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Montreal keeps cooking: 25 local restaurants make the 2025 Canada’s 100 Best list
Mon Lapin slips to #2, but the city’s dining scene is still unmatched.
Les Aliments Felix Mish is Montreal's best-kept secret for smoked meat
Inside the Ville-Émard neighbourhood deli that's been doing things its own way—no steam, no shortcuts—since 1959.
Limbo turns opening a restaurant in Little Italy into an artistic reunion
A dining project that brings together seasoned veterans and local artists in a space of culinary explorations of French, Italian and British flavours and techniques.
Star Bar is an essential Montreal hangout for Pizza Bouquet slices, cheap drinks, and packed events
How a 15-year promise between friends at a bar transformed into a social sanctuary where trivia nights sell out, the pizza's hot, the beer's cold, and everyone's welcome.
Drogheria Fine’s $5 gnocchi is Montreal’s street food loophole
A unique workaround for the city's outdated street food laws.
Royalmount's new Italian dining hall Siamo Noi asks Montreal to think bigger
A challenge to the city’s love affair with small, intimate restaurants with dinner and a show.
The nomadic kitchen of Pasta Pooks has set up camp in Little Italy
From pop-ups to permanence, Montreal’s most raucous pasta operation finds a home—with the same energy, same chaos, and even better carbs.
This is Even, a Mile-Ex hybrid café-roastery with deep intent
An exhibition of immersed planning in coffee, hospitality, design, and craftsmanship.
Nothing makes sense and everything works inside Chez Jean-Paul's kitchen
Late-blooming chef Isaël Gadoua built a 35-seat La Petite-Patrie spot where creativity trumps convention, offering one of Montreal's most uncompromising menus.
Montreal brasserie Molenne is an institution in the making
The future of Montreal dining looks a lot like its past.
Leila serves up a no-hype approach to the Mediterranean in the Mile End
Chef Amine Laabi puts social media aside to focus on a restaurant of trust, simplicity, and solid cooking.
Portuguese chicken and poutine reached new heights at this Montreal churrascaria
An institution serving up the best rotisserie, and the poutine that iconically blends two culinary traditions it led to.
The best donuts in Montreal aren't on the island, they're at Deux Becs
Call 'em inventive pastries, call 'em killer donuts from a Californian Montrealer.
Taglio revives the old butchery ways with a 50-year-old Pointe-Saint-Charles smokehouse
Honouring old-school techniques with a hands-on approach, Taglio's butchery and Montreal smoked meat keep the city's food heritage alive.
The iconic Montreal smoked meat of Delibee’s
After cutting his teeth at the famed Main Deli Steak House, Philip Varvaro has kept old-school techniques alive for over a quarter century at this Pointe-Claire restaurant.