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Showing 24 of 352 places in Montreal
A Montreal institution since 1980 on rue Saint-Denis, L'Express continues to uphold its reputation for timeless French c...
Before it was a park, it was a reservoir. Before that, a neighbourhood in search of an anchor. When the city transformed...
A small room on Saint-Laurent built around sound above everything else. Blue Room occupies the former Diving Bell Social...
Taking over the former Pontiac space on Mont-Royal Est, Bincho shifts the mood without overhauling the block. The room,...
You got the newer wave of Portuguese restaurants with sleek branding and modern menus—and then there’s Chez Doval. Open...
Seven rooms above Casa del Popolo on Saint-Laurent, right at the seam between the Plateau and Mile-End. The Pensione is...
Seventeen years in, Bungalow has settled comfortably into its Mont-Royal address without losing the neighbourhood-joint...
Ibéricos started as a Plateau deli selling jamón and Spanish wines, but it didn’t take long for it to evolve into someth...
Hotel10 operates at a scale and energy level that sets it apart from the neighbourhood's smaller boutique properties. Th...
The Argoat has carved out a niche that's genuinely its own. The 25-room property doubles as a working gallery: the owner...
A 23-room boutique hotel in a heritage building on Sherbrooke Est, St-Thomas pitches itself somewhere between the intima...
Forty years in, Chez François continues to offer a genuine Plateau welcome at a price that doesn't require explaining. T...
Kutuma Hotel & Suites is a nine-room boutique property designed around an African aesthetic with earthy tones and textur...
Facing Parc La Fontaine on one of the Plateau's most enviable stretches of Rachel Est, this 21-room boutique hotel has b...
The whole thing started in a basement. In 1996, a corner of the Santropol Roulant where delivery bikes went to rest thei...
It started with eleven sandwiches. In 1995, two waiters from Café Santropol had a hunch that food could bridge the dista...
Bryan Rajarison was eight years old when he started cooking, and the recipes he grew up on form the backbone of 325F, th...
Dispensaire Microbrasserie has been brewing small-batch beer since 2018, when four friends turned a growler counter into...
Directly across from the shrine that gives it its name, Taverne Saint-Sacrement has been a Plateau fixture since 2012. I...
The name has outlasted its original trio and the cushions are long gone, but 3 Femmes 1 Coussin has been shaping how Mon...
Café Marigold is a café-bistro on Laurier Est led by chef-owner Sarah Witteveen, where coffee, seasonal cooking, and loc...
The arrival of the Toronto-born chain of Rosie’s Burgers in Mile End runs on a clear premise: strip things back. Founded...
Since 2008, Plein Sud has been bringing the cuisine of southern France, from Corsica to Nice and Provence, to life on t...
Noren, a snug 10-seater on Rachel Street in the Plateau, is the kind of place that lives or dies by its simplicity. Part...
Showing 24 of 352 places in Montreal
A Montreal institution since 1980 on rue Saint-Denis, L'Express continues to uphold its reputation for timeless French c...
Before it was a park, it was a reservoir. Before that, a neighbourhood in search of an anchor. When the city transformed...
A small room on Saint-Laurent built around sound above everything else. Blue Room occupies the former Diving Bell Social...
Taking over the former Pontiac space on Mont-Royal Est, Bincho shifts the mood without overhauling the block. The room,...
You got the newer wave of Portuguese restaurants with sleek branding and modern menus—and then there’s Chez Doval. Open...
Seven rooms above Casa del Popolo on Saint-Laurent, right at the seam between the Plateau and Mile-End. The Pensione is...
Seventeen years in, Bungalow has settled comfortably into its Mont-Royal address without losing the neighbourhood-joint...
Ibéricos started as a Plateau deli selling jamón and Spanish wines, but it didn’t take long for it to evolve into someth...
Hotel10 operates at a scale and energy level that sets it apart from the neighbourhood's smaller boutique properties. Th...
The Argoat has carved out a niche that's genuinely its own. The 25-room property doubles as a working gallery: the owner...
A 23-room boutique hotel in a heritage building on Sherbrooke Est, St-Thomas pitches itself somewhere between the intima...
Forty years in, Chez François continues to offer a genuine Plateau welcome at a price that doesn't require explaining. T...
Kutuma Hotel & Suites is a nine-room boutique property designed around an African aesthetic with earthy tones and textur...
Facing Parc La Fontaine on one of the Plateau's most enviable stretches of Rachel Est, this 21-room boutique hotel has b...
The whole thing started in a basement. In 1996, a corner of the Santropol Roulant where delivery bikes went to rest thei...
It started with eleven sandwiches. In 1995, two waiters from Café Santropol had a hunch that food could bridge the dista...
Bryan Rajarison was eight years old when he started cooking, and the recipes he grew up on form the backbone of 325F, th...
Dispensaire Microbrasserie has been brewing small-batch beer since 2018, when four friends turned a growler counter into...
Directly across from the shrine that gives it its name, Taverne Saint-Sacrement has been a Plateau fixture since 2012. I...
The name has outlasted its original trio and the cushions are long gone, but 3 Femmes 1 Coussin has been shaping how Mon...
Café Marigold is a café-bistro on Laurier Est led by chef-owner Sarah Witteveen, where coffee, seasonal cooking, and loc...
The arrival of the Toronto-born chain of Rosie’s Burgers in Mile End runs on a clear premise: strip things back. Founded...
Since 2008, Plein Sud has been bringing the cuisine of southern France, from Corsica to Nice and Provence, to life on t...
Noren, a snug 10-seater on Rachel Street in the Plateau, is the kind of place that lives or dies by its simplicity. Part...