J.P. Karwacki
Montreal, Quebec
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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’s ‘fake café’ Saturday, a casual hangout turned roaming pop-up
Whether intimately based out of their apartment or expanding out into the real world, Saturday is about maintaining devoted time for people to connect.
The ‘matante’ that launched a thousand ships: Lafleur's 63-year-old fast food cashier, Lucie
How one classic, family-run business’s franchise rooted in Quebec’s fast-food history made a broader cultural shift in restaurant marketing their own.
A Plateau chophouse flips to Bouillon Albert, a 19th-century Paris-inspired eatery
At traditional bouillon restaurants, food should be quick and affordable. This French address asks: Why mess with a good thing?
The fish, fowl, and finery of NDG's Épicerie Mange-Tout
With a locally-minded line on fish & seafood, meat, booze and dry goods, this fine grocer has good reasons to get high on its own supply.
Rendez-Vous: Pointe-Claire gets another cool buvette-style restaurant
Feels like there's never been a more intimate service of international, greatest-hits dishes from a spacious kitchen than at Rendez-Vous in Pointe-Claire.
Le Club: Montreal’s crossroads for coffeehouse culture, cycling, and running
When it opened in 2017, Le Club took a different path from traditional bike shops, building new communities around the cultures of cycling and running.
Pavillon: This downtown social club inside the SAT can cook
The latest third floor project for the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) stays true to its cultural ethos: Creating space where food, creativity, music, and community can intersect.
Bad Bones Beer: From a bone-crushing car accident to an Eastern Townships brewery
How brewer Zack Heuff turned a life-altering car accident off black ice on a country road into something everyone can enjoy.
Mr. Sign: When Montreal’s main streets become a canvas for artist Dave Arnold
Talking up the value of old craftsmanship, defining a city’s visual landscapes for 15 years, and new collaborations.
Every photographer needs to shoot in Montreal at least once in their lifetime
Over a century of historical inspirations and a half-dozen local photographers can't be wrong.
Montreal melons: A city's forgotten fruit, and the modern farms preserving its agricultural heritage
And catching up with David McMillan during a delivery run of Montreal melons to chef Ari Schor's Verdun restaurant Beba.
La Spada: A love letter to Rome with a Montreal osteria
The experiential, Roman-Italian dining of Saint-Henri's La Spada, combining institutional class with electric restaurant theatre.