would you say it's worth a trip to NDG for those eggs
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
i mean if you're gonna go to ndg for eggs, go to cosmos is what im saying
idk s1ox do you have an in @ lawrence? ill buy you breakfast if we dont have to wait but otherwise the internet and my non-ilx sources tell me it is like an hour which is just too much
― Lamp, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
ya exams are 5 - 18 dec. neways hard to tell what i'll be doing so far in the future, mb ilxmail me or something? i live like 2 blocks from all those places mentioned in my last post
― flopson, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
lol--don't go to monkland
― Lamp, Wednesday, October 23, 2013 3:47 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just go a bit earlier or later and put your name down and phone number, then go next door and have a coffee and a donut at sardine. [and thank me later]
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
haha, otm
― flopson, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
ok ok alright its on the schedule
@ flopson yah ill webmail before we leave w/my # hopefully you can meet us for drinks or s.thing. we're gonna be out and around all wknd so if you're free obv welcome to hang. also if you hear abt anything particularly cool going on :D
― Lamp, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
s1ock it 2 me
― Lamp, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
TYPICAL EAST MTL BIAS ITT
but yeah its good and its better than cosmos but yd be looking at like over an hour for the round trip to monkland. if for some reason you're out there it's a good bet, otherwise the eggs are not +1h better than the above mentioned places.
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
and the other thing is youd be on monkland before/after which is just :|
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
i do not believe it is better than cosmos
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
diff'rent yolks
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
looking at all of these restaurant recommendations, wishing i was a visitor to my own city so i could justify eating all of this food.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 1 November 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Man, not looking foward having Coderre as a mayor for I don't know how many years.
and not even 40% people voted, surely Montreal could do better than that?
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 4 November 2013 03:51 (ten years ago) link
lol from Montreal, live in Nazim
― color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that, Monday, 4 November 2013 04:17 (ten years ago) link
any last minute(ish) rec's for things to do this weekend btw?
― Lamp, Thursday, 5 December 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
Check out Smart Design Mart in Mile End: http://www.smartdesignmart.com/
― sofatruck, Thursday, 5 December 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
I'm into this band No Joy playing at il motore on sat night
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 6 December 2013 04:45 (ten years ago) link
Get wasted on cheap pints at playhouse late late Friday night, hear awesome weird lady rock bands, be yr queer self. Depends on what you're into doing of course.
The weather looks decent this weekend at least! I kept laughing about this food truck thing out at Olympic stadium, which happens in summer but they're trying to make into a winter thing too, but it seems ridiculous to me to stand in the shadow of a concrete monstrosity in winter to buy overpriced "street food." Anyway that's happening Saturday. There's also ice shaking. And aforementioned smart design mart, yep!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 6 December 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
Haha ice skating, I mean
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 6 December 2013 04:58 (ten years ago) link
hrmm yeah doesn't seem like there's much going on this weekend
― flopson, Friday, 6 December 2013 05:03 (ten years ago) link
where is the best cheap place to stay in mtl is what i want to know
― gbx, Friday, 6 December 2013 05:03 (ten years ago) link
i may as well go there
― gbx, Friday, 6 December 2013 05:04 (ten years ago) link
we're neighbors basically
gbx I don't know, I even think of that as something that ~cannot be known~ by the contemporary residents of a city, but def come hang in Montreal whether or not you are a neighbour. if I were to describe what it's like here anytime between like one week from now & April you wouldn't come, so just jump in, don't even talk to hoteliers who might let something slip by phone, just book a trip, commit
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Friday, 6 December 2013 05:57 (ten years ago) link
u can stay at my place, my roommate's sublettin
― flopson, Friday, 6 December 2013 06:00 (ten years ago) link
flopson do you want to get a drink this wknd? i sent you my cell #
― Lamp, Friday, 6 December 2013 06:24 (ten years ago) link
didn't get it i think my ilxmail's fucked 1 sec
― flopson, Friday, 6 December 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
sent you my number
dogg I am from mn yr weather doesn't scare me
― gbx, Friday, 6 December 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
cool man let's hang come on over let's say february fifteenth get at me bro
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Friday, 6 December 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
gbx, you should def visit. March 2 is Nuit Blanche, which is ridic but fun if you do it right. let's go bouldering, there's a gym near my place!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 7 December 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
hey robyn i think i'm meeting up w lamp at that show, maybe see u there?
― flopson, Saturday, 7 December 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
oh cool, I have an xmas party to go to so am playing it by ear but totally want to go!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 8 December 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
i am really enjoying winter so far. i hate winter. i was so scared about it, just memories of waiting for buses, waiting to cross streets scrunching your toes. but so far it's been so fine; the wind has not been in my face, i have been wearing regular shoes, the temperature change on the metro has been as inconvenient as it gets. but then TODAY. ugh. just sliding. what happened. sliding forever. so often almost dying.
also: i had a long conversation with my friend about olimpico, the little cosmopolitan nucleus of olimpico, & he said he preferred café social. i was so surprised! & then i sat bolt upright twelve hours later wondering if it was better, if it was like religious bias, the construction of a hierarchy instilled by whichever you visit first. i always thought c.s. was just olimpico but with food & slushy coffee. inferior because it was less ascetic, less pure. but then he talked about it having a better, more authentically grizzled quebecoise clientele. i like the ambient conversation at olimpico. but i doubted myself. does anybody have opinions about this, i feel like it has the dna to become a really excellent partisan division between people who are currently friends.
― mustread guy (schlump), Monday, 6 January 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link
i have a lot of opinions about this, i've put in time, literally years, at each cafe
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 January 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
me too. I lean in the olimpico direction though because the coffee is better! I used to go to social with boozehound friend because for many years you could buy drinks without having to also buy food (ah the years of lax liquor license monitoring), and their terrasse in summer rules.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 January 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
Ah it's nice to think about summer...
it is a very very complicated and subtle dichotomy, the Olimpico and Social thing(it has been made more complicated, I believe, from the decampment of Vito northward to Villeray)
― sean gramophone, Friday, 10 January 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
I get Myriade because the baristas are so pleasant and the sun is nice
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 10 January 2014 01:07 (ten years ago) link
guy i know who works at myriade is a creep but maybe he doesn't work there anymore
also they have slush coffee at olimpico, too
― flopson, Friday, 10 January 2014 01:36 (ten years ago) link
olympico is a nobrainer for me, maybe i am just yet to have entered my social phase but that always seemed like the too obvious snob challop, like the equivalent of "tourists eat at schwartz's, real heads eat at the main." olimpico on a sunny afternoon just the best place on earth imo
― flopson, Friday, 10 January 2014 01:39 (ten years ago) link
Olympico's slush coffee wins it for me. I don't think I've ever been to either place outside of the summer. Even in the summer, I more enclined to buy bagels and sit at Parc Outremont.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 January 2014 02:36 (ten years ago) link
Most of my Olympico/C.S memories have more to do with World Cups and Euro than regular coffee activities.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 January 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
Montreal residents should build a summer-dome 3000 suqare feet in which to frolic in flowers all year in skimpy retro bathing suits
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
You—and everyone else, really—should then try Thanjai. Plamandon metro is really not that far... It's still Van Horne, even! You could bike it if you llive at Parc and Bernard (which I assume most of you do). It's South Indian: dosas, the unparalleled rasam, sambar, idli, vada, and all the gang. I've never spent more than 40 bucks for two. It is a charming, charming little place with great food. It's fuckin' spicy so don't bring your student friends (although I always see at least one table of confused people who are always scared of the menu but they are always accommodated as much as as a South Indian resto can accommodate "no spices, no sauce, just chicken please. I don't want any sauce thank you."
― fields of salmon, Sunday, August 18, 2013 6:34 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
went there this past week btw. soooooo good. not that spicy though?? (IME)
― flopson, Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:50 (ten years ago) link
In the 12 months I've been eating there I believe they have toned it down a notch.
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 16 January 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/explore-more-than-3-000-miles-of-tunnels-beneath-montre-1531576186
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
find march hardnice today though
― mustread guy (schlump), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link