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The Main

A complete guide to Osheaga 2025: The lineup, a festival-goer checklist, and more

Everything you need to know for surviving—and thriving—at Montreal’s biggest music festival.

J.P. Karwacki

The Best New Restaurants in Montreal [August 2025]

Flame-seared sushi, rotisserie, a crudo bar, Mediterranean brunch, and a few design-forward surprises across the city.

The Main

[PHOTOS] A look back at The Main's first-ever Block Party

The vibes, the people, the proof: our first-ever block party in pictures.

The Main

The weekend ride carrying everything that matters: Cargo bikes in Montreal

With electric assist and a front seat to the city, cargo bikes are changing how Montreal families move through their weekends.

The Main

The Bulletin: Saké in the sky, basement darkwave, mechanical bulls, and Taylor Swift fireworks [Issue #140]

The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.

J.P. Karwacki

Old world Jewish noshes meet a new generation of cooking at Yans Deli

Led by Joe Beef alum Benji Greenberg, this new highway-side deli blends Eastern European roots with fine-dining rigour and a family-first ethos.

J.P. Karwacki

The Olympic Park asks: What do you build from a fallen roof?

For the Games’ 50th anniversary, two new public artworks will rise from the ruins of Montreal’s most controversial structure.

Jean Bourbeau @ URBANIA

The hidden world bustling beneath Montreal’s Olympic Pyramids

Echoes of elegance: Inside a faded “Grand Hotel” that's lost its splendour over time.

J.P. Karwacki

"A restaurant is fixed in time and place—Menu Extra is not."

How a group of Le Mousso alumni laid out their own definition of dining in Montreal—all without opening a restaurant.

J.P. Karwacki

Mr. Beau Type and the art of noticing

What began as a personal archive has become one of Montreal’s most quietly compelling design diaries.

Marie Rousseau

The chequered flags and crowned champions of Hochelaga’s most joyful race

Now a neighbourhood's proudest annual tradition, here's how far an all-access triporteur (mobility aid) course has come over the years.

The Main

The Bulletin: Secret cafés, vinyl cults, raves in bathhouses, and one wild archive sale [Issue #139]

The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.

J.P. Karwacki

Why being weird works in Plaza St-Hubert’s new era

Multilingual, weird, and working-class, Plaza St-Hubert is one of the few streets where Montreal’s past and present coexist in a uniquely local way.

The Main

This dance party has a dress code: Inflatable

A no-water floaty party, a deep house set, and a very Montreal kind of surrealism at ROYALMOUNT.

J.P. Karwacki

Our definitive history of Montreal's Atwater Market

A civic monument, a neighbourhood anchor, and a living archive of what Montreal eats since 1933.