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Showing 24 of 2329 places in Montreal
Sample occupies a basement beneath a 19th-century greystone in Old Montreal, built around a serious analog sound system,...
Reimagined from what was once Martha Wainwright’s Ursa, P’tit Ours keeps the original venue’s warmth intact while shifti...
Mount Royal is the beating heart of Montreal. This Quebec heritage site, shaped by famed landscape architect Frederick L...
Phong Thach was born in Vietnam to Cambodian parents and has lived in Quebec since age six. Carlos Ortiz grew up in Mont...
Parquette operates out of a former gym on Bellechasse in Rosemont, functioning as a flexible cultural venue shaped by th...
Once known as the beating heart of hockey in Canada, the Montreal Forum has lived many lives. From 1924 to 1996, it was...
Sans Soleil is a listening bar in Chinatown, located in the basement of the Japanese restaurant Fleurs & Cadeaux. This u...
Tucked beneath the historic Auberge Saint-Gabriel, Velvet Speakeasy feels like something out of another time—or another...
Janine is one of the newest addition to Little Burgundy’s food landscape, a back-alley gelato bar with a cult feel from...
Bocca di Lupo is the passion project nine years in the making for Joe Franchini and Jamie Sunny, the duo behind Flyjin....
Sans Recette runs on fifteen seats and a blackboard, on Beaubien East in La Petite-Patrie, a few minutes from Jean-Talon...
Take Three is a collaborative boutique co-owned by three Montreal designers—Aly, Kim, and Sarah—who bring their distinct...
What began in a Mile End apartment over three decades ago has grown into one of the most celebrated names in independent...
Zach Macklovitch has spent more than a decade opening rooms built for volume: Suwu, Apt. 200, Doubles. Marilyn's runs th...
Café Gitana has been pouring Turkish tea on lower Saint-Denis since 2001, and it remains one of the few rooms in Quebec...
Honey Martin is the kind of neighbourhood pub where everyone’s either a regular or about to become one. Tucked into NDG,...
Place Jacques-Cartier is where Old Montréal puts its history and its showmanship on the same stage. The square runs down...
L'Barouf opened on Saint-Denis in 1993, founded by an Algerian immigrant and his Breton partner who had met in Montreal...
Founded by Elaine Leveille in 2004, this Saint-Henri boutique treats archival clothing less as relic and more as raw mat...
Angelini Café occupies the ground floor of the Yorkshire Building on Saint-Jacques, in the stretch of Old Montreal that...
Vivant is a sourdough pizza al taglio shop on a residential block of de la Roche in the Plateau, run by siblings Idir an...
A bánh mì counter that sells through a window onto the Bernard sidewalk, sharing a kitchen with the Ping Pong Club next...
A 46-seat restaurant in Saint-Henri, in the room that used to hold Nozy, opened by Julien Betancourt, Frédéric Bigras-Bu...
Francis Blais of Menu Extra runs this French bistro on Bernard with sommelier Alexis Demers and general manager Maxime B...
Showing 24 of 2329 places in Montreal
Sample occupies a basement beneath a 19th-century greystone in Old Montreal, built around a serious analog sound system,...
Reimagined from what was once Martha Wainwright’s Ursa, P’tit Ours keeps the original venue’s warmth intact while shifti...
Mount Royal is the beating heart of Montreal. This Quebec heritage site, shaped by famed landscape architect Frederick L...
Phong Thach was born in Vietnam to Cambodian parents and has lived in Quebec since age six. Carlos Ortiz grew up in Mont...
Parquette operates out of a former gym on Bellechasse in Rosemont, functioning as a flexible cultural venue shaped by th...
Once known as the beating heart of hockey in Canada, the Montreal Forum has lived many lives. From 1924 to 1996, it was...
Sans Soleil is a listening bar in Chinatown, located in the basement of the Japanese restaurant Fleurs & Cadeaux. This u...
Tucked beneath the historic Auberge Saint-Gabriel, Velvet Speakeasy feels like something out of another time—or another...
Janine is one of the newest addition to Little Burgundy’s food landscape, a back-alley gelato bar with a cult feel from...
Bocca di Lupo is the passion project nine years in the making for Joe Franchini and Jamie Sunny, the duo behind Flyjin....
Sans Recette runs on fifteen seats and a blackboard, on Beaubien East in La Petite-Patrie, a few minutes from Jean-Talon...
Take Three is a collaborative boutique co-owned by three Montreal designers—Aly, Kim, and Sarah—who bring their distinct...
What began in a Mile End apartment over three decades ago has grown into one of the most celebrated names in independent...
Zach Macklovitch has spent more than a decade opening rooms built for volume: Suwu, Apt. 200, Doubles. Marilyn's runs th...
Café Gitana has been pouring Turkish tea on lower Saint-Denis since 2001, and it remains one of the few rooms in Quebec...
Honey Martin is the kind of neighbourhood pub where everyone’s either a regular or about to become one. Tucked into NDG,...
Place Jacques-Cartier is where Old Montréal puts its history and its showmanship on the same stage. The square runs down...
L'Barouf opened on Saint-Denis in 1993, founded by an Algerian immigrant and his Breton partner who had met in Montreal...
Founded by Elaine Leveille in 2004, this Saint-Henri boutique treats archival clothing less as relic and more as raw mat...
Angelini Café occupies the ground floor of the Yorkshire Building on Saint-Jacques, in the stretch of Old Montreal that...
Vivant is a sourdough pizza al taglio shop on a residential block of de la Roche in the Plateau, run by siblings Idir an...
A bánh mì counter that sells through a window onto the Bernard sidewalk, sharing a kitchen with the Ping Pong Club next...
A 46-seat restaurant in Saint-Henri, in the room that used to hold Nozy, opened by Julien Betancourt, Frédéric Bigras-Bu...
Francis Blais of Menu Extra runs this French bistro on Bernard with sommelier Alexis Demers and general manager Maxime B...