Moishes

3961 Blvd. St. Laurent, Montreal, QB, XX - (514) 845-3509

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Posted By Michael Stern on December 20, 2006 4:31 AM

Bring a full wallet and a large appetite if you are dining at Moishe's, which is Montreal's high-end steak house. Opened in 1938 and now located upstairs on an inconspicuous block in the old Jewish neighborhood, there is nothing dramatically Jewish about its menu. In fact, you can start your meal with shrimp cocktail or have a main course of grilled shrimp; but the more typical starters are herring in cream sauce and chopped liver, and you can side your steak with latkes (potato pancakes) or karnatzlech (the little sausages common at local delis).

Although Moishe's "special chicken" sounded temptingly old-world, we ate beef. And what good beef it was. There are many cuts of charcoal-cooked meat available, including rib steak, sirloin, filet mignon, and T-bone, not to mention sweetbreads and a mixed grill, but the item we liked best was something we haven't seen on other menus: a bone-in filet mignon. A huge pillow of meat laden with juice, it provided no resistance to a knife and offered fuller flavor than most boneless filets. We also liked "Moishe's famous Monte Carlo potato," which is the house version of twice-baked.

Dining at Moishe's is a plush experience. Spirits are high at the white-clothed tables in the bright dining room as couples, families, and business comrades partake of a meal that everybody knows is the best that money can buy.

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