Plateau Mont Royal

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Colloquially known as Le Plateau, this neighborhood is the arbiter of taste when it comes to "cool" things in the city. While downtown has its business centers, office towers and skyscrapers, the main streets of low-rise Plateau are lined with cafés, boutiques, galleries and restaurants.

With that said, the neighborhood is still largely residential in character and some of its blocks feel more like a small town than a large city.

Dining

Le Plateau is the nerve center of Montreal's dining scene. Two of the neighborhood's largest streets (Blvd St-Laurent and Rue St-Denis) are lined up with eateries of every stripe.

» See the list of selected Plateau Mont Royal Restaurants

Articles, Updates and Reviews

There are many restaurants in this town proving their worth by hiring the right chef, PR agency or interior designer, attracting the "in" crowd or serving the most "creative" (sometimes absurdly creative) nouvelle cuisine dishes.

And then there are restaurants that don't need to prove anything: as long as they stay true to their mission and character, they will be deservedly popular.

L'Express at 3927 rue St-Denis belongs to the second category. In the 20-odd years that the place existed, it slowly transformed its status from that of a "cool new thing" to that of a Montreal institution...

Read the rest of: "L'Express Way"»

I am amazed and grateful at the variety of cafés in Montreal. It is a city where people love to bring their office or school work to coffee shops, since most of them offer Wi-Fi. Hot beverages are essential during the colder months, but there is a difference between hitting the chain coffee shops and arriving by chance to a café in the middle of the very eclectic Blvd. St-Laurent..



Pi Café (Café π) is basically a mixture of coffee shop, workplace, gallery, chess venue and a place for tranquility. I've been there a few times, and it is a wonderful place to enjoy a café latte or tisane while you pull out your book, computer or schoolwork in a reasonably quiet environment.

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Read the rest of: "Café π: Coffee, Tranquility and One Hip Bathroom"»