For years, Alex Cohen has been cutting dishes from the menu at Arthurs Nosh Bar that he actually wanted to cook. The volume in Saint-Henri, 150 to 300 covers a day out of 54 seats, has a way of making the interesting stuff impossible to sustain. Tartares, cabbage rolls, perogis: things that would get added, find their audience, and then disappear within weeks because the kitchen simply couldn't keep up.

Arthurs Dinette, opening on Monkland this spring, is where those dishes finally land.

Cohen and his wife Raegan Steinberg, the team behind Arthurs Nosh Bar and Romies, are taking over 5700 Monkland in NDG's Monkland Village: 48 seats, butter yellow, with a long banquette, custom laminate tables built by the same woodworker who shaped Arthurs a decade ago, and a proper ten-seat bar.

For years, Alex Cohen has been cutting dishes from the menu at Arthurs Nosh Bar that he actually wanted to cook. The volume in Saint-Henri, 150 to 300 covers a day out of 54 seats, has a way of making the interesting stuff impossible to sustain. Tartares, cabbage rolls, perogis: things that would get added, find their audience, and then disappear within weeks because the kitchen simply couldn't keep up.

Arthurs Dinette, opening on Monkland this spring, is where those dishes finally land.

Cohen and his wife Raegan Steinberg, the team behind Arthurs Nosh Bar and Romies, are taking over 5700 Monkland in NDG's Monkland Village: 48 seats, butter yellow, with a long banquette, custom laminate tables built by the same woodworker who shaped Arthurs a decade ago, and a proper ten-seat bar.