The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Schwartz's Deli
This counter has run on Boulevard Saint-Laurent since 1928, opened by a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and it anchors the history of the Main as the immigrant artery and garment district. The Main was the dividing line between Anglo west and French east, and the corridor where wave after wave of immigrants landed. Eating here, you're inside that history — order it medium-fat.
Hand-curing smoked meat since 1928 on the immigrant Main — a continuous institution of Jewish Montreal, and a marker of the garment-district Main.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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