Burger De Ville Boul St Laurent 5282 Montreal , , , Quebec Restaurant Review

Burger de Ville

Cheap burgers & free toppings!

Photo by André Pichette

Sometimes, we like to go to diners.

Sometimes, only a B.U.R.G.E.R. will do the trick. You know, those days when you don’t have anything particularly meaningful to say but those particular unmeaningful things would taste SO MUCH BETTER with a milkshake to serenade the inconsequence with? Burger de Ville is for those times. We headed over.

A quick scan of the menu revealed a very very friendly pricing scheme, and a much snappier environment than such things usually entail. A minor amount of hemming an’ hawing and then we settled on a Saint-Paulin burger (St. Paulin cheese, harissa mayo and lettuce-tomato-onion – 6.50$)) for Cloudy and a Noir et Bleu on a portobello for me (blue cheese, black pepper crust, caramelized onions and tomato-lettuce, 7.50$). Plus the regular asides… fries, shake, yeah that stuff. (3$ and 3.50$ respectively)

Photo by Elizabeth Ranger

While the Saint-Paulin turned out not to be as spicy as he’d hoped (and I hope that you know by now that we’re both enormous chile-heads), the kitchen more than amicably provided a bunch of pickled jalapenos on the side. Unexpectedly, my Noir et Bleu on a portobello *was* spicy – crunchy charred with creamy pungence and onion sweetnence and ‘sploding like little black bombs on the crust of the most succulent (and huge!) portobello burg’ I’ve ever had the pleasure of needing copious amounts napkins to eat with. Juicy? Verily. Meaty? Actually, yeah, kinda.

Now, ordering a fungus as a main means I can’t really say personally what the actual meat patty at the table was like, but it looked pretty good. I mean, I had a bite and it *was* good, but a bite is a bite and I already had my amazing sandwich bewitching me away from more carnivorous offerings. Anyway, the thing is cheap, made fresh, and so easy to sample oneself, no? OMGA that is the laziest blogger move ever, I think, you heard it here first, everyone. *grin*

Photo by Elizabeth Ranger

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About the author - Elizabeth cooks and makes desserts at Renard Artisan Bistro on the Plateau. Her obsessions are pastry, pastry, sugar, Asian food, travel and geeky philosophical meanderings. She also works as a freelance illustrator, and has a BFA in Studio Arts and Religion from Concordia. She's been living in Montreal for 6 years.