Cuisine Szechuan

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#882 of 6,171 Restaurants in MontrealChinese, Asian, $$ - $$$

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Cuisine Szechuan

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CUISINES

Chinese, Asian, Szechuan

Meal types

Lunch, Dinner

Special Diets

Vegetarian friendly

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Takeout

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Wine and Beer

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2350 Rue Guy, Montreal, Quebec H3H 2M2 Canada

Ville-Marie

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• Opens at 11:30 AM

Sunday

12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Monday

11:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Tuesday

11:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Wednesday

11:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Thursday

11:30 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Friday

11:30 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Saturday

12:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

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3.9

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Miriam Gradenko

Signal Mountain1 contribution

Authentic

Feb 2019 • none

Authentic Sichuan food. Great staff. Don’t go there for the atmosphere, just for the food. I definitely will go again.

Written February 15, 2019

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bokserbokserboks2017

Quebec City6 contributions

Typical Szechuan restaraunt

Oct 2017 • couples

I am not going to pretend this place is amazing, but it's good enough for a quick lunch, that's for sure. The food is decent and the service is fast. I recommend this place for a quick lunch.

Written October 17, 2017

dang9973

Montreal79 contributions

Delicious Asian with a Twist!

Aug 2017 • friends

I have eaten here twice in the last 3 weeks. Both times food was very good. The general tao is as good as any restaurant. So are the Dumplings in peanut sauce. The dish that surprised me the most is the deep fried chicken with cumin. This is a chicken chopped up that is very spicy with pita bits that were also good. Do not expect typical deep fried chicken as it is more oven roasted in a delicious spicy coating. Beware of the red peppers throughout. I will definitely order this in the future. This restaurant is right downtown on Guy street just south of Sherbrooke. Decor is nothing special but it is usually busy with asian families which is always a good sign.

Written August 11, 2017

Paulina Q

3 contributions

Amazing flavor

Sep 2021 • family

We ordered house style rice, saute haricots with pepper and some cumin chicken with black bean sauce! The flavour is the best I have tasted. My son 6 year old loved it. The dishes are well served (big) and the price and good! Amazing

Written September 27, 2021

Dave Lebrun

Montreal2 contributions

Used to be a contender

Jan 2021 • none

Sadly Cuisine Szechuan has effectively taken a self inflicted wound to the head. Now that the resto is takeout only, they chose to use a managed online interface to handle the ordering. Clearly the company which manages the site takes a cut of the sale of each item. As a consequence, this restaurant which once was affordable, and provided good sized portions, is now heavily over priced for what they offer. If you know what to order, the food is good. If you are looking for North American style Chinese food, you are certain to be disappointed.

Written March 12, 2021

Thursty T

Montreal143 contributions

No Thanks!

Jun 2020 • family

I generally never review unless very bad or very good. So sorry, but I really don’t understand the good reviews! I understand Covid and all that. It could have been a bad night. I don’t know, but for the price I paid, the food showed up in styrofoam which was already a bad sign. Literally the most disgusting food I’ve ever tasted. The spicy rice was too hot for no reason but otherwise flavorless. The general Tao chicken was soggy and each chew I wanted to puke! The green beans were waxy and hard to chew/swallow. Never again.

Written June 23, 2020

Lucgbenoit

Montreal193 contributions

Worst Chinese food ever had

Jul 2020 • none

The Won Tom soup was probably one of the best we ever had, so we were looking forward to the rest of the meal. Unfortunately it is hard to explain how bad it was. We had a bit or two of each plate and that was it. I really can’t understand the good review of this restaurant.

Written August 17, 2020

Taupi2015

Montreal76 contributions

Szechuan food at its best !

Jan 2020 • none

Superb Szechuan dishes : chicken and potatoes fried in cumin, mala tofu, spicy fried green beans, caramelized eggplants ... We are always surprised not to find more people in this very authentic restaurant !

Written January 12, 2020

NYCtraveler13

Pelham Manor74 contributions

Delicious authentic Szechuan food!

Oct 2019 • none

This restaurant has authentic Szechuan food. Recommend the twice-cooked sliced pork, green beans - spicy with ground pork, black pepper beef. Everything is delicious and flavorful, perfectly spiced. Do not come here looking for "Americanized" Chinese food! Lots of Asian customers here. Service is friendly and good. We told the servers about a food allergy, and they were careful to consider it in our order.

Written October 13, 2019

Lev B

Montreal6 contributions

The Real Deal, Not A Foreigner's Meal!

Jan 2019 • family

The most important thing to understand about Cuisine Szechuan is that it is not there to cater to the North American craving for General Tao and Crispy Beef. What you get is traditional Szechuan cuisine with some of the nicest staff you will find! We were a group of 5 and started off with the Dumplings in Chili Sauce as well as the more well-known (read: foreigner) Hunan Dumplings. The former were spicy, and well cooked, and the latter did not have the liquidy peanut-butter sauce that you get at most places, this was packed with flavor. On the veggie side we ordered the Stewed Eggplany, which was spicy, sweet and was a great way to whet the appetite. The fried green beans which are seasoned with fried, ground pork, rather than salt, were amazing, and not at all oily (as the description might suggest). The poached halibut in chili broth was tender as could be, full of flavour and the veggies that lay within the broth were crispy and crunchy. The Cumin friend chicken, one of their best known dishes, did not disappoint. Perfectly friend chicken and potato slices, with the strong taste of cumin was not only the best bite I had, but that plate alone could have fed four of us without complaint. The ginger beef was tender, packed with flavour and the onions and shallots melted in the mouth. The salt and Pepper shrimp were crunchy on the outside, and super-tender on the inside. Barely able to get up we were so stuffed we were seen out by the chef and owner and felt like we were leaving family. Coming back to Cuisine Szechuan is an inevitability. After a first experience it jumped into my top 3 Chinese restaurants in Montreal. Once I come back here again, I might have some bad new for the other two.....

Written January 1, 2019

Charles B

Quebec City5 contributions

Not so good

Oct 2018 • solo

Only 3 pieces in my Won-ton, General Tao was ordinary, so was curry rice. Only spring rolls were good. I had it on delivery.

Written October 18, 2018

Tasha L

Montreal14 contributions

Cheap spicy delicious

Sep 2017 • friends

This is a great place to go for a quick filling meal. Don't miss the string beans with por and chilies or the cumin tofu - cumin lamb is good too but don't expect choice cuts of meat.

Written September 20, 2017

Ruth H

Toronto135 contributions

You Don't Have To Like Crazy Spicy

Sep 2017 • couples

Unassuming decor. Totally. Sure doesn't look like much from the outside, but it doesn't look like much on the inside, either. Reminiscent of every day Kowloon, which certainly has its fair share of Szechuan style restaurants. So very glad we happened upon Cuisine Szechuan. (Our first choice for dinner, a fancier place around the corner was closed because of a natural gas emergency. Boy, a stroke of luck for us!) I could swoon over the green beans, which we ordered sans porc; no problem because Cuisine Szechuan is used to dealing with the local, non-red-meat-eating students. Crisp, garlicky, with a hint of smoke (possibly emanating from the copious, and I mean copious, chilis which I assiduously avoided). A new high standard set for green beans! I love, love, love properly prepared green beans. Onto other menu items. Surely General Tao himself must've compiled many volumes of chicken recipes, because it might just be that there are no two Chinese restaurants anywhere in the world that serve the same recipe for what they all purport to be “General Tao chicken”. Note: there are almost as many spellings of his name ~ did he really exist ~ as there are recipes. Some offerings are good and some border on dreadful! (Surely you’ve had that stringy stuff! Or the bits of gristle surrounded by a coating of chicken flesh?) All in the name of poor General Tao. Regardless of the source of the recipe served up in his name at Cuisine Szechuan, it was superbe! We found the quality of the chicken in the General Tao far superior to that we’d tried anywhere else on our extensive travels: All chicken. All tender. All moist. Not one hint of gristle/cartilage. No annoying breading. All chicken. No kidding. Savoury/sweetich sauce just a tad heavy on the tomato-y sauce side, but absolument délice, nonetheless! The chili pepper infusion not the slightest bit annoying. Just remember not to eat the red bits, if you are hot'n'spicy-averse. Even the green tea is tasty. The restaurant defies the descriptor “fancy”, but it is clean. The downstairs toilet, too, is clean; smells fresh. As the restaurant itself is below street level and is down a flight of stairs, this is not suitable for those with mobility issues. Parking? This is downtown Montréal.

Written September 19, 2017

Ross L

Chase128 contributions

Hole in the Wall With Great Food

Sep 2017 • couples

We found this place serendipitously on our first night in Montreal and were glad we took a chance on it. Doesn't look like much on the outside, and the inside is not that fancy either, but we found friendly, helpful service and great food. We ordered the deep fried chicken, which was wildly spicy and crispy and delicious. We also had a dish with tofu, crab and yolk of duck's egg - unusual but a perfect accompaniment to the hot chicken.

Written September 16, 2017

LoDA01

Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville34 contributions

If you like spicy, this place is for You!

Aug 2017 • friends

Went in, but ordered to take out. Small, basement type restaurant. Many Chinese family's were present, which we have been told is always a good sign. Had the chicken with cumin seeds, twice cooked fish and eggplant. Everything was delicious and very spicy like we love it. We will go back.

Written August 8, 2017

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