Your guide to the best places in Montreal. Discover local favourites, hidden gems, and top-rated spots across the city.
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The directory is sourced from our ongoing conversations with chefs, operators, and cultural figures across the city. Places are added when they’re cited by people whose judgment we trust.
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Showing 24 of 2302 places in Montreal
Anis Ghozzi opened Kahwa Café on Mont-Royal Est in 2010 as a neighbourhood refuge for students and artists, but the pand...
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...
Salon Richmond 1861 sits inside a former 19th-century church built for the Petite-Bourgogne community, a space designed...
Café Hyderabad works the Victoria Avenue strip in Côte-des-Neiges, trading in Hyderabadi cooking and Indian street food....
Once known as the beating heart of hockey in Canada, the Montreal Forum has lived many lives. From 1924 to 1996, it was...
Few venues in Montreal have as much heart—and as much sweat—as L’Escogriffe. Known to regulars as L’Esco, this low-lit P...
Maison An Omakase seats just eight people at a light-wood counter on Avenue du Parc, where chef An Doan, among the first...
Garde Manger has spent nearly two decades refining the balance between serious cooking and late night energy. Hidden beh...
Arthur’s Dinette is the latest project from Alex Cohen and Raegan Steinberg, the team behind Arthur’s Nosh Bar and Romie...
Reimagined from what was once Martha Wainwright’s Ursa, P’tit Ours keeps the original venue’s warmth intact while shifti...
L’Entracte is a downtown non-profit jazz venue focused on Montreal’s local scene, with programming that gives space to e...
Angelini Café occupies the ground floor of the Yorkshire Building on Saint-Jacques, in the stretch of Old Montreal that...
Perched on the banks of the Lachine Canal, Terrasse St-Ambroise showcases McAuslan Brewery’s finest creations. This laid...
Melbourne's specialty coffee culture arrives in Montreal via Fine Fine Fine, a café opened on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in...
Hadio doesn’t rely on polish to make its mark—it’s built its name on volume, value, and vintage denim that keeps Montrea...
Friperie Notre Dame started with a simple idea: rescue what others throw away. What began in 2019 as two founders—Andy H...
Parc du Portugal may be small, but it carries the weight of a whole community’s story. Established in 1953, the square a...
In the heart of Hochelaga, Piscine Pierre-Lorange keeps things straightforward: clean water, good hours, and free admiss...
This shop doesn’t rely on hype—it’s built entirely on taste and the person behind it. Known mostly by word of mouth, thi...
O Patro Vys occupies the floor above Bily Kun on Mont-Royal Est, which is more or less what the name means, Czech for th...
Saint-Jean-Baptiste runs the block between Henri-Julien and Drolet with its façade on Rachel, seating roughly 2,500, the...
Le Divan Orange ran for 13 years at Saint-Laurent and Rachel, a worker co-op named for the orange couch parked by the do...
The Peck Building holds the corner of Saint-Laurent and Saint-Viateur, five storeys of red brick put up in 1904 for John...
Showing 24 of 2302 places in Montreal
Anis Ghozzi opened Kahwa Café on Mont-Royal Est in 2010 as a neighbourhood refuge for students and artists, but the pand...
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...
Salon Richmond 1861 sits inside a former 19th-century church built for the Petite-Bourgogne community, a space designed...
Café Hyderabad works the Victoria Avenue strip in Côte-des-Neiges, trading in Hyderabadi cooking and Indian street food....
Once known as the beating heart of hockey in Canada, the Montreal Forum has lived many lives. From 1924 to 1996, it was...
Few venues in Montreal have as much heart—and as much sweat—as L’Escogriffe. Known to regulars as L’Esco, this low-lit P...
Maison An Omakase seats just eight people at a light-wood counter on Avenue du Parc, where chef An Doan, among the first...
Garde Manger has spent nearly two decades refining the balance between serious cooking and late night energy. Hidden beh...
Arthur’s Dinette is the latest project from Alex Cohen and Raegan Steinberg, the team behind Arthur’s Nosh Bar and Romie...
Reimagined from what was once Martha Wainwright’s Ursa, P’tit Ours keeps the original venue’s warmth intact while shifti...
L’Entracte is a downtown non-profit jazz venue focused on Montreal’s local scene, with programming that gives space to e...
Angelini Café occupies the ground floor of the Yorkshire Building on Saint-Jacques, in the stretch of Old Montreal that...
Perched on the banks of the Lachine Canal, Terrasse St-Ambroise showcases McAuslan Brewery’s finest creations. This laid...
Melbourne's specialty coffee culture arrives in Montreal via Fine Fine Fine, a café opened on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in...
Hadio doesn’t rely on polish to make its mark—it’s built its name on volume, value, and vintage denim that keeps Montrea...
Friperie Notre Dame started with a simple idea: rescue what others throw away. What began in 2019 as two founders—Andy H...
Parc du Portugal may be small, but it carries the weight of a whole community’s story. Established in 1953, the square a...
In the heart of Hochelaga, Piscine Pierre-Lorange keeps things straightforward: clean water, good hours, and free admiss...
This shop doesn’t rely on hype—it’s built entirely on taste and the person behind it. Known mostly by word of mouth, thi...
O Patro Vys occupies the floor above Bily Kun on Mont-Royal Est, which is more or less what the name means, Czech for th...
Saint-Jean-Baptiste runs the block between Henri-Julien and Drolet with its façade on Rachel, seating roughly 2,500, the...
Le Divan Orange ran for 13 years at Saint-Laurent and Rachel, a worker co-op named for the orange couch parked by the do...
The Peck Building holds the corner of Saint-Laurent and Saint-Viateur, five storeys of red brick put up in 1904 for John...
