<3 <3 be my Valentine <3 <3 Part 1. The Dinner

If you’re coming to Montreal this Valentine weekend, at some point you probably will be planning a romantic dinner. While you can’t miss from traipsing around the Nile Guide and simply looking for the finest restaurants, we thought it would be nice to make this mini list and suggest a few restaurants where the ambiance is oozing with amour.

Here’s the best most romantic spot you can take your sweetheart for a lush intimate dinner at the Pierre du Calvet Restaurant. This is a very old and stately building  (a few hundred years, anyway) full of rich woods and warm hues.  It would be especially great to start off an evening with your date at the bar of Pierre du Calvet, an amazing rich piece of architecture, and a great place to pretend you’re strangers meeting at the bar for the very first time!  If you can’t get in, you will be almost as happy at the Auberge Bonaparte. Both are these in Old Montreal, as is the next suggestion. And for your romantic dinner we are going to want to keep you in Old Montreal. One reason for this is that once you leave the restaurant, you might want to hire one of the “Caleche” riders to take you around Old Montreal in horse and carriage (see next blog for details).

The two restaurants above, while daring and rich, are more classical in the romantic sense. If you are a little more cutting edge (just a little, this is your big date night, we’re not going to ruin it for you), you might want to get a table at Verses, which is a sexy little boutique restaurant  in Old Montreal’s  new Hotel Nelligan.

Our last suggestion is not for everyone’s big Valentine’s dinner— unless you and/or your love are vegetarians; If so, then this is your restaurant for the big V-day dinner. And for anyone else who is not against a meatless meal (lunch, dinner on the 12th or 13th) this is a place you won’t want to miss. Love emanates from the walls and thousands of petals of flowers all wafting around Fuchsia, it’s small and intimate and maybe a great place for a late lunch, or a quite late dinner (rumor is there’s live music on the weekend) but really don’t miss this place if you’re coming to Montreal for a romantic weekend!