PUB RANDOLPH - PUB AND BOARD GAMES!

FULL REVIEW:  PUB RANDOLPH - 

INVENTIVE DRINKS AND 

1000 BOARD GAMES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!

Their website:  http://www.randolphpub.ca/

2041 St Denis St Montreal, QC H2X 3K8
Telephone:   514-419-5001

Their alcohol menu: http://www.randolphpub.ca/#!boire/c11rf
Their food menu:  http://www.randolphpub.ca/#!bouffe/c1jo3

Price range:  $15 or less for one person including one drink, meal, tax, and tip (depending on drink and food). Note that if you want to play games, you have to pay a $5 flat fee which grants you access to games for the entirety of the day.

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Mouthwatering summary: Just $5 to play over 1000 board games for an entire night! Plus playful drinks!
Meal to try: You're really coming here to play the board games. But, I DO recommend the "Carrot Muffin" shooter and the brownie!

Ah, Pub Randolph. This is one of those crazy awesome places where, despite there being tasty food, the attraction is actually NOT the food. Oh, no, not at all. Pub Randolph is, instead, a two-story pub that is home to ONE THOUSAND BOARD GAMES. 

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Oh, how the inner (and outer) nerd in me just glistens with glee every time I visit or even THINK about this place! I mean, just LOOK at the games they have:

Wall ONE of games.

Wall TWO of games.

Where Wall 1 and Wall 2 join.

PHAYATHAI - THAI

STUB REVIEW: 

TERRIFIC THAI FOOD AT PHAYATHAI!

Their website:  http://www.phayathailaurier.com/
107 Avenue Laurier Ouest, Montréal, QC H2T 2N6 ‎
(514) 272-3456 
For their menu, click on their "Notre Menu" tab on the main page 


Price range:  $25+ for one person including one drink, meal, tax, and tip

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Chicken green curry!

Mouthwatering summary:  Very tasty, pricey Thai food in the Plateau
Meal to try:  Green curry chicken, with Thai beer!

LA FRITA PIZZERIA - PIZZA AND SUBS

STUB REVIEW:  

LA FRITA PIZZERIA - GREAT DELIVERY PIZZA

No website!

4909 Notre Dame St W, Montreal, QC H4C 1S9

Telephone:(514) 932-3952

Their online menu:  http://www.just-eat.ca/restaurants-la-frita-pizzeria/menu

Open:  Sunday to Thursday, 11am till 12am; Friday, Saturday from 11am till 2am
Price range:  $15 or less for one person (on most things) including one drink, meal, tax, and tip




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My favorite takeout combo: All-dressed pizza and steak-pepperoni stub!

Mouthwatering summary:  Inexpensive St-Henri pizzeria and diner that delivers great pizza and subs!
Food to try:  MEAT LOVERS' PIZZA!

Ah, the joys of delivery. For those moments when you're just too smegging lazy or busy to get out of the house, having restaurants that are ready, willing, and eager to cook you food and come right to your doorstep to drop it off is a wonderful little luxury. When I get into those busy periods, one of my favorite standbys for delivery is this tiny little pizzeria/diner in my neck of the woods:  La Frita Pizzeria. And truth be told, I have literally never eaten at this restaurant in person. The most I've ever done is walk on down to pick up an order and bring the food home. And every time, it's worth the trip!

TOMATO : LA BOITE A PIZZA - THIN CRUST PIZZAS

DELECTABLE THIN CRUST PIZZA ON ST-DENIS  

TOMATO : LA BOITE A PIZZA!

Their website (with menu right on the front page):  http://www.tomatopizza.ca/

4319 St Denis, Montreal, QC H2J 2K9
Telephone:(514) 303-7730

Open:  Everyday from 10:30am till 10pm
Price Range:  $20+ per person including one drink, meal, tax, and tip

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Restaurant exterior. Per usual, customers have been digitally blurred. Y'know, privacy issues and all that.

Favorite pizza here:  La TOTALE!

Mouthwatering summary:  Cozy, inviting pizzeria that serves thin crust pizzas in the Plateau Mont-Royal
Food to try:  La Totale!

Hello my lovely-wuvleys, how have y'all been? Time now for another installment of pizza review!

So, on an unseasonably warm October night, me and three of my friends decided to eat out on St-Denis Street. With pizza on our minds, we hopped on over to Tomato : La Boite à Pizza and sat on down in their outdoor terrasse to take advantage of what had to be one of the last hot days of the year. Well, it should be, right? There's a limit to how much climate change can change the climate, isn't there?  ... Please?

Ahem. Sorry, had to get that out of my system. So:  Pizza! Or more accurately, thin-crust pizza!

I've been coming to Tomato : La Boite à Pizza for a little while now. Hell, I LOVE it in winter time. It's a cozy restaurant with a warm, inviting decor and atmosphere that's perfectly suited for dining during cold, cold nights. Alternately, in the summer (or hot October nights, as was the case), their terrasse right on the street makes for a nice bustling eating experience. Also: I love the waitresses here - they're always so friendly! As for the food, they primarily serve thin-crust pizzas, apparently made from ingredients purchased fresh daily at the Jean-Talon Market (http://www.marchespublics-mtl.com/English/Jean-Talon/) (I LOVE that place!) provided by LUFA farms (http://lufa.com/en/). I don't know if that means that Pizzeria Geppetto (see my review of that place here: http://mouthwateringmontreal.blogspot.ca/2013/09/pizzeria-geppetto-pizza.html ) also does the same thing since, for me, the pizzas at the two places are pretty comparable. It could just mean that my palate isn't as refined as I think it is, but either way, I like both pizzerias!

And so, here are some pizzas we ordered at Tomato. First, the Calabrese ($14 for a small):

CHATEAU ONCLE JAMAL - PERSIAN

 STUB REVIEW:  CHATEAU ONCLE JAMAL

ULTRA-GOOD PERSIAN FOOD

No website yet!
1620A Sherbrooke St. W.

Phone: 514-933-8866

Open: Mon. 5-10 p.m., Tues.-Sun. 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.

Price range:  $15 or much less per person including one drink, meal, tax, and tip 

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Favorite dish (to date!): Tahchin Gosht

Mouthwatering summary:  Inexpensive, exquisite Persian food in Downtown Montreal
Meal to try:  Tahchin Gosht!

Man alive, I LOVE it when someone of a particular ethnic origin tells me that there's a restaurant that reminds him/her of food from home. Because I will run, NOT walk, to that place in a heartbeat. Such was the case with this awesome, recessed little place called Chateau Oncle Jamal, introduced to me by an Iranian classmate. Basically, I went with him to this restaurant and just asked him to order his favorite dishes here. Now I'm no expert in Iranian cuisine (hell, I'm not even passably competent. I'm downright ignorant when it comes to Persian cooking), but I'm going to come right out and loudly declare that this place is a Persian restaurant if ever there was one.

Because, y'know, my pronouncements on things of which I'm ignorant carry great weight somehow. :p