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Showing 24 of 2315 places in Montreal
Dominican frying at counter speed. The menu is built around pica pollo, chicken marinated and fried to order with a side...
Santiago Café takes its name from Santiago de los Caballeros, the Dominican city founded in 1495, and the kitchen cooks...
Montrealers have been flying to Punta Cana for decades without ever eating Dominican food, a gap chef Juan Silverio hear...
Bar Le Record is a love letter to vinyl in Villeray, where music from the ‘50s and ‘60s spins on the turntables curated...
Polari is a garage-turned-wine-bar that ditches the pretense. Located in Villeray, this eight-seat counter and handful o...
Under the Van Horne viaduct at Clark and de l'Arcade, this was a fenced borough storage yard for years, asphalt and grav...
One of the Plateau's most enduring institutions, Café Cherrier has occupied the corner of Saint-Denis and Cherrier since...
Marché Newon is a large-format Asian grocery store in the downtown core that caters to the rhythms of everyday cooking a...
Adams Engraving is a Montreal print and engraving house that traces back to 1850, when Francis Adams set up as F. Adams,...
La Rose des Sables is a Tunisian restaurant on rue Beaubien Est in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, with occasional belly danc...
P'lengke operates as something closer to a community hub than a straightforward restaurant. The karenderya side of the o...
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Kid’s Stuff (Trucs d’enfants) comes from designer Mary-Jo noticing something parents were saying quietly but often: kids...
Schreter's has outfitted Montrealers from the same stretch of Boulevard Saint-Laurent since the late 1920s, when Joseph...
Why’s the core of the island got to have all the fun? A supergroup of principles from spots like Loïc, Name’s On The Way...
Restarted by chefs Pablo Rojas and Hakim Rahal of Provisions Bar à Vin and Andrew Whibley of the Cloakroom cocktail bar,...
Back when we got in touch with the chef running the show of this new spot in Villeray, Charles-Tristan Prévost, we were...
From its Brossard strip mall, Deux Becs is the city’s best-kept secret when it comes to donuts. Here, chef and owner-ope...
The Farsides treats its address like its own movie set, staging a collision of 90s hip-hop aesthetics, tiki nostalgia, a...
Pub L’Île Noire has been part of Montréal’s bar circuit since 1989, the kind of place where whisky drinkers and the mere...
One Punch Mickey’s is the kind of Irish pub that wins you over before you’ve even decided what to drink. It’s small, sur...
Step into Bernie Beigne, where the art of doughnut-making comes alive five days a week. Here, every doughnut is a testam...
Founded in Montreal in 1998 by Frédéric Gauthier and Martin Brault, Les Éditions de la Pastèque grew from a deliberate a...
Escape Masters runs four escape rooms out of a Griffintown heritage building, an 1890 former icehouse on William Street...
April Lea began making perfume at home in 2013, working with botanical materials and older extraction methods at a point...
Showing 24 of 2315 places in Montreal
Dominican frying at counter speed. The menu is built around pica pollo, chicken marinated and fried to order with a side...
Santiago Café takes its name from Santiago de los Caballeros, the Dominican city founded in 1495, and the kitchen cooks...
Montrealers have been flying to Punta Cana for decades without ever eating Dominican food, a gap chef Juan Silverio hear...
Bar Le Record is a love letter to vinyl in Villeray, where music from the ‘50s and ‘60s spins on the turntables curated...
Polari is a garage-turned-wine-bar that ditches the pretense. Located in Villeray, this eight-seat counter and handful o...
Under the Van Horne viaduct at Clark and de l'Arcade, this was a fenced borough storage yard for years, asphalt and grav...
One of the Plateau's most enduring institutions, Café Cherrier has occupied the corner of Saint-Denis and Cherrier since...
Marché Newon is a large-format Asian grocery store in the downtown core that caters to the rhythms of everyday cooking a...
Adams Engraving is a Montreal print and engraving house that traces back to 1850, when Francis Adams set up as F. Adams,...
La Rose des Sables is a Tunisian restaurant on rue Beaubien Est in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, with occasional belly danc...
P'lengke operates as something closer to a community hub than a straightforward restaurant. The karenderya side of the o...
Kid’s Stuff (Trucs d’enfants) comes from designer Mary-Jo noticing something parents were saying quietly but often: kids...
Schreter's has outfitted Montrealers from the same stretch of Boulevard Saint-Laurent since the late 1920s, when Joseph...
Why’s the core of the island got to have all the fun? A supergroup of principles from spots like Loïc, Name’s On The Way...
Restarted by chefs Pablo Rojas and Hakim Rahal of Provisions Bar à Vin and Andrew Whibley of the Cloakroom cocktail bar,...
Back when we got in touch with the chef running the show of this new spot in Villeray, Charles-Tristan Prévost, we were...
From its Brossard strip mall, Deux Becs is the city’s best-kept secret when it comes to donuts. Here, chef and owner-ope...
The Farsides treats its address like its own movie set, staging a collision of 90s hip-hop aesthetics, tiki nostalgia, a...
Pub L’Île Noire has been part of Montréal’s bar circuit since 1989, the kind of place where whisky drinkers and the mere...
One Punch Mickey’s is the kind of Irish pub that wins you over before you’ve even decided what to drink. It’s small, sur...
Step into Bernie Beigne, where the art of doughnut-making comes alive five days a week. Here, every doughnut is a testam...
Founded in Montreal in 1998 by Frédéric Gauthier and Martin Brault, Les Éditions de la Pastèque grew from a deliberate a...
Escape Masters runs four escape rooms out of a Griffintown heritage building, an 1890 former icehouse on William Street...
April Lea began making perfume at home in 2013, working with botanical materials and older extraction methods at a point...
