Marche Moon Star specializes in authentic Indian culinary techniques that highlight vibrant spices and aromatic blends across a diverse menu. The kitchen focuses on high-heat grill preparations, providing smoky depth to marinated meats and seasoned vegetables. Fresh seafood selections are meticulously sourced and seasoned with traditional regional masalas to ensure a bold and balanced profile. Diners interact with a menu that emphasizes complex textures through a variety of clay oven-baked breads and slow-cooked legume preparations. The environment maintains a focused dedication to these specific flavor profiles, offering a straightforward approach to regional staples. Every dish serves as a testament to established preparation methods that prioritize consistent quality and the fundamental characteristics of Indian coastal and inland cooking traditions.
Marche Moon Star is widely regarded as a premier destination in Montreal for authentic Bangladeshi cuisine, offering a variety of traditional dishes such as roast polao, beef tehari, and kacchi biryani that many customers describe as tasting like home-cooked meals. Reviewers frequently praise the generous portion sizes, fresh ingredients, and the warm, welcoming hospitality provided by the owners and staff, which creates a family-like atmosphere for diners. While the establishment is primarily recognized for its comforting, flavorful food and excellent value, the experience is consistently enhanced by the attentive and kind nature of the team, making it a highly recommended spot for those seeking genuine Bengali flavors.
Though rice is the foundation of Bangladeshi cuisine (plain rice, pulao rice, kicchuri, biryani, tehari, kacchi, even rice roti), it's good to see this restaurant upgraded from its initial offering of cooked frozen parathas (a few years back) to one of the best freshly baked layered naans in MTL. Some Bangla restaurant do not offer naans at all, just rice. So hats off to Marché Moonstar for its willingness to adapt & evolve to provide this option to other customers. The Bhuna curries are authentic & consistently well done.
Very good food. Fresh & yummy. The new Malai chicken is the best item. We ordered half chicken tandoori, lamb kebab, beef tikka, Malai chicken. All tastes really good. Took some take aways too- lamb kebab, Beef tehari & malai chicken. Beef tehari tasted awesome. Service is good, very friendly. Best part is the price is very reasonable & the portion is big. Good food with large portion but less proce than other places for authentic Bangladeshi food. Loved it. Will go again if we come to this city again. Or passing by. All the best to the moon star team.
Amazing experience . Specially food was very fresh , hot & tasty. Serving was very friendly. I would really recommend everyone to try this atleast once. You wont regret.
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Summary: Tastes like good home cooked meal, nothing close to bangladeshi restaurants or baburchis. Thats not an issue. Main issue it doesnt taste fresh, most items taste like it has been frozen for a long time & reheated when serving. Tried this place twice, & the food tasted stale both times. Price is reasonable based on local market.
Tehari: (4/5) tastes close to authentic tehari in Bangladesh. But the meat pieces were tough & felt like it was prepared long ago & re-heated. Not like it wasnt cooked properly, it was as if the meat became stale & tough by the process of freezing & reheating. But rating 4 out 5 still since taste was close to home.
Kachhi: (1/5) The meat was definitely old, stale, & reheated. The meat was tough & looked stale as well. It it did not taste a day or two old stale, it tasted like it was at least a week old. Rating 1 only because the rice had some hint of fragrance of authentic kachhi, but it is still far off. Plan to get a roast or something to have with it because the biriyani meat is almost inedible.
Roast Polao: 5/5. Tastes like home but the polao is extremely greasy.
Service: Service is very slow. Except for the owner, nobody else knows how to greet customers. But thats fine for a small authentic restaurant such as this.
Amosphere: Mostly a takeaway. Didnt feel like a place where I would plan to sit & enjoy.
Great place for Bangladeshi foods. We ordered their Piyaju & Halim. The Piyaju were crispy & freshly fried, served with great dressing (unfortunately, we forgot to take photo of the Piyaju). The halim was also tasty.
New customer I had the chicken roast pulao & tea. Very satisfied will come back for the rui mas fish plate. They serve fresh green chillies with the plate which I prefer!
I was very disappointed with this meal. The rice tasted old & had almost no flavor. The meat pieces were mostly bones & fat, not real meat. The dish looked messy & didn't feel fresh at all. Even the vegetables & lime didn't seem clean or properly prepared. For the price, this was not worth it. I do not recommend this place based on my experience🙏🏻
