From the group that brought you the suitably swanky mélange of restaurants including Med Grill, Primadonna, Bice, Cavalli , and Otto comes Kabana, a new Montreal supperclub that offers a comfortable dousing of trend.

Aside from inconceivable amounts of good-looking people, dangerous looking cocktails, and the requisite Montreal service snoot, Kabana features a remarkable space that places you halfway between Hawaii in the 70's and New York next year. Call it over the top if you will, but this Miguel Cancio-designed (Buddha Bar, Man Ray) space is a refreshing departure from the now almost cliché look created by barnyard woods and modern accents.

Eschewing quiet altogether, the 2-floor supperclub features both an upstairs lounge space and a mezzanine, rife with floor-to-ceiling totem poles, geometric leather fringes hanging from the ceiling, antler-aggregate chandeliers, tweed banquettes, and open-gas fireplaces embedded in the walls.

As for the menu, admittedly it would be hard to come up with a card that could suitably compliment the look of Kabana's interior. That being said, with feature items like tuna with roasted Jerusalem artichokes, nappa cabbage, grilled broccoli, and green olive salsa or miso-marinated chili seabass with a puree of Chinese broccoli, cauliflower and ginger, the list does tend toward the exotic.

Kabana is still in its soft opening phases but in the coming months, the restaurant plans to come up with a line of signature cocktails that may or may not remind you of Hawaii in the 70's. One more thing, if you take this review too literally and stop into Kabana dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, don't say I sent you. – E.H