Hvor - Montréal

The place is loud but the food is excellent very tasty and has good ingredients , we had white organic wine and the cocktails are really good , we enjoyed a well prepared dinner from the fishes to the meat

Very beautiful restaurant in a (starting to be) trendy part of town. We visited on a special occasion, our 8th wedding anniversary. We decided to trust the chef and taking the $100 tasting menu. The restaurant boasts that all meals are made with seasonal, fresh products grown from their garden.First service was a tasteless tomato (definitely not from "their garden") salad with mushrooms and other random vegetables that included a fried panko green bean. Second course salmon gravlax with beets. Very tasty well balanced dish.Third course a take on a s'mores? Yes but a scallop on a fried chip with black garlic paste and a coal reduction. It tasted, funny enough like a salty s'mores! Well done.The fourth "service" and I really need to use quotes here. Was a raw onion peel served on a rock with a liquid that we were told was sour cream. A play on sour cream and onion chips was how it was positioned. Tasteless, no crispness at all and the "sour cream" leaked off the rock onto the table. I finished the course and my pallet was ruined. Raw onion! Really? Fifth (Not the real, only got this since we gave our comments about the fourth course) course was a cod with miso "crust". The miso was so intense and the fish, funny enough under seasoned. No subtlety in the dish. Intense or fad on your fork, no in between.Sixth course (eyes closed and fingers crossed ) oh sorry the ACTUAL fifth course... 20 Minutes after the last course??? Duck with a cherries, cherry sauce and mushroom. Oh where to begin.... the duck was well cooked and seasoned, the cherries and mushroom were completely raw and unseasoned, the cherry reduction was good but it was the size of a quarter. One tenth of the size of the meat. Disappointing portioning. The desert course. Please finish strong cause the last 3 courses have been a joke. A brownie with white cheese, marinated rhubarbe and beet/maple syrup tuiles. Good but not $100 tasting menu good. The brownie had the same taste and consistency then the one bite brownies you can buy at Costco. The desert was heavy and a large portion. Overkill for the finale of a tasting menu. So of course we are sitting at the table thinking "I read a bunch of great reviews! What happened?" A little Google search reveals the original chef left and was replaced by a new guy. Obviously fresh out of cooking classes at the YMCA. Avoid at all costs at least until they find a decent chef.

While the restaurant is a bit off the beaten path, our meal was terrific. We sat outside on the deck near the garden. The service was very good but the highlight was the food, starting with the amuse bouche, the salad and the pork. Pictures attached.

We signed up for the tasting menu with pairing, 150 dollars (Canadian). We did not receive any of the extra's, courses, visit from Chef/owner or invite to the apiary, that are mentioned in other reviews.We received an excellent meal with fabulous wine pairings. The pairings at Hvor were the best we've experienced. There was one wine that was horrible by itself but the pairing was wonderful. We were happy with the food and quality of the wine.The service and dining experience did not live up to the food and wine. Not that it was bad but it was more, by gosh and by golly than crisp and sharp. I thought the restaurant needed more front of the house staff.

We live in Montreal and went to many restaurants across the city, from several BYOW to Maison Boulud and Europea and everything in between.The food at Hvor is good, not great. It doesn't have any wow factor. While tasty and fresh, the cuisine is not innovative or exceptional to command the high prices. It is very textbook French cuisine (as in duck with cherries and small potatoes, or lamb rack with the same small potatoes), and correctly executed, but the flavours are simple and few.From the plates we sampled (and the menu is short), the pork chop was the best, very tender. The fish, duck and lamb were just good. Very small portions and excessive prices. Appetizers average 25$ and mains 40$. There is a tasting menu at 100$, but we didn't take it. The bread and butter are provided at an extra cost (I think around 7$).The restaurant is branding themselves as Fine Dining, certainly the prices are set accordingly, but there are no linens on the table and the chairs are not comfortable. Hvor is just an overpriced bistro, and we will not return.