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If you’d like to dine at some of Canada’s best new restaurants, you don’t have to go very far.

Five Montreal restaurants make the top 30, second to Toronto (7) and ahead of Vancouver (4).

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The panel of food critics (including the Montreal Gazette’s Lesley Chesterman) have selected 30 contenders. The top 10 will make the final list for 2017.

Here are the Montreal restaurants that made the list:

Tiradito (1076 Bleury St.)

“Tiradito is about as trendy as sriracha, Sunday brunch and Netflix Gilmore Girls binge-fests,” writes Chesterman in her review from January. However, the restaurant lives up to all the hype over this style of cooking.

That style is called Nikkei, “based on Peruvian ingredients, prepared with Japanese techniques,” explains Chesterman in her review.

Photo by Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette

Here’s what she had to say about their deep-fried octopus:

“Octopus is served in one Montreal restaurant too many of late, but this “pieuvre” was just amazing. Flavoured with togarashi (a Japanese mix of chili peppers) and Peruvian panca pepper, the deep-fried octopus pieces where placed on a pool of dark sauce, covered in a spoonful of a mayonnaise-like sauce, and set around quenelles of avocado purée.