Montreal!

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

i post things there all the time.

so it's summer now i guess

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

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

henergy

Evoo is indeed amazing.

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.

wow

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

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!

hot dog cart i mean

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

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

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

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

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

idk makes sense to me

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

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

http://cultmontreal.com/events/

On a scale of 1 to 10, how brown is your water today?

*spits montreal tapwater all over computer screen*

i will likely be writing about summertime family things to do for tourism montreal in, like, May, so... stay tuned?

rrobyn did this come out?

we'll be there in about a month. got my renewed passport and confirmed our airbnb. pumped.

i just ate aubergine at kazu
lines smaller when it rains :D

we'll be there in about a month. got my renewed passport and confirmed our airbnb. pumped.

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where's your beebs?

Is a boil water advisory a common occurence? I am drinking minty ice tea

in Montreal it is known as brownmint glace. not sure if it is common but having to talk about it makes the mayor sound like such a sketchy landlord.

not common at all, apparently there was one in 2008 but i don't remember being aware of it

we'll be there in about a month. got my renewed passport and confirmed our airbnb. pumped.

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in the vicinity of parc villeneuve and parc gills-lefebevre? basically a couple of blocks west of the mont-royal station

awesome. literally down the street from me! (i live just north of villeneuve)

cool!

what are your dates?

june 30 - july 6

Montreal's mayor arrested by the anti-corruption squads. Uh oh.

hey Montreal I'm going to be in you too, from the 3rd of July probably. totally suggest FAP.

also, where is cheap and good to stay?

define "cheap"

(and define "good" i guess too)