The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Wilensky's Light Lunch
This is where literary history is still served. The 1932 counter appears in Mordecai Richler's novel of immigrant Jewish Montreal, and it still runs by its old rules — the Wilensky Special comes with mustard whether you like it or not, and they won't cut it. Eating here, you're inside the Mile End that produced the city's great chronicler of Jewish Montreal.
A 1932 Jewish lunch counter immortalized in Mordecai Richler's 'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz' — and barely changed since.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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