The Room
Gibby's opened on Place d'Youville in Old Montreal in 1969 and has spent the past fifty-five years running the city's most consistent steakhouse. The room is dressed in stone walls, exposed beams, leather banquettes and white linen — the colonial-Montreal register the building has always insisted on. The dining room seats 200 across multiple rooms; the patio (open May-September) is the Old Town's most-photographed steakhouse terrace.
Service is brigade-Canadian, formal but warm, and the staff has been here long enough to remember regulars by drink.
The Food
The kitchen runs a serious dry-aged Quebec beef programme — Cookshire ribeye, Lac-Brome New York strip, Charlevoix porterhouse — alongside Atlantic shellfish (lobster Newburg, oysters by the dozen) and a French-classical side programme. The wine list is American-French anchored with serious Bordeaux and California Cabernet depth.
Best Occasion Fit
Close a Deal: Gibby's is the Old Montreal deal dinner for the agreement that requires the heritage-steakhouse register. The stone-walled rooms communicate seriously and the dry-aged programme never embarrasses.
Team Dinner: The private dining rooms at Gibby's seat 12-40 and have hosted Montreal partner dinners since the 1970s.