Last year Pamela Anderson posed for an ad which marked her body as if it were to become consumer meat. This was supposed to turn people off of meat. However a restaurant in Montreal, called the Klondike Steak House used this very concept in the 70s to attract people to their restaurant. Oh well.
The Klondike Steak House, at the Cote-de-Liesse/Autoroute 40 interchange, offered good food for a reasonable price. Angel Umbert seems to still be around, incorporating a musical entertainment company in South Florida and doing gigs at Mexican resorts. Sadly, the Klondike is no longer with us.
ReplyDeleteI lived a short walk from the Klondike and its giant neon sign from '79-'87. Sadly the Biftheque, although very good, was the survivor.
ReplyDeleteBTW, speaking of which, Seltzer sold the Biftheque in 2008 and since then it has taken a horrible turn downhill. If it doesn't shape up it's heading straight for its grave.
I agree, Marc...The Biftheque is a shade of its former self. The Kirkland location opened in the old Houstons...and promptly shut its doors just as fast.
ReplyDeleteThe Cote-de-Liesse restaurant occupies the site of the former Chateau-Liesse Motor Hotel...there was a dining room, meeting rooms, and some bedrooms in that main front building, then a second wing opened at the back of the parking lot, which was at first a Quality Inn where former Nationair stewardess Marie-Chantale Paquette would entertain older gentlemen, and which is now an Econo-Lodge (still a Choice Hotels brand, just downgraded).