Posts from Montreal, Canada on The Joy of Food blog.
Montreal, Canada (The Joy of Food) — The star at Schwartz’s Deli is the spiced and brined beef brisket, hot-smoked and steamed, yielding something similar to corned beef or pastrami, but taken a step further. It comes piled high with slices of hand-cut meat served on fresh rye bread with […]
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Montreal, Canada (The Joy of Food) — A legend in its own right in a city that’s famous for its food, St-Viateur is a premier bagel purveyor in Montreal. Comparisons between the Montreal bagel and the American bagel [*] abound. A Montreal-style bagel is smaller and has a larger hole, […]
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Montreal, Canada (The Joy of Food) — A visit to Au Kouign-Amann in Montreal is a pilgrimage, a chance to visit a patisserie making a classic version of the famed kouign-amann. Fads like the Cronut come and go, but French pastry is forever. For the uninitiated, the kouign-amann is a […]
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Montreal, Canada (The Joy of Food) — Montreal may be home to one of the richest, most decadent food scenes in the world, one where things like cheese curds, duck fat, and red wine flow through veins, where sophistication and rustic commingle on the same plate, and where gluttony is […]
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Montreal, Canada (The Joy of Food) — When I saw two jolly guys on television traveling with their own stash of truffles on a train jaunt through the Québécois countryside, I knew I needed to visit whatever restaurant they were hawking on the show. Those jolly guys were chef-owners David […]
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Montreal, Canada (The Joy of Food) — There’s no where better to journey into a plate of grease for dinner than La Banquise, also known as Montreal’s poutine mecca. Open 24/7, this place is popular with daytime and nighttime crowds, a beacon of hope and refuge for the drunk, stoned, […]
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