Hotels

Places my family or I have stayed at:

• Best Western on Sherbrooke
• Residence Inn on Peel
• Hilton on Sherbrooke
• Omni on Sherbrooke
• Hotel 10 on Sherbrooke
• Le Square Phillips on Place Phillips
• Le Petit Hotel Montréal

The Old Port has beautiful hotels (just expensive!)

I haven’t done one in Montréal before, but I love Airbnb and would recommend it (typically much cheaper options for sometimes nicer places!)

Good Eats

No. 900

• multiple locations, but I always went to the one on Peel

• my favourite pizza place ever!

• artisan pizza, fast, small, super cute

Monza

• Ave. McGill College
• pizza/Italian
• bigger and popular on weekends

Qing Hua

• Maissoneuve (a bit of a walk from central downtown near McGill)
• amazing dumplings
• I love the marinated cucumbers

Le Taj

• rue Peel

• great Indian food

Juliette & Chocolat

• amazing dessert place with so much chocolate…

• a bit pricey (Cacao 70 is a bit smaller and a bit cheaper)

L’Avenue

• Mont-Royal E

• far from central downtown

• pricey, but amazing brunch place

Universel

• rue Peel

• great brunch place

• a bit pricey, but huge portions

La Piazzetta

• St. Catherine’s
• delicious fancy pizza place
• they make an amazing spiced rum & coke

Le Crepe to Go

• rue Parc
• hole in the wall for delicious crepes
• not really anything else other than crepes & smoothies
• may have closed down

Breizh Café

• St. Laurent
• amazing, fancy crepes
• my dad and stepmom’s favourite breakfast place

Café Parvis

• rue Mayor
• nice café

St. Viateur

• Mont-Royal Ave. or in Mile End
• classic Montréal bagels

Le Lab

• Loud, fun, kind of fancy bar with out there drinks
• A little expensive if I’m remembering correctly

Lockhart Montréal

• Awesome harry potter bar on St Denis
• Truffle flatbread pizza that is one of the best things I’ve ever eaten
• may have closed down 🙁

Lola Rosa

• A few locations (place des arts, the mcgill ghetto)

• Really good vegan food
• Nacho plate is huge

Le Darling

• Super cute bar & café on St Laurent

The Standard

• Great coffee place, nice aesthetic
• Westmount

Leaves Cafe

• Ave McGill College

• cute coffee shop

Bar Furco

• Fun bar/café with good lunch food

Violet Angel

• in Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue
• Super good lime, mango, jerk chicken pizza

Maltehops

• Tiny local brews/specialty beer shop in Verdun on 4th and Wellington (I used to live on 4th right by the little park close to Wellington!)

Jukebox

• Fun, over the top diner with a bunch of crazy poutine options

• In DDO

Guaca & Mole

• Fun Mexican restaurant in the same plaza as Jukebox

Lido

• Great little café in Verdun that has done a ton of expansions since I lived there!

• Super nice owner & staff, was a 2 min walk from my place in Verdun so I was a frequent flier

Fromagerie Copette & Cie

• Super popular place in verdun, people line up to get their fresh breads, cheeses, and pastries

Boustans

• Classic late night eat for students – great Lebanese food and cheap!

Schwartz’s Deli

• on Saint-Laurent

• the classic Montréal smoked meat sandwich

La Finca

• beautiful café (a bit small) on Rue de Bleury
• great grilled cheese

Fun Activities

Church 21 now has multiple locations around the city – check out their website for more information

Biodome

• have to metro there
• the biodome is like a mini zoo-type thing with a few specific habitats you walk through
• there’s a planetarium, insectarium, lookout over the city, and botanical gardens too which are beautiful
• in the fall (October) they have a festival of lights with Chinese & Japanese lanterns and it’s really beautiful and fun

Hike Mont Royal to the viewpoint by the Chateau

• or you can hike to the cross on the mountain

• article about the history of the cross

Just walk around, café-hop, and explore!

Check out the many museums:

• McCord on Sherbrooke
• Museum of Fine Arts on Sherbrooke
• there are more, but those are the 2 I’ve been to

Westmount is a really cute (and ritzy) area to explore with lots of shops

• far walk or you can metro/bus there
• The Standard is a great café there

Shopping

• on St. Catherine’s (brand names)
• on St. Laurent or in Westmount or Mile End (more boutique places)
• in the Eaton Centre (brand names)
• the Eaton Centre is a cool, huge mall

Walk along St. Catherine’s and look at all the beautiful old cathedrals

Walk through Old Montréal on Rue St. Paul (towards the Old Port)

Go to Atwater Market or Jean-Talon (open air farmers markets with lots of shops)

• both a bit far from downtown, probably metro
• can walk to Atwater from Verdun easily, from downtown not too bad

Bota Bota

• Spa in the Old Port (a boat in the river that is a spa!)

Spa Le Finlandais

• in Rosemère so a bit outside of MTL
• DO THE THERMAL EXPERIENCE!
• I can’t recommend their thermal experience enough, Dan and I are obsessed with it – we stayed at the spa for our 1st anniversary

Randolph Pub

• on St. Denis
• a games restaurant where they recommend a game for you based on your interests (or you can choose) – they have a million and one games!
• hard to get in to, always very busy and I don’t think they take recommendations
• great sangria

Indigo

• Ave. Mcgill College
• big beautiful bookstore

Le Ronde

• Canadian Six Flags

• They host an amazing international fireworks competition that you can watch from the Jacques Cartier bridge for free (they close it down for the show) – 10/10 recommend (just check the dates, I think it’s most Wednesdays & Saturdays during the summer)