The First-Timer · Julien · Montréal
The bagel-deli-poutine essential food crawl
If you do nothing else food-wise, do these three at their best, in order. Start with a hot bagel in the Mile End (St-Viateur and Fairmount, the taste-test), walk down the Main to Schwartz's for smoked meat (medium-fat, takeout counter), and end at La Banquise for classic poutine. Three iconic Montreal dishes, each at its benchmark, in one walkable half-day. This is the essential eating, ranked and routed.
The three dishes you came for — Montreal bagel, smoked meat, and poutine — in one walkable Plateau-and-Mile-End crawl, each done at its benchmark.
— Julien, The First-Timer
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