Restaurant Beba serves a focused menu that highlights traditional Argentinean and Mediterranean influences through high-quality seasonal ingredients. The kitchen emphasizes craftsmanship by preparing handmade pasta, cured meats, and fresh seafood selections that reflect a commitment to regional culinary heritage. Patrons encounter a setting defined by minimalist aesthetics that prioritize the focus on ingredient integrity and balanced flavor profiles. Every dish showcases precise techniques such as wood-fired cooking and slow-braising methods to achieve consistent textures. This establishment maintains a disciplined approach to food preparation, ensuring that each plate serves as a technical exploration of cross-cultural flavor intersections. The environment remains intentionally understated, allowing the complex interaction of spices and proteins to drive the entire experience for guests seeking authentic representations of Latin American and Mediterranean cooking traditions.
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Restaurant Beba consistently earns praise as a gem in Montreal, offering an intimate and welcoming atmosphere where diners can enjoy a creative, rotating menu inspired by Italian, Spanish, and Argentine traditions. Many guests highlight the high quality and thoughtful preparation of dishes like the signature mackerel, foie gras stuffed dates, and knish with caviar, often noting the staff’s friendly, attentive, and knowledgeable service as a major component of the experience. The open kitchen layout and cozy setting create an engaging environment that many find perfect for special occasions or casual date nights. While opinions on pricing and portion sizes vary, the consensus remains that the restaurant provides a memorable and unique culinary journey that makes it a highly recommended destination for food lovers.
'Life-changing' according to my husband! One of the best meals we've ever had, if not the best, EVER. Everything was amazing but standouts were the makeral toasts, the lamb ham special & the flan dessert. Unreal, will definitley be back.
Wonderful meal & experience. The restaurant is small & charming, like an old school bistro in Europe. Great music soundtrack of old standards played at a volume that allowed for easy conversation. The food was excellent & plates are to be shared; knish with caviar, confit Cornish game hen over a bed of buttery veggies, tagliatelle pasta in a game hen w/offal ragu & an amazing flan for dessert. We were very full & satisfied! Highly recommended!
Walked in, not too hungry, looked at the menu. Smallish. A few things I'd like, a few not at all. A bit wary. Was advised to order between five & six items for a party of two. Menu sectioned into small, medium & large plates. Ordered three (actually four - since the moment we tasted the mackerel - we placed an order for one more, it was THAT good) small plates: knish; mackerel & dates. Two medium plates: coppa de testa; tagliatelle. Flan for dessert. Blew my mind. All of it. It was quite a surprise. I tried things I'd never enjoyed in the past (mackerel) & ended up ordering another, so good. The flan was maybe the best I've ever had. The service was absolutely perfect. It was small & homey & just right. Every single person working there was friendly & welcoming. Spoke with Ari, one of the owners as we were leaving & just gushed about everything. He was delightful. Regarding the negative reviews I read, & I always read reviews from the bottom up, you must have eaten at another Restaurant Beba, because this was on par with May Day in Burlington, Vermont. Spectacular. Next time I'm in Montreal, this is the first place I'll go. Thank you so much for such a delightful & enjoyable evening, all the way around. Kudos to all who are a part of this wonderful enterprise. Oh, & the Ketel One martini's were perfect.
A wonderful experience. Friendly staff, beautiful food, tucked into a residential neighbourhood with a vibrant atmosphere. Don't skip dessert, both the flan & peach tart were incredible (I rarely say that about a dessert). The quenelles were perfection!
During the past few years, this Montreal neighbourhood hidden gem has progressively ascended the' Top 100 Best Canadian Restaurant' ranking list. Currently, it occupies the #7 spots, just behind our Ontario-own Pearl Morissette, Alo, Edulis, 20 Victoria street…etc.
By pure luck, dining options for our relatively large party of 6, required special handling by the smallish & cozy restaurant & its compact kitchen. This resulted in our being offered a fixed price, pre-arranged'omakase' menu, consisting of communal size dishes for sharing. This menu will be specially crafted in person by Montreal celebrity chef/owner Ari Schor himself! A nice surprise & welcoming privilege!
Upon arrival, we were greeted warmly & graciously by the wait staff & the two owner brothers, Ari & Pablo. After exchanging hand shakes, hugging & verbal pleasantries, we all settled down, ordered our pre-dinner cocktails & eagerly awaited the arrival of our culinary feast.
We were presented with the following dishes:
Appetizers:
- Potato Knish with Imperial Osetra Caviar
- Montadito of Mackerel with sesame, salted butter & horseradish
- Involtini of Zucchini & Swiss Chard with yogurt & pine nuts
Mains:
- Drunken Guinea Fowl & Liver marinated in Sherry
- Tagliatelle served with Chanterelle, braised Zucchinis & Pamiagiano
Reggiano
- Gloucester Old Spot Pork chop with creamed corn & black truffles
- Rabbit with Octopus, Chorizo & Potatoes
- Wild Mushroom Paella
Desserts:
- Strawberries with Marsala Zabaglioni & Amaretti
- House made Vanilla Icecream with roasted Pistachios
Our intriguing French & South American Hispanic fusion fare, with a touch of Chinese theme thrown into the mix, was both rustic yet refined. Dishes' progression was a balanced blend of subtle flavour creations intermingled with some concoctions packed with relatively bold & complex taste profiles.
The Shanghainese scallion pancake taste-alike potato Knish topped with salty caviar was a great overture to our meal.
The Chinese drunken pigeon clone main -'Drunken Guinea Fowl with Sherry' was IMO a clever,masterful touch! The delicious meat, tender & moist…..the medium rare, velvety smooth & creamy foie, exceptional!
I am normally not a fan of rabbit, finding it usually overcooked & dry. Yet, Beba's rendition was a pleasure to eat. The well seasoned meat was nicely seared, flavourful & juicy. Same applies to the pork, which was also perfectly executed, caramelized crust on the outside & moist juicy meat inside. The pile of shaved Black truffle topping was super-generous & the sweet Chilean creamed corn sauce, delightful!
Overall, it was a satisfying & sumptuous meal with generous portions, encompassing some creative, intriguing & unfamiliar ingredient composition & flavour profile
The only downside to our meal was the rather underwhelming, blend tasting & mushy textured pasta dish plus the loud &'funky' background music, which featured African tribal like songs to crackling Caribbean percussion to mellow Hispanic. What a weird mix?!
An evening of good food, warm attentive service & great company! A near perfect total package!
I really wanted to go there but was still skeptical because the food on the photos & with their description didn't seem as fabulous as their ranking + reviews would suggest. Oh was I wrong, we took the 3 appetizers on the menu (caviar, mackerel & involtini) & they were all amazing. Only sidenote would be that there were pieces of rock like substance in my involtini & they told me they would subtract it from the receipt but didn't. The main course more than made up for it. DO NOT SLEEP ON THE PASTA. Their lamb ragu is amazing & their pasta is better than in Italy (I kid you not). For dessert we had the semifreddo & even though I'm not a big fan of pistachio this was amazing. I recommend for a special event 👌
Magnifique & chaleureux petit restaurant de quartier. Par contre, je dois dire que la nourriture n'était pas à la hauteur de nos attentes. Surtout le plat principal (lapin grillé), qui était un peu insignifiant. Les entrées & le dessert étaient quant à eux très bons, je dois dire.
À essayer si vous êtes dans le quartier mais n'en faites pas un événement spécial.
