Since 1986 · family story
Natalino
For forty years, the De Fazio family has cooked the recipes of its Italian mountain home at the foot of Dorval Avenue.
Open the notebook →01 / DORVAL—VALOIS
Four stops before noon.
A compact circuit: a family trattoria, an occasion room in Kirkland, an Italian bakery near the lake and a mother-and-daughters story beside the platform.
Bakery · since 2002
Non Solo Pane
A wood-fired oven for pizza, gelato at the counter and more than twenty years steps from the lake.
Open the notebook →Valois · beside the platform
Les Délices de la Gare
A mother, her three daughters and house-made pastry, just metres from the train.
Open the notebook →Kirkland · four decades of family
Mundo Trattoria
Johnny and Julian run the trattoria founded by their fathers, two friends who built the house together. Handmade pasta, a changing table d’hôte and a room chosen for the West Island’s milestone occasions.
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The village in six doors.
The densest chapter: compact enough to walk, varied enough to stay from morning coffee to the last drink.
1971 · lakeside terrace
Piazza Romana
Giuseppe Lenti grew a 32-seat room into four dining rooms — Capri, Sorrento, Roma and Pescara — whose names still hold half a century later.
Open the notebook →Since 1970 · institution
Gigi Pizzeria
The village pizzeria: generous pies, submarines and fifty years at the same Lakeshore corner.
Open the notebook →Stone house · 1847
Le Gourmand
A historic house turned bakery-café, then a family-run dining room for more than thirty years.
Open the notebook →Since 2001 · made in house
Café Marmelade
From bread to scones, everything is baked on site. The house composts more than ten tonnes a year.
Open the notebook →Family lineage · bagels
Dizz’s Bagel & Deli
The next generation of a story begun in 1995, with a deck oven and the family’s secret sweet touch.
Open the notebook →New guard · opened in 2023
Lou’s
A new kind of American diner in the heart of the village, created by five partners who opened another room next door the following year.
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Four rooms by the lock.
Here, the setting is not an afterthought. The canal, the boats and the main street are part of the meal.
Since 1976 · French dining room
Le Surcouf
Serge Magnier in the kitchen, Dominique Bonnot in the dining room. A fire in winter, the canal in summer: one of the houses that gives the strip its rhythm.
Open the notebook →Since 1989 · waterfront
Cape Cod
Lobster rolls, chowder and a terrace above the boats; the original recipes remain.
Open the notebook →More than 30 years · time capsule
La Fondue du Prince
Suzanne and Jean-Claude, three kinds of fondue and a room with no interest in chasing trends.
Open the notebook →Since 2004 · local pub
Cunningham’s
A room that lives by local sponsorships, games and weekend music.
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