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

Bistrot Fortune Cooks Straight Out of Montreal’s Cultural Crossroads

A modern Vietnamese bistro from three longtime hospitality veterans, where diaspora identity and Latin American influences shape a distinctly Montreal menu.

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

Bistrot Fortune Cooks Straight Out of Montreal’s Cultural Crossroads

A modern Vietnamese bistro from three longtime hospitality veterans, where diaspora identity and Latin American influences shape a distinctly Montreal menu.

Food & Drink

Montreal's most exciting openings and heartbreaking closures of 2025

The restaurant and bar arrivals that thrilled Montreal writers, photographers, and influencers—and the beloved spots whose closures left lasting gaps.

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

Bossa had a bread problem, so they built a 24-hour bakery to solve it

Inside the warehouse where four bakers shape everything by hand, all night, every night to make 2,000 loaves a day.

Food & Drink

Montreal's Best Bars Think About Design First

Inside the obsession with light, sound, and atmosphere that separates Montreal's best bars from the rest.

Food & Drink

Montreal Wanted the Michelin Guide. Now It Has to Live With It.

As Quebec’s second Michelin Guide approaches, longtime critic Lesley Chesterman questions whether the city’s restaurants are built for what the guide rewards—and what chasing stars really costs.

Food & Drink

What defined Montreal's dining scene in 2025, and what's coming in 2026

From 2025's defining themes to predictions for 2026, here's what Montreal's food insiders are saying about the city's evolving dining culture (and its next Michelin hopefuls).

Food & Drink

Montreal's most exciting openings and heartbreaking closures of 2025

The restaurant and bar arrivals that thrilled Montreal writers, photographers, and influencers—and the beloved spots whose closures left lasting gaps.

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

Bossa had a bread problem, so they built a 24-hour bakery to solve it

Inside the warehouse where four bakers shape everything by hand, all night, every night to make 2,000 loaves a day.

Food & Drink

Montreal's Best Bars Think About Design First

Inside the obsession with light, sound, and atmosphere that separates Montreal's best bars from the rest.

Food & Drink

Montreal Wanted the Michelin Guide. Now It Has to Live With It.

As Quebec’s second Michelin Guide approaches, longtime critic Lesley Chesterman questions whether the city’s restaurants are built for what the guide rewards—and what chasing stars really costs.

Food & Drink

What defined Montreal's dining scene in 2025, and what's coming in 2026

From 2025's defining themes to predictions for 2026, here's what Montreal's food insiders are saying about the city's evolving dining culture (and its next Michelin hopefuls).