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Thinking of Montreal’s cuisine brings to mind plates piled high with saucy meat, and that infamous late-night cheese-and-potato mess, poutine. While those heavy dishes do fare well in bone-chilling weather, summertime is the perfect opportunity to experience the lighter side of Montreal dining and the bounty of organically grown asparagus, mushrooms and strawberries from Quebec’s…

Last week we published our gastro-tourism guide You Eat, You Drink: Montreal. Here is a dispatch from our writer Chantal Martineau, who spent a weekend in the city. Eating and drinking. Because, that's what you do. As the resident Montrealer here at Food Republic, I get tapped to write about poutine, smoked meat, skinny bagels…

Montreal, Quebec — the great French-Canadian city located 330 miles north of New York City — is basically two cities. There is the one you find during the too-short summers, filled with outdoor festivals, sidewalk dining and effortlessly chic locals out strutting their stuff. And then there is the one that exists during cold, snowy…

On a once-barren street that runs parallel to the Lachine Canal in Montreal, in a part of town previously thought of as rough, sits a tiny restaurant that has become notorious — and not just for the famously long lines. Joe Beef is known for serving food that is at once rustic and refined, simple…