Rumi restaurant

La qualité des repas n’avait d’égal que le super service professionnel et chaleureux de notre serveuse Béatrice. Nous y retournerons c’est certain!

Love this resutant, amazing. Everytime I go, I really like it. As a big fan of this resturant, I do not think it is a middle eastern resturant anymore, it is more like an italian resturant. However, I still love there.

The brunch is hearty and it's a good idea to order some more sides like the super special soup and mezes.

The naan, is you wonder, is better than quite a few in town.

The location, atmosphere, deco, service and quality of food are all guaranteed!
Come on Thursday night to enjoy live music

C’est super bon. Ingrédients de qualités, belle ambiance, excellent service. C’est ma 2em visite. Le thé marocain à la fin du repas est un “must”.

Un des meilleurs restaurants halal de Montréal.
Les plats sont tout simplement délicieux.
Les cocktails maisons sont exceptionnels
Une vraie bonne découverte

Le meilleur restaurant de bouffe du Moyen-Orient à Montréal! Leurs plats sont absolument délicieux

I ate here this summer and it was an absolutely magical dining experience!

Rich aromatic spices from the silk road in delicious dishes, Sparkling lights and twisting vines on the artistic wrought-iron decorative fence in the garden terrace…

The poetic name of the restaurant had enticed me every time I rode my bike past, and when I finally took a date to sit down and eat there, the experience was well worth the wait!
I eagerly anticipate my next meal there!

I’ve been meaning since summer to write a review of this oh-so-worthy restaurant, now I’m sitting in an airport so it’s a good moment to catch up, and savor this delicious, dare I even say, Sublime memory!

And that’s not a word I use lightly, or that I have ever used about a restaurant before…

This is a wonderful restaurant. My 3rd time here. The food is gourmet and I consider this to be one of the best restaurants in Montreal, Quebec. I’ve been here with my family from out of town also. I will definitely return again one day.

We went for a musical show which was a great addition to the ambience. The food was good but a bit expensive for the portions and quality. We paid over a 100$ for 2 including tax, tip and spectacle fee (8$/person), and we only had a soup each, a juice and shared a main meal. Service was a bit long too.

Very unique fusion of middle eastern, persian, and mediterranean cusine. Atmosphere and decor is very well represented. We had lentil curry soup, grilled calamari, fried cheese with arugola to start. Our main course was lamb focused with a grilled rack for one and oven roasted shank adorned with a variety of nuts for the other. Service was handled well by only 2 servers for the entire establishment. You won't be disappointed. It is expensive however typical for 'these days' of inflation.

Food was amazing, the taste and the design both were great, the rest needs great improvement.
1- I had a reservation for 5 people, they gave us a table for 4. (the waiter was not the politest), he told us the restaurant was going to be packed, while half of the place remained empty till the end.
2- the quality of sound system was very poor, at some point the volume was so high that everyone got quiet and shocked.
3- the bill shows no details or breakdown of the order, they added the tip and gave us only the final price.

Very Expensive, small portions, just 4 sticks of lamb racks+mashed potato for $42. The mocktale drink tasted like supermarket juice. Will never go again!

Pros: Delicious food, beautiful ambiance. Cons: Small portions, ran out of desserts @8pm when the restaurant was half empty.

Barely anyone working. The taste and quantity of food has decreased in quality since a couple of months ago when I first went. When paying, my friend was harassed and questioned for tipping 15% when she should’ve tipped zero because the service and quality was bad. The waiter made a rude comment as we were leaving. Definitely don’t recommend

Arrogant, overpriced, rude, terrible atmosphere cheap terrace and my wife got food poisoning! Good place for cheap wannabes

Un très bon service du début à la fin. Des plats bien préparés, tan aux entrées, comment aux plats forts et aux desserts. Des thés au bon stile marrocain et iranien sains et délicieux, et une carte de boisson pour tous, assez remplie. Je vous recommends: Hummus comme entrée et les tajines d'agneau ou de poulet comme plat de principal, sont excelents. Le poudín ou des crème glacées comme desserts!

I had been here years before and had enjoyed it, but this time the experience was subpar. Appetizers were ordinary and bland, main plates were average at best and the service was quasi inexistant. We had to wait over 45 minutes just to pay the bill.

We got refused on our anniversary on a Wednesday evening 8h15 pm, when the restaurant was not even half capacity under the pretence they were overwhelmed and short staffed, while the head chef was chitchatting with the waiter outside on the terrasse. I previously called about an hour before to inquire if there was a special menu, she answered politely but it would have been nice if she could have told us that they weren’t taking any more customers if that was the case. We saw 3 people walk in before us and 2 people after us. We used to love going to Rumi, and we don’t think we will ever return and neither would ever recommend that place again to anyone.
VERY DISAPPOINTING!

First time here! I heard about this place. Tasty and delicious food. Great environment and clean! Unfortunately 0 for the service! Also hard to find parking spots!



Première fois ici! J'ai entendu parler de cet endroit. Nourriture savoureuse et délicieuse. Super environnement et propre! Malheureusement 0 pour le service! Aussi difficile de trouver des places de stationnement!

Je suis revenue chez Rumi pour mon brunch d'anniversaire avec mon conjoint. Ça faisait plus de 7 ans que j'y avais mis les pieds. J'avais souvenir du décor très chaleureux et des bons plats. Nous aimons tous deux les épices pour avoir vécu et voyagé dans des pays arabes et en Asie. Nous avions envie de nous replonger dans ces belles saveurs.

Quelle déception! Hormis la soupe dhal qui était bonne - quoique nous l'aurions aimé + épicée sans avoir à payer un extra pour de la sauce harissa, nous avons été étonnés du si peu de saveurs dans les plats! Un minuscule bol de riz safrané sans aucun goût, (comment est-ce possible?), une assiette de fromage halloumi avec des choux de bruxelles pas assez cuits, une boule de koufteh pas assez cuite à l'intérieur, l'absence d'herbes, d'épices.d'attention.où sont passées les saveurs orientales?

Les prix sont élevés pour la quantité et qualité et du fait que tout est vendu séparément. Par contre, le service était bon et rapide.

Overall ambiance is ok and the gentleman who took care of our table was very pleasant and courteous. The quality of the food is pretty low and their appetizer portions are tiny. Key menu items were not available.

Delicious Mediterranean dishes with a very cosy atmosphere, right between the Plateau and the Mile End. Their cuisine is a fusion of Turkish, Iranian and Indian, making for interesting and complex recipes.

I’ll definitely be going back to try their desserts!

Very good restaurant offering a wide range of middle east and north african dishes…delicious and recommended spicy food lovers.

Very disappointed. The Malik dish was very unappetizing, looked like bad pulled pork, but it's lamb. Was very difficult to eat and even harder to stomach, and that's not the worst of it. There were 2 long black hairs in the hummus which killed the entire experience. Did not bother complaining as the energy was drained from us.

Nous étions 3 à table, à peine 10 dans le restaurant et nous avons attendu 1h pour nos plats! De plus, les prix sont bien trop élevés pour la qualité et la composition des plats reçus! Dommage!

Excellent food lamb was delicious. Atmosphere cozy servers are friendly a bit pricey but worth it.

The atmosphere is really cozy and felt like I escaped to someplace else… a café in Istanbul perhaps. It felt really nice for a cold winter night and especially charming for a date.
I ordered the chicken dish with traditional persian styled rice. The chicken was great but the rice was very strange and far too sweet. It was more like shereen polo (a sweet rice dish) with added shredded cooked carrot which really felt more like there was carrot jam in my rice… not a fan!
We had the moelleux chocolate cake and ice cream, was just as expected.
I would definitely go back but try another dish and regular rice.

Food absolutely lovely. Everything is yummy. The lentil soup is out of the world. Warm decor and friendly staff to check on us regularly despite a super full Sat night.

Plutôt ordinaire comme expérience. Nous avons trouvé la serveuse plutôt impatiente avec nous alors que nous prenions le temps de discuter. Très déçue de constater qu’il n’y a nul pas l’histoire du célèbre poète Rumi, alors que le restaurant porte son nom. Ensuite, la boulette de Kefta était sec et le menu présente des options indiennes alors que c’est sensé être du moyen orient.

(Samedi 20 Novembre)

The food is fantastic and the service impeccable. *The* place to bring whoever you care about most.

Nous avons été de grands amateurs de ce restaurant, mais malheureusement la qualité de la nourriture et du service s'est considérablement détériorée.

Plats très goûteux, très beau décor. MAIS où est passé l’ambiance feutrée et chaleureuse? 3 clients dans le resto et le serveur a pris 10 min à venir prendre ma commande, le patron (?) compte la caisse où je ne sais trop sur la table a côté et fait l’état de ses commandes à son employé en parlant très fort, il y a un boucan pas possible venir du comptoir de préparation, la grosse vaisselle, les chaudrons et ustensiles lancés dans l’évier, portes qui claquent… Ambiance de cafétéria malgré les petites bougies sur les tables. Pour moi, Rumi était un havre de paix pour s’évader un peu, avec le palais et l’ambiance. C’est raté…

The price is high for the portion they present! The taste is not wow, but acceptable. Overall, I am dissatisfied with my experience.

A must visit when in Montréal. When your tastebuds do the traveling!
I ordered´le petit malek’ for meat (sheep) lovers.
I will visit again.

I asked them Koobideh but they suggest me Darvish and told me is similar, I trust them and try but test completely different and not delicious.expensive for nothing

Came here with my mom and sister, absolutely lovely service and food! The restaurant decor is also beautiful:)

I was really disappointed by the food. The portion was small as if they were giving you samples of the food.
You can eat much better taste and portion at different middle eastern restaurants.
The service was ok.

Si vous aimez les propositions culinaires "goutues" alors vous serez enchanté (e) s par toutes les propositions. N'oubliez pas de demander la proposition du jour qui peut-être une belle surprise.

Long straight hair (about 10cm) was in food delivered (rice part) we called the restaurant right away, the young lady on the phone said “oh I think I know to whom it belongs let me check with manager… then came back and said that we have to call delivery party no appologies nothing, we said we can bring it back to show you guys that we hadn’t touch the food it’s disgusting but she just said can’t do anything about it, we spent 40 min chatting with app that wouldn’t refund the whole amount and had to order elsewhere, while sending pictures and fighting to get our money back,
Very bad service

A Tasteful fusion of middle-eastern food from Morocco to Afghanistan. Great service, exceptional dessert and Persian tea to end. Absolutely recommend an evening on the patio.
Mehran’s Hard lemonade with Arak

Un charmant Restaurant à ne pas passer à côté! Un Chef et son équipe attentionnée pour un repas inoubliable! A restaurant to absolutely try with a Chef and his staff that details are observed. A meal you will appreciate!

Food is excellent and crew is great.
Always a pleasure to come back and enjoy those dishes.

Bouffe EXCELLENTE, absolument parfait comme repas. Mangé Le Malik, plus coûteux mais le prix en valait absolument la peine.
Magnifique déco, service courtois, mais peu efficace (lent et confus). Je laisse quand même 5 étoiles, car ce fût un pur bonheur!

The service was very good, the atmosphere inviting and lovely. The reason why I gave it 3 stars was I found the food overpriced and underwhelming. I ordered a seabass that was 35$ that came with basmati rice. I will not argue that the food served was good quality and tasted fresh but I found it bland and had to add salt to everything something I rarely do even at home. The tabbouleh was dry. I ate my meal but it wasn't something I would rave about to others or come again in the future.

Excellent resto.service rapide et plats délicieux. Nous avons essayé 5 Mezze froid, “ Pastisllas “. C’était très bon. Si vous voulez découvrir une autre cuisine, n’hésitez pas

Excellente cuisine orientale, avec des plats à partager ou non et belle terrasse dans Outremont. Reservation fortement recommandée.

My friends and I were having a great time at Rumi’s; the food was delicious however there were glaring issues with the service and the décor. While the restaurant prides itself on its eponymity, no actual paraphernalia relating to Rumi is actually present in the restaurant save for a few Arabic books on the shelves and religious writing scribbled on the walls. I found the authenticity of the intended vibe to be diluted as a result.

More importantly, the servers were rude and their behavior lacked common courtesy. My friend was verbally degraded for having mistakenly skipped the tip option on the POS machine which as you can guess ruined our night. The server did not pause to apologize for her outburst and flung the receipt at my friend. I really did not expect this type of service from a restaurant of this caliber which pretentiously upholds itself on the pillars of this great mystic. Disappointed.

Tasteless food! The prices are high and The music is played that is played in funeral ceremony in my country!

Nice and clean place with friendly staff. Good location.
Cool decorations and spacious seating area, so it is good for families even with tiny kids.

The food was well cooked and the mint tea was superb.

Pro tip: don’t visit between 3-4 pm because this time they don’t offer major meals.

The parking could be limited.

Excellent restaurant si c'est pas le meilleur en ville.
Je recommande le malik le plat par excellence.

Endroit chalereux et personnel sympatique, par contre je suis sortie de la pas très rassasié (tajine au poulet SEC, une petite assiete de riz) mais le tajine a l'agneau etait bon.pour le prix payé + pourboire 18% exigé, pas très envie de faire une scène mais je n'y retournerais plus ça c'est sûr.

Always a pleasant experience. Well planned brunch and dinner menus, food made with high quality ingredients and service is superb. You might wait a bit but food is made fresh and you can see the chef preparing your meal.

J'adore Rumi! Tajine au gigot d'agneau miam miam.
Thé glacé à la menthe mon préféré. Ambiance exotique et chaleureux.

Rumi is a very charming restaurant with authentic vibe and decor. Their menu is rich in flavour and in choice. Everything is delicious there!

Went there for no reason 2 times they say they open and its close. Very unprofessional imagine how they treat ur food!

Intéressants menus proposés pour un rapport qualité prix correct. Waitress peut améliorer le service et la cordialité. On aimerait sentir une vraie sincérité quand il s agit de s'informer de l expérience qualité du repas du client.

A pleasant surprise. We had the filet kebabs and one more dish that we patiently waited for. Cooked to how we ordered, very tasty and balanced dishes.

Nous y sommes allés le dimanche soir, le 25 août 2019. Le chiche kébab de mon garçon était tellement dur et sec, si bien qu'après avoir payé une facturation de 178$, j'ai dû me rendre chez pizza pizza pour que mon garçon mange qqch! C'était la première et la dernière fois chez Rumi. Dislike.

Nous avons passé un super moment, la cuisine est délicieuse, cadre très agréable. A faire absolument si vous passez par Montréal.

Beautiful traditional place. You get a vibe of Iranian and Turkish community and get to taste their delicious foods.

This restaurant was such a great discovery! The food was delicious and tasteful. The portions were great and our waiter was friendly as well! I ordered the Sultan with the potato wedges as a side, everything was good: the lamb and vegetables were well cooked and the rice had a good texture. My friends tried the lemonade with mint and they loved it! It was very refreshing. I would recommend Rumi to my other friends and would go back!:)

Great place to enjoy wonderful food in a relaxed atmosphere. The staff is very friendly, charming and accommodating!
The meat dishes melt in your mouth and are delicately perfumed with spices pleasing to the palate!
Truly recommended.sunny summer days on their terrace and the winter inside their cozy setting!
A presto!

Premiere experience à Rumi avec mon amie hier. La vibe et la décoration est vraiment superbe. J’adore le concept du menu, d’offrir une carte qui propose des mets d’inspirations maghrébines, moyen-orientales, indiennes, afghanes et persanes. Les assiettes d’agneaux étaient généreuses, par contre une déception pour les entrées, les prix sont vraiment trop grand pour la quantité qu’on nous sert (j’ai eu une petite assiette avec 3 cuillères à soupe de fromage crémeux au concombre pour 7$). Les prix sont quand meme élèves (je trouve cela justifiable pour les plats principaux, mais pas trop sur les entrées), donc si on veut bien manger avec quelques entrées, un plat et un dessert, il faut compter plus de 80$ par personne.

Après la qualité des produits a l’air très bonne. Il faudrait juste preciser sur la carte quels produits sont biologiques, afin de pouvoir orienter le choix des clients.

Mais grossomodo, bonne experience.

Déçu. Le service a été déficient. Il faut savoir choisir son plat. Les entrées supérieures que les plats principaux.

It’s not delicious for golf country.more sweet, salty
It’s good for some ppl but not for golf country and Egyptian or Jordanian.very expensive for nothing

Trop cher pour des plats très ordinaire. J'ai commandé un tajine de jarret d’agneau aux abricots, cannelle, cumin et gingembre avec courge rôtie.

On m'a servi un plat composer majoritairement de riz sec sur lequel reposé trois petits abricots une courge et un petit jarret d'agneau sec lui aussi.

C'est honteux, car le titre du plat ne correspond aucunement à ce qu'on m'a servi. C'étais très loins d'être un tajine.
Un tajine de jarret aux abricots est cencé être composé majoritairement de sauce et d'abricots.

Quand j'ai demandé d'avoir plus d'abricots et de sauce, on me les a ramenés dans un bol chauffé au micro-ondes.

Ah oui, le service par contre était bon.

- Réponse:

Oui c'est ça abricots, non merci je ne retournerai pas.
Oui je sais mais je n'ai pas à commander de la "sauce extra" avec des abricots, un tajine devrait en avoir quand il est servi.
Pour le prix que je paye, oui je préfère attendre 5 min de plus afin que le plat soit chauffé sur le feu plutôt qu'au micro-ondes.

Food served very slow and beef kebab was burned and hard to bite. They do have the best hummus I ever had anywhere else tho.

Food was good and the restaurant is beautiful and cozy. Service was also good but there was something I didn't agree with. I was there for breakfast. I ordered eggs with spinach. The plate came with roasted potatoes, but since I don't really care for potatoes I asked the server if I could get a naan bread instead. On the menu, potatoes were $4.5 and naan was $2.5, so I thought I wasn't asking much. She said yes, so I had my bread instead of the potatoes.

When I paid I noticed I was actually charged for the bread I had instead of the potaties, not in addition. It's not the biggest deal but I wouldn't really expect anyone with common sense to charge me 20$ for two eggs and a piece of bread. Have some decency, people.

The place is nice but it's not worth it. If you want breakfast you're better off across the street, at the croissanterie.

Dans le cadre de Montréal en Lumière, le repas était délicieux. Le service très bien. L'endroit est charmant.

Great flavour and selection of dishes. Lots of good choices to pick from both for food and drinks. Fun vibe as a whole

Cher pour des plats bons mais ordinaires surtout qu’a Montréal il ya beaucoup de choix de restos libanais syriens ou iraniens