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You can always rely on this Moroccan-French café
Nili's the opposite of fine dining: a tiny Mile End spot with Moroccan home cooking, twice-a-week prices, and the feeling of a café you can reliably drop into.
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The Best New Cafés in Montreal [November 2025]
Specialty roasters, cultural hybrids, gym counters, and metaphysical shops: Here are the 26 best new cafés in Montreal.
Montreal lands two spots on Air Canada & enRoute’s Best New Restaurants for 2025
Two local restaurants crack the Top 10 following a strong showing in the long list.
A (mostly) spoken history of Pasta Casareccia and 40 years of feeding NDG
How a kid who swore he'd never run the family business ended up exactly in the institution where he belongs.
Montreal gets its first German beer hall in 30 years with Wünderbar
The 3,500-square-foot beer hall on Plaza Saint-Hubert serves Bavarian drinking traditions with liter steins of German imports along long communal tables.
Brocard proves traditional Syrian food can feel brand new
A young team, an open kitchen, and recipes passed down through generations: Meet Talal Sabbagh's new spot on Saint-Laurent.
How Monkland Tavern shaped Montreal's restaurant scene over 30 years
The NDG institution and best-kept industry secret that helped launch some of Montreal's best chefs.
Boulangerie Marguerita has been baking bread the same way for over a century
The Little Italy bakery that could: Still hand-rolling loaves in its original 1910 brick oven, still telling real estate speculators it's not for sale, just for bread.
Taking over Icehouse means inheriting a decade of expectations
Preserving the Plateau's Tex-Mex institution means proving yourself every single night.
Bar Minou is the kind of place you want to spend all night in
No reservations, only walk-ins, a wall of natty wines, taxes and tips included, and a barstool for an anchor.
Chez Greenberg: The honest Mile End deli that smoked salmon 'n' knishes built
Jake Greenberg turned a pandemic side hustle into a Jewish deli centred on house-smoked fish, knishes, and a neighbourhood his family's been serving for generations.
How Nora Gray spun its spicy pepperoncini and focaccia into a Miss Vickie's chip
First, a chip company came calling. Then came a year-long R&D process involving professional tasters and corporate NDAs.
One of Montreal's few female brewers runs the show at 4 Origines
Sydnee Wilson hauls grain, checks temperatures, and navigates the demanding physical reality of an industry that has largely forgotten its female origins.
Elena fed rock stars pizza for four years—now Griffintown gets a slice of that pie
After spending summers perfecting a New York-style pizza recipe for festivals' backstages, the Elena team is opening a corner slice shop in Griffintown.