Montfort Restaurant

Checked this place out after a long day of shopping. Ordered take out food chicken wrap and a chicken on the rocks. The food is alright they don’t enough sauce but they also include a tomato/​onion side. The chicken wrap was really small compared to other places. Better than Paramount franchise but not better tham the other places around the city. Price wise you can find better. I will try again to see their other good options on the fence so far

My dad ate at this place with a friend and recommended we try it out. It’s located in a sketchy area and the interior is a bit outdated, however, the food was beyond my expectations.
We ordered the baba ganoush for our appetizer with warm pita bread on the side and it was delicious! I ordered the chicken souvlaki dinner, which comes with chicken souvlaki, yellow rice (side of your choice), pita bread and salad. In my opinion, their serving sizes are huge! Although, it came with one skewer of chicken for such a huge plate, the taste was amazing! My dad and my sister’s boyfriend ordered the steak and shrimp dinner, which they really enjoyed as well.
The waitress was very polite and accommodating. She brought a delightful white garlic sauce and spiced onion condiment for each of us, which we happily ate alongside our meal.
Although the appearance of the place was a turn off for me in the beginning, I would definitely come back for a meal and recommend it to my friends!
If you can look past the unappealing interior and location, you should give it a try.

Great food every time, chicken, beef and lamb! Sauces are excellent
The hummus with meat is a definite starter.
Service is good.
Some décor updating would be nice.

I sometimes come here for a late night snack. I’m in love with their baba ganoush. Its beautifully balanced. Best part is their pitas. Warmed on the grill, they are fresh and very tasty. To be honest, I don’t really stay for a meal, but take my baba ganoush home as I’m usually there pretty late. Service is efficient, food is fresh. For what I go there for, I couldn’t ask for a better place. If you are going to stay, the décor is a little dated, and a few of the booths could use some reupholstering. If it was brighter, and a bit more inviting, I’d be inclined to stay for a meal, but for now, I’ll go to the comfort of home with my take out.

This is great little restaurant. We used to be regulars & now we’ve returned. We had the Mazza for 2 & it was great. The sauces were amazing & the flavour profile was superb. Had a bowl of the house made lentil soup which was beauty as well. Our server was so polite & attentive & was terrific at looking after us. We talked about her home country & she gave us a little complimentary baklava for dessert. This was a great meal with solid service & was reasonably priced. A definite do-​over.

The signature Montfort Chicken Sandwich has got to be the most popular item here. It’s great. It comes with two mouthwatering dips, one garlic and one tomato/​onion based, which complement the sandwich perfectly. The calamari isn’t bad either.
If the restaurant had one downfall, it’d be the slowness of the service. It consistently takes over 20 mins for me to receive my meal, whether I’m there for dine-​in or takeout.
TL;DR — Great food, slow service, order the Montfort Chicken

You know the next door place with a shady door in the ghetto part of town that somehow makes the best food?
this is that place.
The place is small with a long table right at the front (facing the kitchen) and 4 booths on the opposite side of the room. Then a random scattered table/​chair pairs to fill the place up. The design looks like they were hand me downs from several people. You have a Victorian painting that you try relating to everything else but then you find nick knacks that don’t make any sense. It’s as though an explosion went out at an episode of hoarders and things just stuck in corners. It’s not that it’s crowded, Visually it just does not make sense.
The staff is almost always some polish/​eastern European girl and an Arab guy (kitchen) — making this place even more nonsensical.
The location is connected to a strip of little bazaars right off of Hurontario so beware of the traffic here. The parking lot is shared with the rest of the stores so there is always plenty of parking available.
It never gets too busy for lunch but definitely busy in the evenings/​weekends.
The service is good if you know what you want. Otherwise it’s at minimum to nothing. They serve beer and fruit drinks that are worth a try. I’ve tried the Mango and the Pear drinks. Nothing like the real stuff but not the worst.
Now the food is just above expectation here. Aside from the fee garnishing sauces that are the first things served on your table, the meal portions are massive.
But I must go back to the free garnishes, because truthfully, this is why I come here. It’s a small plate with 3 sauce cups. 2 garlic and 1 tomato/​herb/​diced onion.
The garlic sauce is a garlic lovers dream. The consistency is just the right mix of saucy enough to mix with your rice and thick enough to use for dipping. It’s a yogurt base but the garlic taste is dominant. The tomato sauce mixed with herbs and diced onion is really a nice touch on any of the dishes. It’s scary how heavenly these sauces are. And this is just the beginning. It’s so scary, I can ask for pita bread and just spread the onion/​tomato sauce, then some garlic and call it a meal. It’s THAT good.
1 plate dish comes with any 2 sides (rice and salad is usually my vice) and they bring you the meat on the bed of rice with 2 slices of pita on the side. The rice is usually garnished with fresh parsley, which just stimulates all my senses. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy the smell of fresh parsley. I am that person at the vegetable isle squeezing the avocado to find the ‘just’ right one, the one smelling the parsley before bagging to make sure it’s organic and fresh. So, fresh parsley, to me, is a sign of good rotation of produce.
You can easily share 1 plate dish with an app and still be full. It’s excellent for sharing with big groups or an intimate dinner.
The prices aren’t as cheap but you pay for quality and I always have left overs to take home.
my
2 cokes
kafta plate with rice -.
chicken souvlaki plate with rice
hummus with pita
=$ 42.00
not so fun fact: I highly discourage using the bathrooms here. They are run down and since this place is open wee late, the customers tend to get dodgier as the evening falls. So, with that sort of traffic, bathrooms are not recommended.
xoxo
M.

Been going here for about ten years now and I’ve watched the service and food slowly decline. Don’t get me wrong, the food still ranks as standard Middle Eastern fare however the place has lost all personality. Just came back from spending $ 60 on takeout and they were hard pressed to even throw in some extra garlic sauce!
There are still lots of alternative restaurants in the vicinity that will appreciate your business more than these folks so I recommend you try them out.

A guy that we had doing some electrical work recommended this place. We figured that if he was willing to drive from Markham to Mississauga that this place would be worth it!
And it was.
We got the appetizer that allowed for a selection of 3 items from a list some very hard choices. We settled on the humus with meat, the tabouleh, calamari. All were ample portions but we could have used a few more calamari pieces.
When we go, we always get the meat platter since it has the most kinds of meat on it. All of them are done brilliantly, the chicken, the beef and lamb are done to perfection.
The thing that keeps me coming back though is their garlic sauce. Creamy and just the right amount of garlic gives that perfectly grilled meat that zing that will having me coming back for more.
I would have to agree with Ness though. The place isn’t really the most inviting environment and definitely not a place to bring someone if you are trying to make a good 1^st impression. hence the 3 stars.

The lamb is luscious (literally!, not just as an alliteration, though i do tend to use many) even when cooked to medium-​well (yes, medium-​well!). The cubes of lamb are perfectly seasoned with oregano (for sure) and some other spices that I could only offer as a guess. Neither gamey, nor masked in flavour.
My dining companion and I had two side dishes with the lamb. Although I can’t remember the first, the second was a green salad of sorts with crisp and seasoned, torn pieces of bread — sort of like croutons, but not. Really, only these croûton-​like things stood out on the weak salad, which was not unlike those served with burgers at fast-​food places.
Our platter of appetizers was good, but definitely outdone by the lamb. Among the components we chose to make up the combo app. platter, the best was probably the hummus topped with chicken shawarma meat and the «other eggplant dip» (not creamy like baba ghanoush and with visibly mushed eggplant). The other two items (four total) aren’t really worth writing about.
In sum (sorry, sometimes i blabber): Get LAMB.
Though the lamb alone is worth five stars, the dining setting also contributes to the average three star rating I’ve submitted.
Had someone brought home some take-​out from Montfort, I likely would have given it 4 stars (lamb is not so good once it cools). But, even pick-​up warrants only 3 stars because you still have to step foot in there.
More blabber (be forewarned):
Monfort makes a feeble attempt to draw diners with its ambiance. That’s for sure. First, there’s the crappy, plastic-​chaired patio along a strip mall, which happens to look out on a bunch of parked cars and grey, dusty, busy intersection. Everything about this joint screams dingy, dive bar. Even then, the open-​kitchen, typical of many shawarma slinging set-​ups, did not calm my fears of going hungry as I imagined dry shards of tasteless meat on stale pitas served with thrice-​fried potato wedges and beer.
turn a blind-​eye to the ambiance and focus on the lamb