Thu 15 May 2008
Well perhaps not but I am taking off this weekend to a place I have been in spitting distance of but have never crossed the border. I find it strange that I have been all around the world and to almost every state in America and still have not bothered to visit our kind neighbours to the north. So with my roommates Bryan and Chris leaving this summer for far off jobs we decided to take a trip with a bunch of friends up to Montreal. I went down to NY last weekend for mothers day and to swap my car for my parents van just for this trip. It should be fun.
Oh and Les Halles, Anthony Bourdain’s home base, is fantastic. If you are down in New York City and in midtown I highly recommend it
May 15th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Have any of the others been to MTL before? If not, The Plateau is one of the places to be (it took me a couple of trips to “discover” it).
May 15th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Let’s establish some ground rules.
1. No insulting our beer.
2. Our beer is good.
3. Hands off les Quebecoises, there aren’t enough of them to go around. You can look, though.
We love Americans. Visit often!
May 16th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Have fun in our little province.. The plateau is a really cool neighborhood (I live there!)
May 16th, 2008 at 2:50 am
While some of us head to NY for this week-end (next Monday is an holiday), you head to Montréal
Recommended streets: St-Denis (between Ste-Catherine and Sherbrooke), St-Laurent (between Sherbrooke and Mont-Royal) and Mont-Royal. These streets are all in or next to “Le plateau”. The place to be (and live, like me too hehe)!
May 16th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Haha, you guys are great. Thanks for the advice. As long as there is beer I won’t insult it.
As for the Quebecoises your going to have to keep their hands off me or I might not be able to resist – I love it when a girl speaks French to me (I have a gorgeous Swedish friend who lived in Brussels and would make me melt when she spoke French. I had to remind myself she was just a friend
)!!!
As for NY advice (I’m assuming NYC) I would suggest STK for an expensive steak or Pastis downtown for a moderately priced, excellent French bistro where you can see and be seen. I would recommend Les Halles midtown also if you want something more intimate. There are also a number of rooftop lounges if the weather is nice. I’ve been to 230 FIFTH (which is on fifth ave), it is expensive and will be empty if the weather is not nice but the view and experience is simply amazing. Make sure to bring nice shoes and buisness casual/up-scale club clothes if you want to get into the clubs and lounges but if you are a dive bar type of person who likes good music you can’t go wrong with the village. May I recommend Nightengale bar if it is still there and you can find it on 2nd Ave. @ 13th Street (looks like it might be a lounge now, such a shame).