--°C|Saturday, September 19, 2026
A guide to the very best of Montreal, curated by our editors and the voices we feature in our stories.
Explore MontrealWhat our editors are eating, drinking, and recommending this week.
Guide · 19 places
Here's where the chef ate his way through the city across No Reservations, The Layover, and Parts Unknown.
Guide · 38 places
Still serving after all these years: A tour through the institutions that fed generations and helped define Montreal’s food identity.
Guide · 27 places
Grab a booth or stool, order up, and tuck in.
Guide · 16 places
From legendary old-school delis to new-guard smokers working at full tilt, here's where to find the city's best brisket.
Guide · 17 places
Our most iconic shops, from century-old institutions to small local favourites—all shaping the city’s bagel culture.
Guide · 26 places
Decades-old diners, neighbourhood legends, and a few sleeper hits.
Guide · 36 places
Multi-generational institutions, next-wave pasta spots, and everything in between.
Guide · 18 places
Cutting through the noise to find the best spots for a perfectly seared and deeply satisfying steak.
Guide · 43 places
From boundary-pushing tasting menus to perfected single plates: updated monthly, argued over constantly.
Guide · 41 places
Second living rooms, third-wave pours, and the neighbourhood haunts that hold this city's coffee culture together.
Guide · 43 places
Intimate, theatrical, memorable: the spots that make an evening feel like an occasion.
Guide · 28 places
Rare finds, curated shelves, and community hubs across the city.
Guide · 29 places
The friperies, warehouses, and one 26,000-square-foot wildcard keeping good clothes in circulation.
Guide · 29 places
It's wandering, but rewarded: Shop local, shop curious, and let these spots surprise you.
Lean back and listen in at these vinyl-heavy addresses in the city with slow, intentional, and mature atmospheres inspired by Japanese jazz kissa.
Stories, guides, and reporting that make sense of Montreal — its culture, neighbourhoods, and everyday life.
Explore restaurants, cafés, galleries, and places worth knowing — searchable by neighbourhood, category, and what's around you.
Like articles and places to build your own lists — a personal way to keep track of the city you love.
Institutions
The dishes and dining rooms the city is actually known for.
MICROMAG
Discover the special edition collaborative Micromag, created with our friends at URBANIA.
Our collab offbeat guide is back for a second round, this time digging past where locals go and into how the city actually works, and who it's made of.
Nearly 50 years after Quebec’s French-language charter transformed education, the multilingual generation it produced is challenging what it means to be a Quebecer.
The photographer has spent years documenting Montreal’s post-pandemic underground. We asked them which collectives, DJs, and communities are shaping what comes next.
An eclectic collection of Montreal businesses approaching, reaching, and surpassing the 100-year mark.
Every year produces bars and restaurants worth tracking, and Montreal's latest is a strong showing.
The St. Lawrence River, French colonial planning, and centuries of habit created a directional system where “north” has almost nothing to do with a compass.
Veterans of Montreal’s vintage scene say Gen Z has fueled a boom that’s changing everything from fashion to vinyl collecting.
A season’s worth of street parties, open-air performances, sporting events, and annual cultural traditions curated by The Main and URBANIA.
Where an outdoors editor goes when the city wins out over the mountains.
Unlike your apartment, this costs nothing.
All of the lineups, overpriced attractions, and classic tourist mistakes you can make in one place.
Shop The Main's Dépanneur. Open 24/7.
For generations of immigrants and their children, the streets around Plamondon metro are the cultural centre of Filipino life in Montreal.
The best of Montreal's culinary scene
A Petite-Patrie bistro, a market smokehouse, a yakitori counter and a Korean steakhouse are in the running for the 2026 Top 10 in November.
Éric Berlin and Grégoire Routy have remade their longtime Van Horne address with a more intimate room and ambitious Mediterranean cooking.
A once-vacant lot in Griffintown has become a neighbourhood gathering spot. The people behind it hope this summer is only the beginning.
Above, Rémi Lemieux is betting downtown can sustain a neighbourhood haunt; below, he is creating an intimate testing ground for his most personal cooking.
With Portuguese chicken, $16 cocktails and a room redesigned from the door in, the Little Burgundy team is betting that approachability matters as much as acclaim.
For 70 years, Caffè Italia has been a family inheritance, an immigrant gathering place, and a witness to a city's transformation.
The Mano Cornuto team takes over a new Griffintown room with small plates, a deep list of wines by the glass, and a kitchen that stays open for the nighthawks.
With a DIY interior, approachable wines and an evolving menu, Éléphantine takes its cues from the neighbours.
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