La Menara Restaurant

Beau restaurant, bon plats, belle chorégraphie de balladie faite par les danseuses du restaurants qui invite les gens à danser avec eux s’ ils le désirent. C’est bien d’y aller pour une évènement spécial.
J’ai adoré cérémonie pour verser le thée de menthe.

!!! Horrible Experience !!! — The food was BAD ordered the Sea Bass dish as entrée the fish was stale and cooked even worst. Ended up leaving the place just after the starter course which was also forgettable noting unique, authentic or safe at this place.
Never again — Bad food, bad service & an disgrace to beautiful Old Montréal restaurant scene.

The Food: BAD fast food quality or worse. My husband had shirmp that he had to clean himself! Those shirmp went directly from the water to his plate, grose! I had “filet mignon“ that I couldn‘t even eat as the meat was of the worst quality.
The place: A den as stated in Lawrence B‘s review. My feeling is excatly. You have to place your plate on your lap to be able to eat! It‘s dark, old, uncomfortable and smeally.
In sum NEVER AGAIN!

Well a very interesting concept. A friend was back in town from Australia, so a group of us decided to go to La Menara. The concept is a Morrocan theme, which include tajines and belly dancers.
The décor apparantly hasn’t changed much in the last 15 years because there are pictures on the wall that illustate that. The seating arrangement is very uncomfortable. Low benches and extremely low tables that make you think you are in a harem, and not the good kind. Makes it very hard to eat and socialize.
Ther service however was excellent. Very kind and accomodating.
The food is a 35 dollar 4 course meal (soup, entrée, main, dessert). The vegetable soup was ok. I really enjoyed my escargots which was my choice as an entrée. It was spicy, just how I like them. I got the salmon for my main. Nothing special very ordinary. The vegetables that accompanied them were not very good either. There was a side of couscous that was decent. Overall, the food didn’t stand out.
The other thing that was interesting about this place is the belly dancing. There were a couple of them and they weren’t bad. But when they get the fellow diners involved that’s where you see some people try too hard.
Anyways just keep drinking and the night will go by quickly. :)

You could drag me kicking & screaming back to this den of degradation. Ordinary food complimented by men and women trying to belly-​dance and in the process looking like fat, sleazy puppets. If you must go, go drunk… you’ll laugh at the antics… and quite possibly not be able to remember the silliness the next day.