Montreal doesn't perform for tourists. It feeds them if they know where to stand.At 6 a.m. on Saint-Viateur Street, woodsmoke is already rising over the rooftops and a queue of five people waits in the cold for bagels too hot to hold. That queue is the real Montreal. This book takes you to it and to two hundred more places like it.
Written by a food journalist who came for a weekend and stayed eleven years, Montreal Food Guide is the complete eating companion to North America's most delicious and most misunderstood city.
Inside you'll discover:
The truth about Montreal bagels - and how to run the two-block taste test between the city's rival hundred-year-old bakeries
What separates real poutine from the imitations, and the ten addresses that get it right
Legendary smoked meat, Portuguese charcoal chicken, hand-pulled noodles and $6 sandwiches that outclass $40 dinners
Complete neighbourhood guides to Old Montreal, Plateau Mont-Royal, Mile End, Downtown, Griffintown, Little Italy, Saint-Henri and Chinatown
Seven ready-to-follow itineraries: One Perfect Food Day, Weekend Escape, Luxury Culinary Weekend, Budget Adventure, Romantic Tour, Family Experience and Rainy Day Trail
Montreal's Bring-Your-Own-Wine restaurants the loophole that saves $50 a bottle
Sugar shacks, ice cider, maple grading and Quebec cheese, explained by someone who buys them weekly
Real prices for everything, daily budgets from $40 to $500, tipping and tax maths, and reservation strategies that actually work
Essential French dining phrases, etiquette, allergy cards and emergency contacts
