Restaurant L’Escape - Montreal, Quebec

I'm just gonna be honest. Worst place ever, food took over 45 minutes to get ready and the salad was missing. It should be illegal to call this jerk chicken, just look at it. Barely any seasonings as well. Jollof rice was dry and not seasoned. Only good thing was plantain. Music crazy loud. The good ... reviews are suprising after this experience, because it doesn't make sense. I'm going to guess that this was just done on purpose and gave us bad food on purpose. Read more

FOOD IS TERRIBLE. I ordered the egusi soup and fufu. Literally smells and tastes like farm. My entire family threw up we had to through the food and it cost me 55$. Never tasted such horrible food. Either it was expired or it’s just disgusting. Do not recommend this place ... at all. Read more

The food is so tasty and the service is just wow. The owner is super friendly and beyond helpful. Worth the 30-40 min drive to get there. Food is always fresh and you all need to try the catfish.

Overall, all 3 of us loved it here. The entire portion was massive for the price. The waitress was polite, and the place looked clean. I appreciated the waitress still applying some covid-like preventive cleaning measures. The fish was not the actual macquerel I was expecting, but no big deal.

Restaurant looks ghetto as heck. Does not look like the pictures on google anymore. Service could be improved. When asked if we wanted drinks or water, we chose water. The waitress brought us water bottles. Onky when did we ask if they were free that the waitress clarified that it ... was 2$ per bottle. That's when we had to ask for "free" water for them to go get us glasses of water with ice. The menu is mainly there to give us the dish names, because in the description, all it says is something vague like "nigerian spices, flavors will blow your mind away". However we weren't familiar with the spices so we had no idea what to expect. Fufu egusi: fufu is super nice, love the texture. The egusi is very fishy, has fish flakes in them, but other than that not particularly seasonned. I expected better since on the menu  it said it would "blow us away". A water bassin was given to us so that we could wash our hands anytime during our meals while eating the fufu. Jerk chicken: basic jerk chicken, but I've had better. The meat is juicy though. The ruce was very good, not too dry and has a good kick! The salad portion is small, tastes fine. The fried plaintains were good! Goat meat: chewy as heck, not much flavor. Service is not the most transparent, food was okay. There's a sign that says they won the 2021 Best Carribean food. I don't know if it's real. It was worth a try. Also the price on the website is not the same as on the menu (pricier on the menu). Read more