Can you believe that Montreal, this mecca of gastronomy and the city that has the highest number of restaurants per capita in North America, has never had a restaurant week until now? Unbelievable, right? That is about to change though with TASTE MTL, Montreal’s first ever restaurant week, which will take place from November 1 …
From the streets to the stars: an evening of haute street cuisine is an annual event benefiting Dans la rue, a wonderful Montreal organization headed by Father Emmett Johns (Father Pops) that takes care of homeless teenagers and aims to get them off the streets. Every year, some of Montreal’s most-renowed chefs compete to create …
This is a dynamic list that is constantly being updated. Latest update: February 2019 That’s the sign hanging outside Cafe Medina in Vancouver and those are words I live by. I’m a bit of a coffee snob, not the kind who will ask a barista what temperature he brews his coffee at or how often …
I have been to the Au pied de cochon sugar shack two years in a row for their spring maple madness menu and have loved both of my experiences. The multiple course menu that chef Martin Picard puts together is certainly an ode to maple, that quintessential Quebec ingredient, but it also focuses on several …
Ask who the most talented Portuguese chef in Montreal is and the answer will likely be Helena Loureiro. Her restaurant Portus Calle on St-Laurent in the heart of the Portuguese ghetto is easily the best one in the city. That is until she opened a second establishment, her eponymous restaurant Helena a few weeks ago …
