Le Renoir
Smart French hotel restaurant (b,l,d; $$$)
This chic and airy French restaurant inside the modern, sophisticated Sofitel is always dependable for a high-class Montreal dining experience.
It uses local markets and local culinary flair to good effect in its menus which include a good-value weekday, three-course-set business lunch, which packs the place out.
Sundays, it's a good too for an extravagant buffet brunch, but the headline act is the tasting menu which puts you into the capable hands of its creative chefs.
Alternatively choose off an exotic surf-and-turf menu which includes guinea fowl, alongside with Atlantic lobster and Albertan steak.
The place also has a good cocktail menu, with its street-side windows making it a rather nice spot for a drink too.