Guidebook for Montréal
Food Scene
Very good, traditional Japanese slow food (not sushi). This is a great restaurant and a real (almost) undiscovered gem that is only a few feet from our house.
Jardin Iwaki
5887 Rue Sherbrooke OuestVery good, traditional Japanese slow food (not sushi). This is a great restaurant and a real (almost) undiscovered gem that is only a few feet from our house.
Hwang Kum
5908 Rue Sherbrooke OTruly excellent Korean food.
Maggi is awesome and she and her mom cook most of the food. It is excellent vegan food, but all the recipes are based on traditional home-cooked Greek food. You can take the food to go and the coffee is good too!
Mouton Vert
6000 Sherbrooke St WMaggi is awesome and she and her mom cook most of the food. It is excellent vegan food, but all the recipes are based on traditional home-cooked Greek food. You can take the food to go and the coffee is good too!
Damn! Their croissants are really good! Everything else is good too. Open at 7 am.
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Croissant Monkland
6050 Rue Sherbrooke ODamn! Their croissants are really good! Everything else is good too. Open at 7 am.
Really good tacos and Coke from Mexico to boot! This is a great little joint, cheap, good food to take away or eat on the street.
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Taco Tijuana
5889 Rue Sherbrooke OReally good tacos and Coke from Mexico to boot! This is a great little joint, cheap, good food to take away or eat on the street.
The best Persian grocery in town! This place has awesome nuts and olives plus great baklava and many other Persian specialities… A huge selection of teas! Very inexpensive.
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Supermarché Akhavan
6170 Rue Sherbrooke OThe best Persian grocery in town! This place has awesome nuts and olives plus great baklava and many other Persian specialities… A huge selection of teas! Very inexpensive.
Essentials
Québec is a little old-fashioned with its laws around alcohol. You have to go to a speciality store to get good wine or the hard stuff (oddly you can get great beer in any corner store).
Our little SAQ (Société d'Alcool du Québec) is a really well-curated spot. They have a special corner in the back of the store where they have their recommended wines… go there, ask their advice; it's good. Open until 10 PM.
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SAQ Express
940 Avenue du Mont-Royal EQuébec is a little old-fashioned with its laws around alcohol. You have to go to a speciality store to get good wine or the hard stuff (oddly you can get great beer in any corner store).
Our little SAQ (Société d'Alcool du Québec) is a really well-curated spot. They have a special corner in the back of the store where they have their recommended wines… go there, ask their advice; it's good. Open until 10 PM.
Drinks & Nightlife
Honey Martins is a traditional Irish pub in what used to be a mostly Irish neighbourhood. Great place to talk. They have really good live music every night of the week.
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Honey Martin
5916 Rue Sherbrooke OHoney Martins is a traditional Irish pub in what used to be a mostly Irish neighbourhood. Great place to talk. They have really good live music every night of the week.
Parks & Nature
This is the centre of our hood. Great things happen in NDG park. Lots of things for kids like splash parks, playground… trees. A very nice little spot.
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Notre Dame de Grâce Park
3500 Av GirouardThis is the centre of our hood. Great things happen in NDG park. Lots of things for kids like splash parks, playground… trees. A very nice little spot.
We call it a mountain… which it obviously is not, but it does provide an amazing view of the city and it is a great place to observe the mingling of cultures in Montreal.
There is a great walk from the Belvedere along the top of the southern escarpment that provides one continuous, bird's-eye-view of the downtown core.
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Mount Royal Park
1260 Chem. RemembranceWe call it a mountain… which it obviously is not, but it does provide an amazing view of the city and it is a great place to observe the mingling of cultures in Montreal.
There is a great walk from the Belvedere along the top of the southern escarpment that provides one continuous, bird's-eye-view of the downtown core.
Shopping
We love this place. Books to the ceiling and a great selection of re-issued and used vinyl records.
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Encore Books & Records
5670 Rue Sherbrooke OWe love this place. Books to the ceiling and a great selection of re-issued and used vinyl records.