Café Gentile (West Island)

Café Gentile’s West Island outpost extends a Montreal institution out to the old stomping grounds of its leadership. The menu follows the family’s long-standing formula: Italian comfort cooking delivered at scale, with consistency and generosity as the guiding principles. Mornings revolve around espresso, brioche, and Italian-leaning breakfasts—frittatas, grilled cheeses with fontina, smoked salmon bagels—while lunch and dinner move confidently into Gentile territory: chicken cutlets, eggplant parmigiana, polpette, and a deep bench of sandwiches. Pizza and pasta anchor the operation, from margherita and pepperoni pies to cavatelli with sausage and rapini, rigatoni bolognese, and baked lasagna. The room mirrors the food—spacious, warm, and unfussy—designed to handle quick coffees, long lunches, family dinners, and takeout with equal ease. It’s a restaurant built to serve a neighbourhood.