Taste your way through Montreal’s Mile End on a guided tour featuring warm wood-fired bagels, classic poutine, street-style gnocchi, and a savory Mediterranean secret dish.
Discover the Mile End neighbourhood in Montreal on a guided foodie walking tour. Enjoy 7 food/drink tastings, and learn about the history of Mile End and its culturall...
Taste your way through Montreal’s Mile End with a local guide. Enjoy iconic dishes like bagels, smoked meat, gnocchi, and poutine while discovering the city’s rich cul...
Wilensky's has griddled its fried bologna-and-salami Special at a nine-stool Mile End counter since 1932, an unchanging Montreal snack served with mustard.
TryFried bologna special
TipIt comes with mustard and never cut; do not ask them to change it, that is the whole ritual.
St-Viateur turns out Montreal's honey-boiled, wood-fired bagels around the clock in Mile End, sold hot by the dozen from a flour-dusted Saint-Viateur counter.
TryWood-fired bagel
TipEat a sesame bagel while it is still warm; day-old ones are for freezing and toasting later.
Nouilles de Lan Zhou stretches its noodles by hand at the window in Montreal's Chinatown, dropping them into cumin-spiced Lanzhou-style beef broth to order.
TryHand-pulled noodles
TipWatch the dough being pulled at the counter and order the beef soup; specify thin or wide noodles.
Qing Hua folds its soup dumplings by hand in Montreal's Chinatown, sending out steamer baskets of pork-and-crab xiao long bao that burst with hot broth.
TrySoup dumplings
TipNibble a corner first to let the steam out; a dozen pork and crab is plenty for one hungry person.
Wilensky's has griddled its fried bologna-and-salami Special at a nine-stool Mile End counter since 1932, an unchanging Montreal snack served with mustard.
TryFried bologna special
TipIt comes with mustard and never cut; do not ask them to change it, that is the whole ritual.
Tacos Frida carves al pastor off the trompo in Saint-Henri, Montreal, onto small house-made corn tortillas for some of the city's most authentic street tacos.
TryAl pastor tacos
TipOrder three tacos and hit the salsa bar; the al pastor and pineapple pairing is the standout.
Schwartz's carves hand-sliced smoked meat to order on Saint-Laurent in Montreal, the counter-and-queue benchmark for the city's defining sandwich since 1928.
TrySmoked meat sandwich
TipOrder it medium-fat off the takeout counter and eat it standing; the deli caraway rye is not optional.
St-Viateur turns out Montreal's honey-boiled, wood-fired bagels around the clock in Mile End, sold hot by the dozen from a flour-dusted Saint-Viateur counter.
TryWood-fired bagel
TipEat a sesame bagel while it is still warm; day-old ones are for freezing and toasting later.