I love the international food in Montreal, which is diverse and cheap, perhaps partly because of the student population.
Among my favorites are the dumpling places where you choose a few types and giant steamers show up with 10 per variety or so – my favorite closed down a few years ago, and I haven’t settled on a new one yet, and the Lebanese places with fold-over lahmacun and other flatbreads to go.
Also a favorite – shopping at Marche Adonis (since you will have an apt). Their hot food section is as good as any restaurant, plus they have vegetable and meat pies to buy by the kg, lahmacun by the stack, an amazing cheese section, ditto sweets/cookies/baklava (they occasionally have pink “jalebis” – not what they call them, but as delicious as the Indian variation), and also a meat counter that has pre-seasoned (and pre-formed, if you want that) kabab mixture, and a massive feta bar. Oh Adonis, I miss you!
Other things to bring home and eat – Tourtiere (you can go fancier, but I’m never disappointed by Premiere Moisson, which I also freeze and bring home), anything at Marche Atwater (especially once the weather is better and produce is plentiful), prepared foods from smaller Asian grocery stores.
Restaurants-wise, I know everyone says APC is over the top. but I had a wonderful meal there my last visit in 2019, and I’ll be back!
I’ll dig up my notes from my last trip later – there were a bunch of places we wanted to try and never made it to.
Are you traveling anywhere? “Wine country”? So close, and so pretty!
