Montreal Travel Guide

F&W’s guide features spectacular restaurants, smoked meat specialists, design hotels and shops for food lovers. Plus: delicious recipes from Montreal chefs.

Top Picks

Montreal Restaurants

Insider Picks
- Le Bremner
- Le Filet
Splurge
- Au Pied de Cochon
- Le Club Chasse & Pêche
Classic
- L’Express
- Toqué!
Best Value
- Grumman ’78
- Lawrence
Bars
- Barroco
- Pullman

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Hotel Pick

Hôtel Gault

Big windows in Hôtel Gault’s rooms overlook Old Montreal. The interior is modern with Italian furniture (Bertoia Bird chairs, Tolomeo lamps), neutral tones and heated bathroom floors, punctuated by cast-iron columns dating to the building’s textile-factory days. hotelgault.com.

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Montreal Restaurants — Les 400 Coups: This Old Montreal spot is a collaboration between two veterans of the city’s restaurant scene, Marc-André Jetté and Patrice Demers. Jetté’s modern French dishes all have some element of surprise.

Editor’s Pick — Les 400 Coups: This Old Montreal spot is a collaboration between two veterans of the city’s restaurant scene, Marc-André Jetté and Patrice Demers. Jetté’s modern French dishes all have some element of surprise.

Insider’s Guide

Gail Simmons Loves Mish-Mash Omelets and Smoked Meat

The Top Chef judge shares her picks from a gastropub with a Southern twist to a heavenly cookbook store.

Editor Obsessions

The Radical French-Canadian Food of Joe Beef

The chefs at Montreal’s Joe Beef, Frédéric Morin and David McMillan, are driven by a Quebecois passion for meat, cheese and wine.

Recipes from Montreal’s Joe Beef

Grilled Cheese-and-Bacon Sandwiches with Cheese Curds

Cheese curds are milky and delicious in a grilled cheese sandwich like this one, which is spread with Joe Beef’s signature “chicken glace mayo.”
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Buckwheat Crackers with Smoked Fish

Using buckwheat flour in these incredibly crisp and buttery crackers gives them an appealing, earthy flavor.
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Braised Lamb with Potatoes

Frédéric Morin cooks lamb until richly browned and tender and serves it with its juices over creamy potato slices.
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Bacon Hamburgers with Catalina Dressing

Joe Beef chefs Frédéric Morin and David McMillan create a tangy homemade version of Kraft Catalina dressing with tomato, vinegar, paprika, garlic and hot sauce.
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Pumpkin Pie-Croissant Pudding

Bakers make traditional diplomat pudding with soaked ladyfingers or cake baked with fruit and custard. In this take, Frédéric Morin likes using leftover croissants.
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