Date of this visit was mid-October 2017) - I conta...

Date of this visit was mid-October 2017) - I contacted Margo, the coordination manager at La Champagnerie a few weeks before my girlfriend and I had reservations for dinner while we were enjoying a long weekend in Montreal. The dinner was meant to cap off and celebrate the (hopeful) answer of yes as I was planning on asking my girlfriend to merry me earlier that same day (she said yes!). I told Margo about my plans and asked how I could make the evening a little bit more special and she suggested a few things. I decided to get a nice bottle of champagne, which her sommelier suggested (based on our tastes) and then they wrote a message I picked, in French, on the bottle which they then presented to us at the table after we arrived. My fiance absolutely loved the champagne and just melted with the presentation of the bottle/message. In fact, she loved the champagne so much she wants to serve it at our wedding! We took the bottle back home with us which we will keep forever as a reminder of the day we got engaged.

Margo really helped me out here and went out of her way to make sure our evening was great, and it was! Thank you Margo!

The food was also incredible. We started with a charcuterie board that had some excellent cured meats on it. My fiance had a steak, cooked perfectly, and so big she had to take half of it home. I had the poutine with filet and lobster, and like a fatty, I ate the whole thing. I ate a lot of poutine on this trip (because, who doesn't love poutine?) and it was the best I had on the whole trip (and I had a lot of poutine in Montreal).

I've read some of the negative reviews here and honestly, I didn't see or experience anything that they claim. I wouldn't call this your every day go to restaurant, it is a little pricey but hey, it's champagne, unless you're drinking Cook's, champagne isn't cheap. I felt like the food was priced reasonably well and like I said, it was delicious. The atmosphere was great, it was a little loud but not so much that I had to lean in to hear my fiance talk to me or anything like that. Next time we go to Montreal, we will definitely go back.