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                <title>Francophone Montreal</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[In Montreal as an anglophone it is tempting to stick to Ste Catherines and St Laurent, but it is definitely worth your while overcoming a fear of the language barrier and heading to the French side. The areas of Rue Mont Royal, rue St Denis and around provide better shopping, friendlier cafes and a real insight into the true heart of the city.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Commensal</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Montreal vegetarian restaurant - a vast, imaginative &amp; varied selection of soups, salads &amp; hot dishes all based on fresh &amp; tasty ingredients.<br><br>Self service from buffet, sold by weight. I paid only 10 CDN for a massive &amp; delicious plateful.<br><br>In Montreal’s Latin Quarter, décor features revealed red brick walls, decorative fireplaces, wood floors and tables.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Shed Café</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Great lounge-cum-restaurant on the the trendy Saint-Laurent Boulevard, with good food and equally well-made drinks. I recommend the martinis. Perfect place to kick off the evening while waiting for the clubs to get started.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Abiata</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[An Ethiopian restaurant on the awesome street of St. Denis in the Plateau region. The best thing to get is the injera with a variety plate of different dishes. You get to eat it with your hands! They provide you with warm napkins at the table to wash up with before and after. It's very special, and also delicious.]]></description>
                
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                <title>La Chilenita</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is a set of two little Chilean restaurants that have particularly good empanadas.  Many varieties, including several delicious vegetarian options.  Also serves nachos, quesadillas, tacos, and burritos - quality ingredients and sauces.]]></description>
                
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                <title>La Banquise</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Fantastic resto with great poutine selection, as well as a summer garden patio.  Their poutine has both quantity and quality.  Either eat in, or get it to take out to eat in nearby Parc la Fontaine.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Maison des Bagels</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Maison des Bagels on St Viateur is open 24/7 and the bagels are the best in the world - wonderful with Liberté cream cheese (eat your heart out Philadelphia) and a smoked salmon mousse.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Schwartz's Deli</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Schwartz's serves the best smoked meat sandwich in the world. Go to this Hebrew delicatessen for smoked meat in an old-school deli atmosphere.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Fairmount Bagels</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A small place where you can buy freshly-made bagels and then sit out on the street benches to eat them. Forget fat, spongy bagels; get the real ones here - thinner, and more chewy. Don't miss the ones with bits of orange peel in them.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Santropol</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This restaurant right near the Parc Mont-Royal specialises in custom sandwiches, and showcases local photography, and a certain local ambience.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Beauty's Restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Go to Beauty's for brunch or breakfast. I love the mishmash of this place, which has been operating since 1942 and has consistently been voted best place for breakie and brunch.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The bagels, and the metro</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you're in Montreal, you've got to have a bagel (or two, or a dozen) at St Viateur Bagels. Best bagels in Canada, bar none.<br><br>Also, while the Metro is great to get around, it's not nearly as user friendly as London's. Many stations don't have ticket machines, and many don't have easy-to-find information about fares. And, well, the staff aren't exactly warm... That being said, it's still a great way to get around.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Chez Cora</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A great breakfast/brunch place which does amazing pancakes and fruit smoothies in a fun environment. Get there early on the weekend though, or be prepared to queue - this place is popular!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bagels Etc</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Brunch is a major part of life in Montreal. So are bagels. <br><br>Bagels Etc, a small cafe on rue St Laurent does the perfect bagel brunch in an amazing atmosphere. It's also one of Montreal native Leonard Cohen's favourite spots. You can't go to Montreal without coming here.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Sushi Depanneur</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The Sushi Depanneur has got to be unique among sushi restaurants, not only in Montreal. Only here will you get to eat delicious fresh sushi at affordable prices in the shop window of a corner store! It perfectly captures the beauty of unpretentious Montreal.<br><br>The restaurant is on Rue Mont Royal, and the street in itself is worth a visit: little shops jostle for space with a multitude of bars and restaurants, all in the middle of one of Montreal's oldest quartiers, the Plateau Mont Royal - which incidentally is the neighbourhood with the highest population density in all of North America. Look out for the colourfully painted houses with winding outdoors staircases.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bringing your own wine</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Many Montreal restaurants don't have a license to serve wine, but this is a good thing, because you can bring your own and there's no corkage.  Combined with the competitive Montreal restaurant market, it makes for a cheap way to eat and drink very well.  Look for restaurants with the sign "Apportez Votre Vin".  <br><br>Wine can be bought at one of Quebec's SAQ (Societe des Alcools du Quebec) stores or at a depanneur (corner store).]]></description>
                
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                <title>Jean Talon Market</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Less chic than Marche Atwater, but bigger, cheaper and with much better street food. Shops include the fantastically named "Qui L'ait Cru?" for cheese.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Rue Prince Arthur at night</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This stretch of cobble stone street between St Laurent and Square Saint Louis is forbidden to cars. There are lots of outdoor restaurants, bars, cafes, and it's packed with people at night, especially in the summer. Square Saint Louis is a gem too.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Le Saint-Amable restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Some years back I had the best meal I've ever eaten in North America in this restaurant in the Old Port section of Montreal. It’s impossible to forget French standards like Beef Wellington, but there were also specialities like a mussels-with-crepe dish that came with a perfectly composed cream sauce - le pannequet Ostendaise (pancakes as served in Ostend). Food and wine and pleasant service flowed generously and the cost of the meal was meagre by New York City standards. Best of all, there was no intrusive, overbearing service by out-of-work stockbrokers or wannabe actors or models as in Gotham. But caution: restaurants change hands - or they just change, period. Check with a local gourmand first.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Marche Atwater</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Marche Atwater is a market selling a wide range of fresh fruit, veg, cheese, bread, cakes and other tempting foodstuffs. It is housed in a big old art deco building by the Lachine Canal, with many stalls outside in the summer, some of which also sell flowers and shrubs. Well worth stopping by if you're in the area for a cheap and tasty lunch or just to stock up if you're self-catering.]]></description>
                
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