Restaurant de l'ITHQ

CHUNZI

2.0

We had dinner at this place tonight because it's highly recommended by a coworker who has stayed at the hotel & had breakfast. The pictures posted by others look nice & exquisite so I would like to try while visiting Montreal but the food is quite disappointing & below my expectation.

Complimentary bread - cold & hard / tough to chew on.

Appetizer - we had a vegetable dish which is eggplant. The sauce is very sweet plus a bit sour. It's not a good taste for eggplant in my opinion so we have leftovers when the portion is already small. Another dish we had is grilled oyster covered by cheese. Got to say it's the smallest oyster I have ever had, like a clam sized. It tastes better than the eggplant but nothing special.

Main - the veal is ok, very tender but portion is too small. There's vegetable sides but only one slice of black mushroom, one cauliflower, one tiny radish, you could imagine. The halibut is steamed & has a bad fishy smell & doesn't taste good. It's as plain as water. I don't think it's fresh'catch of the day' as indicated by menu. There're 4 small mussels that taste better. Underneath the fish is a layer of stir-fried pepper slices in tomato sauce. They're editable but usually are leftovers in other dishes from other restaurants while here it's playing a main role which makes you wonder what you're paying 40-50 for.

Dessert - the only highlight of the meal that exceeded expectation. Not too sweet, has strawberry sauce to provide a bit sour flavor to balance the hazelnut ice-cream & coffee moose. Very delicious, & why I gave two star for.

Service - the restaurant is not busy when we dined in & there're several empty tables in our area. Maybe that's the reason our waitress is constantly disappearing & make us wait for more than 10 mins after dessert just to collect the check. We waited & waited but no one is showing up so we have to find other people to reach out to the waitress to pay the bill. When she finally showed up she went to other tables to attend to customers before getting our check. Overall not good service in my opinion.

This restaurant is highly rated & had many praises from other people. I was drawn in by that & plan to take pictures for the dishes to post on social media but end up not taking anything because the presentation of the food is nothing but ordinary. I don't know if I ordered the wrong dish but that's just what I got & there's not many choices on the menu. Sharing this review based on my experience to provide another point of view.

Oct 9, 2025

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Ge

2.0

The cocktail tasted like cranberry juice.
Wine & cheese were amazing.
Appetizers (mushroom cavatelli & tomatoes) were fantastic as well as the tomato gazpacho with shrimp & bread.

The entrees were severely disappointing! Halibut was nice quality but the dish in general was nothing I would brag about. The guinea fowl was not desirable & we left half of the dish.
Dessert was forgettable.
Such a shame to spend $ for disappointment.

All presentations were excellent.

Service was absolutely perfect.

Sep 3, 2025

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Carmen

5.0

One of my favourite restaurants in the world! I would travel to Montreal just for this! Thank you to the couple on the airplane from Vancouver to Montreal for the recommendation!! The service is incredible & they do have menus in English & French! Our server was lovely. We booked our reservation for 8 & we stayed until 10. Great atmosphere & perfect for dates, anniversaries & celebrations. The food was delicious! We started with a free sample of tartare. It was great. The duck tartare was great & went well with the potato chips & the sauces. We got the quebec cheeses & they were divine. As a lactose intolerant person it was a lot but the selection of cheeses were excellent & they were a good variety too! Two firm & one soft cheese. The halibut was flaky & fresh. The steak was nicely cooked too! The potato side was crispy & paired well. The dessert was good. I felt like I didn't love the texture of the rice pudding with the grains of rice but it was interesting. The buckwheat dessert was also good. I appreciate how unique they look.

Sep 18, 2024

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Alex

3.0

The food is okay. Tomato salad should have had fresher tomatoes. The steak was not great - rubbery texture. The sauce was bland. The cheese was quite good. The dessert was excellent. The biggest issue is that the wait for food to be brought to the table is incredibly long.

Jul 2, 2024

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1 Review

4.0

La séparation entre les tables est vraiment agréable, enfin un restaurant à MTL on n'a pas l'impression de partager sa conversation avec le voisin
Nous avons compris grâce à l'explication dans la carte que certains serveurs étaient en formation & nous avons essayé de mettre notre serveuse à l'aise car elle était un peu stressée mais tellement agréable & sympathique que cela ne nous a en rien gêné. Elle faisait de son mieux & voulait vraiment être à son meilleur. Tout le personnel est sympathique, accueillant & souriant sauf le plus âgé avec la barbe pas vraiment souriant
La bouffe est vraiment bonne hormis le cheese cake au faux mage, on ne l'a pas mangé.
Les quantités sont un peu faible & le prix un peu élevé

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1 Review

4.0

Entrance & plate were ok but quality has gone down since Covid. Only the dessert (cheese cake) was awesome, event though there was a tasteless chip on top of it.

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1 Review

4.5

Vegan green cheese pasta(sorry I dont remember the proper name of the dish) was a bit salty for me.
I expect the bread to be warm, but it was cold & hard to chew.
Scallop was too fishy too.
But overall, i love the ambiance of the restaurant & the service was awesome. My server tried to speak in English even tho she said she isnt confident.

Olivier

3.0

Je m'attendais à un service un peu approximatif & à une cuisine savoureuse avec une présentation perfectible. In fine, j'ai été un peu déçu par le menu dégustation, qui ne présentait que des saveurs assez conventionnelles. Le service nous a annoncé une mousse au chocolat en dessert, mais au moment de le servir :"ah, non, je me suis trompée c'est cheese cake", sans plus de regrets que ça . Un peu root, le service.

En synthèse, pour un gastro c'est pas top, pour un resto d'application c'est carrément très très cher.
Ce n'est pas une table que je recommanderais.

Sep 17, 2023

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