Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Montréal
This list gathers restaurants in our guide with exceptional wine programmes, from starred tasting rooms to brasseries and small-plate kitchens. Twelve restaurants here hold Wine Spectator awards. Eleven of those are a Best of Award of Excellence, and Mama C in Vieux Montréal holds an Award of Excellence. The larger cellars name regions. Ferreira Café in the Golden Square Mile weights bottles toward Portugal and Port. La Chronique in Mile End goes deep in Burgundy, France and Italy. Hoogan et Beaufort in Petite-Cote keeps particular strength in Burgundy and the Rhône. Sabayon in Point-Saint-Charles spans Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy, Australia and California. Natural wine is the other line, at Le Vin Papillon in Petit Bourgogne, Alma Montreal in Outremont, where the bottles are Catalan, and GIA VIN & GRILL in Saint-Henri.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Alep
Deep wine list
For roughly three decades, Alep has held its ground on Jean-Talon Est as one of Montreal's most enduring Middle Eastern tables. The restaurant shares a kitchen and wine list with its adjoining sibling, Le Petit Alep, creating a two-room operation that has quietly become a neighbourhood institution. In a city that refreshes its dining scene constantly, that kind of continuity carries its own authority.
Alma Montreal
Deep wine list
In Outremont, away from Montreal's downtown dining circuit, Alma operates at the intersection of modern Mexican technique, Catalan natural wine, and Quebec seasonal produce. Chef Juan Lopez Luna's monthly Carte Blanche tasting and sommelier Lindsay Brennan's direct-import wine list make this one of the city's more considered small-room experiences. The nine-course format changes with the season; the five-course option offers a shorter entry point.
Annette bar à vin
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Annette bar à vin holds a 2025 Michelin Bib Gourmand and operates from Rosemont's Molson industrial corridor with a wine list of 875 selections and 2,750 bottles in inventory. The kitchen runs modern Canadian cuisine at dinner, priced in the mid-range bracket, with a sommelier team and a wine program weighted toward France and domestic producers.
Au Pied de Cochon
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Au Pied de Cochon on Avenue Duluth has spent more than two decades making the case that Quebec's cooking tradition belongs on the same conversation as any serious French regional cuisine. Chef Martin Picard's foie gras poutine and duck in a can have become reference points for Montreal dining, backed by Michelin Plate recognition and consistent Opinionated About Dining rankings across both North American and European casual tiers.
Bar George
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Bar George places Montréal’s grand-hotel dining culture inside the former Mount Stephen Club, where carved wood, stained glass, and downtown formality shape the meal before the first plate arrives. Its appeal is less about a chef-driven thesis than about how hotel restaurants in the city translate British-club architecture, Canadian sourcing, and all-day service into one polished room.
Bar St-Denis
Deep wine list
Bar St-Denis occupies a former dive bar on one of the Plateau's defining streets, transformed by Appareil Architecture into a spacious yet intimate dining room where French technique meets Middle Eastern influence. The kitchen's seasonal menu runs from veal tartare with white anchovies to duck sausage with foie gras and pistachios, backed by a wine list that balances natural pours with classic choices. Few addresses on Saint-Denis convert first-time visitors into regulars as consistently.
Bonaparte
Deep wine list
Bonaparte occupies a landmark address on Saint-François-Xavier in Old Montreal, where the French classical tradition has held its ground for decades against the city's appetite for the new. The room and the sequence of courses position it within a dining bracket where formality of execution, not novelty, is the currency. For visitors weighing where Old Montreal's French dining heritage concentrates, Bonaparte is a reference point.
Bouillon Bilk
Deep wine list
Bouillon Bilk has held a consistent position in Opinionated About Dining's North America rankings since 2023, with a Michelin Plate recognition to match. Chef François Nadon runs a French kitchen on Sainte-Catherine Est that reads less like a fashionable destination and more like a working institution, precise, unpretentious, and reliably full on any given weekday service.
Dorsia
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Dorsia holds a Michelin Plate (2025) on Rue Notre-Dame Ouest, positioning it within Old Montreal's growing tier of European-inflected restaurants that take format seriously without the price ceiling of the city's starred houses. It reads as a reliable evening address for those who want considered cooking at the $$$ mark. The room and the progression of the meal are the draws here.
Ferreira Café
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
On Peel Street in downtown Montreal, Ferreira Café has anchored the city's Portuguese dining scene for decades, earning a Michelin Plate (2025) and a ranking among Opinionated About Dining's top restaurants in North America. Chef Natalia Machado leads a kitchen rooted in Portuguese seafood tradition, supported by a wine program of 5,000 bottles weighted toward Portugal and Port, overseen by Wine Director Tristan Buisson.
GIA VIN & GRILL
Deep wine list
From the team behind Elena and Nora Gray, Gia Vin & Grill occupies a converted garage on Rue Lenoir with subway tiles, a natural wine list, and a menu that shifts from daytime antipasti and sandwiches to evening arrosticini, seafood, and pasta. It is the kind of neighbourhood restaurant that earns repeat visits through consistency rather than spectacle, a reliable address in Montreal's southwest dining corridor.
Hoogan et Beaufort
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Inside a glass-enclosed industrial building in Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie, Hoogan et Beaufort translates Quebec's farm-to-table commitment into a modern French idiom. The wine program runs deep, 800 selections, 3,000 bottles in inventory, with particular strength in Burgundy and the Rhône, and the kitchen holds a 2025 Michelin Plate.
Jérôme Ferrer - Europea
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Europea holds a Michelin star and a 2025 Les Grandes Tables du Monde award, placing it among Montreal's most formally recognised modern cuisine addresses. Chef Jérôme Ferrer steers a menu that draws on French classical technique while leaning into the produce and temperament of Quebec. The room at 1065 Rue de la Montagne is contemporary in design and serious in intent, sitting a few blocks from the cultural core of downtown.
Juliette Plaza
Deep wine list
Ranked 77th on Canada's 100 Best Restaurants list for 2025, Juliette Plaza has earned its place among Montreal's most closely watched dining addresses. The restaurant sits on Rue St-Hubert in the Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie corridor, a neighbourhood that has quietly accumulated serious culinary weight over the past decade. National recognition at this level puts it in direct conversation with the city's established fine dining tier.
La Buvette du Depï½Griffintown
Deep wine list
La Buvette du Dep, anchored in Montreal's Griffintown neighbourhood at 300 Rue de la Montagne, occupies the lower-key end of the city's dining spectrum, a bottle-shop-meets-wine-bar format that sits at some distance from the high-production tasting menus of Toqué or Europea. With sparse publicly available data, the venue rewards those who arrive with low expectations and leave surprised by the selection and the room.
La Chronique
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A Plateau-Mont-Royal institution holding a 2025 Michelin Plate, La Chronique pairs classical French technique with one of Montreal's most serious wine programs: 700 selections, 2,750 bottles in inventory, with particular depth in Burgundy, France, and Italy. Wine Director and Chef Olivier de Montigny oversees both kitchen and cellar, making this one of the few addresses in the city where food and wine are genuinely coordinated at a senior level.
La Taverne sur le Square
Deep wine list
Located in Westmount Square, La Taverne sur le Square earned a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in early 2026, signaling a wine program that positions it above the casual tavern category. The address places it within one of Montreal's most quietly affluent enclaves, where the dining room serves a neighbourhood that expects considered lists over crowd-pleasing selections. For wine-forward diners visiting Montreal's west side, it belongs on the shortlist.
Le Club Chasse et Pêche
Deep wine list
In the cobblestone corridors of Old Montreal, Le Club Chasse et Pêche occupies a vault-like dining room that positions French cuisine against the specific terroir of Quebec. Recognised with a Michelin Plate in 2025 and ranked among Opinionated About Dining's top North American restaurants, Claude Pelletier's kitchen draws from the province's hunting and fishing traditions to produce one of the city's most consistently serious French menus.
Le Filet
Deep wine list
Le Filet on Mont-Royal Ave W holds a Michelin Plate (2025) and consistent Opinionated About Dining recognition, placing it among Montreal's most closely watched seafood addresses. Under chef Yasu Okazaki, the kitchen runs a French seafood format that tracks seasonal availability closely, with service Wednesday through Saturday evenings only..
Le Petit Alep
Deep wine list
Fewer than a handful of Montreal restaurants operate at Le Petit Alep's intersection of price and pedigree. The Jean-Talon address delivers Syrian-Armenian cooking at the $$ tier, earning a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025. For Middle Eastern cooking outside the tasting-menu bracket, the value case is clear.
Le Richmond
Deep wine list
Le Richmond occupies a converted industrial space on Rue Richmond in Saint-Henri, one of Montreal's most consequential neighbourhood transformations of the past decade. The venue sits at the intersection of heritage architecture and contemporary hospitality, making it a reference point for understanding how the city's dining scene has moved beyond the Plateau. For visitors calibrating their Montreal itinerary, it belongs in the same planning tier as the city's other address-driven experiences.
Le Serpent
Deep wine list
Le Serpent brings Mediterranean cooking to Montreal's Griffintown district with a 2025 Michelin Plate recognition. The kitchen draws on the seafood-forward traditions of the Mediterranean basin, translating them through a Canadian lens at a mid-to-upper price point. It occupies a particular niche in a city where French bistro instincts meet an appetite for southern European flavour.
Le Vin Papillon
Deep wine list
Le Vin Papillon is a 45-seat wine bar on Notre-Dame Ouest that operates as the informal sibling to Joe Beef, holding a Michelin Plate and consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition through 2025. Under chef Marc-Olivier Frappier, the room trades on honest, vegetable-forward cooking and a wine list that rewards curiosity over convention. The summer terrasse extends both the season and the appeal.
Leméac
Deep wine list
Among Montreal's French bistros, Leméac occupies a distinct position: a Michelin Plate recipient on Avenue Laurier O in Outremont that has held consecutive Opinionated About Dining rankings since 2023. The room reads as genuinely Parisian in cadence without the self-consciousness that afflicts many imitations. Lunch, weekend brunch, and dinner service run seven days a week, making it one of Outremont's most consistently available fine-casual addresses.
Les Cavistes
Deep wine list
Les Cavistes on Rue Fleury O operates in one of Montreal's most food-literate neighbourhoods, where wine-bar culture and serious cooking have converged into a distinct dining mode. A White Star recognition from Star Wine List signals a wine program credentialed beyond the neighbourhood average. The room rewards those who pay attention to what's in the glass as much as what's on the plate.
Maggie Oakes
Deep wine list
Positioned on Place Jacques-Cartier in Old Montreal, Maggie Oakes sits at one of the city's most historically charged addresses, where the divide between tourist-facing terrasse culture and serious local dining is sharpest. The room and its service cadence shift noticeably between lunch and dinner, making the time of day you choose to visit a genuine editorial consideration rather than a trivial detail.
Mama C
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Mama C occupies a storied address on Saint-Paul Street West in Old Montreal, where the neighbourhood's cobblestone heritage and density of serious restaurants set a high baseline for any newcomer. Situated within a category that Montreal's dining scene continues to take seriously, it draws visitors and locals alike to one of the city's most food-saturated corridors. EP Club has this venue on its Montreal radar for further assessment.
Marcus
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A Michelin Plate recipient on Rue de la Montagne, Marcus operates at Montreal's upper price tier alongside Toqué and Europea, positioning modern cuisine as its framework with the polish expected at the $$$$ level.
Moishes
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Moishes is Montreal's enduring steakhouse institution on Boulevard Saint-Laurent, where the ritual of a properly aged cut and a room full of regulars has changed little in decades. The kind of place where the dining room tells you more about the city's social fabric than any newcomer can. A fixture in Montreal's conversation about where tradition and quality intersect.
Monarque
Deep wine list
A 175-seat French brasserie in Old Montreal holding a Michelin Plate and back-to-back Opinionated About Dining recognition, Monarque operates across three distinct dining registers under the same roof: a 20-stool bar, a brasserie floor, and a formal salle à manger. Chef Jérémie Bastien applies contemporary technique to classic French frameworks, with fish, shellfish, and dry-aged P.E.I. beef anchoring both menus.
Montréal Plaza
Deep wine list
Chef Charles-Antoine Crête's audacious contemporary brasserie transforms Plaza St-Hubert into Montréal's most unexpected fine dining destination, where French culinary mastery meets fearless innovation through creative small plates designed for sharing in an intimate 70-seat space.
Mythik
Deep wine list
Mythik occupies a VIP-tier position inside the Bell Centre complex at 1909 Avenue des Canadiens-de-Montréal, placing it in a category of arena-adjacent dining that Montreal handles differently from most North American sports venues. The address signals event-driven hospitality at a premium register, positioning it alongside the city's upper-tier modern cuisine circuit rather than standard stadium food.
NORA GRAY
Deep wine list
A wood-panelled room on Rue Saint-Jacques where regional Italian cooking anchors some of Montreal's most consistently satisfying occasion meals. Nora Gray restaurant in Montreal draws a loyal crowd with pastas made to hold attention, offal-forward dishes that reward the adventurous, and a wine list built around organic and natural producers. It reads romantic without trying too hard.
PICHAI
Deep wine list
On Rue St-Hubert in Montreal's Plateau-adjacent north, PICHAI runs Thai and Isaan street-food flavours through a low-intervention wine program and a produce network that reaches Montreal's South Shore. The room is sleek and loud, the clientele a mix of Thai families and well-travelled locals, and the kitchen's specials list is where the real cooking happens. There is, as one reviewer put it, simply nowhere else in Canada to eat like this.
Restaurant h3
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Restaurant h3 sits on the second floor of Humaniti, the mixed-use tower that reshaped the De La Gauchetière corridor when it opened in 2021. Part of the same hospitality group as Le Coureur des Bois, which carries an awarded wine program, h3 operates under the oversight of Hugo Duchesne and draws a repeat downtown clientele with a format that rewards familiarity over one-off visits.
Ristorante Da Vinci
Deep wine list
On Bishop Street in downtown Montreal, Ristorante Da Vinci occupies a position within the city's long-established Italian dining tradition, a category that sits apart from the modern cuisine surge at addresses like Europea and Mastard. For those tracing the Italian restaurant lineage in a city shaped by successive waves of European immigration, Da Vinci represents a formal sit-down reference point in a neighbourhood dense with competing dining formats.
Rosélys
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Rosélys occupies a considered position within Montreal's downtown dining circuit, where hotel restaurants have steadily shed their transactional reputation in favour of genuine culinary ambition. Set at 900 René-Lévesque Blvd W, the restaurant draws both hotel guests and destination diners into a setting where the room itself does significant work. For those moving through Montreal's modern cuisine tier, Rosélys represents a credible stop alongside the city's broader fine-dining conversation.
Sabayon
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
The wine program spans 1,150 bottles across Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy, Australia, and California, with three sommeliers guiding a list that prices at moderate markup. Two sittings serve lunch and dinner, with a weekend afternoon tea format.
Toqué
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Three decades after Normand Laprise made local sourcing a statement rather than a default, Toqué remains the reference point for Quebec's haute cuisine conversation. Holding a Michelin Plate and a place on La Liste's global rankings, it operates at the summit of Montreal's fine dining tier, with a multi-course format built around seasonal produce and French technique expressed through an unmistakably Québécois lens.
Zante
Deep wine list
Zante serves traditional Greek seafood at Hotel Le Cantlie on Sherbrooke St W, with terrace seating, an extensive wine list, and lunch or dinner service.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Montréal
- How many restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards?
- Twelve restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards. Eleven hold a Best of Award of Excellence: Sabayon, Hoogan et Beaufort, Toqué, Au Pied de Cochon, Ferreira Café, Annette bar à vin, La Chronique, Marcus, Dorsia, Bar George and Moishes. Mama C holds an Award of Excellence.
- Which neighbourhood has the most restaurants on this list?
- Vieux Montréal has the highest count on this list, with five restaurants: Dorsia, Le Club Chasse et Pêche, Mama C, Le Serpent and NORA GRAY. The next highest counts are the Golden Square Mile and Quartier international de Montreal, with three restaurants each.
- What wine styles stand out on this list?
- Regional cellars and natural wine are the two styles with the most detail on this list. Ferreira Café weights its bottles toward Portugal and Port, La Chronique goes deep in Burgundy, France and Italy, and Hoogan et Beaufort keeps particular strength in Burgundy and the Rhône. Natural wine lists include Le Vin Papillon, Alma Montreal, GIA VIN & GRILL, PICHAI and NORA GRAY.