Located in Montreal's Little Italy, this neighborhood restaurant with creative and ever changing market menu, focused on local and responsible aged meats. Carefully curated natural wine list.
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Our Specialties
Italian cuisine, Meats, Canadian beef (aged on site), Homemade pasta, bread and desserts & Tasting menu.
Mucca offers a distinctively authentic dining experience in Montreal, characterized by a deep commitment to high quality, locally sourced ingredients and honest, traditional cooking. Many visitors praise the restaurant for its exceptional steaks and freshly made pasta, often highlighting the personal, attentive service provided by the owners and staff. While opinions on the intimate, lively atmosphere and the precise preparation of the meats vary, the restaurant is frequently celebrated as a standout neighborhood gem perfect for special occasions. Guests often appreciate the thoughtful menu, the house made specialties, and the welcoming, personalized approach that makes dining here feel like a memorable, home cooked meal.
I was kind of surprised with the high ratings of this restaurant. The overall experience was average. We took the dégustation menu, the chef's recommendation. The starters were ok, not exquisite, the pasta was really bad, just plain, but the meat was good: we picked the porterhouse, it was very good & tender. The desserts were good. So basically i would only recommend the meat there, but then again I've also had better in Montreal.
Amazing food & good service. We were group of five. We ordered 2 starters, 2 pastas(which they only have 2 types of pasta 😂) 2 meat & 2 homemade lemon tiramisu. The meat 🥩 were beef ribs, filet & sirloin. All delicious 🤤 tiramisu was so refreshing. Overall the experience is great. 👍🏻
Oct 7, 2024
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Excellent in every respect. The mushroom pasta was delicious. The Charolais rib steak was incredibly tender, perfectly seasoned, served rare. Also very attentive to our needs regarding allergies. Wine recommendation matched our tastes. Five stars!
Was really excited to like the place, has been on my list for a while. Good vibe on coming in, nice waiter, but the owner firmly (but politely) refused a pretty easy ask to let 3/5 of us order the tasting menu, & order a la carte for our vegetarian & pregnant friends. She admitted that there was no problem for 3 people to order a tasting menu "but you booked for 5, so you can't sneak it that way." Her restaurant, her rules... but you don't get service points for arbitrarily limiting customers from what they want. We followed the owner's recommendations on ordering, but 4/5 of us left quite hungry, even after adding an extra dish. The appetizers were very good: original & sizeable zucchini flowers, a nice salad, textbook burrata. The steaks were both well cooked but heavily over-peppered; & the pastas the waiter recommended we double up on were totally bland. We left most of them, & we mentioned to the owner that this dish wasn't terribly good; she said okay but charged us for it. Also okay, fair enough, but again, you don't get service points for that. The cocktails were solid, the two bottles of wine were both good - we got solid advice there. Again - just too bad we left with a bad taste in our mouth. Could have easily been a great night. We went next door for dessert.
The food was top quality. The Fiorentina steak was amazing so was the rib steak. Cooked to perfection if you like it just rare. Owner Karine was slightly flexible for me & had it cooked medium rare. The Fior di zucchini were delicious, the pasta vogole was to die for. Freshly made pasta thats a must! The tuna salad with fiddleheads was very good too. What a wonderful place to celebrate my birthday. Thank you Karine & Pasquale for your amazing cuisine & professional courteous service. Will definitely come back with my friends!
We opted for the tasting menu for a table of 4. The food was excellent the wine was excellent. However the servings were inadequate for 4 people to share. Very costly overpriced for 2 strands of pasta & 4 slices of meat person. For the same price we should have ordered a la carte. So buyer beware, tasting menu is literally a tasting not a meal.
Food was very tasty & flavorful but they oblige a fixed menu if you are 6 people or more & it left everyone hungry because portions were small. One burrata divided in 6 was barely a bite each . Same for the pasta dishes & desserts . For the price , it wasn't enough food to share .
Hugo was an incredible waiter. Everyone else was very nice too! The food was delicious. They accommodated for dairy restriction & the pasta was delicious even without the cream. Loved the music.
The atmosphere is a bit sterile, lacks warmth. I usually like to sit at the bar when alone or with my wife, but the bar stools are sadly without a back. This explains why they were all empty. No one wants to sit at a bar for dinner when the stools don't offer back support. People sitting at the bar would make the atmosphere more exciting. Also, cocktail menu was limited. I feel that 5-6 well picked & popular cocktails would also contribute to a more festive outing. So service excellent, food excellent, atmosphere average.
