Overall, Café Chez Téta is celebrated for fresh Lebanese flavors, warm hospitality, and a welcoming vibe that feels like a home away from home. Reviews highlight handmade manouche, hummus, dips, and the cardamom or rose latte options, as well as fresh bread and house made pastries. While the atmosphere is praised as cozy with a bright terrace, a few notes mention busy weekend crowds causing short waits and occasional service gaps, and some delivery experiences were not perfect. Many describe it as one of Montreal's top Lebanese spots, great for brunch, lunch, or coffee, with popular items selling out and reservations not available, so plan accordingly.
The Lebanese breakfast here is truly authentic & delicious-a real standout. However, the hospitality & courtesy from the hostess on Sunday definitely has room for improvement. Our waitress was great, she seemed to be the only one handling her stress with grace.
The service was amazing. Everyone was hospitable & kind. The food (manouche) was all very fresh & delicious & tasted like authentic Lebanese manakeesh. The coffee was strong which is just my preference & the cafe was really cozy
Mar 15, 2026
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Wow!! The flavours of the food at this place are so authentic & remind me of back home with my parents. The bread is fresh & hot, literally everything we ordered was delicious & perfect. Cannot recommend this place enough. They'll need to find a larger place soon!
Greta authentic Lebanese food. There was a bit of a wait when we got there but the staff were friendly & accommodating. They have indoor & patio seating. I would definitely recommend it!
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I would know.. The food is great &, more importantly, authentic. Reminds me of home - not many places in Canada do that. It's one of the main reasons why I drive all the way to Montreal from Toronto a few times a year.
As a Palestinian who lived in almost all the middle eastern countries, I eat & cooked most of the Middle eastern food. I was excited to eat at Chez Téta, I went there with my wife, we looked at their menu(very small) specialized mainly in Manoiches & not presenting even one tiny bet of the Middle Eastern food. It's a small cafe with almost self-service approach. You order at the counter, you pay before you eat, you serve your self with water, but they bring you the food to the table. The place is cute & simple but has no middle eastern touch on it. Food: this was a very big disappointment for me. We ordered 2 manouche with the dip add-on. The dough of the manouche was very thin & rolled like a wrap. It felt like it was a thin crust rolled pizza. The flavor was there especially the cheese & tomato. The meat one was very lemony & lacks spices. The dips that we ordered were: hummus which came very thin (like a bet liquid) with no olive oil on it which will never happen back home. The baba Ghannoij lakes almost everything, especially the olive oil. & the Mohammara was very thin & not spicy as it should be. I am sure that Téta would have love at least to have olive oil on these dips for sure. Additionally, the bread that came with the dips was the same thin dough that they use for the manoiche. It was not the Pita bread that everyone knows & love. I don't know what is the moto or the targeted audience for the place. I am a visitor in Montreal & I was looking forward to eat an authentic Middle eastern food. But I am still looking ! Good luck
Jun 27, 2024
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If you're looking for authentic Lebanese food, this is not it. I was so excited to visit this place since I recently moved from Lebanon, but everything we ordered was extremely salty & the kafta barely had any parsley or onions. The manakish dough was good though.
This place is so authentic & wonderful. The food is great, the people are so friendly, & the atmosphere is very cosy. Just be aware, you cannot reserve in advance & you might need to wait because the place is usually full. I definetely recommend this place.
Mar 7, 2024
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Café chez Teta is one of those places you get food from where you cannot believe they got it this right &, in the case of foreign food, that you are not as of eating it where it came from. They wrote a wholesome note on my delivery order bag, but with food like this, you don't need fancy packaging. Very authentic food. Do yourself a favor & try the Bacon & Halloumi sandwich.
This place is always full & I visited four times already in the last month! Service is fast & everything I've had so far really hits the spot. I especially love the cardammon latte & pistachio & rose cake. If you're craving authentic Lebanese cuisine (& coffee), this is the place.
Great place. Very vivid. It reminds you of the bus telling streets of Beirut. The food was great & very authentic. It is pretty busy. So you might have to wait in line on Sunday mornings. I recommend.
