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Where to eat, drink, and watch in Montreal.
SUMMER 2026
Snowstorm or heatwave, Montreal finds a reason to celebrate all year long.
Twelve days, 250+ shows, a free Weird Al concert, and a World Cup final: This is all you need to navigate JFL from July 15 to 26, 2026.
Everything to eat, see, and shop at the city’s biggest Vietnamese cultural festival.
From live audiovisual spectacles and outdoor installations to workshops, talks, and late-night performances, MUTEK’s 2026 celebration of art, electronic music, and technology will infuse six days with future-facing experiences.
World premieres collide with free shows in the streets across 11 days of performances: Here’s how to navigate the 17th edition of Montréal Complètement Cirque from July 2 to 12, 2026.
The festival returns to the Peel Basin June 11 to 14, 2026.
GOAL MTL hits its sweet 16 with a full day of football, food, and culture at Percival Molson.
After bankruptcy put the agency behind it at risk, Multicolore has acquired LNDMRK to ensure the festival continues, with no layoffs planned.
From the Plateau to Verdun, Montreal’s annual pedestrian street season returns in 2026 with new additions, missing favourites, and nearly seven kilometres of car-free city life.
The 200-year story of a street that's always belonged to everyone and no one.
The best of Montreal's culinary scene
A fire-driven culinary experience and all-day festivities frame are cherries on top of this year's justifiably weekend-consuming National Bank Open.
Every year produces bars and restaurants worth tracking, and Montreal's latest is a strong showing.
The WILLS Director of Operations on hospitality, leadership, and creating the kind of space he never saw when he entered Montreal’s restaurant industry.
An Old Montreal bar where hi-fi sound, curated records, and conversation take precedence. There are still plenty of highballs, though.
Years of studying Roman tradition led Giuseppe Sacchetti to an unexpected conclusion: the pizza he wanted to make wasn’t purely Italian, but it was unmistakably Montreal.
Between flooded inboxes, ghost interviews, and AI-spam CVs, hospitality hiring has been broken for years. A new app wants to fix it.
Two decades in, the chef and co-owner on sobriety, restaurant math, and how to run a twenty-year-old restaurant without becoming a museum.
A modern Vietnamese bistro from three longtime hospitality veterans, where diaspora identity and Latin American influences shape a distinctly Montreal menu.
From boundary-pushing tasting menus to perfected single plates—this is where to eat when it matters.
Where work gets dodged, books get read and written, and half the city seems to be locked in conversation.
Intimate, theatrical, memorable: the spots that make an evening feel like an occasion.
Rare finds, curated shelves, and community hubs across the city.
From garage racks to curated closets, here's where to start digging for stylish castoffs that got a second life.
It's wandering, but rewarded: Shop local, shop curious, and let these spots surprise you.
Lean back and listen in at these vinyl-heavy addresses in the city with slow, intentional, and mature atmospheres inspired by Japanese jazz kissa.
Stories, guides, and reporting that make sense of Montreal — its culture, neighbourhoods, and everyday life.
Explore restaurants, cafés, galleries, and places worth knowing — searchable by neighbourhood, category, and what's around you.
Like articles and places to build your own lists — a personal way to keep track of the city you love.
Language laws, shrinking venues, and a comedy economy in crisis have stacked the deck against anglo comedians, but they're still here.
Where to eat, drink, and watch in Montreal.
SUMMER 2026
Snowstorm or heatwave, Montreal finds a reason to celebrate all year long.
Twelve days, 250+ shows, a free Weird Al concert, and a World Cup final: This is all you need to navigate JFL from July 15 to 26, 2026.
Everything to eat, see, and shop at the city’s biggest Vietnamese cultural festival.
From live audiovisual spectacles and outdoor installations to workshops, talks, and late-night performances, MUTEK’s 2026 celebration of art, electronic music, and technology will infuse six days with future-facing experiences.
World premieres collide with free shows in the streets across 11 days of performances: Here’s how to navigate the 17th edition of Montréal Complètement Cirque from July 2 to 12, 2026.
The festival returns to the Peel Basin June 11 to 14, 2026.
GOAL MTL hits its sweet 16 with a full day of football, food, and culture at Percival Molson.
After bankruptcy put the agency behind it at risk, Multicolore has acquired LNDMRK to ensure the festival continues, with no layoffs planned.
From the Plateau to Verdun, Montreal’s annual pedestrian street season returns in 2026 with new additions, missing favourites, and nearly seven kilometres of car-free city life.
The 200-year story of a street that's always belonged to everyone and no one.
The best of Montreal's culinary scene
A fire-driven culinary experience and all-day festivities frame are cherries on top of this year's justifiably weekend-consuming National Bank Open.
Every year produces bars and restaurants worth tracking, and Montreal's latest is a strong showing.
The WILLS Director of Operations on hospitality, leadership, and creating the kind of space he never saw when he entered Montreal’s restaurant industry.
An Old Montreal bar where hi-fi sound, curated records, and conversation take precedence. There are still plenty of highballs, though.
Years of studying Roman tradition led Giuseppe Sacchetti to an unexpected conclusion: the pizza he wanted to make wasn’t purely Italian, but it was unmistakably Montreal.
Between flooded inboxes, ghost interviews, and AI-spam CVs, hospitality hiring has been broken for years. A new app wants to fix it.
Two decades in, the chef and co-owner on sobriety, restaurant math, and how to run a twenty-year-old restaurant without becoming a museum.
A modern Vietnamese bistro from three longtime hospitality veterans, where diaspora identity and Latin American influences shape a distinctly Montreal menu.
From boundary-pushing tasting menus to perfected single plates—this is where to eat when it matters.
Where work gets dodged, books get read and written, and half the city seems to be locked in conversation.
Intimate, theatrical, memorable: the spots that make an evening feel like an occasion.
Rare finds, curated shelves, and community hubs across the city.
From garage racks to curated closets, here's where to start digging for stylish castoffs that got a second life.
It's wandering, but rewarded: Shop local, shop curious, and let these spots surprise you.
Lean back and listen in at these vinyl-heavy addresses in the city with slow, intentional, and mature atmospheres inspired by Japanese jazz kissa.
Stories, guides, and reporting that make sense of Montreal — its culture, neighbourhoods, and everyday life.
Explore restaurants, cafés, galleries, and places worth knowing — searchable by neighbourhood, category, and what's around you.
Like articles and places to build your own lists — a personal way to keep track of the city you love.
A guide to the very best of Montreal, curated by our editors and the voices we feature in our stories.
Explore MontrealThe places earning the most love from our readers and community right now.
Recently added to the directory.
A guide to the very best of Montreal, curated by our editors and the voices we feature in our stories.
Explore MontrealThe places earning the most love from our readers and community right now.
Recently added to the directory.
For generations of immigrants and their children, the streets around Plamondon metro are the cultural centre of Filipino life in Montreal.
For generations of immigrants and their children, the streets around Plamondon metro are the cultural centre of Filipino life in Montreal.
Shop The Main's Dépanneur. Open 24/7.
Shop The Main's Dépanneur. Open 24/7.
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