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10 Reviews on “Resto Gare”
Resto Gare is an authentic French restaurant located in a former train station in St. Boniface. The place was revamped and had turned into this elegant restaurant when the train station was abandoned. Nowadays, customers have the option to sit either in the station or the passenger coach for a nice dinner. It’s quite an experience. The restaurant used to be one of the best fine dining restaurants in the City (it was on par with 529 Wellington). However, when the original owner passed away, the restaurant underwent some major changes. It has become more casual. Despite changes, Resto Gare is still a fine dining restaurant and it is one of my favourite French restaurants in town.Resto Gare is an excellent place for date nights and special occasions! The food is excellent. It has excellent service and it is quite reasonably priced. For all those out there with a sweet tooth, you’ll love this! At the end of the meal, the servers always bring out a dessert cart for a wide selection of home-made desserts of the day. I’d highly recommend you to check it out if you have never been!
We arrived early and were seated. We felt a bit cramped in the dining car and asked to be seated outside. The beer was good, the sun was shining. The service was slow. Did not understand the hype, as the restaurant is somewhat isolated, and located just off of a busy road.
Traditional french food, superb service and overall a wonderful experience.I had the boeuf bourguignon and crme brle, which is admittedly the most french thing you could order.The wine cellar is fairly large, and the server know’s what to recommend so don’t feel shy about asking.I don’t know what to say about this place other than to go try it. The french do things right.
Came here for my birthday for dinner. Ultimately I was happy with the experience. Ambiance and presentations are pretty important to me and thats why I had to give it a 4. Without those factors- based on the food and price I would give it maybe a 3.7 or something. Eating in the train part is adorable and would be charming for a date.The first thing I noticed was the smell- and honestly I think its just one of those smells that happens from things being old. It smells like the museum or an antique store.I was really happy with my rose petal champagne (it is now my drink). Get it if you like floral notes but not overpowering. So nice for summer.My boyfriend and I got the filet minion for 2 and the presentation again was amazing. Taste was good as well but slightly under seasoned and could have been elevated to the next level with more herbs. I liked the sweetness of the gravy a lot.Best part was dessert to be honest. It all appeared to be homemade. Try the chocolate silk pie…
I love french cuisine but had avoided going to Resto Gare due to the number of negative ratings. Luckily, my experience was very different and I had an excellent experience. I ordered the salmon with lobster risotto. The risotto was rich and flavorful without being overpowering. The asparagus had my preferred amount of crunch rather than being overdone like so many places. The salmon was well prepared but I’ve been spoiled with fresh salmon and mid continental really can’t compete no matter how well it is cooked. I have been a server before and ours was a consummate professional. He was knowledgeable and able to answer all my questions about the wine list and made a great recommendation on a chardonnay. The food is incredibly rich but that is what I prefer. I rated as 4.5 because the lemon tart was not as committed to the lemon flavor as I would like (rather bland). All in all, we all had a great experience with tasteful music, historical decor and flavor, and attentive but not overbearing service.
We had been looking forward to eating here all weekand overall were quite disappointed with the quality of food that we received. I ordered the French onion soup which was quite tasty. The broth was flavourful but the gruyere( presumably) was distinctly lacking.The tourtire was VERY disappointing. The crust was browned to a point that it seemed as though it had been cooked twice and was gummy in an leftover kind of way. The actual flavour was mediocre,very salty ,and the filling was somewhat pasty in consistency as though it was pured.Another person in our party ordered the Crepe de la mer and was unable to eat more than a few mouthfuls. It had a lot if cheese which was unappealing in flavour and hardly any seafood.The atmosphere/decor was interesting and the service was standard.We would not return here or recommend this place to friends.
Food was ok but not great. Maybe we had higher expectations for this place being such a classic StBoniface landmark.Service was A1.The one thing that was a total turnoff was one of the waiters taking dessert from the dessert cart to be served to customers with his bare hands! Yukk. Really couldn’t believe this and needless to say we never ordered dessert