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Showing 24 of 2326 places in Montreal

Parquette operates out of a former gym on Bellechasse in Rosemont, functioning as a flexible cultural venue shaped by th...

Sans Recette runs on fifteen seats and a blackboard, on Beaubien East in La Petite-Patrie, a few minutes from Jean-Talon...

Café Civil is an independent café in Chinatown that brings together coffee, food, and music under one industrial-inspire...

Sans Soleil is a listening bar in Chinatown, located in the basement of the Japanese restaurant Fleurs & Cadeaux. This u...

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...

The Coldroom, an intimate speakeasy-style bar in Old Montreal, offers a refined yet clandestine experience. Enter throug...

This is where Arthurs, one of Montreal’s most beloved Jewish food spots, has taken its famed comfort food downtown at Le...

Bocca di Lupo is the passion project nine years in the making for Joe Franchini and Jamie Sunny, the duo behind Flyjin....

Once known as the beating heart of hockey in Canada, the Montreal Forum has lived many lives. From 1924 to 1996, it was...

Café Gitana has been pouring Turkish tea on lower Saint-Denis since 2001, and it remains one of the few rooms in Quebec...

Flyjin blurs the line between dinner and nightlife, turning a meal into something that lingers long past last call. Hidd...

Anis Ghozzi opened Kahwa Café on Mont-Royal Est in 2010 as a neighbourhood refuge for students and artists, but the pand...

Take Three is a collaborative boutique co-owned by three Montreal designers—Aly, Kim, and Sarah—who bring their distinct...

La Meunerie Urbaine takes the idea of “from scratch” a step further. Opened in 2017 by Martin Falardeau (formerly of Le...

Routy occupies the Van Horne Avenue address that longtime regulars will recognize as the former Boxermans, now reimagine...

La Rockette is where Montréal’s rockers, hipsters, and vinyl obsessives collide over stiff drinks and an unpredictable s...

Janine is one of the newest addition to Little Burgundy’s food landscape, a back-alley gelato bar with a cult feel from...

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...

Hana is Hanhak Kim and David McMillan’s long-gestating Old Montreal swing at a Korean steakhouse that borrows more from...

For over 65 years, Domenico “Ménick” Perazzino has opened his barbershop on rue Masson like clockwork—lights on by 7:15...

An all-you-can-eat Indian lunch counter open weekday middays, on the pedestrian stretch off St-Paul West, sharing an add...

Francis Blais of Menu Extra runs this French bistro on Bernard with sommelier Alexis Demers and general manager Maxime B...

Indigenous artists in Montreal spent roughly 25 years showing work wherever they could, including a run of guerrilla pop...
Showing 24 of 2326 places in Montreal

Parquette operates out of a former gym on Bellechasse in Rosemont, functioning as a flexible cultural venue shaped by th...

Sans Recette runs on fifteen seats and a blackboard, on Beaubien East in La Petite-Patrie, a few minutes from Jean-Talon...

Café Civil is an independent café in Chinatown that brings together coffee, food, and music under one industrial-inspire...

Sans Soleil is a listening bar in Chinatown, located in the basement of the Japanese restaurant Fleurs & Cadeaux. This u...

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...

The Coldroom, an intimate speakeasy-style bar in Old Montreal, offers a refined yet clandestine experience. Enter throug...

This is where Arthurs, one of Montreal’s most beloved Jewish food spots, has taken its famed comfort food downtown at Le...

Bocca di Lupo is the passion project nine years in the making for Joe Franchini and Jamie Sunny, the duo behind Flyjin....

Once known as the beating heart of hockey in Canada, the Montreal Forum has lived many lives. From 1924 to 1996, it was...

Café Gitana has been pouring Turkish tea on lower Saint-Denis since 2001, and it remains one of the few rooms in Quebec...

Flyjin blurs the line between dinner and nightlife, turning a meal into something that lingers long past last call. Hidd...

Anis Ghozzi opened Kahwa Café on Mont-Royal Est in 2010 as a neighbourhood refuge for students and artists, but the pand...

Take Three is a collaborative boutique co-owned by three Montreal designers—Aly, Kim, and Sarah—who bring their distinct...

La Meunerie Urbaine takes the idea of “from scratch” a step further. Opened in 2017 by Martin Falardeau (formerly of Le...

Routy occupies the Van Horne Avenue address that longtime regulars will recognize as the former Boxermans, now reimagine...

La Rockette is where Montréal’s rockers, hipsters, and vinyl obsessives collide over stiff drinks and an unpredictable s...

Janine is one of the newest addition to Little Burgundy’s food landscape, a back-alley gelato bar with a cult feel from...

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...

Hana is Hanhak Kim and David McMillan’s long-gestating Old Montreal swing at a Korean steakhouse that borrows more from...

For over 65 years, Domenico “Ménick” Perazzino has opened his barbershop on rue Masson like clockwork—lights on by 7:15...

An all-you-can-eat Indian lunch counter open weekday middays, on the pedestrian stretch off St-Paul West, sharing an add...

Francis Blais of Menu Extra runs this French bistro on Bernard with sommelier Alexis Demers and general manager Maxime B...

Indigenous artists in Montreal spent roughly 25 years showing work wherever they could, including a run of guerrilla pop...