weekdays.
Paradis végétarien Chi-Ming
4381 Saint-Denis
Metro Mont-Royal
514-845-7174
Asian-style vegetarian meals, also a selection of vegetarian products.
Pushap
5195 Paré
Metro Namur
514-737-4527
also at 4777 Sources Blvd., Pierrefonds
514-683-0105
and 975 Jean-Talon West
Metro Acadie
514-274-3003
Indian vegetarian restaurant and pastry shop. Their thali is one of the best deals in town.
Yuan
2115 Saint-Denis, just below Sherbrooke
Metro Sherbrooke
514-848-0513
Yuan has moved around the corner to a new address. It's still Pan-Asian vegetarian: veg sushi, mock meat and fish in Japanese, Thai and Chinese styles.
VEGETARIAN-FRIENDLY
Montreal has many small Lebanese cafés where it's possible to get a falafel plate or mixed salad and meatless mezze plate, falafel sandwiches and sometimes sandwiches rolled up on zaatar bread. Look for Basha, Amir and Monsieur Falafel spots, but independent cafés are often at least as good. Al-Amine at 3549 Lacombe (514-739-1817, Metro Côte-des-Neiges), Al-Taïb at 2125 Guy Street (514-931-1999, Metro Guy-Concordia) and Boulangerie Zaatar (151 de Castelnau E., 514-274-4775) near metro de Castelnau, are good cheap places to eat, and they're only a few examples I know of such places.
Veggie burgers and tofu hot dogs are becoming more common in fast food restaurants. The Lafleur chain offers them as an option, and some reports say their poutine gravy is also vegetarian. I've also heard that Harvey's offers an okay veggie burger. I have my doubts these places keep a separate veggie grill running, though.
The standard Montreal "all dressed" pizza includes pepperoni, green peppers and mushrooms but any pizza place can make a vegetarian pizza that omits the pepperoni or replaces it with onions and olives or some other combination of ingredients - you only have to ask. Even the pizza slice places often have one or two non-meat options available (besides "plain").
There's no Buddhist vegetarian restaurant in Montreal's Chinatown now, but La Maison Guang Zhou, at 84 La Gauchetière West (514-397-9410) and Restaurant Hong Kong, 1023 Saint-Laurent (514-861-0251) (Metro Place d'Armes) are Cantonese restos with decent vegetarian selections on the menu.
Ethiopian restaurants usually offer good vegetarian options. Le Nil Bleu, at 3706 Saint-Denis, (514-285-4628, Metro Sherbrooke) is well spoken of and offers delivery via À la carte express (514-933-7000).
Most of Montreal's Indian restaurants offer at least one vegetarian set meal and a range of other veggie choices.
Bombay Choupati
5011 boulevard des Sources, Pierrefonds
514-421-3130
Southern Indian style food, so good it's worth a trip to the northern West Island. A few meat items on the menu, but most of the choices are vegetarian and very good. Try the fire dosas.
Bonnys
1748 Notre-Dame West corner rue des Seigneurs
Metro Georges-Vanier
514-931-4136
Resto and take-out counter, many vegetarian choices.
Buffet Maharaja
1481 René-Lévesque at Guy
Metro Guy-Concordia
514-934-0655
Widely advertised all-you-can-eat Indian buffet with many vegetarian options.
Byblos Le Petit Café
1499 Laurier Street East
514-523-9396
Persian food. Tasty dips and rolls, many vegetarian options. Wonderful sherbets for dessert. Brunch on weekends.
Café Harvard Gourmet + Cachère
5688 Monkland at Harvard
Metro Villa-Maria
Vegetarian and kosher catering and take-out.
Café Les Entretiens
1577 Laurier Street East
514-521-2934
Salads, homemade soups and sandwiches.
Casual, friendly place. Open for 30 years. Terrace.
Café Santropol
3990 St-Urbain at Duluth
55 bus
514-842-3110
Big sandwiches festooned with fruit garnishes, fair trade coffee, good soups. Home-blended tisanes. Not everything is vegetarian, but the menu is detailed and specific. Beautiful garden terrace in summertime.
Chez José
173 Duluth East
Bus 55
514-845-0693
Tiny, popular breakfast and lunch joint, a place where veg and non-veg can eat happily together. Sidewalk tables in summertime. Good espresso.
Jean's Trinidad Foods
5914 Sherbrooke West at Royal
514-223-6204
Metro Vendôme then bus 105
Quoting reader Marc Cote: "Vegetarian dishes include various rotis, doubles, and fried plantain. Unlike many roti houses, only fresh vegetables are used, and the chick peas are dried, not canned."
La Petite Marche
5035 Saint-Denis
Metro Laurier
514-842-1994
Affordable fresh honest food in a funky setting.
Le Zigoto Café
5731 ave. du Parc
80 bus
514-867-9005
Cute tiny café with vegetarian/vegan specials as well as non. Nice art on walls. Located close to the Rialto.
Les Délices Bio
1327A Mont Royal East
Metro Mont-Royal
514-528-8843
Organic food, counter service. Mostly vegetarian.
Ma-a-am Bolduc
4351 de Lorimier, at Marie-Anne
514-527-3884
Vegetarian versions of some traditional Québécois dishes.
Mandys Express
Downtown delivery service offering a wide range of salads and other vegetarian options.
Ô deux sœurs
537 Rosemont
Metro Rosemont
514-904-2639
Cuisine santé: vegetarian and non-veg meals to take out, organic, meat without hormones. Takeout and delivery.
Restaurant Les Belles-Sœurs
2251 Marie-Anne East, near Papineau
514-526-1574
Vegetarian club sandwiches, croque-monsieurs, burgers, hot dogs.
Saveurs de vivre
7901 Henri-Julien at Gounod
514-904-0521
Organic take-out counter.
Shäika Café
5526 Sherbrooke West
Metro Vendôme then bus 105
514-482-3898
Sandwiches, salads, fair trade coffee. Nice space facing NDG Park.
Shambala
3439 Saint-Denis, north of Sherbrooke
Metro Sherbrooke
514-842-2242
Tibetan food, with many vegetarian alternatives offered for traditional dishes. Nice setting in old row house with some couch/lounge seating.
Thali Cuisine Indienne
1409 St-Marc at Ste-Catherine
Metro Guy-Concordia
514-989-9048
Vegetarian thali at $7 – you can't do better than that.
TribuTerre Bistro
2600 Jarry East
193 bus
514-703-3511
Facebook page
Food emphasizing local and organic produce. Cultural events. Run by the same folks as the old Cuisine Tibet Libre on Beaubien. I've moved them down to this category after news that they are no longer exclusively vegetarian.
VEGETARIAN SUPPLIES
This isn't going to be an exhaustive list of all health food stores in the Montreal area, but I will add interesting addresses and services as I find them.
Arterie Boutique
176 Bernard West
514-273-3933
Vegan shoes for men and women.
Conscience verte organic/vegetarian/green coupon book
Coop la maison verte in NDG offers fair trade, organic products for cleaning and composting.
Cooter Muck composting and other products for greener living
Ecollegey organic food delivery
4627 Wilson at Somerled
514-486-2247
Le Frigo Vert
2130 Mackay, near Concordia
514-848-7586
Bulk dry goods, sandwiches, green cleaning supplies. Discount if you're a Concordia student, but accessible to all. It's like an old-school health food store before they went glitzy and markety.
Froots'N Veggiz
Organic fruit and vegetable basket delivery
Le Jardin des Anges
Organic fruit and vegetable basket delivery
Les Jardins urbains
Organic grocery delivery
MyAntidote
Organic grocery delivery, bistro (non-veg), various products and supplies
5887 Sherbrooke West at Clifton, 514-442-8586
Tiende Santé & Vegetarian
279 Duluth East
514-876-4481
Facebook page
Chinese-style vegetarian products made with soya protein, gluten and mushrooms. Lots of teas. Also offers simple meals to eat in or take out.
COOKING LESSONS
Café Juicy Lotus
Courses held in NDG
École culinaire végétarienne
Courses held in the Plateau
Elaine's Gluten Free Gourmet
Gluten-free vegetarian cooking lessons in NDG-Cote St. Luc.
Heaven on Earth Vegetarian Institute
12681 Joron, Pierrefonds
514-684-0099
VEGETARIAN/ORGANIC EVENTS
Fair trade fair at Marché Maisonneuve, May 15-16, 2010.
Fête Éco-Bio-Paysanne, August 6-8, 2010. Annual open-air environmental-organic fair with produce from local farms, cosmetic and health products, fair trade goods, booths from environmental and organic groups.I don't know whether these events from last year will recur, but am listing them for reference:
World Vegan Day Fashion Show, November 2009
Big Veggie Gathering, November 2009
VEGETARIAN/ORGANIC RESOURCES
Aliments d'ici local food organization
Association végétarienne de Montréal
Vegan Montreal, a resource guide
Vegan Québec
Végétudiants
BLOGS
Cassie's Kitchen resto reviews and recipes
Heroin Cookies reviews of vegan and non vegan restaurants.
Montreal Food: Vegetarian – getting a little out of date now
Vegan in Suburbia
OTHER DIETARY CONCERNS
Zero 8
1735 Saint-Denis
Metro Berri-UQAM
514-658-5552
Food without gluten, eggs, nuts, peanuts, fish or seafood, milk or soya. Offers both vegetarian and non-veg options.
Here are lists of kosher and halal restaurants in the Montreal area.
CLOSURE NOTES
There are a lot of vegetarian pages on the web, and some are not updated very often. The following restaurants are still listed in some places but are no longer open: Café Blue Monday, Sauve du Temps, Govinda Jaya Jaya, Elixir, Bimbo, Manbo, Wrapps, Les Chèvres/Le Chou. Le Commensal no longer has branches in Cote-des-Neiges or at 5043 Saint-Denis. Neither Lola Rosa nor Burritoville has an NDG branch any more.
Nantha's Kitchen closed but he reopened as Cash & Cari at 68 Duluth E., but with a menu that sidelines vegetarian options. Cuisines Tibet Libre closed but the same people reopened as TribuTerre Bistro in a new location.
If you have an update or a suggestion for this page, please let us know. I'm very grateful for all the updates I've received.
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