Maison Mignon

Excellent service and ambiance. The food is fresh and well prepared. Did I mention the service is great?

We shared all three of their signature (traditional Taiwanese) dishes. For the quality and portion we were expecting about a 40 $ bill, but ended up only paying 30 $ after tips.
Atmosphere:
The service is excellent, the restaurant clean and well-​lit. Clean washroom, which is always a good indicator of how clean their kitchen might be.
Food:
The quality of food is really astonishing.
For the traiditional Taiwanese braised beef soup, I have never tasted a soup stock that is as evident as in here that it’s made from actual meat and/​or bones, as oppose to synthetic beef flavoring that the great majority of other restaurant use. The meat itself juicy and tender, the noodles are of quite high quality
They use higher quality of diced pork as oppose to the more traditional ground pork that you generally find in braised pork rice, and that jump in quality is quite obvious when I tasted it.
Convenience:
It’s located about 3 minutes walk from Cote-​Vertu Metro

I’ve been here twice in the past month. The place is run by a husband/​wife and has been opened for about two years. I appreciate how they take the time to explain where the food comes from and how they use their home made recipes. The beef noodle soup is excellent. I am told they boil the broth for hours and use apples/​fruits to add flavour rather than msg. If you go on the weekend, they serve this delicious custard pancake. Use the paper bag when eating the pancakes as it can get quite messy.

This restaurant really cares about their customers! Great service, great food, super nice people and they don’t use MSG in case you’re wondering.

This is such a great restaurant. A family run resto with a variety of Asian dishes. The food is delicious and the prices are extremely reasonable. One of my favourite places in the city.

The chicken is awful! It doesn’t even feel like it’s chicken… It was soo awful that at first we didn’t even think that it was chicken. The vegetables were still frozen. But the soup was great! The bowl of soup was huge. The best part about the place were the spring rolls.

We came here recommended by a friend to try out their authentic Taiwanese beef soup and boy did that recommendation deliver! I’m licking my licks just thinking of this place. If I ever find myself in this area anytime between October to April, I will be here to warm up my bones with that awesome soup! The serving size is generous and the price-​tag is very reasonable.
The staff is a couple and are very welcoming and eager to please. The gentleman left a very positive impression on me. The place is small yet has that nice homely feel to it, they’re a relatively new business and I hope word gets out, this place should be filled with patrons.
I had a few other things but they truly paled to comparison to this great soup! If I ever find myself in the area, I have to go back in!

I go there once in a while to get their home made pineapple cakes. So genuinely Taiwanese and definitely the best you can find in Montréal. Other small eats such as onigiri (Japanese triangle rice roll) and zongzi (Chinese sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves) are also great.
Haven’t had a chance to have meals there. Will try next time.

My parents live in the area so we decided to drop by for lunch on a cold Sunday. The restaurant is tiny. We were the only ones there at first but the place filled up quickly after our arrival. The owner was extremely outgoing and friendly, going out of his way to explain the menu and Taiwanese culture to us in lots of detail. He enthusiastically told us he was trained by a local celebrity chef in Taiwan and showed us the recipes she had published in a magazine. Our conversation really piqued our curiosity and by then we were impatient to sample his cuisine.
It definitely did not disappoint. The menu is half Taiwanese and half Japanese. We tried the Taiwanese beef noodle soup, which consisted of perfectly al dente udon-​like noodles chilling in a deep, rich beef broth; the heavenly Taiwanese minced pork rice, which tasted like it had been simmering in its juices for hours; crispy Japanese almond shrimps; sweet and sour deep fried fish, and some kind of chicken katsu, although the sauce tasted a bit more like teriyaki than the traditional plum sauce. Everything was fresh and flavorful, and the fried food was surprisingly not oily at all. I personally preferred the Taiwanese dishes because it tasted like the kind of home-​cooked meals you yearn for once you’ve left the family nest, but I must admit the fried dishes were very well executed and would delight any tempura fan.
We finished the meal with a sample of the pancakes that are only offered on weekends: taro, sweet potato, custard and red bean. It was the perfect end to a very enjoyable lunch. I really admired how passionate the owners seemed, and thought it really showed in their cooking. We will definitely be back.

Hidden gem of a restaurant that you would definitely pass by if not for a local Unilocaler (Bozan) who has inside knowledge of how amazing the specialty beef noodle soup is here. Really it sure is outstanding for Taiwanese beef noodle soup. The broth is wonderfully rich in flavour. So rich yet not salty and a great mix of tender fall off the bone meat plus Shanghai bok chop with a chewy noodle. If you are into phở you must try this soup as its different yet flavour is out of this world! A bowl of soup on a cold fall-​winter day is an amazing way to warm up the body. They also offer a hot chilli sauce to zip it up another notch if spicy is to your liking.
The restaurant is simple yet décor is clean and comfortable. The husband and wife team do also special Taiwanese cookies which we got to sample the pineapple filled ones which were a pleasant finish to a big bowl of soup.
Service was friendly and we were the only ones in the restaurant on the visit so we had more personal explanations of their culture with some jokes thrown in.
Price wise it’s extremely inexpensive at around $ 10 a bowl. The crew that came left with full tummies and content satisfaction. The menu is small but you can sense they care to serve you their home cooking plus dedication to delivering a top notch meal! I haven’t found many places in MTL that specilaze in Taiwanese food. There is not a huge offering on the menu as they have mainly Chinese dishes plus some Sushi but the soup is out of this world! I’m definitely coming back to sample more dishes of the menu specifically speaking their stir fry’s.

Price is fair, food is DELICIOUS! Where to start? The lady owner cooks her broth for 5 hours to get it ready — that’s dedication! While my colleagues got the beef noodle soup and were almost dying over it (from pleasure guys!), I got the vegetarian/​vegan option: sweet and sour soup and a dish of udon noodles with veggies. Everything was so tasty… and the udon noodles — woah, delicious, flavourful, the whole thing tastes real aromas — not fake ones like it could be often the case sometimes! Even veggies felt fresh and crunchy. I had indeed a lot of pleasure eating at this little restaurant. They also have nice little cookies with lightly sweeten pineapple in the inside (with pineapple that doesn’t taste canny!). I would go again for their authentic food, great service (the owner is quite talkative and funny) — and the fair price. By the way, they do 4 broths during the holidays: mango, nuts, beef and cranberry (can’t remember for sure about this one!). Anyway, bon appétit if you go!

Went here last night with a small group of Unilocal friends, people generally smarter than me about authentic Taiwanese food. All I knew was it had been chilly and felt like fall and I was craving soup, and man did this tiny hole in the wall deliver.
We were the only ones in there on a Tuesday night, and the young couple who own the place and make all the food from scratch seemed perplexed but happy we were there, and eventually we got them to come out and chat with us and they were so funny and dear and great. We all ordered the beef noodle soup that Bozan X had told us about, except for the representative from the land of Vegetarian who was well taken care of as well, but will no doubt tell her own story. The soup was just outstanding. Broth that takes 5 hours to simmer to glorious savoury perfection, beef that’s falling apart tender, crunchy veg and incredible homemade noodles that I could eat daily.
I might go back this weekend for the mooncakes, and around Christmas for all the different cakes the mama chef so proudly told us tales of, and I’ll be back before then many times for sure to sooth away the winter chill with these lovin spoonfuls.

give me a S. give me an O. give me an U. give me a P. what that spells? SOUP!!! what? soup! what? soup! what? soup! can’t hear you? SOUP!!!
on a curiously warm october evening, the little Unilocal gang made our little way across the city to meet up at this unassuming very quiet taiwanese restaurant, too quiet even, for a bowl of soup. for soup, really? yeah. not any kind of soup, a bowl of authentic beef noodle soup.
once we received our deliciously looking bowl of hot soup, we knew we were in for a fucking awesome treat. you could already tell by the lovely smell hitting our nostrils. and of course, after that spoonful of broth before plunging in was all it needed to reassure.
how good is it? the broth is extremely intense. it has that very homey feel, the kind of soup your mom or grandma would cook up on a very very cold winter night. broth is made with beef bones and by simmering it long enough, you get the bone marrow that falls off and adds a whole other level of richness to the broth. you could definitely taste the gelatinous marrow and the fat.
not only is the broth insane, the beef is fork tender fall apart kind of but still holds together to be pick up.
besides the soup, we had a shredded pork and corn cake as well as some pineapple fill cookie.
the cake was moist, not too heavy and quite tasty. as for the cookie, crumbly exterior similar to shortbread and the pineapple candy filling added enough moisture to make it very enjoyable.
in short, insanely good broth that makes you want to swim in it, take it home, bottle it so you can use it as perfume. lovely owners welcoming you into their home basically. hidden gem in ville st-​laurent. deserves plenty of love!
ps. the complimentary tea is lovely. the roasted rice is what gives it that extra oomph/​warmth

Ever since I got back from Taiwan, I havent gotten a single taiwanese beef noodle soup that tastes genuine, up until today. It’s not featured on the menu but locals love it.
The reason why this soup is legit is because the broth is made out of beef bones so it’s packed with flavour, and behind it is a taiwanese chef who trained in japanese cuisine.
Their tea is particularly tasty with the addition of roasted nuts and rice.
The pancakes come filled with red beans or taro, but taro was the best.
I have yet to try their Japanese menu.