Restaurant L'Académie, the specialists in Italian and French Cuisines.
L'Académie in Laval is proud to invite you to discover it's fusion of Italian and French cuisines where you can bring your own wine.
L'Académie Restaurants has established a unique reputation for value, service and ambiance since the opening of our first location in 1984. Our "raison d'être" has always been to offer fine cuisine in an elegant ambiance at reasonable prices. Our more popular dishes include duck magret, rack of lamb, generous portions of mussels and fries as well as several choices of fresh pasta and sauces.
Impress your business associates for lunch or dinner or enjoy a romantic meal with a favorite friend. Bring your own wine and savor the fine dining, graciously presented at Restaurant L'Académie.
Our Specialties
Pasta, Mussels
Amenities, services & more
We accept: Master Card, Visa, AMEX, Interac, Mobile Payment, Contactless Payment
Overall, L'Académie offers a lively dining experience with a versatile menu that many guests find flavorful and well presented, and the service is often described as attentive and professional. The restaurant is praised for its variety, warm atmosphere, and the option to bring your own wine, making it a good fit for family dinners or groups, with generous portions on many dishes. Occasional notes of busy rooms, noise, and longer waits on peak nights are balanced by consistently positive remarks about the quality of ingredients, the creativity of some plates, and the friendly, capable staff.
The waiters were super good & nice,, only thing, when a restaurant with that much capacity has a owner or manager to cheap to pay staff agencies to make sure they have enough staff,, its ridiculous,, better to have 2 cooks & 2 servers from an staff agency to help out than run out of staff to end up a disaster like last night. You wanna run a restaurant this size for a long time without losing clients years after years,, stop beeing cheap on staff… it showed in the food & in the service to much.. it became a runing gag at the end & we ended up laughing about it, thanks to the nice staff that was there to try & save the mess that their owners put them into in the first place.. so much potential,, use it!
On 2025-11-08, my girlfriend & I decided to have supper at l'academie in Laval. It had been years since I had been there. We haven't been there in many years & upon our arrival we noticed the atmosphere & decor of the restaurant had changed. It looked like a fine dining restaurant. We were greeted immediately & waited max 2 minutes for our table. Our waiter was very knowledgeable & professional, his name was Harry & I encourage anyone to ask for him if dinning there. We started off with an entree of mussels in white wine sauce, there were so good that we asked for bread to dip inside the sauce because it was that delicious. For the main meal we had the sharing plate for 2 that had: 8 lamb chops, 2 lobster tails, 4-6 giant grilled shrimps, roasted potatoes & grilled vegetables. We've had this type of sharing plate at restaurants like'rib & reef & 40West' & it was better at l'academie, also at a fraction of the price. It also came with a salad each & coffee at the end. Our waiter suggested that plate & thank god we listened to him, because it didn't disappoint at all. The plate was so big that we took some of it home. We had no more room for dessert & our waiter brought us a piece of key lime pie to take home. Also, the best part it's a bring your own wine restaurant. No need to say we will definitely bring going back.
Beautiful restaurant, but a few things were disappointing. When we arrived, the manager was sitting at the entrance on his phone - & he remained there on his cell for the entire evening. The atmosphere felt flat, with no real ambience. Portions were quite small, & surprisingly, the place wasn't busy at all for a Friday night.
Went here with family for dinner … We ordered pasta plates in which were very dissapointing! The plates arrived not even half full of pasta! For a 30$ plate of pasta , the least thats expected is a decent portion! Very dissapointing!
Dans l'ensemble le repas était bon sauf pour la salade César qui baignait dans la vinaigrette & dans laquelle il n'y avait que 3 minuscules morceaux de bacon & aucun croûton. Le reste par contre était bon.
C'était très bruyant & difficile à s'entendre. On n'a eu qu'un seul verre d'eau & pour mes pâtes, jamais on ne m'a proposé de fromage ou de poivre comme je voyais aux autres tables.
Donc pas mal dans l'ensemble mais avec qq petits irritants.
Nous avons essayer le « Late night lunch » (sur réservation uniquement les vendredis & samedis à partir de 20:30)
Vraiment super! Menu exclusif 3 services à 39$: portions parfaites, excellent service de toute l'équipe, en particulier de notre serveuse Manal.
Nous reviendrons certainement!
Nov 2, 2025
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Nous étions un groupe de +/- 20 personnes & on nous a imposé une table d'hôte avec 5 ou 6 choix, commençant à $ 42 + tx + service. Vraiment très décevant pour le prix.
Nous étions plusieurs à avoir commandé les moules à volonté , sur la page internet de l'académie, c'est indiqué à 30 $
Ma collègue l'a mentionné On nous a quant même chargé 34$
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Le restaurant est jolie mon probleme principale est au niveau de la table d'hôte nous etions un groupe de 40-50 personne. Le choix de salade ou soupe est offert qui etait bonne les choix suivant pour le repas principale veau,poulet,agneau, poisson ou biffsteak. Jai pour ma part choisi le poulet farci au rissotto vraiment decu tres sec a peine de sauce une patate couper en deux quelque piment cuit & carotte le probleme principale etait le manque de gout du poulet qui etait extremement seche je n'est pas fini mon assiette. Ma compagne a opter pour le poisson du jour trop cuit avec des arette elle non plus na pas fini son assiette . Nos amis a notre table on pris le biffsteak (65$) en comparaison de 50$ pour le filet mignion dans le menu normal aucun des deux se sont fait demander la cuisson. Leur cuisson etait bleu ont eu non plus pas terminer leur assiette. Donc en resumer une place a aller sans groupe bcp plus de choix.
