Bistro Tôt ou Tard

Amazing bistro! We go there are least once a week for a nice dinner. I recommend it to everyone I can: D

The food is great here but service is hit and miss. Waited 55 minutes for a mushroom and Swiss omelette. After a reminder at 45 minutes, again repeating mushroom and Swiss, it finally arrived 10 minutes later as bacon and Swiss. So, no lunch for me today.

We had a great dinner with cocktails here. My friend ordered a Long Island iced tea and said it was one of the best he’s had. I had a strawberry daiquiri that was refreshing but a bit strong. We ordered fried calamari, which was delicious and crisp without being too chewy. I split a seafood linguini dish with my other friend and we both agreed that the noodles were perfectly cooked and the seafood was delicious. Great service, very friendly to us non-​French speaking tourists!

The portions were massive. Just MASSIVE!
Ordered the SEAFOOD RISOTTO (highly recommend it), and cried tears of joy… was the best risotto ever hands down. THE BEST! The shrimp were plump and juicy, the muscles were steamed just right, and each grain of rice were cooked to perfection. Since we ordered the combo, it came with a soup or salad, the main, couple of desserts to choose from, and a choice of hot beverage.
We packed our main and dessert to go. Had to forgo the beverage.
Total came to ~$ 45 after tax for 2!!! We felt that it deserved 20% in tip.
Sad we have not found a place in Toronto which offers the same quality and reasonable price. Maybe someday.
Montréal; you win!

I don’t get why I didn’t submit a review for this gem up until now. Go-​to place for brunch for the past 2 – 3 years, I’ve introduced friends to the place many times and it still amazes me at how underrated the place is. Low-​key attitude, pretty good service and consistent good food. Plates are huge by the way, good thing Park LaFontaine is right across the street for you to crash while you process all the deliciousness from Tôt-​ou-​Tard!

Varied menu offered many different types of options. The grilled trout was especially good. This place is very reasonably priced for food that would cost more than 2x the price downtown or in Old Montréal.

One of my favourite brunch spots when I feel like a weekend feast. The plates are ENORMOUS and the food is pretty good considering how much you get.
Cute patio that opens up in the summer, but the whole place is bright and cheerful.

Great Group Dining! I left the place drunk, full, and with plenty of delicious leftovers for around $ 20. Prices are very reasonable, service was excellent, and the food was great. Red Sangria pitcher is a delicious steal! What more could you ask for?

This is definitely one of my favorite restaurants in Montréal. They have a huge menu and great deals on drinks. The shrimp fettuccine, bavette, trout, salmon and the chicken fettuccine are excellent. There is a table d’hote option that includes soup and dessert with your choice of coffee or tea. I have also been there for brunch and I got the crêpe with chocolate, strawberries and bananas. It comes with 2 – 3 crepes filled with chocolate and is topped off with strawberries and bananas. It also comes with two eggs cooked to your liking, toast and a side of fruit and you have the choice of a glass of orange juice, coffee or tea. All for $ 9.50! The prices are very reasonable and the service is very friendly.

It was the biggest portion with the best quality, at a great price. I ordered the garden omelet and it comes with a handful of potatoes, two toasts, and a LARGE bowl with all sorts of fresh fruits! I also wanted to try the french toast, and the waitress kindly reminded me that it was going to be a large dish too (which comes with potatoes, sausage and bacon, etc), and she suggested that I get a side of french toast. They were more than delicious. Really soft, creamy and eggary (yeah I just made this word up…). Really worth the price. $ 8.95 – the omelet plate.

Bön rapport qualité prix pour la qualité servie, vue claire sur le parc et service aimable. Mais les plats sont composés de trop de produits industriels. Ex. Champignons de Paris en Boîte, sauce hollandaise en poudre. Dans un restaurant je m’attends à des produits frais et préparés par le Chef, pas à des produits congelés déjà préparés en usine. Les assiettes seraient moins copieuses et mieux resserrées autour des œufs personne né se plaindrait. Finalement vous mangerez les fruits avec leur pelures et sentirez la cuisine à plein nez en sortant. Rencontre culinaire un peu ratée.

Incredibly generous portions, and cheap cheap! Service is great. Food is good. HUGE menu, a taste for everyone. Really good table d’hote pricing. I will come again and again and my wallet won’t break!

Wonderful restaurant — the service was awesome. The waitresses were extremely friendly, helpful but not overbearing. We never had to call them for anything, they showed up at the right time with more water and things like that when we needed it and left us alone when we didn’t need anything.
Ordered off the table d’hote menu. Salmon fettuccine, seafood risotto, and filet mignon were all fantastic. 3 of us started by sharing a mozzarella and tomato. The table d’hote menu items come with soup, dessert and coffee or tea. One of us upgrade to a salad for 1,50 $ which was big in portion and great in taste.
Nice relatively quiet spot offering quality food at a reasonable price!

Cozy place with good food and good value! Staff are friendly and helpful.
Very nice mussel and seafood linguine, yet the steak was a bit over-​cooked.

This one is a good bet. Has a large menu, with a lot of pasta dishes, meat and sandwiches/​burgers. They have a 2/​$ 22 dinner option which I believe varies depending on the day. When we went, they were offering items such as salade nicoise, beef milanaise, fried calamari, and a few other main courses. This deal also gets you and your +1 each a soup I believe. I decided to go with their other special menu, one of the table d’hôte specials, $ 20 for bavette, comes with your choice of soup, dessert and coffee. I chose the chickpea, coriander noodle tomato soup, which tasted pretty similar to Moroccan harira soup. It was tasty, and the crispy little wedges of olive oil coated bread they brought along with it were great. The bavette was a really large piece, grilled to my liking, and came with caramelized onions. I picked fries as my side, and they were nice and crunchy and salty, perfect for dipping in their house mayo. Dessert was a choice between chocolate cake or tiramisu. They each were solid, not overly sweet, although not the part of the meal that will make me come back. I’ll go again for the bavette and yummy fries, as well as the wine deals. $ 11 for half a litre of house wine made me happy! Service was very nice and friendly, and the location of the resto with its large windows would make a fun place on a snowy day or sunny one!

Un très bon endroit, le cadre est agréable mais sans plus. Des plats plus que copieux et des bons produits. Parfait pour un petit (gros) brunch avant une grosse journée.

Friendly service (thanks Isabelle!), delicious food and tremendous value. We both had the table d’hote and every course was well prepared and tasty. My Pave de saumon frais de l’Atlantique was tender & moist and probably one of the best I’ve ever had. At $ 18 which included my choices of a yummy turnip & date soup and luscious chocolate mousse dessert, this is as good as it gets! The house wine is only $ 11 per half litre and our dinner for 2 was under $ 60 + tips. You GOTTA eat here as one TV food personality would say! :)
P. S. My dining partner described his Emince de veau aux champignons as OUTSTANDING!

Ce restaurant est vraiment très bon. Le service est super et en plus ce n’est pas cher. Tout pour plaire. Je vous conseille les pâtes au saumon ou le pavé de saumon au choix. Tout cela est très bon.

Très belle localisation non loin du parc Lafontaine.
Un peu d’attente pour être placé mais le plat du brunch et le smoothie étaient à la hauteur

For the area, it’s hard to beat the price point at Bistro Tôt ou Tard. And that’s before one considers how delicious and traditional some of their French cuisine is. The mussels and fries are great, and with numerous sauses to choose from (I recommend the champignon à la crème). The rognon de veau (kidney) is served with steamed vegetables and is tender. Get their soupe maison if its the soup of the day. The servers are friendly and bilingual. The restaurant was previously a Universal but it closed, and left behind its turn of the milenium décor of flood lighting and faux stonework. A large covered terrace makes for rain-​proof outdoor dining, and they have televisions that show the game. Good food, especially their pasta bakes and mussels. There is a lot of booth seating, and a view of the park. Unpretentious, laid back and affordable.

Le Bistro tôt ou tard est un coup de cœur!
L’endroit est lumineux et le service est sympathique.
Les plats sont copieux et les prix raisonnables.
Les déjeuners classiques (œufs, viande, patates, fruits) sont les meilleurs dans le quartier! Les patates sont délicieuses, bien dorées et assaisonnées. Le bol de fruit est généreux, diversifié et frais.
Les bénédictines sur bagel sont bons.
Un bémol, la focaccia au chèvre était décevante. Encore une fois, généreux sur le chèvre, mais la pâte était sèche.
Malgré tout, j’ai hâte de découvrir le reste du menu!

Great spot for brunch or dinner, they have a large menu to fit everyone’s taste. The portion are pretty big and the food is tasty.

I was very pleased by this place. They only had the French menu online when we looked, but they have an English menu in the restaurant. We came for dinner around 6:00 on a Sunday night. It wasn’t crowded at all and we were seated right away.
The menu was big and they have a wide selection. I got the penne romanoff without cheese and a glass of Listel-​Gris. Both were amazing. It was about $ 19 CAD with tips. We did have the ask for the drinks menu as it wasn’t given to us.
The restaurant is about a 5 minute walk from Station Sherbrooke and about a 10 minute walk from Station Beaudry. The entrance was a little hard to find, as it seems to be part of a building.
It’s definitely a great place to go for dinner. They also offer breakfast and brunch.

I had their brunch on a week-​end, with the place bursting with people. They serve the usual breakfast fare, eggs, Benedicts, waffles, etc. The price is fair, given the ginormous portion of food served.
One hiccup during my visit; each of the plates came with a small bowl of fruits. That day, it was a mixture of melons, one of which clearly had gone bad. There were only a few bits of melon in each cup of fruit so by the time we realized and spit it out, we didn’t have any left to show the kitchen.
The décor is fresh, modern, vibrant and green, and everything looks quite new.
I would come back if I was in need of a breakfast fix with friends, but this spot does not stand out from the crop of other similar priced and similar menu-​ed brunch restaurants in Montréal.

This place is amazing. If I lived remotely closer, I would go here all the time.
Service was friendly but not intrusive — no rushing here to turn over tables. And all brunch meals come with onions, ham, potatoes, bacon, sausage, AND a huge bowl of fruit! I’m not talking crappy honeydew/​canteloupe melon fruit, I’m saying an actual array of bananas, apples, cherries, berries, pineapple, etc… fruit!
For two visiting Americans with rusty French skills, they were great, it was nice to see the wide age range of patrons, from families to young couples. Always a good sign :)

Bön rapport qualité /​prix pour ce resto pour les petits déjeuners; 2 oeufs /​bacon /​saucisse /​patates /​fèves aux lard /​fruits = 8 $. Par contre, le service est un peu lent. J’y retournerai quand même. Wifi gratuit + vue sur le Parc Lafontaine.

Je suis souvent passée devant ce bistro situé à deux pas du Parc Lafontaine (et de l’Agora de la danse, un lieu culturel que je fréquente régulièrement). Aujourd’hui, j’ai décidé d’aller y casser la croûte rapidement avant un événement qui avait lieu à proximité.
La terrasse est charmante, mais je suis allée à l’intérieur, histoire de né pas me faire harceler par les guêpes! L’intérieur du resto est très propre et d’allure décontractée. Il était environ 16h, donc le bistro était presque vide. J’ai été servie par une charmante demoiselle sympathique et souriante qui m’a donné un service impeccable.
J’ai pris un wrap au brie avec une salade. Le wrap était énorme! La moitié m’aurait amplement suffi (d’ailleurs, la serveuse m’a offert de repartir avec le reste de mon wrap dans un plat pour emporter). Mon repas était bon, sans être de la haute gastronomie. Par contre, tout était très frais. Seul hic, selon le menu, le wrap devait contenir des noix de Grenoble et j’ai eu beau les chercher, elles étaient pas mal absentes sous les couches de brie, d’épinards et de tomates. ;)
J’accorde 3 étoiles pour le moment, mais je risqué sûrement d’y retourner et d’essayer d’autres plats. Peut-​être que le nombre d’étoiles augmentera!