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Showing 24 of 2302 places in Montreal

Théâtre Fairmount sits on the second floor of a building on avenue du Parc in the Mile End, up one flight of stairs. The...

On Bélanger Street, a few steps east of Saint-Laurent, Café Caron & Frères opened in September 2022 as a third-wave anch...

Samuel Maudet cooked his way through France, the United States, the Caribbean, and Canada before landing in Lachine with...

Every Monday night during the school year, a small room on Concordia’s Sir George Williams Campus turns into the site of...

Matthieu Virloget trained at Ferrandi Paris before moving to Montreal with a straightforward ambition: to make a proper...

Opened in 1865 as the academic hall of the Jesuit-founded Collège Sainte-Marie, Le Gesù occupies the basement of one of...

The Peck Building holds the corner of Saint-Laurent and Saint-Viateur, five storeys of red brick put up in 1904 for John...

A family-run bakery in Villeray since 1974, Tillemont has built its reputation on bread fermented for 24 hours before ba...

After building a cult following with their Mile End and downtown spots, the trio behind Lloydie’s—Nathanial and Rem Tull...

raplapla began the way a lot of good Montreal stories do: with someone losing a job and deciding to make something bette...

Mohawk Barbier opened in 2002 and has been a staple in Montreal’s Village since. Although the barbers’ styles remain con...

Multimags operates Montreal's largest network of magazine retailers, with locations across the city including the Platea...

Set in a walk-up apartment in Montreal’s Village, Espace Maurice is part exhibition space, part living archive. Founded...

Housed in a former bank on Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, the Guido Molinari Foundation operates out of the very building whe...

With a flagship gallery on rue Saint-Pierre in Old Montreal, Beauchamp Art Galleries brings its sprawling, family-run mo...

Ada X is a feminist, artist-run centre in Montreal committed to reshaping who gets to create, access, and define new med...

What started as a framing shop in 1996 has since scaled into one of Canada’s largest private galleries, occupying three...

Windsor Station stands as one of Montreal’s great architectural survivors. Completed in 1889 for the Canadian Pacific Ra...

Gentlemen 007 opened in 2021, the vision of owner and barber Khalifa. His aim: to elevate standards of quality, precisio...

Le Palais Bulles started with Margaux Nadeau—philosophy grad turned furniture restorer—realizing she preferred paintbrus...

A big bar with a laid-back soul, Church St. Pub is a newer player in Verdun that feels like it’s been part of the neighb...

Kitano Shokudo is the kind of place chefs will send you about when asked where they eat on their nights off. Run by Hiro...

It’s no coincidence that this fifth floor lounge’s name is the same as the late night softcore movie that’d broadcast la...

Mellön takes its name from the Elvish word for "friend" in The Lord of the Rings, a fitting choice for a microbrewery bu...
Showing 24 of 2302 places in Montreal

Théâtre Fairmount sits on the second floor of a building on avenue du Parc in the Mile End, up one flight of stairs. The...

On Bélanger Street, a few steps east of Saint-Laurent, Café Caron & Frères opened in September 2022 as a third-wave anch...

Samuel Maudet cooked his way through France, the United States, the Caribbean, and Canada before landing in Lachine with...

Every Monday night during the school year, a small room on Concordia’s Sir George Williams Campus turns into the site of...

Matthieu Virloget trained at Ferrandi Paris before moving to Montreal with a straightforward ambition: to make a proper...

Opened in 1865 as the academic hall of the Jesuit-founded Collège Sainte-Marie, Le Gesù occupies the basement of one of...

The Peck Building holds the corner of Saint-Laurent and Saint-Viateur, five storeys of red brick put up in 1904 for John...

A family-run bakery in Villeray since 1974, Tillemont has built its reputation on bread fermented for 24 hours before ba...

After building a cult following with their Mile End and downtown spots, the trio behind Lloydie’s—Nathanial and Rem Tull...

raplapla began the way a lot of good Montreal stories do: with someone losing a job and deciding to make something bette...

Mohawk Barbier opened in 2002 and has been a staple in Montreal’s Village since. Although the barbers’ styles remain con...

Multimags operates Montreal's largest network of magazine retailers, with locations across the city including the Platea...

Set in a walk-up apartment in Montreal’s Village, Espace Maurice is part exhibition space, part living archive. Founded...

Housed in a former bank on Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, the Guido Molinari Foundation operates out of the very building whe...

With a flagship gallery on rue Saint-Pierre in Old Montreal, Beauchamp Art Galleries brings its sprawling, family-run mo...

Ada X is a feminist, artist-run centre in Montreal committed to reshaping who gets to create, access, and define new med...

What started as a framing shop in 1996 has since scaled into one of Canada’s largest private galleries, occupying three...

Windsor Station stands as one of Montreal’s great architectural survivors. Completed in 1889 for the Canadian Pacific Ra...

Gentlemen 007 opened in 2021, the vision of owner and barber Khalifa. His aim: to elevate standards of quality, precisio...

Le Palais Bulles started with Margaux Nadeau—philosophy grad turned furniture restorer—realizing she preferred paintbrus...

A big bar with a laid-back soul, Church St. Pub is a newer player in Verdun that feels like it’s been part of the neighb...

Kitano Shokudo is the kind of place chefs will send you about when asked where they eat on their nights off. Run by Hiro...

It’s no coincidence that this fifth floor lounge’s name is the same as the late night softcore movie that’d broadcast la...

Mellön takes its name from the Elvish word for "friend" in The Lord of the Rings, a fitting choice for a microbrewery bu...