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Showing 24 of 2291 places in Montreal
Hidden in plain sight within the industrial bones of Griffintown’s Darling Foundry, Le Serpent plays it cool with its sl...
Anis Ghozzi opened Kahwa Café on Mont-Royal Est in 2010 as a neighbourhood refuge for students and artists, but the pand...
There’s no sign, no website, and no real name to speak of—just a two-storey Parc-Ex row house packed wall to wall with v...
Maison An Omakase seats just eight people at a light-wood counter on Avenue du Parc, where chef An Doan, among the first...
Friperie Notre Dame started with a simple idea: rescue what others throw away. What began in 2019 as two founders—Andy H...
Gioia De bills itself as a cucina sociale, and the Old Port restaurant is built accordingly: plates meant for the middle...
Bocca di Lupo is the passion project nine years in the making for Joe Franchini and Jamie Sunny, the duo behind Flyjin....
Anthony Gebrayel and Angélique Custeau opened Beyt on Boulevard Saint-Laurent in spring 2026 with a straightforward prem...
Thé Jinjin occupies a room on Marie-Anne East in the Plateau, shared with L'honnête Kid, the kitchen run by Elliot Laten...
Flyjin blurs the line between dinner and nightlife, turning a meal into something that lingers long past last call. Hidd...
Pizzeria Crosta brings a focused slice shop to Mile End’s Saint-Viateur: six sourdough pies, no reservations, first come...
Plume occupies a former commercial bakery on Fairmount Ouest that dates to 1967, and the Mile End address suits the proj...
L'Honnête Kid shares a room on Marie-Anne East in the Plateau with Thé Jinjin, the tea counter run by Elliot Latendresse...
The second outpost of Yann Levy's retro-futuristic Japanese universe lands on Saint-Viateur East, and it's a looser, mor...
For over 65 years, Domenico “Ménick” Perazzino has opened his barbershop on rue Masson like clockwork—lights on by 7:15...
Couple-run since 2017, Le P'tit Rustik is a thirty-seat café-bistro on rue Drolet where the owners built the furniture,...
Librairie Paragraphe has been a go-to destination for English-language books in downtown Montreal for over four decades....
Janine is one of the newest addition to Little Burgundy’s food landscape, a back-alley gelato bar with a cult feel from...
The flavours of New Orleans come to Montreal at La Louisiane, a Cajun-Creole spot that specializes in regional favourite...
La Rockette is where Montréal’s rockers, hipsters, and vinyl obsessives collide over stiff drinks and an unpredictable s...
Sans Recette runs on fifteen seats and a blackboard, on Beaubien East in La Petite-Patrie, a few minutes from Jean-Talon...
Croquette occupies the merged rooms of Bonheur d'occasion and its neighbouring deli on Notre-Dame West in Saint-Henri, r...
Sang-Ji Bao Frit brought Shanghai's shengjian bao downtown, to a narrow room on Bishop where the folding happens behind...
Kim Phat grew out of a Papineau Avenue apartment, where Yip Chee Sing, a Cambodian-Chinese refugee who reached Montreal...
Showing 24 of 2291 places in Montreal
Hidden in plain sight within the industrial bones of Griffintown’s Darling Foundry, Le Serpent plays it cool with its sl...
Anis Ghozzi opened Kahwa Café on Mont-Royal Est in 2010 as a neighbourhood refuge for students and artists, but the pand...
There’s no sign, no website, and no real name to speak of—just a two-storey Parc-Ex row house packed wall to wall with v...
Maison An Omakase seats just eight people at a light-wood counter on Avenue du Parc, where chef An Doan, among the first...
Friperie Notre Dame started with a simple idea: rescue what others throw away. What began in 2019 as two founders—Andy H...
Gioia De bills itself as a cucina sociale, and the Old Port restaurant is built accordingly: plates meant for the middle...
Bocca di Lupo is the passion project nine years in the making for Joe Franchini and Jamie Sunny, the duo behind Flyjin....
Anthony Gebrayel and Angélique Custeau opened Beyt on Boulevard Saint-Laurent in spring 2026 with a straightforward prem...
Thé Jinjin occupies a room on Marie-Anne East in the Plateau, shared with L'honnête Kid, the kitchen run by Elliot Laten...
Flyjin blurs the line between dinner and nightlife, turning a meal into something that lingers long past last call. Hidd...
Pizzeria Crosta brings a focused slice shop to Mile End’s Saint-Viateur: six sourdough pies, no reservations, first come...
Plume occupies a former commercial bakery on Fairmount Ouest that dates to 1967, and the Mile End address suits the proj...
L'Honnête Kid shares a room on Marie-Anne East in the Plateau with Thé Jinjin, the tea counter run by Elliot Latendresse...
The second outpost of Yann Levy's retro-futuristic Japanese universe lands on Saint-Viateur East, and it's a looser, mor...
For over 65 years, Domenico “Ménick” Perazzino has opened his barbershop on rue Masson like clockwork—lights on by 7:15...
Couple-run since 2017, Le P'tit Rustik is a thirty-seat café-bistro on rue Drolet where the owners built the furniture,...
Librairie Paragraphe has been a go-to destination for English-language books in downtown Montreal for over four decades....
Janine is one of the newest addition to Little Burgundy’s food landscape, a back-alley gelato bar with a cult feel from...
The flavours of New Orleans come to Montreal at La Louisiane, a Cajun-Creole spot that specializes in regional favourite...
La Rockette is where Montréal’s rockers, hipsters, and vinyl obsessives collide over stiff drinks and an unpredictable s...
Sans Recette runs on fifteen seats and a blackboard, on Beaubien East in La Petite-Patrie, a few minutes from Jean-Talon...
Croquette occupies the merged rooms of Bonheur d'occasion and its neighbouring deli on Notre-Dame West in Saint-Henri, r...
Sang-Ji Bao Frit brought Shanghai's shengjian bao downtown, to a narrow room on Bishop where the folding happens behind...
Kim Phat grew out of a Papineau Avenue apartment, where Yip Chee Sing, a Cambodian-Chinese refugee who reached Montreal...
