Back to our week-end in Montréal.
We meet with our friends from Ottawa in our room at the Ritz Carlton. "B" is in a shopping mood, while his partner "D" hates shopping.
We agree that "B" should take 90 minutes to shop at his favourites places (Holt Renfrew, Ogilvy's) while we catch up with "D" over coffee. While chatting away, I indicated that one of the light bulb in a table lamp was burned out. My partner calls the front desk and in no time a staff member arrives with a new light bulb. (GOOD SERVICE). While he offers to change the light bulb, we decline his offer and tell him that we will do it ourselves. He leaves, we change the light bulb and it immediately burns out (there must have been a short somewhere).
Back on the phone with the front desk. Again, very quickly, the same gentleman returns with a new light bulb and this time we let him replace it. It works like a charm as the lamp was not properly connected into the electrical outlet. (GOOD SERVICE).
We laugh at the whole thing that just happened and continue our visit with "D".
A knock on the door, we hear! Who could that be? One of the hotel manager presents me with gifts in a bag for our recent inconvenience with the lamp! We thank him and indicate that it is not necessary but he will not hear otherwise! (GREAT SERVICE).
"B" finally joins us and we proceed on this very beautiful, sunny Saturday morning to walk through McGill University towards rue St. Denis. Very pleasant walk. As we get to rue St.Denis, we should have gone north instead of south to find the area that was of interest to us.
We decide to jump in a taxi to take us north on St.Denis. I sit in the front with the taxi driver that had the most unpleasant body odour but a very nice man. We ask about restaurants for lunch in the area that we are going to and he recommends L'Académie. He drops us off at the front door.
We enter L'Académie and we are warmly greeted at the door (GOOD SERVICE). We are taken to a window table on the second floor, the sun shines on us through blinds and the room is very welcoming. Our waiter approaches our table very soon after we are seated, the menus are open and we are thirsty!
We ask for a wine list but this restaurant does not sell wine, they prefer the "bring your own" bottle of wine! Desperation, anxiety on me and my partner faces!!!! "Not to worry" our waiter says, "there is a SAQ, just beside the restaurant". My partner is up quicker than you can say SAQ!
He returns with some lovely Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand and the waiter asks if we want an ice bucket for the wine! (GOOD SERVICE).
Our waiter turns out to have a great personality, is attentive to our needs, is as quick as our friend "B" at making us feel very welcome in the restaurant (GREAT SERVICE) and he was cute on top of it all!
Lunch was delicious, we all loved the food. The portions were very large for the reasonable prices. Our lunch lasted 2 hours but we had to keep some space in our stomachs as dinner at Express was for 7:30 p.m. The restaurant does not charge a "corking fee" to open and serve the wine, which we believe they should do.
L'Académie can only be described as a good restaurant with a very obliging and warm service (GREAT SERVICE).
Needless to say, we left the cute waiter a huge tip on our way out! We will be back!
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