At one end of Montreal’s Michelin list there’s an eight-seat counter in Mile End where dinner is 24 courses and $360 a head. At the other there’s a rotisserie on Saint-Zotique doing spit-roasted chicken and fries, and Michelin likes it just as much.
That gap is the useful thing about the 2026 Quebec guide. Twelve Montreal restaurants carry an award: five hold a star, seven hold a Bib Gourmand, and every one of those seven sits in Michelin’s $$ band. And get this. Five of them are close enough together that you could walk between them in an afternoon.
Here are all twelve touted by Michelin in Montreal, along with what to order at each, and which ones you need to plan around.
What Michelin Actually Gave Out in Montreal
The Quebec guide is only in its second year, and the 2026 edition landed on May 6. Montreal went from three starred restaurants to five in a single cycle, with Hoogan et Beaufort and Sushi Nishinokaze both promoted to stardom.
Being in the guide and winning something are different things, and coverage tends to blur them. The full Quebec selection runs to 121 addresses, of which 85 are listed as recommended: a real endorsement, but not a star and not a Bib. The twelve below actually won something.
Calling them the city’s top twelve is our judgement rather than Michelin’s, and no Montreal restaurant holds more than one star. The province’s only two-star is Tanière³ in Quebec City.
The Five With Stars
1. Sushi Nishinokaze — Mile End
Address: Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Mile End
Award: One Michelin Star, new in 2026
What to Order: You don’t. It’s a 24-course Edomae omakase, wild seafood from Japan and Canada, naturally grown rice, artisanal red vinegar.
Vibe Check: Eight seats, minimalist room doubling as a rotating ceramics gallery, 1960s jazz.
Booking: sushinishinokaze.com, and $360 a head including tax and service.
Chef Vincent Gee has close to thirty years behind a counter, and ran a sushiya of the same name in Toronto before opening here with partner Julian Doan.
Insider tip: Eight seats is the whole story. This is the hardest reservation in the city thanks to simple arithmetic.
2. Hoogan et Beaufort — Rosemont
Address: 4095 rue Molson, on the old Angus Shops site
Award: One Michelin Star, new in 2026
What to Order: Agnolotti with celeriac and Louis d’Or cheese, or duck fired whole on the carcass with quince and braised pointed cabbage. The desserts come off the wood fire too.
Vibe Check: Red-brick walls from 1904 and the original metal framework, industrial and high-ceilinged.
Booking: OpenTable or 514-903-1233. Michelin puts it at $$$$.
Chef-owner Marc-André Jetté has been here since 2015, so this is a long-standing room finally getting the nod rather than a new arrival.
Insider tip: They serve lunch Tuesday to Friday, 11:30 to 1:30. Almost no starred kitchen in Montreal does, and it’s the cheapest way through this door.
3. Jérôme Ferrer – Europea — Downtown
Address: 1065 rue de la Montagne
Award: One Michelin Star, held since 2025
What to Order: The Gaspé lobster cappuccino with truffle. It has been their signature for years and there’s no point pretending otherwise.
Vibe Check: Full-dress fine dining, Relais & Châteaux, open since 2002.
Booking: jeromeferrer.ca. Essential.
The headline experience is a seventeen-course tasting menu, French classical technique applied to Quebec produce.
Insider tip: The most conventionally formal room on the list. If you want the Michelin experience as most people picture it, this is the one.
4. Mastard — Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie
Address: 1879 rue Bélanger
Award: One Michelin Star, held since 2025
What to Order: The bluefin tuna on lettuce tart, a pâte brisée shell filled with a mousse of local gem lettuce. It’s the dish that made chef Simon Mathys’s name and it has survived every menu change since.
Vibe Check: Neighbourhood restaurant that happens to have a star.
Booking: Carte blanche menu, so turn up hungry and without a plan.
Mathys came through Laurie Raphaël in Quebec City and Le Manitoba here, and leans hard on sauces, sabayons and emulsions.
Insider tip: Of the five stars, this is the one that feels least like an occasion and most like dinner.
5. Sabayon — Pointe-Saint-Charles
Address: 2194 rue du Centre
Award: One Michelin Star, held since 2025
What to Order: Nothing to decide. One tasting menu: four savoury courses, two sweet, plus amuse-bouches and petits fours.
Vibe Check: Fourteen seats. Quiet, precise, run by two people who know exactly what they’re doing.
Booking: sabayon.ca or OpenTable, well ahead.
Patrice Demers trained in pâtisserie before moving to savoury cooking, and runs the room with Marie-Josée Beaudoin. Dessert here is the point rather than the afterthought.
Insider tip: Dinner is Thursday to Saturday at 7 p.m. only. Friday and Saturday afternoons there’s a tea service of three dessert courses with pairings, which is far easier to get into.
Five Bib Gourmands You Can Walk Between
Michelin’s Bib Gourmand marks good cooking at a fair price, and Montreal has seven. Here’s the part worth knowing: five of them sit within about a kilometre of Jean-Talon Market. You could eat your way through this section on foot in an afternoon.
6. Limbo — Little Italy
Address: 45 avenue Mozart Ouest
Award: Bib Gourmand, new in 2026
What to Order: Beef tartare with beef jelly and trout roe. If you’re braver, the breaded veal brains with sauce ravigote or the devilled beef tongue.
Vibe Check: Small bistro, organic and natural wines, a stone’s throw from the market.
Booking: Tasting menu runs around $95.
Chef Harrison Shewchuk builds a short seasonal menu around vegetables from an Estrie farm, and treats offal seriously rather than as a novelty.
Insider tip: Michelin flags it for both solo dining and farm-to-table, which nothing else here manages.
7. Le Petit Alep — Jean-Talon Est
Address: 191 rue Jean-Talon Est
Award: Bib Gourmand
What to Order: Mezze to share, then beef kebabs with fléflé, the Syrian condiment of puréed red pepper, sesame and black cumin in olive oil. Finish with mehalabié, rosewater and orange blossom with pistachios and cinnamon.
Vibe Check: Colourful, warm, family-friendly.
Booking: Walk-in friendly, and the wine list is longer than the room suggests.
Sisters Chahla and Tania Frangié have been cooking their family’s Syrian and Armenian traditions here for years.
Insider tip: It’s the bistro sibling of Alep next door. Same family, lower stakes, and the one Michelin award.
8. Parapluie — Beaubien Ouest
Address: 44 rue Beaubien Ouest
Award: Bib Gourmand
What to Order: The egg mayonnaise with lobster. Michelin reckons removing it would cause a revolt, and the fries are not optional either.
Vibe Check: Thirty seats, half of them at a marble counter wrapped around the open kitchen.
Booking: Sit at the counter or don’t bother.
Chef-owner Robin Filteau Boucher cooks seasonal sharing plates off a French base, and the sauces are the reason to pay attention.
Insider tip: Michelin lists it as a chef’s table. Take that literally and book the counter.
9. Rôtisserie La Lune — Petite-Patrie
Address: 391 rue Saint-Zotique Est
Award: Bib Gourmand
What to Order: Spit-roasted free-range chicken with crispy fries. Or the chicken soup with raviolini, which Michelin rates against the best Italian brodi.
Vibe Check: Big glass façade, lively brasserie room. Family-friendly early, louder later.
Booking: Groups welcome, which is rare on this list.
It comes from the owners of Mon Lapin, a few doors away, and the simplicity is deceptive.
Insider tip: Save room for the maple-leaf sablé with marshmallow and maple caramel. It’s the most Quebec dessert on this page.
10. Casavant — Villeray
Address: 350 rue de Castelnau Est
Award: Bib Gourmand
What to Order: The Casavant sausage and mash, already the signature. The confit leek tartlet with Mornay goat’s cheese and hazelnut sauce runs it close.
Vibe Check: New bistro, buzzing street, laid-back service.
Booking: Michelin flags it as good for solo dining.
Chef Charles-Tristan Prévost came from Le Club Chasse et Pêche and shops at Jean-Talon Market, minutes away.
Insider tip: The evening menu is wider than lunch (as it is at most fine dining locales), adding sea bass à la grenobloise and magret de canard with cider sauce.
And Two More, Further Out
11. Cadet — Quartier des Spectacles
Address: 1431 boulevard Saint-Laurent
Award: Bib Gourmand
What to Order: Hand-cut beef tartare with grated Asiago, snow crab with red curry, calamari with Asian pear and chili beurre blanc. Chocolate-banana tart to finish.
Vibe Check: Spacious, minimalist, long counter and a partly open kitchen.
Booking: Worth it before a show.
It’s the little sister of Bouillon Bilk and run by the same team.
Insider tip: Michelin gives the ordering advice itself: four dishes for two, plus a dessert to share, is about right.
12. Annette bar à vin — Angus Shops
Address: 4051 rue Molson
Award: Bib Gourmand
What to Order: Mussels in escabèche, bavette with maitake, pork ribs on the bone, and the crispy-soft rice pudding croquettes.
Vibe Check: Glass building, open kitchen, tapas-style sharing plates.
Booking: Open to midnight, and to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
Annette is at 4051 rue Molson. Hoogan et Beaufort, with its star, is at 4095. Same street, forty door numbers apart, same chef in Marc-André Jetté and the same sommelier in Hugo Duchesne. One is $$$$, the other $$. That pairing says more about this list than any single restaurant on it.
Insider tip: It keeps the latest hours of anything on this list. Useful when everywhere else has stopped serving.
In the Guide, But Not Awarded
L’Express is the argument for reading past the awards. The Saint-Denis bistro has no star and no Bib, and Michelin still describes a Parisian-style counter, Art deco fixtures, claret walls and black-and-white tiles, celery rémoulade, veal kidneys in mustard sauce, and profiteroles it calls “to die for.”
Last orders are 12.30 a.m. Michelin’s own phrase for the place is a hotspot for night owls.
FAQ: Montreal Michelin Star Restaurants
How many Michelin star restaurants are in Montreal?
Five, all holding one star: Sushi Nishinokaze, Hoogan et Beaufort, Jérôme Ferrer – Europea, Mastard and Sabayon. Nishinokaze and Hoogan et Beaufort were both promoted in 2026.
Does Montreal have a two-star or three-star restaurant?
No. Quebec’s only two-star is Tanière³ in Quebec City, and there is no three-star anywhere in the province.
What is a Bib Gourmand?
Michelin’s award for good cooking at moderate prices. Montreal has seven, and all sit in the guide’s $$ band.
Which Montreal Michelin restaurant is easiest to get into?
Probably lunch at Hoogan et Beaufort, Tuesday to Friday. Among the Bibs, Le Petit Alep and Rôtisserie La Lune are the most walk-in friendly.
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