Diner restaurants in Québec
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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 11:00 (later on weekends).
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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 refuel after a day’s cycling along the Canal de Lachine (just around the corner). There’s open-air seating (next to a parking lot) in back.
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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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Beauty’s
This sleek, retro ’50s diner serves 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. From the freshly squeezed juice to the piping-hot eggs, sausages and pancakes, it’ll be hard to go anyplace else once you’ve tried it. Lineups on Saturday and Sunday mornings can run up to 40 minutes long, even in winter (go early).
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Wilensky’s Light Lunch
It’s like walking onto a 1950s movie set the moment you step in the door here. Terminally grumpy staff make no effort to hide the fact that cranking out your hand-pumped soda and Wilensky’s special is likely the most disagreeable task they’ve ever experienced. Rickety wooden stools line the counter and photographs from the 1930s adorn the walls. This place was immortalized in Mordecai Richler’s novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and the subsequent film, but it’s equally famous for grilled meat sandwiches and its chopped egg sandwich.
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Chez Nick
This perfect little diner has been smack in the middle of swish Westmount since 1920. Despite the trendy stores and galleries that have mushroomed around it, it has stayed unabashedly dated and square. The Montréal diner staples are all here from burgers and fries, smoked meat and desserts so high and rich they threaten to topple over. But it’s got something for everyone, including the foodies and 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 stretch out the door.
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Buffet de L’Antiquaire
Tucked in among the bistros and the galleries is this convivial little diner with an old-school vibe. Locals and tourists alike crowd in for hearty breakfasts, steaming plates of poutine, savory meat pies and other tasty comfort fare. Grab a seat at the narrow counter or, if the weather is warm, slip into one of the sidewalk tables out front.
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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 excellent variety of toppings and thick, rich 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 sent her a flood of congratulatory emails.
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