13-09-2005 06:05									#1
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Given the fair number of Canucks here in Poly, I thought I might ask.

I shall be in Montreal Wednesday and Thursday, and I am wonderingh if anyone has any recommendations for places to eat or drink..I would appreciate if they are on the economical side, given that money is tight.

	13-09-2005 06:20									#2
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Schwartz's Deli for Montreal smoked meat. Biddle's if you like live jazz - it's more pricey though. Lots of other restaraunts on Rue Cresent, just off Rue Ste. Catherine.

http://www.montreal.worldweb.com/Ma...ap.html?map_id=

	13-09-2005 06:21									#3
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	13-09-2005 06:25									#4
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There's this amazingly good and cheap Vietnamese place. Forget the address but it's right down the street from the city's youth hostel.

	13-09-2005 06:26									#5
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Which youth hostel? I am staying at a hostel..is it close to the arena?

	13-09-2005 06:35									#6
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this one:

http://www.hostellingmontreal.com/en/home.aspx

It's like a block away, really small place. Go out the front door of the hostel and go straight. Called IIRC Le Aroma d'Asia or something vaguely similar to that. Get the crispy duck set meal, it's amazingly good and costs like $8 canadian and includes soup, salad, dessert and appetizer...

	13-09-2005 06:38									#7
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Schwartz's and Ben's are probably the two best (or at a minimum, most iconic) smoked meat shops in Montreal. Ben's is more in the downtown core. I can recommend a couple of pretty good places on St. Laurent, but they wouldn't fall under the economical category - Moishes for steak, and the Globe for more casual fare.

Just head to the Plateau area on St. Laurent and/or St. Denis. You won't have any problem finding a place to eat there.

	13-09-2005 06:39									#8
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I think that's the place I am staying. Thanks for the tip.

	13-09-2005 08:11									#9
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Eat frogs' legs. Have all you want!

	13-09-2005 08:15									#10
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Oops. Forgot the winkie.

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quote: Originally posted by notyoueither Eat frogs' legs. Have all you want!

Only if I find them for cheap. Otherwise, I have no problems. After eating snails, chicken innards, all sorts of cow innards and other assorted paraphanelia, a few frogs hinds legs are no biggie.

I mean some people can be such babies when it comes to what they will ingest. Man was made an omnivore for a reason.

	13-09-2005 08:24									#12
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There should be no shortage. Island in the middle of a river... Large French population...

It's a veritable bonanza of frogs!

	13-09-2005 08:50									#13
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Fairmount Bagels is a must. Montreal bagels are fantastic.

Ben's

	13-09-2005 10:52									#14
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Tell him where to get some poutine.

	13-09-2005 10:53									#15
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Anywhere?

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I was going to say "good poutine" but I'm not sure there is any such thing.

	13-09-2005 11:00									#17
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I reccomend any La Be lle probince for pioutine

Otherwise, I ageree with waht has been said so far.

For a burger yo u might want to chekc out MR Stteeer on Ste Cathereine's around Peel (can't remembver exactly right now)

Very delicious standard AMsderican cuisinge. Curly rfries are gereay


Ben or sSchwarz's for smoked wmeat is esseantialy Ben's is on de Maissoneuv3 (between ste catherine and sherbrooke) aroung Mansfield IIRC. Schwarz's is on the Main on St Laurent. Both are deliciout.s

Sorry for being drunk.
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	13-09-2005 11:04									#18
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Also, I recomnend yhtat you have a Dqagwood's sandwich while in Montreal., There's a Dagwood's on Ste \Catherine
at Guy. ORder the Dagwood's sandwich with Tomato, Lettuce and the Dagwood's sauce. The last item in sessential. To quote a review of the restaruant "[dagwood's sauce] might just be God's sweat"

Hah.

	13-09-2005 18:14									#19
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quote: Originally posted by GePap Man was made an omnivore for a reason.

Er, to make it easier to survive as a hunter-gatherer?

	13-09-2005 19:20									#20
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Out of curiosity - can one take a toddler to a youth hostel (and even if one can, is it bad form?). Also, what are the age limits for the adult, I would have thought I was too old, but from what I've gathered GePap is not exactly a compatriot of Kuci. Plus my wife may very well fall into the proper age brackets.

	13-09-2005 19:26									#21
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I wouldn't go to a hostel as a family.

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Not necessarily as a family - my wife might go seperately and then meet up with me due to my job and problems getting off any significant amount of time. However, I have a suspicion that toddlers and youth hostels are not exactly a good fit.

	13-09-2005 19:41									#23
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Some youth hostels have family rooms. And there really isnt an age limit anymore, as long as you pay the annual membership.

We were once in Boston, on an emergency trip when my dad was sick, and it was the weekend of several graduations, and every hotel in the metro area was booked solid - we finally got a room at a hostel - it was actually a Boston University dorm that was temporarily a hostel. There was no AC, but we were OK with that, we just needed places to stay.

Ive since stayed at hostels in Hartford, Ct, and in Virginia Beach, Va (not sure if the latter was a federation hostel). And im no spring chicken.

	17-09-2005 09:52									#24
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I am back from Montreal. Thank you for all the suggestions- I ended up going to Fairmount Bagels and Schwrtz, as well as St Vitauers bagels and a few other places. I was generally happy with all the places I went to eat, and had a very nice time walking around Montreal as well.

I saw one family in the Hostel, a British couple with two small children. Honestly, it seemed a nice place fore the kids, if you make sure the family has the room for themselves. There were wuite a lot of non youths there, and the place was clean, and not rowdy at all. They had a communal dinning room in the basement as well as kitchens for people to cook their own meals. Overall I was happy with the hostel, and it had a great central location.

	17-09-2005 18:32									#25
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I know the dude who owns St Viatteur's Bagel

He once served bagels to Prince Charles...

	17-09-2005 20:18									#26
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quote: I was generally happy with all the places I went to eat,

You're from New York, everything is going to be a slight letdown by comparison with what you can get there.

	17-09-2005 20:44									#27
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You didn't go to a Montreal steak house?

	17-09-2005 21:13									#28
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Smoked meat, bagel and poutine are much higher on my list than is steak...

	17-09-2005 21:18									#29
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POOOOOOOUUUUUUUUTTTIINEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

	17-09-2005 21:22									#30
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse Smoked meat, bagel and poutine are much higher on my list than is steak...

Agreed!

Although a good steak with Montreal Steak Spice is mouth watering.

But if you find just the right place, the poutine and/or smoked meat will dazzle you.

My favorite for poutines is a small place near the Jacques Cartier Bridge on the south shore.