Montreal!

I don't know if anyone here has seen Warm Bodies, but Montreal was such a lovely post-apocalyptic ruin in this.

i haven't seen it yet but i did some freelance transcribing of interviews with actors, director, producers, etc and copyediting of production notes! i should see it; i like post-apocalyptic ruin

thanks for the blog <3
that pic is one of my faves too. it's like can you even believe that that's there on streetview if you get the angle right? yep.

another idea i think is good for people visiting Montreal is to have a picnic in Jeanne-Mance Park one sunny afternoon. i would totally come and picnic with you guys, n/a!

yeah that is crooooooosh

we're going to take s1ocki around the city with us and allow him to experience his childhood ... for the first time

yeah let's hang out, dudes

we're going to skip toronto, fuck toronto

i was trying to convince my wife that we should take a vacation from vegetarianism while we're in montreal but it devolved into a discussion about whether gravy has blood in it

haha.

there's plenty of veggies... but it would be a good place for a lil vacay.

you definitely have to go by marché jean-talon BTW.

i genuinely wonder if wilensky's would be a little kid's fave restaurant of all time

well it's mine so

i have just never seen a little kid in there, and i feel like it'd be so awesome to see a kid lose their mind about the soda & sandwiches <3

...or are kids these days too overstimulated to enjoy wilensky's?

Really? I've never eaten at Wilensky's and it's on my corner
*goes to have lunch at Wilensky's*
I love living here, by the way, in case you were wondering,

kids have baloney apps now theyd rather play on.

i am vegetarian & feel pretty deprived when i walk past wilensky's. like walking past nice quietly majestic barber shops when you cut your own hair, the sadness of feeling ineligible. i could go get an egg sandwich & a coffee there but i feel like you need to be at least seventy five years old to make that order.

i've ordered an egg sandwich there, back in my veggie days! get a pickle and an egg cream with it and you'l be fine.

Fermé pour vacances ;_;

:(

ha i never knew you were a vegetarian, was your switch back to full menu eligibility the opening of the foodie floodgates?

i used to go eat whatever you could get vegetarian at katz's, sometime, & it would baffle the counter staff. nothin? not even ham? how'd you get your b12?. actually kind of into the egg sandwich & coffee deal, now. i will take a newspaper. when it's open again.

i was! in fact i'm working on a comic about how i stopped being a vegetarian now!

haha, i would like to see that. i have a lot of affection for lapsed vegetarians because i feel like the period afterwards is always so grateful & enthusiastic. my friend started eating fish & it's like a whole freed prisoner thing, just constantly renewed wonder at how bright life can be. vegetarianism has its own stockholm syndrome thing, like you are condemned to spending time with mushrooms & slow-cooked onions but you learn to love those things as a result of your captivity.

i still like mushrooms and slow-cooked onions :D

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

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:

http://www.jungleseeds.com/images/OnionSprouts.jpg

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

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

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

?

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

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.

feel like that is a very dramatic characterization of parc ex

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

ppl are really losing their minds about it

what dumb article.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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...

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

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.

tachido is a fairly reliable sandwich place.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 :(

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

you know what goes great with friends is burritos

its hibiscus juice doy

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

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

greek post office also v charming