Brama | Restaurant Italien | Pizza - Pâtes - Traiteur — Restaurant in Montreal

I cannot put into words how spectacularly outstanding this place is in every conceivable respect. Everything I am about to say doesn’t even scratch the surface of what you can expect from this place.

My girlfriend and I have gone 3 times in just the last 7 days because we have been positively floored by absolutely everything we have had. At this point we’re just going down the menu and are continuously getting baffled by how exceptional every new dish we try from this place is. There is truly no restaurant I have ever tried that exudes such passion and love for delicious food of the utmost quality as Brama.

Every dish is made fresh, in house with sourced ingredients of the utmost quality imported directly from Italy. The pizzas are absolutely to die for made on fresh homemade pizza dough the Italian way as God intended. The pastas are all freshly made in house from scratch and lord have mercy can you taste it. The noodles are always perfectly aldente, the gnocchi are fluffy pillows of pure ecstasy, the radicchio salad still has me and my girlfriend fantasizing about it, and the homemade pistachio cheesecake is just inexplicably exceptional. Even the coffee is among the best you’ll have.

John and the team take everything you love about Italian cuisine and do it leagues better than what should be humanly possible.

Though the food is worthy of a master’s thesis in Italian culinary perfection unto itself, I cannot post this review without highlighting with the utmost gratitude and respect the absolutely outstanding staff and consequent service you will get here. Everybody who works at Brama is exceptionally kind, respectful, professional, provides fast service and clearly has passion for the restaurant they work for. I have never seen anything like it.

You’ve really outdone yourself John. Though we only met you this week, you will always have our support. Keep doing what you’re doing and never lose that passion. The world needs more...

Absolutely amazing.

I went there tonight with some family for a joint birthday dinner, and I was flabbergasted.

The food is absolutely delicious. We had burrata, arancini and polpette as appetizers, to start. It's ACTUAL burrata, and not what most places claim is burrata when it's just a piece of fresh mozzarella, and it's slightly expensive but the portion size plus the actually what is advertised is crazy good value.

The arancini were magnificent, crunchy, tasty, full of cheese, in a wonderful sauce. The polpette were crazy tender and very flavorful. The sauce the polpette comes with is different from the one that comes with the arancini, which shows great attention to detail.

Our mains were just as delicious, the pizza dough had delicious crunch and bite, the ingredients were top notch, and the absolutely killer hot oil was the highlight of the whole thing, so much that we asked our waiter what was in it and he actually showed us (I could barely believe it!). The other guests had different pasta, and they were all out of this world. The gnocchi were soft and pillowy, the Mac a la Gigi was spectacular, and the fetuccine really tasted home made.

All in a small cozy space that is homey and comfortable.

And the best part? For the quality of food that you get, the PRICE is impossible to beat. Honestly, it's very affordable food. Almost too affordable, and most likely has to do with the location, which is a bit weird right at the line where VSL goes from industrial to residential, but more power to them, since they price their food very reasonably. In any other part of town our bill would've been 50% more expensive.

TL;DR - go there. You...

We came here on a Friday afternoon and ordered two pasta dishes to go. The location is industrial, with free but limited street parking only.

The restaurant has a small and cozy dine in area and separate area for take out orders.

We tried the pappardelle Bolognese and cavatelli al guanciale. We noticed for some items the pricing online differed from the menu on site - the prices were cheaper online. I am not sure if this is because the menu wasn't updated or perhaps there is a different charge for dining on site.

We immediately went to the car and tasted the food, the pappardelle is described as cooked in a "slow cooked meat sauce with beef veal, pork and fennel sausage" however the sauce tasted more like plain tomato and was slightly too acidic. It was missing some sweetness and there wasn't nearly enough noticeable meat. The pasta was otherwise well cooked but this was an average dish. I would not re-order.

The cavatelli on the other hand was extremely flavorful, a rich creamy sauce that was very decadent. The only drawback was the shape of the pasta, these looked like fat maggots.

In terms of pricing and portion, I thought this was pretty fair since this is supposed to be fresh handmade pasta.

The location itself was difficult to get to for us and the size of the restaurant was quite small for dine in, we would have to make sure we reserve in advance if we planned on...