The quintessential end-of-summer experience in Quebec is the barbecue. Local meat on the grill, fresh-off-the-cob corn, family and friends, and the last of the sun’s warm rays. This weekend, September...
The grape harvest is the time of year when ripe grapes are picked from the vineyards and crushed—all together—with the feet before being placed in vats for next year’s vintage. In Quebec, the grape harves...
Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean we’ll stop searching—with an almost obsessive enthusiasm—for the best, newest, and greenest café in Montreal. But since fall is coming, our criteria are a little diff...
Just a half-hour drive from Montreal, you can take a stroll through the narrow streets of a charming village that brings to mind Stars Hollow from *Gilmore Girls* and those nostalgic visions we have of th...
The days are getting shorter, students are moving back into their rooms in shared apartments on the Plateau, it’s the start of apple season—it’s back-to-school time. And this back-to-school season, like al...
Because we only eat tomatoes if they’re from Quebec and we’re crazy about the corn on the cob harvested in the small towns where we grew up, and because we eat local and we tell everyone about it, we’re h...
It’s been eight years since we lost ourfavorite foodie: the great Anthony Bourdain,Tony tohis friends. The chef and host of shows exploring cuisine (and localpoetic zeitgeist) was not only one of our firs...
The weather is humid, almost tropical, and the potted flowers decorating Montreal’s streets have grown wildly, reaching proportions reminiscent of drawings from the Jurassic era. Plus, it’s indoors—and wh...
At the bend of a small street shaded by tall trees, in a tiny town that appears as if from a movie as you round a hill covered in the forests of the Eastern Townships, there is a very old red-brick conven...
At Greenspot, pour-over coffee is served just like in diners in the movies, and if you didn’t grow up in the ’50s, it’s quite an exceptional experience. Plus, the coffee is served with a warmth and effici...