Ruby Foo's was an absolute legend of a Chinese restaurant

In 1945, a neon-lit palace opened on Décarie Boulevard and became the place where Montreal went to see and be seen.

Today a hotel, Ruby Foo's was once a 6,000-square-foot spectacle where politicians rubbed shoulders with Broadway stars, where Maurice Richard slipped in through the back door, and where Pierre Elliott Trudeau ate duck à l'orange almost every Sunday.