J.P. Karwacki
JP Karwacki is the managing editor of The Main. His work has previously appeared in Time Magazine, the Montreal Gazette, Time Out, NUVO, and more.
Montreal, Quebec
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The Montreal illustrator enlisted roughly three dozen writers, artists, and poets to fill a hand-restored 1950s vending machine with fortunes in both languages.
The WILLS Director of Operations on hospitality, leadership, and creating the kind of space he never saw when he entered Montreal’s restaurant industry.
Montréal Complètement Cirque takes the streets, the Jazz Fest takes its final bow, the sky above La Ronde gets loud, and the Oratory opens its doors for free: July 2 to 5, 2026.
Montreal started here. So did some of its best restaurants, bars, and hotels.
The new Pointe-Saint-Charles venue combines courts, cocktails, Pilates, and hospitality in a bid to make the club itself the destination.
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.
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.
From a country road out of a fortified colony to a corridor of immigrants, artists, labour organizers, gangsters, and entrepreneurs, Saint-Laurent Boulevard tells the story of Montreal better than any other street.
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.
The 200-year story of a street that's always belonged to everyone and no one.
Chef-run counters, Little Italy institutions, and old-school crèmeries worth the lineup.
15 bars, pubs, and cafés where the beautiful game gets the audience it deserves.
From 70-cent burgers to a 25-course omakase, Montreal's got dad covered this June 21.
Montreal's breakfast scene is more than bagels and brunch queues; here's what's open early and worth every minute.
Ethiopian injera, Senegalese thiebou dieune, Mauritanian prix fixe, Congolese fufu, Algerian couscous, and more—the variety of Montreal's African restaurants runs deep.
The creative director and producer on where she eats, drinks, and resets between trips.
From free street festivals to $1,000-a-ticket blowouts, here's where the city comes alive during race week.
From West Island newcomers to decades-old institutions, here's where to take mom out for a good time on May 10, 2026.
On terrasses, vintage shops, horny summer vibes, and drinking beer under the Van Horne bridge.
From Pointe-Claire to Parc La Fontaine, here's where the Mile End Kicks actor eats, drinks, and goes to stay grounded.
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Melbourne coffee, Latino-Mexican brunch, matcha houses, Argentine bodegóns, and more.
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Pho chawanmushi at an eight-seat omakase, Hiroshima ramen's first outpost outside Japan, and sourdough slices selling out on Saint-Viateur.
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Downing cocktails to the beat of live jazz, a swish take on the classic pub, an 'old Vegas' dive, and more.
Butter, sugar, flour, and the people 'n' pastry shops who know exactly what to do with them in Montreal.
All manner of eggs, bagels, and sometimes the odd bottomless mimosa: This is Montreal's brunch scene, mapped.
Our guide to the best on offer in Montreal, from cocktail dens to wine bars to our favourite dives.
From boundary-pushing tasting menus to perfected single plates—this is where to eat when it matters.
From spots to work and places to print to undercelebrated artistic curios, few people are better to offer a guide to Montreal from an illustrator’s perspective than this enigmatic artist.
