Oreganos Grill — Restaurant in Montreal

Last Friday, we had a holiday staff dinner at this restaurant, which was my first experience there. I was the first to arrive, and the waitress was nice and welcoming. The rest of the school staff began to arrive shortly after.

The menu had already been chosen by the staff. We started with calamari for everyone at the table, along with a choice of salad or soup (either lentil or squash). The main dishes consisted of steak, chicken, and salmon, with coffee provided but no desserts included. Each person was required to pay $40, and any additional orders would be added to our bills. It’s also a bring-your-own-wine establishment.

The calamari were okay; there was only one small slice of lemon for the entire plate, and not all of the calamari came with the side sauce. I chose the squash soup, which was fine, but I missed taking a photo of my salmon. The salmon dish was decent, and the sautéed veggies were the best part. However, the rice was tasteless; I ended up adding the calamari sauce to make it more enjoyable. I also ordered lemon pie, which was okay but not extraordinary. The coffee was more water-flavored than anything else.

Overall, the staff were nice, and the chef even came out to ask if everything was okay, which was a thoughtful gesture.

When it came time to pay the bill, I noticed options for tipping: percentages, custom, and skip. I chose to customize my tip because I wasn’t completely satisfied with the food. However, the waitress stopped me with an attitude and asked me to pay more.

The tipping situation in Montreal can be quite challenging. While tipping is not obligatory, it often feels expected. If you choose to skip or customize the tip for any reason, it’s not acceptable for staff to confront you about it with an attitude.

In any case, I wanted to be honest and transparent about my experience. I believe the restaurant likely offers better options, but due to the restrictions on our menu choices, that was...

They didn't find our reservation originally and she had to look again and then they tried seating us by the front door without a wind stop secondary door and I didn't want to have people standing in front of me waiting to be seated or having the winter the cold kick in and that wasn't great seating. So I asked for a replacement as we were the first people there just before 6:00 p.m. when our reservation was for and she sat us beside the bathroom. The lentil soup was good and the decaf cappuccino smelled quite nice. The size of the vegetables were basically like it was from some dinosaur prehistoric place where everything is humongously big and way bigger than it should be. And so it is one broccoli and a wedge of part of a circle of a carrot at covered most of the plate! I originally ordered the salad and my partner the soup. The soup was good lentil but the salad was as tiny little unobtrusive bowl with six pieces of some vegetables and half of it greens. It was no salad at all. The breaded calamari or squid was uneditable and I actually had to extradite the larger piece for my mouth cuz I couldn't even chew it. My food partner said try the little ones. They're not too bad. That's how good they were. Not too bad. The overall dining experience with kind of non-restaurant people service and the chef owner showing up on our table in a scary faced way going. Is everything okay? Obviously it wasn't, must not have had any clue that this was subpar stuff across the board except for the soup and the espresso and which part of this was supposed to be Greek grill. Anyhow? We have Greek grills throughout Montreal and this was definitely subpar. Sorry for the negative review but this is the first negative review of a restaurant I've ever given. And it's well...

The atmosphere of the restaurant for exceeds the quality of the food and the surface. It's presented as a white tablecloth restaurant but has comparatively speaking for a Saturday night restaurant during covid-19 excessive pricing, it has very low prices. A whole dining experience with a 20% tip and 15% come back. Taxes was about $52. That's because we ordered the tire full meal included menu. Even with those lower prices, for the quality and presentation and lack of experience of the staff, as well as the frightened paranoid inquiry by the either chef owner or whoever he was, that didn't say, it's was not a great experience. Their lentil soup is excellent and they're espresso smells great. Everything else in the middle was not great. A slice of orange from a carrot that was 50 times normal size and a giant head of broccoli. The size I've never seen before. Calamari that was so chewy that I couldn't even chew it. The dessert apple cobbler cake was simply cooked apples cutting the square with giant apple pieces and a bit of cobblered dressing on top of it. Most of the meal in between the soup and the dessert and coffee really wasn't okay. There's plenty of room for improvement but when I paid double the price and another restaurant elsewhere just a few days before it's was 10 times. The better quality and far better service. Even the chair on the table I was sad at with my partner had the pieces coming out of the chair and wobble like crazy and I probably would have had the chair collapse. Appearance was great but content wasn't. They have lots of room for improvement and I hope they do. They seem like nice young people but rather clueless and a bit bizarre in there food choices of presentation...