54. Things to do in MONTREAL'S MILE END: Bagels, Gnocchi, Gelato....and Hot Chicken

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This week is the conclusion to the
Montreal Arc. Last week we climbed the

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steps of Mount Royal. The week
before we were in Chinatown and down by

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the waterfront. You can also check
out episode ten from last year where I

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covered Montreal. This was a new
area to me. This is called Mile

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End and from Wikipedia, mile End
is a hip, laid back area with

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an artsy vibe and multi cultural roots. Old school bagel shops, Greek eaters

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and Italian cafes mixed with stylish restaurants
and buzzing brunch spots. Indie shop selling

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records, books and vintage clothes are
found throughout the area, especially on Rue

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Bernard. Coffee shops draw daytime crowdswall
cocktail bars, music venues and brew pubs

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and make up the lively nightlife.
So what I did is I just typed

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Mile End into Apple Maps and just
drove to a random corner. As we

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were driving by, my son said, Hey, check out that bagel store.

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The line's out the door. And
this was on a Wednesday at noon,

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and we're like, if the line's
out the door at a bagel store

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on a Wednesday at noon, it
must be good. You'll find out in

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a second. It was now not
to give the episode away. Next to

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the bagel store, we couldn't figure
out what they were sailing. I saw

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people eating out of Chinese food containers, and the signage was in I don't

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know, complicated French, like I
can sort of quote unquote read French and

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navigate my way around. But I
was staring at this sign, going,

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I have no idea what any of
this says, and I thought it was

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Chinese food. It turned out to
be Yoki. And then next to that

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was this gelato place, so we
ate three places in a row. Then

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we drove across town to a place
called Shellet Barbecue, which I had read

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about somewhere doing the prep for the
show. That was all terrific. So

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Mile End was really great. When
I came back, I was describing to

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people it's like Little Italy, except
all the old Italians died and the hipsters

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moved in and took it over,
but decided to keep most of the old

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school stuff going. So it's this
wonderful mix of old and new and hip

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and vintage. I liked Mile End
a lot. Here we go below from

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Mile End. Had no idea what
we're doing. I sent a spotted the

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cooling bagel store that had'll line out
the door. So we're gonna try that

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here rock fair amount for this one. It was one more this one,

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I don't know. The street looks
cool anyway, cool little areas. We

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got the cafe, Grassy Mill,
hash Home and canoling. Well that I

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don't don't have any cash only we
can't do it. Chinese food places hop

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and cash only m amount bagel one
hundred years old. Let's do this,

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Thank you, madame. Where you
going? Can we come? Nom a

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skirt? Wait all your we call
it good for you. Try they must

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be good, must be good if
you take it to Toronto once in new

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here once a year. I don't
know. Mention one on in word Carl

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to uh bristle the duke green cheek
looks like your place though light out the

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door in the middle, the days
off the clue in Toronto. Yeah,

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we're about be all too regular bap
right, yeah, definitely yeah. Really

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check out the chicken place bakers are
did from like eating in the car and

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you're having chicken. Not another guy
walking out with a sack. They must

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be guess that's serious. Table cleaning
an onion all good butter and garlic with

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butter, but I might just unless
they're like hot, I'll eat them blader

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and I'll make chicken munch and i'll
make with the car dinner. Everybody's got

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a sack. We do what I'm
wrong? Should we bring on McCoy bakers?

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Very too? This again? What's
your good? Afternoon? One?

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Don't go one onion with butter,
when garlic with butter, we don't have

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butter on do no worries. I'll
just take a plain though, one garlic,

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one onion? What do you want
I do? What on cheese and

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choc one chocolate? Just sorry,
we don't have butter. No, but

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if they don't know only that's not
about to be right the line? Please?

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Did you want to win coping back? Yeah? No, that's fine.

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So YouTube okay, so let's take
a look at this place. Yeah,

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Ermont bagel hundred the anniversary festival.
One of the other science is nineteen

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to fifty. Who knows, but
it looks good. Has a bagel?

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Very good? They took our US
dollars, which is good because I had

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gotten any currency, although e cheene
tree wise they did one to one.

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They went on that that's fine little
coffee shop. That's awesome. Let's walk

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down the corner. So we think, man, we'll go back to that

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bean street. It's gonna be a
little Italy. And then we have fourteen

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Canadian dollars to do something with.
So across twenty dollars anywhere. A lot

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of people outside this survey place.
What's everybody? Good? Chinese food?

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What did they have? It's like
some like meat or whatever? Yeah,

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yeah, a little places. How
the neo key plays she he's and spicy?

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Got it all right? Farm sure
split it with you. I don't

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even know where're getting? All right? What's what are you doing? Good?

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One? Cheese and spicy things?
Have a great day? Got it?

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Yeah? Away? Now this is
a lot for five bucks where I

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got my dream? I feel like
there's a lot really really good for five

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fifty. We got a Chinese fat
container govern up, say, like a

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small fried rice container. The sun
and I are splinting. It's delicious.

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Right now, I'm online for Kim
Kuba. That's what bay. No credit

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card, it's cash. It was
Plaine. I've got two four six stevens.

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Sometimes hopefully we'll get good there.
But a place in line off the

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door and it all looks delicious,
so we'll try it. I don't know

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good at Fini, it's also yes
please. Let's also be honey and brewberry,

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great Sward, great danks coming please, we will be yes six time

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please stay every day. So it's
basic blueberry and honey six ten seem to

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be the default. I went with
it. They're pretty nice sidewalk cat base

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at ups so it looks at me
like you nail that you just found the

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three places that you go to when
they're all next to each other. All

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right, Mile End fantastic. Make
your way to an avenue fair amount.

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You'll sign all the places we just
stayed at really really great. So let's

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talk about some places I didn't make
it too. This from timeout dot com.

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Right when it comes looking for things
to do with the Mile End of

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Montreal, it's no secret that's become
one of the city's trendiest neighborhoods over the

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last few years. They're suggestions number
one rock Indie Rock. The Mile End

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is a great place to stop if
you're looking for an intimate evening in a

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low key live performance. They suggest
Casa del Popolo, which serves coffee during

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the day before turning into a bustling
bar at night. Plenty of bars with

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music. I was there in the
daytime, so I missed that. Number

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Two play test a video game.
Apparently, Ubisoft's massive headquarters can be found

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in the heart of Mile End.
You can spend a day testing its games

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for a bit of extra cash.
You have to sign up on line to

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play test on site, and you'll
be added to a list to be called

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in whenever you're needed. I'm sad
I missed the Ping Pong Club. Ping

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Pong Club pulls in hefty crowds on
Friday and Saturday night, in part because

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of its finger foods and creative cocktails, but mostly because of its ping pong

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tables. If you're in the mood
to move, drink and win in one

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night, and that's the place to
go, says Time Out. Stroll through

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the back alleys. The back alleys
are strips of the city that have been

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converted from drivable passageways into green space
to cultivate a sense of community among residents

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and reduce the impact of cars.
Those are pretty cool. Kind of reminds

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me of the double streets they have
in Melbourne. I'll be doing an episode

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on Melbourne shortly bagel hopping, Saint
Viatore, which apparently Anthony Bourdaine liked,

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and Fairmount, which you just heard. Those are some of the oldest,

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most well known establishments in the Mile
End. Which one is the best is

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up for debate. It's like Philly
and cheese steaks, huh, thrift shops

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get some hipster clothing. Citizen Vintage
is suggested by Tim Mount, and the

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rialto theater has grandiose external architecture,
intricate gold crown molding lining the ceiling and

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walls, and red velvet curtains bordering
the stage. It's hard not to feel

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like you're transported to another time when
you visit this theater. All right,

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we'll take the break and then we'll
get some hot chicken. Taking our way

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to Chalet Barbecue. It feels like
a place that seat down South for every

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game. All right, looking here, we couldn't get the quarter chicken,

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double leg chicken wings. My son's
going to total chicken wings, hot chicken

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sailors, plow I'm going to get. There are salads proceed. A hot

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chicken slouch is part of the lunch
special house A slow fries barbecue sauce and

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toast the growl. I'm in what
buddy a two years a place to sit

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down. I would have foind it
when you said it, I thought it

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was like a grab him like I
thought sits here. I was. I

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was picturing more of like a shock
that you feel like that. Yeah,

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like I couldn't think the containers that
you get from the community for like fries

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or whatever. Yes, yes,
like every place here is a liquor license

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this place. So it's with wine, yea. Yeah, that's cool.

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This is an interesting guy's done bad
work in two hot chicken samwich. Just

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white blood dot com whites white.
I don't says something to drink please,

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Yes, that's okay. Yes it's
water paste fol slam. I know,

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thank you? They come with it, okay, do you? Yeah?

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Thanks? So that was really good. It was chicken sam ground in fries

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and gravy and just really wonderful.
My son's going to get a Boston cream

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pie to go. Neither of us
could finish our meal and it was like

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food food like cool wolfo or nothing
processed. So big thumbs up on chalet

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or barbecue Lunchtime special ten twenty five. And that's Canadians, like my son

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pointed out that was like seven fifty. We're rocking all right time, turn

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into a pumpkin and head back to
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