What to do in Montreal ?

food at Chez L'epicier (gourmet), Aux Vivres (veg), Chu Chai (veg thai), Mondo Frites (fries and beer).

movies at Cinema du Parc

hiking on Mont Royal (you mustmust visit Tam Tams on sunday for drum-circle hippie juggling picnic fun, plus 20something quebecois male faux-jousting in the back)

shopping on St Denis (Le valet du coeur is the bestest shop in the world for toys and games and funfunfun)

What kind of music do you like?

What kind of food do you like?

What type of stuff do you want to do?

this is on my to-do list:
-eat well
-see art
-go dancing (stuff with breakbeats and deep bass, dancey rock, hip hop, disco, cheesey eurodance, new wave, electro, minimal techno or certian kinds of house will do me right)
-hear music
-people-watch (cute boys a plus)
-meet nice people
-attempt to speak french

thanks for the help!

are there any good websites that list events?

Have fun!

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slutsky parties are ALWAYS FUN and the MUSIC IS TEH BEST

what is the job market like there, for I.T?

i don't know about the IT job market... do you speak french?

i'm thinking about maybe moving to canada in the next couple years or so. like the idea of montreal best, though probably without any real basis

but you can always learn french.

Here's what I can read:

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UÉBEC

UÉBEC
reminds me of this time a friend of mine (born and bred in mtl) and i were looking at old mtl from a weird vantage point in downtown, you know, one of those angles that rearranges part of the city and your perspective on it, and he pointed at the name/sign on a building and said "Uebecor?? what?" and i said "dude, where do we live? there is a giant yellow Q there too." and then we laughed.

the superblast party was fun - dancing yaay!

ps: uebecor is my employer!

ah, lambi is weird... and hot! bar+gymnasium-like. but comfortable in a strange way, esp once it fills up.

If I am to be spending the next 5 weeks there, I would at least like to be informed as to where the hell I can find a good burrito. I've had no luck in all my past experiences.

why wld you want to eat a burrito here??

just OD on burritos before arriving so you can focus on eating like everything else

i've heard it's fun to do coke in montreal

Yeah NOT a good place for burritos. But get thee to La Banquise for some poutine. I've never had a burrito that could match the splendor that is Poutine Trois Viandes.

agreed. not a burrito town sadly. but there is PLENTY else to occupy your mouthpiece.

i've heard it's fun to do coke in montreal

-- Surmounter, Saturday, 5 July 2008 03:33 (4 hours ago) Link

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Pfffft. Burritos are like a lifeline for me. Say what you will about Toronto, but hey, we at least have this part figured out.

Pizza sucks in Montréal too.

Well, compared to Toronto, they at least have that part figured out.

guess you'll need a new lifeline!

late late night fun bars etc in mtl that are not called stereo?

(for friend visiting end of july)

will ask again Monday

i can't recommend this highly enough:

http://www.dansedanse.net/DDA_0809/en/cies/toneelhuis.html

i saw it in Glasgow earlier in the year and loved it so much i went to see it again the following night. it's easily my cultural highlight of this year and, no exaggeration, one of the greatest things i have ever seen in any medium.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is one of the key innovators in dance-theatre and i've seen enough good and bad work in this area to know he's the real deal.

please go if you can - i'm already planning a trip to Belgium in May next year the main purpose of which is to make sure i see the follow up, "Origine".

^I'll vouch for this

damien jalet is hott

^I'll vouch for this

oh wow, cool! i'll see if i can scam some tickets!!

scamming sucessful! i'm going on friday!

:D

so what do i have to look forward to here? why did you love it so much?

see you there, dude!
i hear it's awesome - looking forward to seeing a big dance production, as i haven't seen one in a long time.

(being media is kinda rough in pacing but i dig the occasional perks - i gotta get into asking for more media passes/free tickets tho. i have been busy. les grands ballets' queen of spades is supposed to be pretty great, big-budget production stuff)

oh cool when does that open? i wanna go!

perks rule

starts on the 16th

perks do rule, esp as a counter to the billion emails i sort through every day. am getting used to the volume tho, somehow, as if it's feeding me and i am slowly turning into some arts superhero with, like, laser-eyes editing power
oh lolz

it's just relentlessly inventive and surprising. it starts off so silly, in a way, that its progression into something genuinely moving and (yes) profound is all the more devastating. it has a lot in common with those multi level computer games and also with japanses anime films. ironically, i have no interest in the former and actively dislike what i have seen of the latter.

the main reason it is so great is because the choreography and the performances are genuinely, thrillingly (*_*) !

or maybe (@_@) !

going there next week - any recommendations for bars/nightspots?

what r u into

I guess with places a certain historical "cachet"

oops - I guess places with a certain historical "cachet"

bars with a certain historical cachet?

yeah? I mean thinking more about old school bars rather than fizzy lounges.

Is there stuff to do in Verdun? I have never been there.

goin here for the weekend--anyone got pro-tips for cool bars or cheap interesting restaurants? good local-style cuisine a plus.

local style cuisine:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Poutine123.jpg

cool bars or cheap interesting restaurants

what kind of food are you looking for? local-style cuisine that isn't poutine? (which, re: poutine - la banquise, but only after you have had a LOT to drink. that shit is absorbant.)

re: bars - are you looking for a microbrewery? something sketchy and sleazy and hidden away? alcoholically, i've been rediscovering the distillery lately, which is often supercrowded but serves colourful drinks in GIGANTIC mason jars.

(thinking it over, my standard haunts aren't places i would recommend to people as "the best that montreal has to offer" - they're just convenient, or socially convenient. hmm.)

"cool cheap restaurants": faux pulled-pork at Le Pick-Up, burger at the Sparrow (lunch only), pain perdu at Lemeac (not cheap - but this is the city's single best $10 dessert omg), DUMPLINGS! at Qin Hua, portuguese chicken at Romodos, pain perdu brunch at Chien Fumant [also not super cheap], ICE CREAM at Bilboquet or Havre Aux Glaces)...

and pastries pastries pastries
(eg: kouign d'amman at Kouign D'Amman, hot sesame bagel (no topping required) at St-Viateur Bagel, olive fougasse and canelés at Mamie Clafoutis, brownie at Olive & Gourmando, butter croissant from Paltoquet, and on and on)

finally coming down for the first time in ~three years this weekend...what should I eat?! where should I go?! (already seeing cupcakke and grabbing soup DUMPLINGS!)

There’s one of those 36 Hours In... features in The NY Times today about Montreal. I was just salivating over it.

Oh snap, good looking out

Montreal!

i think I’d recommend auntdai over cuisine Szechuan tbh

also dep le pickup