Montreal's Chinatown is now home to a swanky new Italo-Japanese hangout, Tiramisu (VIDEO)

The new Hampton Inn at the southern gate of Montreal's Chinatown now sports a new attractive option for dining out: Tiramisu, an Italo-Japanese restaurant from the Montreal-based hospitality group Lucky Belly Group opens today.

Inside the 3,000 square foot space with a 1960s Italy design of marble, chrome, terrazzo, and velvet by MRDK (Menard Dworkind Architecture & Design), Tiramisu's first focus is a menu that specializes in Italian cuisine—pizza, pasta, and antipasti—twisted and tweaked with Japanese influences by Chanthy Yen. The chef's name should ring bells for anyone who enjoyed his Cambodian street food project Touk  that ran through the last two summers at Old Montreal's Parliament Pub & Parlour. 

The Italo-Japanese stylings of Tiramisu 

So how does it all play out? While Neapolitan pies and plates of rigatoni in red sauce still come out of the kitchen, diners' interest is likely to be piqued by dishes like sushi arancini, tonkotsu lasagna, or an okonomiyaki pizza. That's served alongside wine lists and and sake selections, and cocktails sourced from the team at The Coldroom like a Briscola Spritz or Smoked Plum Negroni.

Open seven days a week for lunch, dinner, and takeout, Tiramisu is also equipped with a café, Caffè Misu, which serves at any time of the day its Italian pastries, gelato, and specialty coffees that were roasted in collaboration with Montreal's Café Saint-Henri.

The Tiramisu project is only one of two as well: The French-Vietnamese bistro-bar Carla on the sixth floor of the hotel is primed to open early in 2022.

Tiramisu is now open, located on the ground floor of the Hampton by Hilton (989 Boulevard Saint-Laurent).