En Route Magazine Best New Restaurant odds

[EaterBob]

Katerine-Lune Rollet has written up what she thinks are the five best new restaurants in Montreal. Here:
http://www.katerinerollet.com/restaur...

As En Route magazine's best new Canadian restaurants issue has been averaging two to three Montreal restaurants for the past couple of years, I figure that from Ms. Rollet's list only Maison publique makes it in November (the month the issue comes out). After all there probably is at least one, if not two new restaurants that haven't opened yet that will make the list.

I'd give Projet 67 +150
Park +400
Evoo +200
Mezcla +1900
and Maison publique -400

Then as instigator of this thread. The rules are after you've eaten at a restaurant mentioned in the 2013 openings feel free to post here what you think the odds are it makes it into En Route's November issue.

If anybody really wants to make cash money bets, you do so at your own risk.

[EaterBob]

Racines +300

[EaterBob]

Impastare -750

And does anybody know what the cut off date is?

[EaterBob]

And to answer my own question the cut of date is July. She then goes across Canada eating for something like the month of August into September. And then probably writes it up Sept/Oct for November publication.

http://enroute.aircanada.com/en/magaz... Page 99.

[EaterBob]

Tripes & Caviar +400

[tdiddy23]

So i tried a few more of the new places, I think this might be a good year for montreal on the list

Hotel herman was great, nice space, good food, good wine list, since its already been written up in the globe and mail, I'd say this place is close to a lock for the list. -500

Mezcla was also seriously good, and the latin flare really makes it stand out in montreal, its a bit off the beaten path but I think it has a chance +600

Project 67 was good, didn't really jump out at me, thought the menu was kinda gimicky, nothing really wrong with the place either though. +1200

Cafe Sardin: loved it! great food, well sourced local ingredients, nice small plates, friendly people, best cocktails I've had in Montreal, interesting wine list. Place really screams Mile End vibe and delivers. Not sure if they'll make the list but I'll be cheering for them... and returning +300

[Glaff]

Café Sardine is stopping dinner service at the end of the month, so I doubt they will make the list.

[Glaff]

Le Vin Papillon -900 ;)

[EaterBob]

Is Sarah Musgrave really going to give Montreal 3 out of the 10 slots? Normally Montreal only gets 2. (Toronto and Vancouver 3 each, Calgary, Halifax and other cities fighting over the last spot).

While I completely agree with your bookmaking, I can't see her changing the ratio. here's to hoping that it takes them at least six months from announcement to opening so that they can get bumped to 2014.

Otherwise I might have to actually put real money where my mouth is.

[EaterBob]

Le Serpent, -900, about as close to a lock as you can get.

[Maximilien]

what is "Le Serpent" ? a quick google return pretty much nothing ??

[EaterBob]

The new Hubert Marsolais Claude Pelletier, Michele Mercuri, Philippe Boisvert and Denis Lessard restaurant going in where Cluny used to be. Opening sometime in June. Just in time to get in under the wire.

Mentioned previously here
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/8821...

[EaterBob]

Mir +900
Stefano Faita's new restaurant -300

And to those who don't bet on Football:
25% chance of getting onto the list = +300
50% chance of getting onto the list = +100
75% chance of getting onto the list = -300

Or in other words, the smaller the number, the better the chances. The larger the number, the less likely it will happen.

[j_do]

+/-300 is actually +/- 33.3% e.g. -300 is a 3:1 favorite

[EaterBob]

Exactly, 3/1 favorite, is a 75% chance of winning.

[EaterBob]

The Satay Brothers Restaurant +100

[tdiddy23]

I would say Maison publique is more like +100. I don't think it deserves to be on the list, but might make it anyway because its such an easy write up. Went there last weekend and was a little disapointed with the food, nice atmosphere and people though

park +800, it is a good sushi option in montreal (actually probably the best I've had in Montreal), but I think this is more reflective overall poor sushi here rather than some new, creative resto that deserves to be on the national spotlight

really want to try mezcla and hotel herman soon

[Glaff]

Hotel Herman and Café Sardine were not open in time for the 2012 Best Of. They could make the 2013 list too.

[EaterBob]

I'd give Hotel Herman -900
Café Sardine +300