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Showing 24 of 94 places in Montreal
Club DD’s is a queer-owned dance bar and performance venue breathing new life into a historic address on St-Laurent Boul...
Once known as Blizzarts, Barbossa carries the same local energy that’s long made this stretch of Saint-Laurent a late-ni...
Moon Brew Magic blurs the line between café, boutique, and full-blown spellcasting headquarters. Equal parts witchy apot...
Citron Rose is a private tattoo studio in the Plateau, with 10 tattoo artists each focused on different styles. Whether...
Le Club is a café and meeting ground for Montreal’s cycling and running communities, a space where coffee culture and en...
Siwalee keeps its focus on street-food style dishes—pad krapao with Thai basil, boiled chicken rice, laab gai—alongside...
One of Montreal’s pioneering vegetarian and vegan restaurants, ChuChai has been delighting diners since 1997 with Chef L...
Rutba builds its menu around variations on a theme, running four different versions of butter chicken alone—from the cla...
Rendez-vous Bistro pushes Indian cuisine past the usual curry-house formula, pulling dishes from both the north and sout...
One of the Plateau's most enduring institutions, Café Cherrier has occupied the corner of Saint-Denis and Cherrier since...
Seau de Crabe is a seafood boil concept with multiple locations across the Montreal area, including Laval, Pointe-Claire...
3 Minots runs on a one-man economy. The owner is the bartender, the KJ, and the tambourine section all at once, and the...
Bar St-Laurent Frappé has been a Plateau fixture long enough to feel genuinely lived-in: two floors, a covered courtyard...
Vortex runs escape rooms across two Montreal locations, Plateau and Quartier Latin, with five scenarios split between th...
Ezkapaz Manor occupies a Saint-Laurent Boulevard address that pulls some weight on its own: a 19th-century building that...
Au Coin Berbère has been serving Algerian Berber couscous on Prince-Arthur East in the Plateau since 1997, run by a chef...
Le Bled Resto Lounge sits at the corner of Saint-Denis and Sherbrooke in the Plateau, operating as both a restaurant and...
Le Nil Bleu has been on rue Saint-Denis in the Plateau since 1993, making it one of Montreal's longest-running Ethiopian...
When Martin Picard opened Au Pied de Cochon in 2001, it marked a turning point in Montreal’s restaurant scene. The Plate...
The Sandhu family has been operating on the Plateau since 1989, and their hotel, opened in 2004 on Saint-Denis directly...
Prince Pub House landed in the former Suwu space at the corner of Prince-Arthur and Saint-Laurent with a clear sense of...
Plant-based chef Christian Ventura of spots like Sushi Momo, Bvrger, Bloom, and LOV is now into poke with a new concept...
Chez Mein, affectionately nicknamed “2chow,” has become a Saint-Laurent Boulevard institution, serving up $2 chow mein t...
Since its establishment in 1968, the ITHQ has grown from a modest cooking school into a global leader in hospitality edu...
Showing 24 of 94 places in Montreal
Club DD’s is a queer-owned dance bar and performance venue breathing new life into a historic address on St-Laurent Boul...
Once known as Blizzarts, Barbossa carries the same local energy that’s long made this stretch of Saint-Laurent a late-ni...
Moon Brew Magic blurs the line between café, boutique, and full-blown spellcasting headquarters. Equal parts witchy apot...
Citron Rose is a private tattoo studio in the Plateau, with 10 tattoo artists each focused on different styles. Whether...
Le Club is a café and meeting ground for Montreal’s cycling and running communities, a space where coffee culture and en...
Siwalee keeps its focus on street-food style dishes—pad krapao with Thai basil, boiled chicken rice, laab gai—alongside...
One of Montreal’s pioneering vegetarian and vegan restaurants, ChuChai has been delighting diners since 1997 with Chef L...
Rutba builds its menu around variations on a theme, running four different versions of butter chicken alone—from the cla...
Rendez-vous Bistro pushes Indian cuisine past the usual curry-house formula, pulling dishes from both the north and sout...
One of the Plateau's most enduring institutions, Café Cherrier has occupied the corner of Saint-Denis and Cherrier since...
Seau de Crabe is a seafood boil concept with multiple locations across the Montreal area, including Laval, Pointe-Claire...
3 Minots runs on a one-man economy. The owner is the bartender, the KJ, and the tambourine section all at once, and the...
Bar St-Laurent Frappé has been a Plateau fixture long enough to feel genuinely lived-in: two floors, a covered courtyard...
Vortex runs escape rooms across two Montreal locations, Plateau and Quartier Latin, with five scenarios split between th...
Ezkapaz Manor occupies a Saint-Laurent Boulevard address that pulls some weight on its own: a 19th-century building that...
Au Coin Berbère has been serving Algerian Berber couscous on Prince-Arthur East in the Plateau since 1997, run by a chef...
Le Bled Resto Lounge sits at the corner of Saint-Denis and Sherbrooke in the Plateau, operating as both a restaurant and...
Le Nil Bleu has been on rue Saint-Denis in the Plateau since 1993, making it one of Montreal's longest-running Ethiopian...
When Martin Picard opened Au Pied de Cochon in 2001, it marked a turning point in Montreal’s restaurant scene. The Plate...
The Sandhu family has been operating on the Plateau since 1989, and their hotel, opened in 2004 on Saint-Denis directly...
Prince Pub House landed in the former Suwu space at the corner of Prince-Arthur and Saint-Laurent with a clear sense of...
Plant-based chef Christian Ventura of spots like Sushi Momo, Bvrger, Bloom, and LOV is now into poke with a new concept...
Chez Mein, affectionately nicknamed “2chow,” has become a Saint-Laurent Boulevard institution, serving up $2 chow mein t...
Since its establishment in 1968, the ITHQ has grown from a modest cooking school into a global leader in hospitality edu...
