The avenues give direction. Habits make the neighbourhood. 20 rooms and four routes.
20 rooms · 4 routes · RegularsBernard holds the morning rituals. Van Horne and Laurier carry the grand tables. Between them, side streets reward those who know where to turn.
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Coffee, croissants, pastry and the first rituals of the day.
Smoked meat, bistros and rooms the neighbourhood knows by heart.
Small rooms, counters and kitchens that live close to home.
Grand tables, wine and rooms that ask for the whole evening.
Parisian-inflected café-bistro at the corner of Fairmount and Hutchison, inside a 1920s commercial building that first housed a clothing shop and then a candy store before becoming a bakery. Renamed Croissanterie in the early 1980s, the place has kept its art nouveau decor.
View on Regulars →French café-bakery opened in 1990 on Avenue Van Horne, near Collège Stanislas and the Outremont metro station. Tastet has praised its croissant as among the best — if not the best — in the city for its generous butter content.
View on Regulars →Pastry shop on Avenue Laurier Ouest opened by a trio with deep résumés: Aurélien Kerzerho (Maison Boulud, Rosélys), Vincent Gagnon-Boisvert (Leméac, Henrietta) and Clémence Corbière (Candide). Brittany-born Kerzerho brings a technical, floral touch, and the shop's name comes from mélilot (sweet clover), whose almond-vanilla scent inspired its signature tart.
View on Regulars →Neighbourhood diner founded by Alain Starosta on Avenue Bernard, which has grown into one of the street's oldest addresses — its 30th anniversary was marked by the Journal d'Outremont. Chef Michaël has run the kitchen since day one, a throughline across several changes of ownership.
View on Regulars →Artisanal ice cream shop opened June 22, 1983 on Avenue Bernard by Carole Lavallée and Yves Lebuis, inspired by the ice creams and sorbets they had tasted in France. Success was immediate, with production happening on-site to keep up with demand that quickly outpaced supply.
View on Regulars →Delicatessen opened in 1951 by Eddy Lester, a Polish immigrant who set up shop on Avenue Bernard in the heart of Outremont's Jewish neighbourhood. The house has always leaned on its smoked meat, brined in-house for 72 hours to a recipe imported from postwar Poland.
View on Regulars →Parisian-style bistro on Avenue Bernard, run by the Holder brothers' restaurant group, whose Montreal addresses lean on the spirit of French brasseries. Chef Alexandre Fortier's cooking draws on the classic French repertoire while keeping a local footing.
View on Regulars →Parisian-style brasserie founded by Pierre Lévêque, who took over the small steakhouse La Lucarne on Laurier in 1972 before renaming it Chez Lévêque in 1994. His wife Patricia joined in 1976 to run the dining room while Pierre ran the kitchen with recipes drawn from the French coast.
View on Regulars →French brasserie opened in November 2001 by Émile Saine and Richard Bastien (Le Mitoyen, Café des Beaux-Arts), at the corner of Laurier and Durocher. A Montreal institution known for its tartare, moules frites and steak frites, plus a pain perdu finished with dulce de leche and maple.
View on Regulars →Montreal sushi institution founded in the late 1980s by Kimio Nguyen, a Vietnamese-born chef considered the first non-Japanese restaurateur to open a sushi address in the city. The original Mikado, on Rue Saint-Denis, had just 80 seats and two employees.
View on Regulars →Small, family-style restaurant on Avenue Van Horne, opened September 12, 2017 by Caroline Dumas, founder of the SoupeSoup cafés. The kitchen's globally inspired cooking favours organic, fresh and local ingredients wherever possible.
View on Regulars →Espresso café on Avenue Van Horne, known for its cappuccinos and toasted sandwiches made in-house, alongside homemade biscotti. The Journal d'Outremont listed it among businesses that adopted a tree pit as part of a local street-beautification initiative.
View on Regulars →Discreet Vietnamese address on Avenue Van Horne, kept going for years by a loyal following that has made it a neighbourhood habit. The menu runs through comforting classics: pho scented with star anise and cinnamon, vermicelli salads, spring rolls.
View on Regulars →Fried chicken counter on Avenue Van Horne, opened in fall 2019 in a retro-styled space. The kitchen aims for chicken that's crispy outside and juicy inside, rounded out with poutines, burgers and salads.
View on Regulars →Neighbourhood Italian spot on Avenue Bernard since 1999, relaunched by Christian Bisson, Alain Starosta (Comptoir 21), Evan Gubersky and Pablo Rojas (Provisions) — the latter two had already cooked there in earlier years. The 2006 decor was restored as-is, with jars of red tomatoes lined up by the hundreds along the exposed-brick shelves.
View on Regulars →A richly detailed Syrian dining room built around generosity: hot and cold mezzes, charcoal-grilled meats and dishes meant to cover the table. Damas makes Van Horne feel like a destination without losing the warmth of a family feast.
View on Regulars →An intimate modern Mexican table where heirloom corn and Québec ingredients meet precise technique. The small room turns a quiet Outremont side street into one of the neighbourhood’s most deliberate evenings.
View on Regulars →Butcher shop and wine bar on Avenue Van Horne, opened in 2016 by a team including Pablo Rojas and charcutier Hakim Rahal, who cures sausages, ham, bacon and other cuts from pasture-raised animals sourced hyper-locally.
View on Regulars →Spice Route table on Rue Hutchison, run by brothers Jonathan and Todd, who became Sufis and named the restaurant after Jalal ad-Din Rumi, the medieval Persian poet regarded as the father of Sufism. The Journal d'Outremont noted back in 2011 that the brothers had already spent a decade exploring culinary traditions spanning Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
View on Regulars →A daytime restaurant and private-event room on Van Horne with the easy posture of a neighbourhood address. Myers gives the avenue a polished lunch stop that still feels close to home.
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