About North House
North House is a private dining experience. We bring a professional kitchen into your home — the planning, the cooking, the service — so that the only thing you need to do is be present with your guests.
We are not a catering company. We are not a restaurant that comes to you. We are a small team that believes the most memorable evenings happen around a private table, with a short guest list and food that's been thought about carefully.
North House runs dining experiences in clients' homes and a small number of ticketed seasonal events each year. The food is serious. The evening is human.
We don't believe food is a backdrop. Every dinner we cook is designed to create the conditions for a genuinely good evening — conversation, presence, and the feeling that something real just happened.
We cook what's good right now. Québec producers, local farms, and the St. Lawrence. Not because it's fashionable — because it's how food should taste.
Every menu is written for that evening specifically. Your guests, your home, your occasion. We have never cooked the same dinner twice and we don't intend to start.
"We got tired of paying more for less. So we stopped going out and started cooking in."Tyler Stern & Tyler Grill · Founders, North House
For years, we watched dining experiences get more expensive and less personal. The quality of the food wasn't always the problem — the experience around it was. More noise, less intimacy. More theatre, less truth.
Meanwhile, we kept hosting dinners for friends at home. Small tables, good wine, food cooked without a clock running. And we kept noticing the same thing — people left those evenings differently than they left restaurants. Slower. Fuller. Like something had actually happened.
North House grew out of that observation. We wanted to offer something specific: the warmth of a private home, with cooking that takes the occasion seriously. No corporate script. No forty-table dining room. Just a table worth sitting at.
Tyler Grill studied at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration before spending his career around food, people, and the specific alchemy that happens when both are in the same room. He built North House on the conviction that the most meaningful dining is intimate by nature and that a private table, done right, is something worth building a business around.
Tyler studied culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts in Austin, Texas before working in restaurants across Montréal and around the world. North House is the natural extension of that experience — a belief that great hospitality belongs in homes, not just in restaurants. He oversees every experience from first enquiry to last course.
North House works with a close team of experienced Montréal cooks — classically trained, with a deep respect for Québec's ingredients and seasons, and selected for the same reason: they take the table seriously. Every chef writes their menus from scratch for each evening. No shared templates, no standard repertoire. Just food that belongs to that night.
Every North House evening is run by people who understand that good service disappears into the background. Present when needed, invisible when not. The goal is always the same: guests feel at home because they are home.
We are always looking for cooks and servers who live the way we cook.
If you are serious about your craft and want to work somewhere that takes private hospitality seriously, we would like to hear from you.
Get in TouchWhere it began. Dining experiences across the city's most beautiful homes and neighbourhoods.
Canada's most ambitious dining city. North House arrives in 2027 with a full dining experience programme.
The mountains demand a certain kind of cooking. We are writing that menu already.
The world's most demanding table. We intend to earn a place at it.