Montreal Notebook

Marie-Claude Lortie, in La Presse this week, writes that, while the ambience of Newtown is nothing like their old digs at Laloux, Patrice Demers and Marc-André Jetté are back in the business of…

So if I’ve tweeted this, should I blog it? What if I also Facebooked it? Well, here’s my Social Media strategy: at this moment, I don’t give a rat’s ass.

I’m proud of Montreal’s Cafe…

Well, with only(!) 110 days left before the next trip to Montreal, and our sixth holiday spent in the city, our restaurant plan is beginning to take shape.

Readers of this blog know that food…

Let me pass on a couple reviews of note about two restaurants we’ve been watching closely over the past several months.

Laloux

In the Montreal Gazette, Lesley Chesterman visits and finds much…

Thinking of Laloux again, and Newtown and Patrice Demers, here the video that gave us our first look at Demers in action. From the Something’s Cooking series (now defunct), here he is making the…

The video is amazingly cool, the concept is forward-thinking and super-trendy, perhaps a bit too trendy even for the most over-touristed sections of Old Montreal. But here it is, MüvBox, now at…

More chef musical chairs:

Mari-Claude Lortie of La Presse blogs that Éric Gonzalez will be the new chef at Laloux, replacing Marc André Jetté, who has departed for Newtown with Patrice Demers, as…

Patrice Demers and Marc-André Jetté put Laloux on the map of great Montreal restaurants, and now comes news of their imminent departure.

Demers and Jetté will move to the kitchen at …

Cabane a Sucre Au Pied de Cochon has taken more risks than it needed to in creating a menu that doesn’t just attempt to do the classics right but completely turns them on their head. And the results…

And since late October, coffee geeks have a watering hole downtown. Café Myriade, which also serves fine teas and molten hot chocolate, is run by Scott Rao, author of the Professional Barista’s…

A nice piece on Cafe Myriade in the Montreal Gazette, which bills the cafe as the spread of good coffee to the downtown area, as well as the home of the best price for 49th Parallel…

Montreal is in the midst of a coffee renaissance. Cafe Myriade is the youngest offspring, but I think it’s the new leader.

Without a doubt, one of the highlights of our time in Montreal this holiday was the series of three visits to Cafe Myriade. It’s new, but it’s clearly established itself as one of the…

I’m going to write a number of posts over the next few weeks about our 2008 trip to Montreal. I think it’s worth taking some time to consider the changes that are taking place in the Old…