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

Bistrot Boisselet Skipped the Hype and Went Straight to Work

A quietly confident Little Italy bistrot from Montreal restaurant alum puts chef Darcy Gervais-Wood front and centre.

Food & Drink

How Boom J's Went From a Home Kitchen to a Jamaican Institution

Owner Jermaine learned to cook from his grandmother in Jamaica at six years old. Everything at Boom J's still carries those teachings.

Food & Drink

Good luck getting a table at Mile End's latest morning-to-midnight spot

The neighbourhood's smitten with Au Coin's all-day coffee, natural wine, and sourdough pizza.

Food & Drink

Inside the 2026 Lauriers Gala, Quebec’s Culinary Red Carpet

From producers and artisans to chefs and sommeliers, the industry gathered in Montreal to celebrate its own ecosystem and signal where the province's gastronomy is heading next.

Food & Drink

Chouchou Is the Modern Chinese Bistro Our City's Been Missing

Chef Chouchou Jia spent years cooking in French and Italian kitchens before opening their first restaurant, and the result is unlike anything else in town.

Food & Drink

Montreal Owns Canada's 100 Best Restaurants List This Year

With 28 restaurants on the 2026 list, the city outpaces the rest of the country (yup, Toronto and Vancouver included).

Food & Drink

Bistrot Boisselet Skipped the Hype and Went Straight to Work

A quietly confident Little Italy bistrot from Montreal restaurant alum puts chef Darcy Gervais-Wood front and centre.

Food & Drink

How Boom J's Went From a Home Kitchen to a Jamaican Institution

Owner Jermaine learned to cook from his grandmother in Jamaica at six years old. Everything at Boom J's still carries those teachings.

Food & Drink

Good luck getting a table at Mile End's latest morning-to-midnight spot

The neighbourhood's smitten with Au Coin's all-day coffee, natural wine, and sourdough pizza.

Food & Drink

Inside the 2026 Lauriers Gala, Quebec’s Culinary Red Carpet

From producers and artisans to chefs and sommeliers, the industry gathered in Montreal to celebrate its own ecosystem and signal where the province's gastronomy is heading next.

Food & Drink

Chouchou Is the Modern Chinese Bistro Our City's Been Missing

Chef Chouchou Jia spent years cooking in French and Italian kitchens before opening their first restaurant, and the result is unlike anything else in town.

Food & Drink

Montreal Owns Canada's 100 Best Restaurants List This Year

With 28 restaurants on the 2026 list, the city outpaces the rest of the country (yup, Toronto and Vancouver included).