Montreal

Contents

Chop (Updated Nov.4)

Coffee/dessert

Bars (Oct.1)

Pastries (Updated Nov.6)

Bagels

Lebanese food (Updated Nov.6)

Dance (Updated Oct.9)

Can't live without accumulating CDs?

Coffee/Dessert

• Brulerie St-Denis. 286-9158. Cool, good coffees.
• La Chartreuse. St-Denis above Sherbrooke. Pretentious, expensive, and not that good. Live violin.
• Le Daphne (salon de the). St-Denis and Roy. Really nice.
• Duc de Lorraine.
• Eldorado. Also St-Laurent above Laurier. good coffees. Good desserts.
• L'Ile Verte. McGill below Ste-Catherine. Very good tiramisu.
• Kilo. St-Laurent above Laurier (on West side). If you like cheesecakes and pies. Cool ambiance.

Bars (Oct.1)

• Exotika. Laurier East of Parc. Also a cafe and a restaurant (3 floors). Cool place. Different clientele at different times.
• Whisky Cafe. St-Viateur at St-Laurent (right where my parked car was bashed by a speeding driver last Friday while I happily tangoed). All possible Whiskys, even the most expensive ones.

Pastries (Updated Nov.6)

• Duc de Lorraine. Cote des Neiges above Queen Mary. Excellent croissants. The Best Tarte aux Pommes after mom's. (Back to cafes)
• L'Eclair (or whatever its new name is), in the Faubourg. (Not to be mixed up with the other (bad) patisserie in the Faubourg.) The best eclairs in Montreal, by far; (I'm talking about the eclairs with "creme patissiere", of course, the ones with Chantilly don't matter). Other very good stuff too, such as the Mochas.
• Patisserie Belge. Parc, below Milton. Try the Cointreau.
• Au Bon Pain. Maybe slightly less refined than the Duc, but the strawberry tart is better here than anywhere else (except at home, of course).
• Kouigh Aman. 3447A Mt-Royal (a little west of St-Denis). From Brittany. Try their specialty, the kouigh aman.

Bagels

• Fairmount Bagels. Fairmount between St-Urbain and Clarke. 24-hour factory. Believe me, these things are always fresh.

Lebanese food (Updated Nov.6)

• Andalos: Bakery. Open till 11 every day. The best bread, mneiche, and lahm b'aajin in town.
• Adonis: Supermarket. On Decarie. Tricky. Some things are fresh or cheap there, others are old or expensive.
• Antabli: Fruit cocktails and ice cream. Also on Decarie. Very good but expensive ($6/cocktail).
• Daou. Restaurant.
• Patisserie Mahrouse. 1010 Liege (angle Acadie). 279-1629. The only decent middle-eastern pastries in town.
  ps. There's another Mahrouse on Acadie, and the two are apparently owned by brothers; I hear this one is better.

Can't live without accumulating CDs?

Archambault. Berri and Ste-Catherine. Widest selection, highest prices. Cannot listen to CDs before buying.

HMV. Ste-Catherine around Peel. Best prices, 1 free CD for every 10 purchased.

Renaud-Bray. Check out the Cote-des-Neiges location. Best service. Extremely nice and knowledgeable people.