La Trattoria

Nice bring your own wine. Decent décor inside. Food is pretty good though some people think it is not the best. Waiter was entertaining but slow.

The food was good. But it took forever to get our orders… But overall still would go back there, just for the food

If only I could give this place 0 stars!
— gummy gnocchi that looked like it came out of a plastic packet
— bland sauces
— place feel like a fake Italian restaurant
If you want delicious Italian — go to Venti in old Montréal

went there last night with friends and really enjoyed it. From the calamri to the veal scallopini, the service & price were very good.

Went there last night for dinner. Really enjoyed everything, from calamari apps, fungi pizza and house salad, all the way to dessert. Would come back whenever I visit Montréal. (I came in from Toronto to visit family).

Came here with work for a retirement dinner. We had one of their «private group rooms». The food was great, a large and diversified selection. I’m giving this restaurant 4 stars taking in consideration that it is a low-​medium budget, bring your own wine type of place (to compare with someplace like a Casa-​Greque).
The food was great, the service was great. The waiters knew their menus, specials du jour and ingredients perfectly. It was what I expected from a small, inexpensive italian restaurant like this. The place is beautiful, great for groups and family. If you think this place is what it’s not, then you’ll give this place a bad review.

Worst dining experience I’ve ever had during my 5 years in Montréal.
Arrived there a couple minutes before my reservation and was completely ignored by the entire staff for a good 10 minutes. Finally, after flagging down a waiter, was shown to a table. The rest of my dining party were also ignored by the staff upon arrival, until I saw them and asked them to be seated myself.
Were left with the menus for almost 45 minutes before going out of our way to call the staff to finally take down our orders. Felt like we were being a nuisance to them by having the audacity to dare place an order.
Food was mediocre at best, and very overpriced for the quality, service and time it took to prepare. Waiter came over to our table to tell us off for for talking with raised voices halfway into our meal, while another birthday party was screaming at the top of their lungs on the other side of the restaurant. I guess we weren’t flirting with them so our business didn’t matter nearly as much.
Finally got our bills and were again ignored for more than half an hour before we had to flag down another waiter to ask if we could pay. The staff turned up the lights and started glaring at us before even giving us the chance to settle our bills
I have dined in hundreds of restaurants across the globe, ranging from food courts to Cordon Bleu restaurants, poor to amazing service. Never have I ever come across such a terrible dining experience in that time. Definitely not worth the prices they charge for the average food and worse than crap service.

This restaurant was picked as a plan b, since we had difficulty finding a restaurant that would take in a group of 20. We were presented a table d’hôte at 35 $. I believe the choices were two different pasta dishes (one in rose the other a type of alfredo sauce), a porcini mushroom pizza, a veal marsala and a risotto. I can’t speak for the rest of the dishes, since I don’t know of anyone at our table ordering them, but I can relate my own experience and that of the diners at my section of the table. Basically, generic, bland and overpriced. The cut focaccia flatbread with grated parmesan was good, but it’s bread. The bruscetta was already soggy when we received it, but the flavors were well balanced enough to make it edible. Our chef’s salad was soggy mixed greens with a wedge of tomato that did not look healthy (being winter in Montréal, I guess we get what we can). The real disappointment of the evening came with the mains. Between being served our salads (a good 45 minutes into our meal), I waited between 25 and 30 minutes for my main. I ordered the veal marsala. Seeing as I had waited this long for my plate, I checked the temperature of the veal and found it to vary between an acceptable temperature to «this is getting cold». I have had veal marsala in many restaurants, and can even make a decent version of it myself. This was not veal marsala! I would call it «veal in brown sauce», as undepronounced as the flavors were. The veal was accompanied by three tiny wrinkled potatoes, a couple of slices of roasted yellow pepper, a slice of roasted eggplant and a balsamic coulis. Despite the mediocrity of my main, I feel I came out on top, because I saw the risotto. A few diners at our table had ordered it, expecting what you would expect, a nice flavorful risotto with a nice creamy texture. This, however, was described as «mushy, bland, cream-​of-​wheat-​ish». From my perspective, it didn’t look as if they had used arborio rice, or had used it it, but ignored the dish while it was cooking. I didn’t ask to try it, so I went by the testimonial of my friend that it was not good. We ended with a coffee and a slither of a cheesecake with a couple of berries in the plate. Thoroughly disappointing to «I’m never coming here again» was the range of opinions about the meal. Regarding the service, everything was fine until the mains, but I think they were dealing with an out of control kitchen. Then everything just got slow and no waiter can to our table for a good 15 minutes (we were 20!). Finally, I do not like an in-​bill service charge. I would like to be able to determine the tip for my meal myself, although I know that I would have probably given the same tip. Not because the service was great (it was adequate at best, and not very warm), but because I felt sorry for any waiter who chose to work in such a mediocre and pretentiously overpriced restaurant where, just because you use Italian naming in your menu, doesn’t make it delicious or authentic by default. One tip for the chef (re: sous chef, re: cook), marsala sauce is supposed to have notes of actual marsala wine.

Went twice to this restaurant. During the first time we were given French menus and had to wait for another table for them to order and take their menus and they were taking long. Also, there was no pizza which is one of the signature dishes. The service was very slow.
The second experience was even worse. The service was slow and bad. We were the first to be in the restaurant and were the last to get our food. The food came cold. The ambiance was weird, from well-​known symphonies to radio station music and shows. It sounded like we were in the gas station across the street. There are some good dishes but it wasn’t worth the bad service and weird ambiance.
Finally, this restaurant is defiantly overpriced.

This restaurant has really good food! Had the risotto and it was delicious. Very generous portions. My friends had shrimp & veg, penne, and cannelloni. All were very well received. The waiter came by often and gave very good service. The only downside was that a party of about 40 came in after us and brought dozens of bottles of wine and got very loud. They were sitting across the room and got unpleasantly noisy. Very disappointing. This restaurant has a party room in the basement and should have been used.

Went here for a birthday party. Had the downstairs banquet room. Atmosphere was decent. Arrived around 6:45pm.
After being seated and other guests were arriving, and the birthday guest of honour arrived and socialized, we were served some calamari and fruit/​meat. We thought it was a great way to start a meal.
About an hour later, we received a simple garden salad with vinaigrette.
About an hour after that, the waiter came around to take our order. We’d yet to see a menu. Seems they had limited menu, understandable for the amount of people, but only a couple of sheet printed out for a room of 20 or so people. We informed the waiter we had not seen the menu and he proceeded to inform us of the choices, in a very low, very bored voice. He said there was rib steak, or salmon, for $ 35, and porcetta or sausage pizza for $ 30. Served with vegetables. No specifics. He left the table, still not having shown us the menu, and came back about 15 minutes later to take our order. Most of us at our section of the table ordered steak.
Sometime later, about 45 minutes or so, we received our meals, sans-​steak-​knives. And let me say… The steak was not nice enough to cut through with a butter knife. At least not comfortably. So we requested steak knives. The steak was just ok. A bit bland, I had to put quite a bit of salt to have it taste like something.
Sometime after the meal, there was birthday cake. Took some time to serve the cake.
Took some time after that to receive the bill. When we got the bill, it was about 11:00pm. 4 hours after we arrived.
Our tables had to request water constantly, as the jugs were never re-​filled without the request.
The biggest problem was that there were 2 waiters for 2 separate banquet rooms, both nearly full. So no one got good service, and we were so confused by the waiters not really caring. Not even enough to show us a menu.
After a quiet discussion, we agreed that we would not be leaving a good tip. I’m of the mind that a tip is not automatic. If the service is acceptable, I’ll happily leave the standard 15% and if it’s exceptional, I’ve left up to 25% before. This service was not acceptable. But after reviewing the bill, a 15% gratuity was already calculated in the bill. No wonder the waiters didn’t care! They knew they would be getting they tip regardless!
I will also add that the guest of honour’s wife was a bit annoyed that they did not even serve us bread, as they were supposed to.
The last nail in the coffin for this place was when it took forever to be able to pay the bill, because there was one machine for the entire lower level of the restaurant, and two rooms to serve. And wouldn’t you know it… They didn’t get reception in our room so we had to line up in the other room to pay.
I will not be returning here. I could have let a lot go, had the waiters been pleasant and helpful and apologetic. They didn’t care at all. And with a bill of nearly $ 50, without any drinks, since it’s BYOB, and a meal that is not making me shout from the rooftops about, this place is a no-​go in my opinion.

This place has delicious Italian food and is BYOB. It’s a great place to go for large groups, but the service can be very slow. The thin-​crust pizzas and pastas are all great.

Dans le monde des «apportez votre vin», le choix de restaurants italiens est assez large. Celui-​ci, pas trop loin de chez moi, nous a été suggéré par des amis qui voulaient y célébrer leurs fiançailles. On était une bonne vingtaine de personnes et on avait avec nous autant de bouteilles de vins que de personnes à table! J’imagine que pour un serveur, c’est pas le type de groupe le plus facile à servir. Pourtant, je n’aurais pas pu demander mieux. Même si je suis arrivée après que tout le monde ai commandé, mon repas est quand même arrivé en même temps. Deux autres invités sont arrivés un peu après moi, et presque le même scénario c’est produit. Je trouve ça impressionnant vu le nombre d’assiettes différentes qui ont été demandées. Le bouffe comme telle est correcte et j’aimerais y retourner pour essayer d’autres plats. Le prix aussi est pas mal raisonnable. Puis le serveur, il ressemble beaucoup, beaucoup, beaucoup à Hubert de Occupation Double, mais c’est pas lui. Il se le fait demander au moins 2 fois par jour ces temps-​ci!

This is my wife and i’s absolute favorite restaurant. The food is exceptional and the staff extremely helpful.
Perfect place for a romantic dinner, or a birthday that lasts just a little too long.

The restaurant was beautiful and open and hit it’s stride with plenty of people later in the night. Good to know is that you can bring your own wine here for no charge whatsoever! «Free» wine= happy people. Nice touch, Trattoria.
I went for the $ 10 extra to make an entrée include soup or salad, dessert with coffee or tea. The minestrone soup was decent and it was appreciated that they didn’t put in soggy noodles like so many restaurants do. I heard the salad was very nice.
For the main I got the gnocchi with a spicy rose sauce and spinach. I felt kind of bad asking but I asked for an extra dash of whatever vegetables they had and it was no problem! The gnocchi were a good deal firmer that I would have liked and the sauce had some good spice at first bite. I don’t know if I just got used to it very quickly or what but I stopped noticing shortly after. Maybe not so spicy after all?
The server was very diligent serving our table of ten at the beginning. I must mention, I have quite a boisterous family and as the night went on I saw the server’s patience wane. She just didn’t want to be there any more and it was written all over her face with every serving and request after the appetizers came.
Dessert was a bit disappointing too. I LOVE crème brulée. This one came in a wide and shallow dish that looked so inviting, I squealed. But underneath the delicious crackling, the custard was piecey and running in the wrong places. Not the creamy goodness I was expecting.
It’s sad that a couple things make this a more negative review because we really did have a great time at the restaurant. They accommodated the assorted taste buds and we all walked out very full!