Sep Lai
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Sep Lai
Bring your own wine
Opens Friday at 5 pm
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About us
Sabaidee! Welcome to Sep Lai! We serve traditional Laotian food using many local ingredients to create unique and authentic dishes. As is the norm in Laos, all our dishes are made to be shared! Although you may find similarities with other Southeast Asian dishes such as Thai or Vietnamese dishes, Lao cuisine is a distinct cuisine with its own complex and exciting flavors. Full of fresh herbs, raw vegetables, flavorful meats and always accompanied by a basket of sticky rice, we are proud to share this cuisine with everyone, including vegans, vegetarians and those sensitive to gluten! We hope that the dishes of our parents and grandparents will inspire you with the same comfort and joy as they do us, and that you will exclaim: "Sep lai! It was delicious!"
Our Specialties
Spring rolls, Imperial rolls, Khao Poon soup, Papaya salad, Laap, Som Pak, Lao burger & Winter melon noodle soup.
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M.
I was really excited to try Sep Lai for my first taste of Laotian food-& while the food itself was delicious, the overall experience left a lot to be desired.
We waited over an hour to place our order, even after telling the waitress multiple times that we were ready. When the food finally started arriving, it came in waves-so people at our table were eating at totally different times. Some were still waiting while others had already finished, which made things pretty awkward.
I had the dried meat with a super tasty sauce, the chicken spring roll, & the soup. All of it was genuinely delicious, & I was very happily surprised.
The biggest downside: we were seated on the back terrace, right next to a pile of garbage that smelled strongly of dead fish & cat litter. It was disgusting. We had to step away several times because the stench was unbearable. That really ruined the vibe.
Food was great-but bad service & a gross setting made it hard to enjoy.
Mari
Excellent experience at Sep Lai. We were 3 & ordered 4 dishes & they were good potion. All of them were very good & nicely presented. The waitress was nice & friendly & we loved the terrace. It is really great to be able to bring our own wine or beer. I will go back.
Nicolas
Assez déçu ce soir de l'ensemble du restaurant mais plus particulièrement de la serveuse qui ne fait guère d'effort pour être sympathique. Service très ordinaire. Côté bouffe c'était bien mais pas sur la coche comme d'habitude. Bref vivement d'être servie par la serveuse plus sympathique & souriante.
Matthew
Great neighborhood treasure ...creative, delicious Laotian cuisine. Dinner last night was so good I thanked the chef. Everything she prepared was delicious & fresh, with great combinations of flavors. The tapioca & taro pudding with coconut cream & black sesame seeds is one of the best desserts I've ever had. Charming terrace out back in the summer.
Carole-anne
Une magnifique terrasse où les soirées d'été sont festives & agréables. La cuisine magnifiquement réalisée avec des ingrédients très frais & des goûts hyper satisfaisants.
Une bien belle soirée avec, ensuite, le besoin d'y retourner encore 😊
Steeve
Great food, veeeeeeery slow service. Expect at least an hour to get food.
J
Nous avons visité ce petit restaurant à plusieurs reprises, & à chaque fois, c'est toujours la même qualité, la même ambiance, pour un prix très abordable. Le menu est simple mais tout ce qu'on y trouve est de qualité. La terrasse à l'arrière est vraiment superbe & la déco générale à l'intérieur est trèscoquette également. Il s'agit de spécialités laotiennes, mais rien de trop extravagant pour le néophyte. Bref, nous recommandons. En plus, c'est un apportez votre vin, mais on n'y trouve plusieurs options sans alcool au menu pas très cher, & également de qualité.
Isabelle
Menu dégustation, beaucoup de nourriture (on en a toutes rapporté!), tout était délicieux & l'endroit est superbe
Lina
They have a very cute yard. We didn't sit in the yard because it was supposed to rain but we checked it out after. It was really cute. The food was good. I liked the soup with meat & noodle better (the non creamy one). The beef skewer was good too. Not a big fan of the steam sticky rice tho. Overall we had a good time there!
Sara
The food was delicious & the service was prompt & helpful, the decor was great, my only gripe is that the prices for the appetizers on the printed menu were not the same as what was written online, they were $1 more.
Sophie
Un de mes restaurants préférés à Montréal, j'ai l'impression de retrouver la cuisine de ma Maman. J'adore faire découvrir la cuisine laotienne à mes amis & cette place est l'endroit parfaite !
Mathieu
Malheureusement très déçu… pourtant tout semblait promettre le contraire. Le lieu est vraiment cute, avec la petite terrasse, le restaurant est magnifique !
Nous n'avions pas réservé & nous étions pressés, donc on nous a placé à une table que nous devions libérer pour 19h30.
Installé à 18h40, commande passée à 18h45 & le premier plat est arrivé à 19h40.
Donc je ne sais pas si le fait d'avoir une longue attente & donc d'être en retard a gâché mon expérience & donc biaisé mes sensations mais j'ai trouvé que dans l'ensemble les plats manquaient vraiment de saveur.
À noter quand même le geste commercial de la serveuse pour l'attente. Je m'attendais à beaucoup mieux au vu des notes, je n'y retournerais pas.
Rosalie
So delicious & the service was so friendly & accommodating & knowledgeable, i had so many allergies & they were really patient with it! I very much recommend going
Alex
A gem in the neighbourhood, I really enjoy this little spot!
Limited indoor seating & with a quaint garden area in the back, the restaurant is located a stone's throw from the metro & plenty of street parking can be found. BYOB with generous portions for sharing, even with the two exceptions noted below, I would not hesitate in recommending nor in returning!
pros:
- intimate & great for comfortable conversation
- convenient location
- generally tasty flavours
- efficient reservation system
- lovely garden/exterior dining space
- mango salad
cons:
- Heat level of spice: I thought perhaps an oversight in our order especially as the server stressed it would be spicy. Bizarrely undetectable, including in the chili oil offered.
- Tam mak hoong (padaek): unfortunately unpalatable to my party. The padaek & salt overpowering all other flavours & excessively pungent, the papaya lacking crunch, the chili sorely absent.
Sammy
this place offers the Laotian food. We ordered papaya salad, nem khao, kua mee, fried chicken skin. I love fried chicken skin, crispy & a bit salty. Very hard to find here. I wish the papaya salad would be more sep, its still not hit. Kua mee & Nem khao is good tho. When we went there, it was only one serveuse so the service was really slow.
But the serveuse is really friendly & attentive.
Antoine
Came back 2 years later & the taste was different / way too salty :(