Restaurant La Toile — Restaurant in Montreal

Food was excellent, fresh ingredient, super creative and palate pleasing.

Service is excellent and super attentive as well as excellent product knowledge.

Atmosphere is somewhat cozy mixed with modern cool and casual at the same time.

Celebrating its third as of feb 2025 with brother and founder and chef Francisco of Otakiwn and Mexican descent which shows in the menus offering. On the Mexican side one Christmas family favorite dish made by his mother (Emma) Festive salad that was made with mayonnaise and switched out by mascarpone giving it a modern twist and adding cranberries and mint.

Note. I love an Italian restaurant that offers Brio - and they do!

Endive salad Not really a salad, but more like a mini endive boats with luxurious rich olive oil mixed with fresh blue cheese adding to creamy bless, vinaigrette, pine nuts and overall was lovely and bright. Delicious and well worth the money.

You must remember tinkerer the tartainade spice (spicy dipping sauce) that’s gentle in heat and reminiscent of guacamole but it’s not. They should sell this by the bottle. I spread it all over my pizza.

The pizzas are truly fantastic. The crust is perfectly light and airy while also being crisp and having good flavour. The ingredients are superb as was the ham (which was almost as good as Serrano ham). Everything made and individually every ingredient is high quality and when assembled on a pizza base, they all come together like a beautiful synchronized orchestra of flavours and textures that will truly delight your palate and pocket book. There is good value here. Pricing is reasonable and on par with the overall value proposition. One final note to the owners/brothers. It’s really something special to see two brother working side by side in a business where passion runs high and pride in your food is clearly apparent. I love and appreciate your backgrounds of blending the Italian and Mexican as they blend perfectly in tie recipes. To the chef - you are so creative and was truly blown away from the endive salad, which I now refer to as endive salad boats. This is yet another example of creativity, culinary expertise, and an insightful knowledge of flavours and textures in how you created this simple yet powerful dish of expert execution. This has to be one of the best salad dishes ever and will be my go to standard moving forward.

So, least to say this place is not only a repeat, it’s now my pizza default restaurant. Do try this restaurant and get to know the owners/brother and check out how clean and organized the open kitchen is. This is a place where you feel at home, welcomed, and appreciated for you patronage.

And no, I did not receive anything in return for writing such a deserved...

I had my doubts seeing a restaurant with such a perfect rating, but having now visited, I can confirm that it's well deserved!

The food was fantastic (the pizza is the kind best eaten with a knife and fork, thin and soft, but with a lot of flavour; I think it's the kind of food that will be best had in the restaurant rather than delivered). I had the Al Pastor, which tasted like a taco and a pizza had a baby (very refreshing), and the fried chocolate balls for dessert, which weren't overly sweet (it's dark chocolate) and were well complemented by the strawberries.

The service was prompt and very friendly (and perfectly bilingual; I ordered entirely in French but I saw others served perfectly in English).

The restaurant itself has a quaint appealing vibe that was trendy but not pretentious. It's small, but they make good use of the space: one large table for big groups (up to 12), a couple benches for 4 or so people, and 3 two seaters. There's also a tiny terrasse.

As for the price, it was reasonable, not overly expensive, though not especially cheap either. Perfectly acceptable, all other factors considered.

Overall, I had a wonderful experience and fully intend to...

I am IN LOVE with this place! The pizzas are always delicious with that perfect balance of fluffy yet slightly crunchy dough with ingredients that are always so tasty. The staff is the sweetest. They are always all smiles and apologetic even if you've only been waiting there for a few minutes which tells me that maybe people are impatient because the space is a bit smaller but if you're going when it's not busy that's a great thing as it feels super cozy almost like a local cafe but with pizza and the staff are super attentive and make you feel like you're amongst friends. And if you catch them when they are busy they are just a quick stroll from the canal so one of the best Pizzas of the city eaten by the canal? What more can you ask for. Will absolutely be going there every time we crave a pizza of just want to see some...