Restaurant Förena — Restaurant in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville

Pros: -The food was delicious. -The menu is small, but with unusual meat proteins, different to what you usually find in spa (oysters, gravlax, guinea fowl, lamb, etc.). -The portion are light, similar to French cuisine, and fits with the idea of a spa. You won't leave heavy from your meal. -The vegan chocolate mousse (in fact rather a cream) is impressively good. I recommend.

Cons: -The service was very slow and strictly minimum, while being only 5 tables and 3 waiters. It took approximately 30 minutes between the time we ordered and the time we received the dish. Also, the waiter only came for taking the order, bringing and removing the plate and bringing the bill, with minimum interaction. -The price remains high despite the quality of the ingredients used. -Despite being in a spa, the atmosphere is basic, only using the spa music...

We found this place on Google map because it’s one of the closest restaurants near parc national du Mont Saint Bruno. We thought it’s bizarre that the parking lots were packed. After entering the building, we realized that it’s actually a spa, and the restaurant is part of it. Very nice and unique place seeing people enjoying the spa! The restaurant offers light food. From their menu, originally I wanted the duck, but the lady who served us told me it’s not ready. Then I wanted the lamb rib as seeing from the photo on google map, but they only have lamb meatballs. At the end I ordered the chicken with Cesar salad and some fried potatoes. Turning out everything was very tasty and I feel healthy...

For food, everything was great except the meat in the main dish that was cooked way to much unfortunately (without the sauce to somewhat salvage, I would have had to send the plate back). For atmosphere, the neighboring table was listening to videos on their phones (yes multiple listeners!) with speakers on which kind of ruin the mood for a while. They left before main service at least, but I would have appreciated if the staff told them something. I never think listening to audio content on your phone speaker in public is appropriate (earphones people!) but in a SPA restaurant, it's downright disrespectful to other customers. Service was top notch and...