Montreal!

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

do u like beer?

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

liverpool house yes, or joe beef. either one.

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

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

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

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

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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?

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.

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.

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.

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

heh.

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

cool!!

and in also cool news:

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

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

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!

That's damn cool news indeed!

I miss you deeply, my beloved Sin City.

my girlfriend lives on st dominique woohoo!

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

Show some love. I've got new shoes.

At Footlocker.

Thirty minutes and counting down.

welcome to my city ned raggett.

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

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

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

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.

> 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?"

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

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

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

what do you want to know

(i dont know anything)

Can I move there? Do they like foreign people?

yes and yes

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

nice, what did u do?

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.

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

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

Well I am a bit messy sometimes.

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

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

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.

oh i coulda helped you with that

glad u had a good time and of course i understand you wouldnt exactly want to be like hey new bride, can we take some time on our honeymoon to meet some random bon vivant from the internet

but if u ever come back, lemme know!!

hey new bride, can we take some time on our honeymoon to meet some random bon vivant from the internet

Le Proposal Indecent

How big is Montreal? DO many people live in quaint Olde Worlde apartments with high ceilings above patisseries and such? And ride bicycles in elegantly faded clothes?

They definitely ride bicycles.

but if u ever come back, lemme know!!

definitely!

actually yes

I don’t want really think it’s okay to be told ‘fuck you’ for having feared so much for some of my closest friends.

I'm confused, what the hell just happened here?

Salmon wrote that in response to us being scared of that terrorism scam at Ubisoft back in Novembre.

What a weird thing to post a month after the fact.

The curfew affects us all differently.

Fields,have a sour beer and relax.

Oh hey, I was gonna say: I actually tried a sour beer and I'm totally hooked. There are some fantastic ones available.

Nice. Which one did you have?

I think I've tried most of the sours available. Brasserie Shelton alone has four or five different ones.

It all started with a can of « La Poudre jaune » (by Lagabière) on a very hot day last summer. Couldn't believe how much flavour it had for only 3.5% alcohol. I'm pretty much obsessed with trying them all now.

I haven't had any since I moved back. As soon as Dry January ends, I'll give La Poudre jaune a shot – I'm generally a fan of Lagabière.

Everything Lagabière does is excellent.

On a considerably less jovial note, this confirms what you were saying the other day:

https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/593105/un-itinerant-montrealais-mis-a-l-amende-pour-non-respect-du-couvre-feu

The sour I got the most mileage out of once I discovered them was the Hully Gully by Grand Bois. That's ultimately what a sûre houblonnée should taste like to me. Really well-balanced and with more kick than the 3.8% alcohol would suggest..

There's a watermelon and sea salt göse you can get at Peluso... I think it's Trèfle Noir? Holy hell on a hot day that's great too.

For a proper sûre houblonnée I recommend the Hully Gully by Grand Bois. It's probably the best gateway drug if I was trying to introduce someone to sours who is a fan of that Vermont kind of taste. It's got a bit of diesel fuel and freshly-mown lawn, but it's a sour all the way.

I've only tried Grand Bois's Avant dimanche double IPA, which I absolutely love, so I'll be sure to give the Hully Gully a shot.

What winds me up the most about the curfew is that it's been issued by a suburban/exurban provincial government who, if I'm not wrong, elected no seats in Montreal.

Literally no understanding of the difference between Legault World and contemporary Montreal, which is a city of nighttimes and for which this will disproportionately have a net negative impact on all sorts of completely normal behaviour.

Dog whistle, maybe?

Maybe I'm paranoid, but it seems fairly obvious to me that this government was elected in no small part to punish the 514 aka Fauxbec.

On top of everything there is bad batch of opioid circulating right now.

I’m not a fan of sour beers but if I ever get back to the MTL I am totally trying some of those suggestions

My favorites for sours:

- Dunham (Dunham)
- Harricanna (Montreal)
- Grand Bois (St-Casimir)
- Lagabière (St-Jean)
- À La Fut (St-Tite).

Noted, merci.

Mods, can we redub this thread 'rolling bière sûre 2021'?

Remember when there was just like DDC, Unibroue and Le Lièvre?

I've got a nostalgic soft spot for that era, but we've come a long way, no doubt about it. Average dep selection is on a whole other level these days.

im gonna keep an eye out for some of these next time i am picking up! i am lucky enough to live near an above average beer dep (not peluso level, but pretty good) and its maybe time for me to break out of my quar defaults which have mostly been like... cheap domestics and sometimes those archibald mix packs

i went to the dep to get supplies, wandered to the beer and... realized i didn't bring my phone. oops! but for some reason they had rodenbach grand cru in stock???? so uhh it's not from quebec but thats what im currently enjoying! not sure ive ever seen it in mtl

Heh, there was even an article about it last year:

https://journalmetro.com/art-de-vivre/2384574/les-bieres-belges-de-rodenbach-debarquent-montreal/

Man, this thread is not helping with Dry January at all.

hah sorry! you're doing great you're halfway there. i'll try to save the other beer posts for all groundhog's eve

Shaar Hashomayim vandalized with swastikas.

Suspect has mental health problems, reportedly.

Has to be, if it was done in broad daylight.

Reminds me of a guy in La Fontaine Park, always muttering antisemitic garbage to himself, utterly oblivious to the world around him.

No idea if this is relevant here but it also brought to mind this piece from 2014:

https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614/

lol

https://www.sportsnet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cf-montreal-logo-1040x572.jpg

It's all part of the globalists' geographically challenged plan to co-opt Quebec into the EU!

I did not expect to see an article about Aunt Dai in… The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/montreal-chinese-restaurant-canada-customers-aunt-dai

their website is amazing but tbrrwu i narrowly prefer cuisine szechuan on guy & sherbrooke

in re Aunt Dai & truth in advertising, used to crack me up that on one street in Addis there was a place called Excellent Restaurant, a block further you'd reach Decent Restaurant

What a fucking psycho:

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/after-man-s-death-premier-says-no-to-curfew-exception-claiming-others-would-pose-as-homeless-1.5272986

I was talking to Raphael as recently as Thursday. I'm still mourning and he dares say such a thing, I'm just so fuckin angry at him.

Absolutely heartbreaking. Note that this is the exact same argument deployed by these folks against allowing people of religious communities to wear whatever the fuck they want because "someone might some day pose as a bank robber and rob a bank dressed as a muslim."

Nowhere else is doing especially good right now, but there is a special type of infantile performance art exclusive to paleo-québécois groups like the QAC that really fucking wind me up.

or sorry the CAQ

CACK, let's just say it.

too many sour beers

I had a nice lemon sour beer from Matera tonight. Legault is a fucking ghoul

Homeless community now exempted of the curfew. Thank fuckin god.

Based Cour supérieure du Québec. You certainly can't count on the CAQ to do the right thing in this regard.