Online Montreal City Guide

Welcome to New To Montreal. Whether visiting, moving to Montreal or already living in Montreal, we hope that the information on this website will help you experience Montreal to its fullest.


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Dim Sum Places

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For a lunch or a brunch, Chinese dim sum are a super option. Dim sum are little portion dishes made of meat, seafood, vegetables, fruits etc… there are a lot of different kind of dim sums. Usually there are served in the morning and tea is always the drink on the side. In Montreal, the [...]

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Brunching Spots

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Anyone who is a fan of the nightlife will tell you that on the weekends, breakfast is the easiest meal to skip. After a late night out, not many people are up at the normal times where breakfast is being served in restaurants. Montreal is a city with a very active club culture and bar [...]

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Grocery Shopping

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While Montreal is filled with interesting and fun restaurants, most people don’t eat out every night, and many love to cook for themselves. The city has the usual supermarkets and grocery stores that you might find in other parts of Canada, but there are also some uniquely Quebecois aspects to food shopping in Montreal. Let’s [...]

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Sugar Shacks Restaurants

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Here a list of possible sugar shacks (cabanes à sucre) located around Montreal. They are a large number of places and we certainly don’t list all of them. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you want to see one added. This article lists restaurants that serve a sugar shack menu, click on the following link [...]

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High End Known Restaurants

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Delicious delights Montreal is a city that is known for its fine dining. The European flavor of the island finds its way into many spectacular restaurants which dot the city. Here are a few of the top spots to partake in exquisite culinary adventures. Queue de Cheval Montreal’s most expensive, and most famous steakhouse, Queue [...]

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Montreal Famous Foods

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Some cities are synonymous with a certain kind of food. Philadelphia has their cheese steaks and St. Louis has their ribs, for example. Most of the time, these foods represent the traditional cooking traditions of the people who originally settled or immigrated into the area. Sometimes they are instead the product of recent happy accidents [...]

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Montreal’s Poutine Dish

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Poutine. The very word can evoke sighs of imagined gastronomic delight or gags of disgust. Whichever side of the fence you sit on, there can be no denying that poutine, perhaps the only truly original dish to have emerged from the kitchens of Quebec is a polarizing culinary force. While some are entranced by its [...]

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Sugar Shacks Meals

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Aside from poutine, Quebec’s most famous culinary export has to be maple syrup. Maple syrup is a dark, super sweet confection made by boiling the sap from a maple tree to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time. This delicious syrup has been a stable of the Quebecois diet for hundreds of years [...]

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