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~

Pizza Napoletana

Hi everybody,
I meet up one of my long time no see friend from my Bachelor degree (at least 5 years we didn't see each other). Fortunately, she insisted so much about not reporting again and again this meeting, we had a good time trying a new restaurant and keeping each other up dated about our respective lives.
Here we go, we choose Pizza Napoletana which is known for being the first traditional Italian pizza of little Italy since 1948. My friend Marmotte said that during her trip to Italy, it was at Naples right in front of her hotel that she ate the most amazing pizza. So we wanted to give a try to this one.

We shared an appetizer called «Polpette di Angelina» which is basically meatballs (around 8$). They were average. Nothing special about them, the tomato sauce doesn't have any special flavour. They were moist and melted in your mouth, but enough solid to stay together when cut.

Then the main reason we got there came : the pizzas!! :)

We ordered : #15 «Vegetariana» which has mushrooms, mozzarella, tomato sauce, olives, onions and green peppers (cost : 15$). I was quite disappointed, because I expected large grilled flavourful vegetables on top of it and what appeared in front of me was basically small diced vegetables. The taste reflected the picture below : Boff! Really nothing special, the crust was a little dry and crispy.

The other one : #35 «Porcini» which includes mozzarella, porcini, arugula and topped with olive oil (note : porcini is a kind of mushroom) (cost : 17$). It was much better only thanks to the sweet and peppery taste of arugula.

Overall, it was acceptable, nothing special or very particular that will invite me going back there.

NOTE : They only accept cash. There is an ATM inside.

Rate :

Food : 3.5/5

Service : 3/5

Price/quality : 3/5

Overall : 9.5/15

Address : 189, Dante street (corner de Gaspé) 

                514-276-8226 

                http://www.napoletana.com/index.html  (menu disponible)

~V.Cat~