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Rendez-Vous: Pointe-Claire gets another cool buvette-style restaurant

Feels like there's never been a more intimate service of international, greatest-hits dishes from a spacious kitchen than at Rendez-Vous in Pointe-Claire.

J.P. Karwacki

J.P. Karwacki

25 septembre 2024- Read time: 5 min
Rendez-Vous: Pointe-Claire gets another cool buvette-style restaurantPhotograph: JP Karwacki

The kitchen is the centre of attention in a good Montreal restaurant, on display and never hidden behind some swinging, porthole door. But when a diner enters Rendez-Vous in Pointe-Claire, they’ll more often than not be seated at the bar surrounding its spacious kitchen, and it’ll feel like they’re one of the lucky few to have nabbed a seat.

Building off the intimacy found in buvettes and caves à manger, Rendez-Vous may look and feel like an attaché to its related neighbour of Lou’s, but it’s a place that easily stands on its own.

While caves à manger focus more on wine and simple snacks, we wanted to take that idea and offer something more well-rounded.
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