An Italian restaurant that is been a fixture in Montreal since 1985 has racked up a big sum of fines following a collection of well being inspection violations that got here to gentle over the previous 12 months.
Restaurant Siciliana, positioned at 1264 Stanley St. in downtown Montreal, was fined 3 times by Quebec’s Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ) between Might 2025 and March 2026, with the 2 most up-to-date fines totalling $8,000.
The primary of the latest pair was printed in February 2026 for a violation that befell in August 2025. That one got here in at $4,000 for failing to keep up clear premises, tools, supplies, and utensils used within the preparation, storage, and repair of meals. The second was printed simply days in the past, on March 18, 2026, additionally for $4,000. That violation, which dates again to a February 2025 inspection, discovered the restaurant was not freed from contaminants, pests, bugs, rodents, or their excrement.
These two fines alone add as much as $8,000, however MAPAQ records present the restaurant’s latest historical past with the regulator goes again additional. A $3,500 fantastic was handed down in Might 2025 for unclean premises stemming from a February 2024 inspection. Earlier than that, a $2,300 fantastic was issued in Might 2024 for a pest-related violation from September 2023.
That brings the whole over the previous two years to $13,800.
The restaurant, previously often called Santa Lucia, has been serving wood-fired pizza, calzones, and tiramisu to Montrealers on Stanley Road for over 4 a long time. It maintains a 3.9-star average rating on Google Reviews.
MAPAQ fines are issued by the Montreal Municipal Courtroom and printed within the provincial meals security registry. The violations listed don’t essentially mirror present situations on the institution. In lots of instances, a number of months and even years can go between the date of the infraction and the official publication of the judgment, because the authorized course of runs its course.