Food & Drink

Meet the Class of 2025-26: Can’t-Miss New Restaurants and Bars of Montreal

Every year produces bars and restaurants worth tracking, and Montreal's latest is a strong showing.

Food & Drink

Tsatsu Gbedemah Is Building His Own Table

The WILLS Director of Operations on hospitality, leadership, and creating the kind of space he never saw when he entered Montreal’s restaurant industry.

Food & Drink

Sample Is a Cocktail Bar Built For Sound

An Old Montreal bar where hi-fi sound, curated records, and conversation take precedence. There are still plenty of highballs, though.

Food & Drink

One Pizzaiolo's Eleven-Year Obsession Is NDG's Best-Kept Secret

Years of studying Roman tradition led Giuseppe Sacchetti to an unexpected conclusion: the pizza he wanted to make wasn’t purely Italian, but it was unmistakably Montreal.

Food & Drink

The Instagram DM Era of Hospitality Hiring Is Over

Between flooded inboxes, ghost interviews, and AI-spam CVs, hospitality hiring has been broken for years. A new app wants to fix it.

Food & Drink

"We Built This Place to Party": Chuck Hughes on Twenty Years of Garde Manger

Two decades in, the chef and co-owner on sobriety, restaurant math, and how to run a twenty-year-old restaurant without becoming a museum.

Food & Drink

Meet the Class of 2025-26: Can’t-Miss New Restaurants and Bars of Montreal

Every year produces bars and restaurants worth tracking, and Montreal's latest is a strong showing.

Food & Drink

Tsatsu Gbedemah Is Building His Own Table

The WILLS Director of Operations on hospitality, leadership, and creating the kind of space he never saw when he entered Montreal’s restaurant industry.

Food & Drink

Sample Is a Cocktail Bar Built For Sound

An Old Montreal bar where hi-fi sound, curated records, and conversation take precedence. There are still plenty of highballs, though.

Food & Drink

One Pizzaiolo's Eleven-Year Obsession Is NDG's Best-Kept Secret

Years of studying Roman tradition led Giuseppe Sacchetti to an unexpected conclusion: the pizza he wanted to make wasn’t purely Italian, but it was unmistakably Montreal.

Food & Drink

The Instagram DM Era of Hospitality Hiring Is Over

Between flooded inboxes, ghost interviews, and AI-spam CVs, hospitality hiring has been broken for years. A new app wants to fix it.

Food & Drink

"We Built This Place to Party": Chuck Hughes on Twenty Years of Garde Manger

Two decades in, the chef and co-owner on sobriety, restaurant math, and how to run a twenty-year-old restaurant without becoming a museum.

Food & Drink

Plume Was Built the Old-Fashioned Way

Set inside a former Mile End bakery, two Bouillon Bilk alumni are pairing French-influenced cooking with private import wines and a handcrafted dining room.

Food & Drink

Chinatown is now home to a classic casse-croûte

The chefs behind Dobe & Andy and Buboy decided all the neighbourhood needs is a solid source of steamies and poutine.

Food & Drink

Marchigiani became a Montreal institution by staying old school

Three generations and 65 years later, this family business is having its busiest run yet.

Food & Drink

Café BRUT Wants to Be Griffintown’s Living Room

Inside a raw concrete space on Murray Street, banana-infused espresso and matcha drinks anchor a broader ambition to become part of the neighbourhood’s daily rhythm.

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My restaurant got busy before it was ready. Now I can finally take a step back.

It's the unspoken problem of early popularity in restaurants: Nineteen months in, La Spada's owner reflects on the chaos, clarity, and learning to step away.

Food & Drink

The Fancy Cocktail Bar Isn't Dead, But Andrew Whibley Wouldn't Open One Today

The Cloakroom founder on value over flash, the scene's missing middle, and what Montreal's bar culture still needs to figure out.

Food & Drink

Plume Was Built the Old-Fashioned Way

Set inside a former Mile End bakery, two Bouillon Bilk alumni are pairing French-influenced cooking with private import wines and a handcrafted dining room.

Food & Drink

Chinatown is now home to a classic casse-croûte

The chefs behind Dobe & Andy and Buboy decided all the neighbourhood needs is a solid source of steamies and poutine.

Food & Drink

Marchigiani became a Montreal institution by staying old school

Three generations and 65 years later, this family business is having its busiest run yet.

Food & Drink

Café BRUT Wants to Be Griffintown’s Living Room

Inside a raw concrete space on Murray Street, banana-infused espresso and matcha drinks anchor a broader ambition to become part of the neighbourhood’s daily rhythm.

Food & Drink

My restaurant got busy before it was ready. Now I can finally take a step back.

It's the unspoken problem of early popularity in restaurants: Nineteen months in, La Spada's owner reflects on the chaos, clarity, and learning to step away.

Food & Drink

The Fancy Cocktail Bar Isn't Dead, But Andrew Whibley Wouldn't Open One Today

The Cloakroom founder on value over flash, the scene's missing middle, and what Montreal's bar culture still needs to figure out.