Universel Restaurant

Hello everybody,

We were a big group (22 people) going for an anniversary to «Universel». The service was good, they didn't charge us extra fee for being a group. They told us that we needed to pay 1$ per person for slicing the birthday cake, but at the end they didn't charge us :)

Some people took a calamari appetizer. The tomato sauce was tangy and sour. It paired well with those fried seafood. I found them good, crispy on the outside.

Another choice of appetizer was the broccoli and clam cream soup. The clam flavour was strong but didn't overwhelm the soup.

 Salad cesar

Fillet mignon brochette -- The dish came with a pepper sauce which was good but tasted like those you buy from the grocery store. My friend asked for medium, but it was well cooked and the meat was dry. The meat already has pepper on it. I expected that the fillet mignon was tender and didn't have pepper on it letting us to taste the true meat flavour.

 Teryaki chicken fillet -- The poultry was tender, not dry at all. It was covered with a thick and sweet sauce. Not too sweet. It would have been tastier if the marinated the chicken. Although the sauce seems to be industrial, the dish was still good.

Seafood fettuccini -- The dish was rich even if there aren't any cream in the sauce. The sauce tasted okay. There were a lot of mussels (as you can see on the picture).

Salmon pennini

Seafood pizza

Linguine Vongole -- clams, shallots and cream sauce.

British burger -- mushroom and swiss cheese. Charcoal grilled meat... it was so dry. I couldn't taste the swiss cheese and the mushroom had no flavour.

Rib steak -- The first one was burnt and we had to ask to replace it.

 Dessert included in the table d'hôte
3 layers of 3 different chocolate -- too sweet according to my friend.

 Pacane tart

Note : Thanks for my friends being so patient even if they were really hungry, they waited for me finish taking the pictures before eating. THANK YOU!

Rate :

Food : 3.5/5

Service : 3.5/5

Price/quality : 3.5/5

Overall : 10.5/15

Universel Déjeuners et Grillades

2055 rue Peel

Montreal, QC, H3A 1V4

514-840-7136

http://www.restomontreal.ca/fr/4051/Universel-Dejeuners-et-Grillades (menu available)

~V.Cat~