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From upscale restaurants to cozy eateries to gourmet food trucks, Montréal offers one-of-a-kind experiences to tantalize any and all palates. The variety of fare on offer embraces the culinary traditions of some 80 or so cultural communities, includes a wealth of local produce and is enhanced by the boundless creativity of local chefs. In this city, eating is an experience in and of itself, often mixing haute cuisine and timeless recipes from Québec’s past with locally grown ingredients.
Planning on coming to Montréal? Feel free to get in touch with us! For questions concerning an activity or to request an interview, email us. For insiders’ information about where to eat in Montreal click here. |
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Taste MTL: the first edition of Montréal’s Restaurant Week
This type of event is popular in cities around the world, and in November Montréal launches its own Restaurant Week where Montrealers and tourists alike can celebrate the richness of our local products through the incredible talents of our chefs, at fixed prices. From November 1 to 11, Taste MTL will be the opportunity to explore Montréal’s diverse food scene at a number of restaurants offering three-course fixed menus at affordable prices. Sign up for the TASTE MTL newsletter for a chance to win a free dinner, and don’t forget to reserve your table (starting in September). |
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Beer culture: microbrewery tours and a beer festival
Montréal offers not one, but two guided tours for beer aficionados:Microbreweries, maxi flavours! (VDM Global DMC) and The Montréal Brewpub Experience (Local Montréal). The first is a tour of breweries in the Quartier Latin area, while the second tour takes you to three unique breweries that brew strictly for on-site consumption. Montréal’s annual beer festival, theMondial de la bière – a unique tasting event dedicated to the reinstatement of beer’s noble status – recently hosted the 10th annual Canadian Brewing Awards Conference this year. Hops fans will be delighted! |
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Innovative food events: FoodLab and the Omnivore Food Festival
One of Montréal’s most innovative art centres, the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) is home to the new culinary hot spot dubbed FoodLab. Two of our renowned chefs serve up experimental cuisine during the Aperitivo (5–10 p.m.) every Wednesday through Saturday. Equally unique and also hosted at the SAT, the Omnivore Food Festival offers cooking demonstrations and serves up the latest trends at this hip new foodie event from August 17 to 20. |
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Montréal cuisine: a multicultural culinary landscape
With the most restaurants per capita in all of North America, Montréal’s passion for great food is unlimited. From fast food to haute cuisine, Asian to vegan, local to exotic, cozy to classy, Montrealers and visitors have the advantage of tremendous variety when it comes to choosing a bakery, café, grocery, market or restaurant. The traditions and harmony of some 80 cultural communities make Montréal’s culinary map one to be explored and savoured. |
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National Geographic Traveler puts the spotlight on Montréal’s gastronomy in an unprecedented iPad app.
National Geographic selected Montréal as the subject of its very first electronic gastronomy guide. Readers can download “A Taste of Montréal,” available as a free iPad application, to discover the gourmet hot spots and Montréal’s rich culinary experiences through 360° photography and interviews. Some Montrealers, amateurs of good food, give their insiders’ tips about what and where to eat when visiting Montreal. |
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Meet our markets this summer
Summer is the best time to visit one or many of Montréal’s public markets for their cheery and bustling ambiance, variety of fresh produce and local specialties. Jean-Talon Market, our largest and most popular, is open year-round and offers a multitude of fruit and vegetable stalls as well as boutiques selling spices, oils, fresh pasta, cheese and deli meats, and typical products from Québec. Other markets not to be missed are: the Art Deco Atwater Market and the beautiful Beaux Arts-style building at the Maisonneuve Market. |
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A preview of Montréal’s passion for food
Tempted by all that our city has to offer as far as gastronomy goes? Be sure to watch this video where local Montrealers share their love for the city’s culinary scene. |
| CALENDAR OF EVENTS |
| Montreal’s Italian Week FestivalAugust 10 to 19, 2012An exciting annual celebration: food, shows, tournaments, exhibits and guided historical tours of Little Italy.
18th-century Public Market
Pointe-à-Callière, Musée d’archéologie et d’histoire de Montréal
August 25 and 26, 2012 Take a trip back in time among stalls, a military camp, a Native camp, musicians, craftspeople and historic figures.
Salon des vins et fromages du Québec à Montréal
October 2012
Complexe Desjardins Meet vintners and learn all about the wines and cheeses of Québec, from the production process through appellations and origins.
La Grande Dégustation de Montréal
November 8 to 10, 2012
Palais des congrès de Montréal (Montréal Convention Centre) Nearly 250 vintners, distillers and brewers from around the world present under one roof some 1,500 products, the majority exclusive to the event. |
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