Montreal!

When Mookieproof bought a fixed-gear bicycle made out of random spare parts, I was there.

lol your hatred for your city is consistently hilarious and depressing, i'd suggest you'd move but i'm sure you'd be just as miserable wherever you went

http://jeslacasse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The-Problem-Is-You.jpg

I'll try not to be too miserable when I'm back in yr burg yet again this year, sir

for memories, for posterity:

I've been here for what seems like forever. The food is still appalling (tourist trap brochetteries, rudeness bistros, overpriced fast food, casse-croûte straight out of Naked Lunch, Asian fusion nouilleries, the worst pizza of any major city in North America) in any of the areas that are "Montreal" enough to warrant living in. The food's good enough in some outer areas where the immigrants of colour have been granted restaurant licenses to cook their smelly ethnic foods, but you might as well live in Ontario and get a decent job at that rate since a Montreal suburb is just as ugly if not uglier than anywhere else and the food in Toronto is world class. Go ahead, live in Verdun. Have a hot dog. Tant pis. Or, live somewhere even shittier and, une fois par semaine, vas-t'en au quartier Chinois to enjoy the privilege of paying $8.00 for mediocre Pho. Bagels are good though, so is La Banquise (which hasn't poisoned me yet).

Any of the charmingly local nouveau cuisine has a kind of reactionary political context that I don't feel comfortable eating. Go ahead, eat duck and rabbit while your city collapses around your ears. Historical shit, right? Let's continue to harken to a semi-mythical vie de bûcheron. That's going to help a lot, bros. But the tourists love it so I guess you're getting paid, Picard.

The omnipresent corruption and incompetence can wear a bit thin. But, whatever.

Still not sure I'd want to live anywhere else.

― fields of salmon, Friday, July 23, 2010 8:51 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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I guess you're getting paid, Picard.

speaking of our "shitty food" I had a burger at La Flammee (in Brasserie Cherrier, which apparently isn't a dive now?) and it was in my top 2 burgers in the city! RIYL: burgers

I made Pizza poutine the other day - pwned the kitchen - fries, Newmans' Own saucey and cheese. chez Manifique!

speaking of our "shitty food" I had a burger at La Flammee (in Brasserie Cherrier, which apparently isn't a dive now?) and it was in my top 2 burgers in the city! RIYL: burgers

― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:11 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im hearing good things about this burg

it's not some sort of bold redefinition of the burger or anything, it just plays the hits RIGHT. so juicy. plus you can order it rare since they grind it to order. yeah i rather enjoyed it. the fries were no joke either, and the coleslaw was not creamy = a win for coleslaw everytime imo.

can anyone rep for a good falafel sandwich, here. it doesn't seem to be a big ~presence~ afaict. i am exploring quite a lot at the moment (ty for the tips on the ikeda exhibition btw!) & am pretty open to most-all top-veggie-menu-items anyone is pushing. this time of year is so nice in montreal.

hm.. most of the middle eastern joints focus on shish taouk and shwarma, and altho they all have falafel i wouldn't describe any of the fast-food falafel as A++.

Daou is a pretty solid restaurant that has quality Lebanese food.

good falafel doesnt really exist here, you might want to try panthère verte on st-viateur tho, its prob the best

ps go to jean-talon market if you havent already

this isn't a great falafel city but Falafel Freiha is regarded as the best.

also great veggie options (middle-eastern stuff) at Petit Alep.

both sides of the alep are wonderful

I really like panthere verte's falafel - but yknow I'm a health-food type - whatevs tho, they're really good!

ooh I haven't been to either of the aleps in ages, need to fix that

what is falafel made of anyway? Fala?

yes

the fala fel, burning in defiance

have any of you ever been to akli? in the foodcourt below office building on mctavish/metcalfe and sherbrooke. killer falafel imo, if a bit salty

also nilufar (st catherine bw atwater guy, st mathieu or sth?), not necessarily the best falafel but they cost like 1.75$ each and are pretty good, green & fresh rather than brown & dry

thanks thread now i have to get falafel for dinner

been really depressed by all montreal lebanese etc. food tho since going to berlin & basically living off sandwiches there, no comparison ito middle eastern sandwich scene

wow, my riding actually went Quebec Solidaire!
i guess i'm not totally surprised, but still, wow

trying to keep that in mind as PQ seems to be headed towards a majority? srsly?

i'm pretty pleased with these results so far

yeah i guess i am too, kind of. my previous post was written when a PQ majority was being considered a reality. i figured PQ minority would happen though, so hey, here we go!

well, "pleased" is not exactly the word tbh

pq coalition majority w/ qs (provided they give them a cabinet seat) still possible tho?

sometimes seems like being an anglo in quebec is liked being consigned to vote for the same party for your entire life it's pretty pathetic, like as soon as there's a pq alternative standing across the stage no amount of corruption arrogance is too great to be swallowed & forgotten, ppl should be relieved the party they've spent the last 4 years cursing is being held accountable

oh i'm certainly glad to see the liberals go! or go-ish!
i don't know if the QS would want to be in a coalition with PQ? seems weird

Based on the current seat projections, I don't see how a PQ-QS coalition could form a majority?: http://www.cbc.ca/news/live/2012/09/quebec-votes-2012.html

Are there more updated numbers?

i think that was just speculation from earlier in the night when PQ was much closer to a majority

Ah, cool.

Ha, a Lib-CAQ coalition is theoretically possible!

without charest having won his seat?

I didn't say it's likely but constitutionally, that's not a problem at all.

Afaik, there's nothing that says a PM or premier needs to be a sitting member. (Just double-checked with a constitution nerd.)

Seriously, in general, I wish people were more open to the possibilities offered within parliamentarianism. It's so unimaginative that the sitting leader of the party with a plurality of seats always becomes PM/premier and I think it actually undermines parliamentary democracy a little.

That's more of a post for the Cdn politics thread though.

this is awful. this is...i can't even.

have you ever had some delicious food ethic or otherwise out somwhere and then you are punished badly in the restroom and you feel as if "why did they do it? "

his is awful. this is...i can't even.

― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:18 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

as a smaller aside ty for all the recommendations. i'm gonna go to jean talon soon, they sell aubergines in hypnotic configurations, so i'm sold.

as for me I find the Plant of Egg to be most unpalatable

awwwww really? i was never crazy about them before. i don't want to suggest user error but i have been detailing my eggplant wiles here if you feel like giving that little guy a second chance, the hell am i gonna do with this eggplant

You may as well toss that Solanaceae in the rubbish bin. It would do as well there as anywhere. In fact I am suspicious of the entire Nightshade family, including the Tobbaco plant and Tomato as well. Only the potato has my permission to love itself.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/OriginalPoutineLaBanquise.jpg

now we're talkin

i do like the small japanese eggplants tho