Should a Restaurant That Took Everything Get a Second Chance?
Omar Zabuair lost everything when Le Coq de l'Est closed in 2022. Three years later, he ran a pop-up to find out if the food still works—and whether that's reason enough to try again.
The Italian Family That Turned a Quebec Sugar Shack into a Restaurant Empire
When Rosa Fuoco's husband wanted to buy a sugar shack, she thought he was crazy. Now their sons run three restaurants, a cheese farm, and one of Quebec's top cabanes à sucre.
What Montreal's 1976 Olympics Left Behind, 50 Years Later
Were the Summer Games a triumph, a total failure, or somewhere in between?
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.
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.
The Century-long Smoked Meat Legacy of Schwartz's Deli
How a Romanian immigrant's recipe and stubborn refusal to change built Montreal's most iconic sandwich.
Yakitori Hibahihi is Bringing the Heat to Plaza St-Hubert
Japanese restaurant veterans Hiroshi Kitano and Hideyuki Imaizumi bring the fire, united by the grill and hip-hop.
Wellness Culture Has an Optimization Problem
Wellness promised an escape from productivity culture. Then it became another thing to optimize.
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.
Operation Fish: When Montreal Hid Britain's Fortune During WWII
Billions in gold and securities sat three storeys beneath Sun Life while 5,000 employees worked overhead, completely oblivious.
CAMI's New Styling Studio is a Fashion Library of Elusive Finds
Camille Tremblay's by-appointment showroom brings hard-to-find brands to Montreal to fix the friction of shopping online.
Letter from the Editor: Our Favourite Stories from 2025
One story for every month of 2025: A year of covering Montreal's culture, history, and the people shaping its future.