J.P. Karwacki
JP Karwacki is the managing editor of The Main. His work has previously appeared in Time Magazine, the Montreal Gazette, Time Out, NUVO, and more.
Montreal, Quebec
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Chef-run counters, Little Italy institutions, and old-school crèmeries worth the lineup.
15 bars, pubs, and cafés where the beautiful game gets the audience it deserves.
From 70-cent burgers to a 25-course omakase, Montreal's got dad covered this June 21.
Montreal's breakfast scene is more than bagels and brunch queues; here's what's open early and worth every minute.
Ethiopian injera, Senegalese thiebou dieune, Mauritanian prix fixe, Congolese fufu, Algerian couscous, and more—the variety of Montreal's African restaurants runs deep.
The creative director and producer on where she eats, drinks, and resets between trips.
From free street festivals to $1,000-a-ticket blowouts, here's where the city comes alive during race week.
From West Island newcomers to decades-old institutions, here's where to take mom out for a good time on May 10, 2026.
On terrasses, vintage shops, horny summer vibes, and drinking beer under the Van Horne bridge.
From Pointe-Claire to Parc La Fontaine, here's where the Mile End Kicks actor eats, drinks, and goes to stay grounded.
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Coffee for dancers, doughnuts from a theatre crew, Filipino syrups, Japanese pastries, and one very political espresso bar.
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Pho chawanmushi at an eight-seat omakase, Hiroshima ramen's first outpost outside Japan, and sourdough slices selling out on Saint-Viateur.
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An audiophilic cocktail bar from the minds behind El Pequeño and Coldroom, a Lebanese wine bar in the Plateau, and more.
Butter, sugar, flour, and the people 'n' pastry shops who know exactly what to do with them in Montreal.
In The Reeds, novelist Arjun Basu turns his eye toward Montreal’s West End for an introspective family novel set during a summer of seismic personal shifts.
Whether intimately based out of their apartment or expanding out into the real world, Saturday is about maintaining devoted time for people to connect.
How one classic, family-run business’s franchise rooted in Quebec’s fast-food history made a broader cultural shift in restaurant marketing their own.
All manner of eggs, bagels, and sometimes the odd bottomless mimosa: This is Montreal's brunch scene, mapped.
At traditional bouillon restaurants, food should be quick and affordable. This French address asks: Why mess with a good thing?
With a locally-minded line on fish & seafood, meat, booze and dry goods, this fine grocer has good reasons to get high on its own supply.
Feels like there's never been a more intimate service of international, greatest-hits dishes from a spacious kitchen than at Rendez-Vous in Pointe-Claire.
When it opened in 2017, Le Club took a different path from traditional bike shops, building new communities around the cultures of cycling and running.
The latest third floor project for the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) stays true to its cultural ethos: Creating space where food, creativity, music, and community can intersect.
How brewer Zack Heuff turned a life-altering car accident off black ice on a country road into something everyone can enjoy.
Talking up the value of old craftsmanship, defining a city’s visual landscapes for 15 years, and new collaborations.
Over a century of historical inspirations and a half-dozen local photographers can't be wrong.
Montreal melons: A city's forgotten fruit, and the modern farms preserving its agricultural heritage
And catching up with David McMillan during a delivery run of Montreal melons to chef Ari Schor's Verdun restaurant Beba.
Our guide to the best on offer in Montreal, from cocktail dens to wine bars to our favourite dives.
From boundary-pushing tasting menus to perfected single plates—this is where to eat when it matters.
From spots to work and places to print to undercelebrated artistic curios, few people are better to offer a guide to Montreal from an illustrator’s perspective than this enigmatic artist.
