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Beauty's
This sleek, retro '50s diner serves up, what many consider, Montréal's best breakfast - all day long. Owner Hymie Sckolnick greets everyone with 'How are you, dahling.' Ask for 'The Special' - a toasted bagel with lox, cream cheese, tomato and onion. It'll be hard to go anyplace else once you've tried it. Lineups on Saturdays and Sunday mornings can run up to 40 minutes long, even in winter.
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Beaver Club
The original Beaver Club was formed in 1785 by a group of Montréal fur barons; to join you had to have wintered in the Northwest Territories. Membership is still elite - ask to see the pic of Bill Gates in trapper's furs - but anyone can eat in the impeccably serviced, old-fashioned dining room and enjoy a cross-section of Canadian luxury edibles: Îles de Madeleine lobster, Charlevoix veal, or caribou.
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Chez Nick
This perfect little diner has been smack in the middle of swish Westmount since 1920. The Montréal diner staples are all here - burgers and fries, smoked meat and desserts so high they threaten to topple over. But it's got something for everyone, even the fusion fanatics, and you'll find health fare like brie and Granny Smith apple sandwiches with balsamic vinaigrette on black Russian bread. Lunchtime is rush time and lineups snake out the door.
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Green Spot
This diner near Atwater Market resembles a classic truck stop, with miniature jukeboxes at your booth and waiters who talk like they've heard it all. The fantastic breakfast specials, such as two eggs with sausage, fried potatoes, toast, baked beans and melon slices, run until (later on weekends).
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La Binerie Mont Royal
Authentic Québécois cuisine is served from this diner-like counter. Full of typical Québécois dishes including tourtière pie, pork and beans or pudding chômeur (a bread pudding with brown sugar syrup) as well as universal comfort food like grilled cheese sandwiches.
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La Louisiane
Montréal meets the Deep South in this casual NDG eatery, with amazing results. The menu bears the hearty, delicious flavors of jambalaya, shrimp Creole or chicken étouffé, all armed with mysterious peppers and spices. The diet-blowing Voodoo Pasta has spicy Cajun sausage and tomatoes in white wine and cream. While you're here, be sure to check out paintings of street scenes by N'awlins native James Michelopoulos.
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La Maison du Bagel
La Maison du Bagel is the real deal. Their freshly made plain, poppy-seed or sesame-seed bagels are perfectly crusty, chewy and slightly sweet. Also known as the St Viateur bagel shop, this place has a reputation stretching across Canada and beyond - check out the posted newspaper articles from the world over.
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La Paryse
Often credited with the thickest, juiciest burgers and best fries in town, this smart little retro diner offers an almost paralyzing variety of toppings and gorgeous thick milkshakes. This place is an integral part of the neighborhood and when owner Madame Paryse recently celebrated 25 years in business, employees and customers alike celebrated by sending her a flood of congratulatory emails.
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Ma-Am-M Bolduc
This neighborhood eatery with piped-in punk and New Age music serves mainstays of Québécois cuisine: meatball stew, tourtière , and more poutines than you can shake a trotter at. Long departed, Mme Bolduc's friendly round face still graces the marquee above the terrace tables.
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Magnan
Founded in the 1930s as a blue-collar diner, Taverne Magnan has long since raised meat and potatoes to an art form. Its reputation is fantastic roast beef - long-marinating, speckled with peppercorns and served in its own juice. This is the place to put back on the pounds after a day's cycling along the Canal de Lachine (near the front door).
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Marché de la Villette
Here you'll find a convivial traditional deli serving made-to-order sandwiches with homemade pâté, cured ham, sausages, foie gras and an array of pungent cheeses. Also does meat and seafood mains to go, best followed by its flavorful ice cream or sherbet.
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Olive + Gourmando
Legendary in town for it's sandwiches and baked goods and as busy as a train station at rush hour when office workers from all over the Old Town flock here for lunch creating waits of up to 30 minutes for a table. Some of its most popular offerings include the fig bread, olive and rosemary loaves, and its sandwiches (try the trout variety which is slathered with herbed cream cheese, capers and spinach and sun-dried tomatoes).
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Patati Patata
This hole in the wall (literally, if more than 15 people are inside you'll probably have to wait) is known for its poutine , borscht and burgers. A Montréal classic.
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Three Amigos
You know, sometimes it isn't all about the food. The chicken chimichangas (around C$12 ) here are lethally good, and the homemade salsa reeks to perfection with coriander, however the rest is fine but unremarkable Tex-Mex fare. Then why come? Because locals and students from the nearby universities and college pack this place to the gills, especially on weekends, turning it into a kind of loud, tacky and boisterous party.
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Tutti Frutti
Plates are laden with gut-busting helpings at this bustling downtown breakfast place. Don't expect much atmosphere from the no-frills dining room, the ambience here comes from the crowds particularly on weekends. The velours bleu (two eggs, bacon and two blueberry pancakes served with potatoes, toast and coffee) is one of the most popular dishes - you won't need to eat for the rest of the day it's so filling.
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Wilensky's Light Lunch
Terminally grumpy staff make no effort to hide that cranking out your soda and Wilensky's special is the most disagreeable task they've had all day. Rickety stools line the counter and 1930s photographs adorn the walls. This place was immortalized in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz but is equally famous for its cheap sandwiches, burgers and hot dogs.
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