le Piment Rouge reopening Montreal restaurant
Food & Drink

Legendary Montreal restaurant le Piment Rouge reopening in September

by Lorraine Carpenter

Fans of upscale Chinese cuisine can look forward to a new Parc Ex location of a Montreal classic.

The long-awaited reopening of the legendary Montreal restaurant le Piment Rouge is slated for the second week of September, after Labour Day. Known for its upscale Chinese cuisine, le Piment Rouge is re-establishing itself in Parc Ex, with more of a neighbourhood-restaurant feel than its previous incarnations, according to project coordinator Virginia Casale.

The Montoni group first announced that le Piment Rouge would be reopening in their building at 495 Beaumont back in Jan. 2022. The project was three years in the making — the amount of time it took them to convince Piment Rouge founder Hazel Mah to revive the business, which previously served its primarily Sichuanese and Cantonese delicacies on Metcalfe and later at le Windsor in downtown Montreal, from 1979 to 2014.

The project was further postponed due to the bureaucracy around immigration from China, which has delayed the arrival of the new Piment Rouge chefs, according to Casale. The restaurant is currently hiring wait staff and busboys.

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by Lorraine Carpenter

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Lorraine Carpenter was born in Montreal and studied communications and journalism at Concordia. She co-founded Cult MTL in 2012 following 12 years at the now-defunct Montreal alt weekly the Mirror, where she worked in editorial as copy editor and music editor. She’s dedicated to supporting the cultural scene in Montreal.