Montreal!

― rrrobyn, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

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― s1ocki, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

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― ENBB, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

any advice on places to eat, things to do, ppl to see &c??? will be there for a ~5 days for work starting friday so i wont have a lot of time. on my list which is basically a cop from nyt btw:

toqué
au pied du cochon
liverpool house

― Lamp, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

do u like beer?

― swedes put dill on fields of salmon (fields of salmon), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

toqué is really expensive, esp compared to APDC - latter is dfeinitely a better bet.

liverpool house yes, or joe beef. either one.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

ummm, so much though that im not really sure where to start in terms of recs. tell me what you like!

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

i like beer but i do not LOVE beer toqué is paid for by work so $$$$ not an issue + it seems like a place to at least try - or is it really not worth it?

also any word on garde manager? mostly looking for places that serve something i cant eat in nyc which is why im into places that focus on locally-sourced stuff which is why my big must is apcd so... maybe more stuff like that? also breakfast places would be good

― Lamp, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

DIEU DU CIEL for beer. The name is no exaggeration.

― Sundar, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

i like beer but i do not LOVE beer toqué is paid for by work so $$$$ not an issue + it seems like a place to at least try - or is it really not worth it?

also any word on garde manager? mostly looking for places that serve something i cant eat in nyc which is why im into places that focus on locally-sourced stuff which is why my big must is apcd so... maybe more stuff like that? also breakfast places would be good

― Lamp, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:36 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok def check toqué if you can afford it! def.

garde-manger i wouldn't recommend, more of a scene place than a food place imo. but APDC = def. joe beef/liverpool = def. hmm what else... maybe salle à manger?

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

club de chasse et peche def worth checking out.

for brunch try my friends' new place, sparrow, or have the brunch at lemeac which is fantastic. dinner there is great too.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

Oh man I cannot wait to go to The Sparrow. I know I'm going to love it because it fills a big Sparrow-shaped gap in Montreal's food scene. A big, depressing gap. Next step: maybe some enterprising or foolish soul will make the connection between batter, fish, and hot oil and then, you know, try selling it to people. Sigh.

― swedes put dill on fields of salmon (fields of salmon), Thursday, 26 March 2009 20:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

Do they have a liquor license? I'm actually so excited that I'm thinking of printing out their menus from the Facebook group so I can carry them around with me and glance at them longingly.

― swedes put dill on fields of salmon (fields of salmon), Thursday, 26 March 2009 20:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

Hello good peoples. Will be in your city June 19th to 21st, eating your bagels.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 May 2010 21:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

heh.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 3 May 2010 21:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

And I'll be in Toronto a couple of days before that but that's another thread to revive.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 May 2010 21:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

cool!!

and in also cool news:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Plateau+close+streets/2982434/story.html#ixzz0n3oNVWbp

― sir gaga (s1ocki), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 13:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

(that first one is a few blocks from my house)

― sir gaga (s1ocki), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 13:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

I live on that first one, albeit several blocks south, where people basically barrel down it at 100km/h because they're just looking for parking on St-Laurent or whatever. Pedestrianize our street too!

― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 13:41 (3 years ago) Permalink

That's damn cool news indeed!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 23:02 (3 years ago) Permalink

I miss you deeply, my beloved Sin City.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 23:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

my girlfriend lives on st dominique woohoo!

― ayo for dyao (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 23:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

So anyway, FAP etc.? Maybe some relaxed Sunday afternoon thing?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 May 2010 00:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

Show some love. I've got new shoes.

― fields of salmon, Saturday, 15 May 2010 02:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

At Footlocker.

― fields of salmon, Saturday, 15 May 2010 03:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

Thirty minutes and counting down.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 June 2010 20:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

welcome to my city ned raggett.

― hey whatsup (marc iv), Sunday, 20 June 2010 23:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

just went to TO and I am so fucking glad to be back in MTL.

― Simon H., Sunday, 20 June 2010 23:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

biked 35 miles around the East Island today. The Quebecoise are indeed a 'distinct society'. Love my city.

― sofatruck, Monday, 21 June 2010 01:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

Xpost: rather than give you a snark filled piece of mind, I'll just link to this

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, 21 June 2010 01:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

I dunno, me and TO just do not jibe, mostly seems to be a people issue. but then again I might feel the same way as you had I spent the last six+ years in TO instead.

― Simon H., Monday, 21 June 2010 02:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

> biked 35 miles around the East Island today. The Quebecoise are indeed a 'distinct society'. Love my city.

would you mind telling me where this East Island is, cause I've never heard of it in my 30-someodd years here. "The Quebecoise?"

― Charlesburg, Monday, 21 June 2010 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

East Montreal... semantics. Sorry for the typo.

― sofatruck, Monday, 21 June 2010 04:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/magnificent-montreal/1

good article that sort of sums up nicely what i <3 about this town

my friend is the guy leading the writer around

― al-goreda (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

haha. yeah it's a great piece. but i want to know more about adam sachs, not adam gollner! :)

― sean gramophone, Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

what do you want to know

(i dont know anything)

― al-goreda (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

Can I move there? Do they like foreign people?

― European Bob (admrl), Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

yes and yes

― al-goreda (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

Spent a week in Montreal (and three days in Quebec City) for our honeymoon. Such a great place.

― da croupier, Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

nice, what did u do?

― al-goreda (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

I dunno, Canadian immigration people have always been the biggest hardasses to me. Sometimes I fly home with Air Canada and have a layover in Toronto and always get GRILLED. Why am I here? Well, I have a flight to catch and will be leaving in 45 minutes, so I don't really think I'm a danger to your country.

― European Bob (admrl), Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

It is a VERY great place, and I only really spent something like a day and a half there. Everyone should visit.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

well maybe I think you're a danger to my country adam

― al-goreda (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

Well I am a bit messy sometimes.

― European Bob (admrl), Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

Still, I like the idea of living in Canada. You never know.

― European Bob (admrl), Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

You have to watch out for him, he likes to film things. (Wait, who am I warning against who?)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

Stayed at one of those boutique hotels by the water (one with awesome fucking room service), went to a ton of restaurants, bought a ton of records, hit that Miles Davis exhibit at the art museum, saw some sights and witnessed some of the glory that was Canada Day and the boiling heat wave that followed (if it had been any other type of vacation I would have dropped you a line, Slock). Don't recognize most of the places in that article but oddly enough I ordered all three things (foie gras poutine, duck-in-a-can, and seafood platters) mentioned being at Restaurant au Pied de Cochon. Even splitting the poutine and the seafood, this was in hindsight a bit too ambitious.

My only complaint was that I couldn't seem to get the right kind of iced latte and wound up hitting starbucks more than I wanted to.

― da croupier, Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

i still like mushrooms and slow-cooked onions :D

― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:36 (3 months ago) Permalink

vege-paté, alfalfa sprouts, and baby carrots dipped in hummus, now that's another story.

― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:36 (3 months ago) Permalink

ha ha, you know one of the things i am really enjoying about montreal is its broad range of sprouts. in grocery stores, in those green plastic trays. i think they have a lot at PA on Parc. there are so many! asparagus pea shoots, sunflower seed sprouts. am really into the baby onion sprouts, they have this deep-purple poppy seed stem, it's alluring:

but i am also sort of aware that this could be a barren arena in which to seek pleasure.

― schlump, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:44 (3 months ago) Permalink

I have pretty good childhood memories of Wilensky's and Deli Lester and then I became a boring vegetarian.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:50 (3 months ago) Permalink

what do u guys think of this article?

http://maisonneuve.org/post/2013/04/6/orientalism-gentrification-and-irony-parc-ex-respo/

in response to:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/why-you-should-eat-in-park-ex-montreals-ungentrified-ethnic-food-paradise/article10682175/?page=2

?

― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2013 01:12 (1 month ago) Permalink

i think the maisonneuve article is undergraduate garbage and i am smh-ing violently at everyone who's posted it to facebook

― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 8 April 2013 01:27 (1 month ago) Permalink

What is the result of all this? Primarily, the “magical” Parc Ex portrayed by Gollner is one erased of struggle and conflict, hardship and exploitation. It’s so much like an enchanted frontier, in fact, that it’s “almost un-capitalist.” This, in a neighbourhood where few dare to jaywalk, for fear of the omnipresent police cruisers waiting to scoop up one of the many undocumented migrant workers living in the area. This, in a neighbourhood that’s become infamous for its slumlords and deplorable living conditions; its apartments without running water and crawling with cockroaches. This, in a neighbourhood where almost 20 percent of the population pays 50 percent of its monthly income in rent, and where 81 percent of the total population are tenants, facing a high risk of displacement with the encroachment of condo projects and university residences.

― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2013 01:35 (1 month ago) Permalink

feel like that is a very dramatic characterization of parc ex

― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2013 01:36 (1 month ago) Permalink

ya and i don't really see what that has to do with the article either

― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 8 April 2013 01:40 (1 month ago) Permalink

ppl are really losing their minds about it

― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 8 April 2013 01:40 (1 month ago) Permalink

what dumb article.

― sofatruck, Monday, 8 April 2013 14:55 (1 month ago) Permalink

this place is nice,
https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Tamalera-haute-cuisine-de-rue-mexicaine/149679951797182

i haven't found a lot of good mexican food here (though $2 taco tuesdays at cartel, in the same hood, are neat) & dug this place. it's new, v cute. i had hibiscus tacos.

― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:31 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

yeah, i think s10cki and i both ate there this weekend.

good, cheap, "real" tacos, not hipster bullshit, at a taqueria on st-denis above mont-royal.

― sean gramophone, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:41 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

Is that new? I'm not great at paying attn to new restaurants... I have had good tacos at the place on Parc tho! I don't think they qualify as hipster?

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:51 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

place on parc looks good. that strip is generally v bountiful for casual eating imo, boris & resonance are both v good as well. tamalera is super new, i am trying to get in on the ground floor & one day be treated as a venerable regular, seated quietly at the back.

think i heard about the saint-denis place, will check it out, ty.

― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:53 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

I was all excited about moving to a new neighbourhood because I've been in the same place (cheap rent!) in mile end for 8 years, but then a friend decided to move away and I am taking over his lease - it's like 3 blocks away...

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:55 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

on parc? do you mean Tachido, the mexican sandwich place? yum. didn't realize they do tacos.

― sean gramophone, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:00 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

wasnt crazy about tamalera. cute place, but i spent like $8 on three very meagre tacos and $4 on a jar of horchata that was approx three times the size i required.

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:05 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

tachido is a fairly reliable sandwich place.

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:05 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

Love Tachido sandwiches, but was pretty disappointed in the tacos. There's a little place on Jean Talon and Iberville called Petite Coin Du Mexique that has pretty great food all around.

― sofatruck, Monday, 29 April 2013 23:00 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

i am vegetarian & k fussy so the novelty & yeah aesthetic of tamalera was p satisfying to me. if somebody says hibiscus in most any context i will pay $5+, they were real good. i still haven't had a good burrito since i got here :/

& yeah that jean talon place is neat.

― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 29 April 2013 23:06 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

the tamales actually seemed like a p good deal esp for take-out

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Tachido is a lovely, lovely place, but I have a hard time leaving there with a full stomach. I wish they had actual side dishes.

― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 01:26 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

The place on St. Denis is called "La Matraca" and it's the best/most authentic one I've been to so far. I'm gonna try La Tamalera, though it looks a bit hipster-ish from the pics. No one in Mexico eats hibiscus tacos.

― daavid, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:28 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

oh i've been to Petit Coin du Mexique! years ago (with a friend who had a car, haha.) It was good!
I like Tachido's tacos, but yeah, i eat meat and i like the mole. also margaritas in jar-glasses. i haven't tried the sandwiches.
i am hungry and wish i could eat tacos right now :(

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:31 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

i will def try la matracha.
i need to visit california soon just to eat tacos and burritos. and see friends, whatever, burritos.

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

you know what goes great with friends is burritos

― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

its hibiscus juice doy

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 04:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

la matraca is pretty good, authentic-feeling, but not like... amazing

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 04:17 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

I can't take any restaurants on this block seriously bc the groceries are all so good.

― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

greek post office also v charming

― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

i post things there all the time.

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 13:12 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

so it's summer now i guess

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 15:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

this article is kind of like that maisy one i posted upthread except i agree that they are fucking up the food trucks thing with the permits but i don't really get what it has to do with poor people and immigrants

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/montreals-food-truck-plan-is-a-symbolic-fuck-you-to-poor-people-and-immigrants

― flopson, Friday, 3 May 2013 03:41 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/05/12/travel/20130512-SURFACING.html?_r=0

― flopson, Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:12 (1 week ago) Permalink

henergy

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:13 (1 week ago) Permalink

Evoo is indeed amazing.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:44 (1 week ago) Permalink

pretty crazy stuff in this court document by the city of westmount suing my ex-landlord

http://jugements.qc.ca/php/decision.php?liste=68811716&doc=C0F572EC5E0A350672108DC3CDBF7AC293A9FDE6E6BE5CF685FD0DCE5483ED28&page=1

[14] On October 23, 1998, Mr. Fattal wrote a letter to Ms. Joanne Poirier, Westmount’s director of urban planning.[1] He called upon Ms. Poirier to “cancel” the September court injunction and accused her of “malicious, painful and abusive activities” that wasted taxpayers’ money. Mr. Fattal stated that it was time for Ms. Poirier to end her “Gestapo style” behaviour.

[15] In the top corner of his letter, Mr. Fattal reproduced a Second World War photo of a Nazi officer, with his boot over the neck of a prostrate concentration camp prisoner. In the background, several other prisoners in striped uniforms hung from posts. Mr. Fattal signed his letter to Ms. Poirier, “Your Hostage”.

[16] Ms. Poirier was upset by the letter. Westmount’s lawyers wrote to Mr. Fattal, asking him not to communicate with Westmount officials and to direct all future correspondence to them.

[17] A further incident in the autumn of 1998 alarmed Westmount’s building inspectors. One day, Westmount’s employee, Mr. Michel Poulin, was performing an electrical inspection at the Saint Antoine building. Mr. Fattal suddenly appeared behind Mr. Poulin wearing a Saddam Hussein mask and brandishing a baseball bat. Mr. Poulin was frightened, but Mr. Fattal later called it a joke.

...

[24] Between 1999 and 2007, he faxed hundreds of pages of correspondence and photos to the City of Westmount and its employees. At times, the fax transmissions were so lengthy they choked the City’s fax machines and disrupted its communications. Often, Mr. Fattal faxed the same pages over and over again.

[25] On a number of occasions, Mr. Fattal faxed gruesome photos of himself, bare-chested and gagging. One photo showed a tortured Mr. Fattal, with bulging eyes, and an iron bar across his mouth.

[26] Mr. Fattal also wrote to Westmount employees at their homes, mailing large envelopes to them stuffed with letters of complaint, photos of a bare-chested Mr. Fattal in chains, and other offensive documents.

...

[48] In 2011, Mr. Fattal got an iPhone and discovered text messaging. Over the next two years, up until the eve of trial in February 2013, Mr. Fattal sent hundreds of text messages to Mtre. Banon, at all times of day and night, on weekends and holidays, including New Year’s Eve in 2012. In his messages Mr. Fattal repeatedly insulted Mtre. Banon, declaring that he should be ashamed to represent “gangsters” and “criminals” who were intent on ruining Mr. Fattal’s health. In one instance, Mr. Fattal attached a photo of himself and photos of several tombstones, clearly implying that Mtre. Banon and his clients wanted him in an early grave.

[49] Mtre. Banon repeatedly asked Mr. Fattal to stop communicating with him, but the messages continued unabated, sometimes at the rate of several a day.

[50] Mr. Fattal found other outlets for his anger. He created a website on which he posted derogatory remarks and photos of Mayors Marks and Trent, Mr. St. Louis and Ms. Poirier. He attached large posters to the front of his Saint Antoine building that bore similar statements and photos, as well as his website address. These posters are still on the building today. One of them identifies the building as the “Musée d’histoire d’harcèlement par Westmount”. Mr. Fattal’s building is festooned with City of Montreal flags, indicating his displeasure at being located in the municipality of Westmount.

― flopson, Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:48 (4 days ago) Permalink

wow

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:59 (4 days ago) Permalink

whoa. i remember reading some stuff about this guy a few years ago, but this is next level.

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:46 (4 days ago) Permalink

i haven't really been surprised by the direction mtl food trucks have gone in...
but yesterday i did see a guy wheeling a hot dog stand down the street! really! i was on my bike and didn't stop to ask wtf!

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:49 (4 days ago) Permalink

hot dog cart i mean

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:50 (4 days ago) Permalink

haha sweet, power to that dude

i sell ice cream out of a cart on the weekends for spare cash but it's technically illegal, apparently if you get a ticket the boss pays it tho

― flopson, Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:37 (4 days ago) Permalink

i basically agree with the vice article but i'm suspicious of the whole "poor people and immigrants" angle, given the source

― flopson, Friday, 17 May 2013 01:21 (3 days ago) Permalink

just seems like concern trolling, vice dudes probably just want food trucks to be unregulated because then it'd be more "authentic"

― flopson, Friday, 17 May 2013 01:22 (3 days ago) Permalink

.. And they could co-opt any "poor or immigrant" cuisine that became popular.

― fields of salmon, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:42 (3 days ago) Permalink

Or not pay $10 for food served in a truck?

idk makes sense to me

― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Friday, 17 May 2013 12:46 (3 days ago) Permalink

Please to point me to Montreal event listing pages (now that the mirror's gone, sadly).

― ed.b, Sunday, 19 May 2013 15:20 (Yesterday) Permalink

I use this for concerts http://www.cheapthrills.ca/news.html

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 19 May 2013 16:07 (Yesterday) Permalink

http://cultmontreal.com/events/

― sean gramophone, Sunday, 19 May 2013 18:05 (Yesterday) Permalink