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JUNE 2020 • Vol. 8 No. 9 • CULTMTL.COM
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People
&
Places
With The Daily Trudeau Show
on the TV in many households
over the past few months,
our Prime Minister remains
on the minds of many —
Justin Trudeau wins Hottest
START Montrealer yet again, despite
(or because of?) the beard,
and hair that’s looking more
and more 19th century every
day. Hairdressers, you are
missed. (Trudeau is also
#5 Tackiest Personality,
possibly for reasons beyond
the superficial.) A man who’s
been getting almost as
much shine as Trudeau on
our website lately, François
Legault, wins Slimiest
Politician yet again, but
also comes in at #2 for Best
Politician — in Legault’s
case, his (brief) post-COVID
approval bump may have
come into play, or perhaps
these two categories are
somewhat interchangeable.
Congrats to our mairesse
it’s nice to get a few laughs in during the painstaking tabulation Valérie Plante for winning
And the city has spoken.
Best Politician AND sliding
process. This year there were votes for chef/TV personality/ into #2 Hottest Montrealer.
Over the past four months, Cult MTL readers and other citizens rapper Dino Babydoll Luciano, columnist and social media She does look pretty cool in
invested in civic pride voted for their favourite Montreal things in personality Murphy Cooper and comedian/radio host Julian a mask (and no, that’s not
the annual Best of MTL poll. Bernatchez in way too many categories, along with griping about meant to be snide).
everything from the length of the poll to the fact that we’d dare
When voting began back in early February, we of course didn’t suggest that there are politicians who aren’t evil (ie. the Best
foresee the citywide shutdown that was coming in mid-March. Politician category, which is open to interpretation by the way).
Cindy Lopez
The last two months of voting happened while most of us were
in lockdown, and given the fact that so many local businesses Cult MTL has been running the Best of MTL readers poll for Little Italy, Best Neighbourhood #2
were closed, and so many local artists were inactive (at least eight years, but it bears mentioning that the survey follows in
publicly), filling out the survey was a bittersweet. The voting the decades-old tradition established by the city’s defunct but
period was extended as this issue was held back by a month fondly remembered alt-weekly newspaper the Mirror. Respect.
so that we could print and distribute it as we normally do. Hottest Montrealer Best Sports Best Weirdo rights/reconciliation Slimiest Politician
Cult MTL produced two consecutive online-only issues, in April Along with the expanded Top 10 lists in every category (coming Personality
1 Justin Trudeau 1 Natasha Nebula 4 Dans la rue/fighting 1 François Legault
and May, and while we’re very proud of those issues, which to cultmtl.com in the coming days), our website will feature a
contained exclusively free advertising, it’s nice to be back number of Best of MTL articles through the month of June and 2 Valérie Plante 1 Laurent Duvernay-Tardif 2 Beaver Sheppard 2 Justin Trudeau
homelessness
in print. More importantly, with the city gradually reopening beyond. 2 Carey Price 3 Valérie Plante
3 Tranna Wintour 3 Murphy Cooper 5 Gentrification/housing
— but so much activity still on hold, and so many still in
isolation and quarantine — it’s imperative to salute the artists, We thank everyone who voted and promoted the poll. 4 Maripier Morin 3 Brendan Gallagher 4 Julien Bernatchez crisis 4 Denis Coderre
promoters, organizers, reporters, restaurateurs and retailers Participation continues to grow every year, making the 2020 5 Jean Charest
results more representative of the city than ever. 5 Évelyne Brochu 4 Félix Auger-Aliassime 5 Uma Gahd
who keep Montreal’s heart beating, even in partial stasis.
5 Max Domi Best Politician
As always, the Best of MTL poll is open and democratic, with (Anglos, if you’re wondering why you don’t recognize some Best-Dressed Most Heinous
no editorial influence or interference. We are always glad to names in these lists, it’s because the other 70 per cent of the Best Social/ 1 Valérie Plante
Scandal
see so many people make an event of voting via social media population is now voting in a bilingual poll. Francos, désolé, les Montrealer Tackiest Personality Political Cause 2 François Legault
1 CHSLD Herron/COVID-19
campaigns, and while we can’t resist sharing third-party get- résultats sont unilingue.) 1 Céline Dion 1 Céline Dion 1 Climate change/climate 3 Justin Trudeau response
out-the-vote tweets, we otherwise remain neutral during the
polling period. To all the winners in the following 150+ categories: 2 Justin Trudeau 2 Mado Lamotte march 4 Manon Massé 2 Bill 21
congratulations.
3 Lily Monroe 3 Mose Persico 2 COVID-19/#cavabienaller/ 5 Craig Sauvé 3 SNC-Lavalin
Ballot-stuffing is automatically weeded out by our survey
software, but we must admit that we appreciate joke votes — More than ever, we’re proud to bring you the Best of MTL 4 Tranna Wintour 4 Véronique Cloutier CERB 4 Sue Montgomery
5 Murphy Cooper 5 Justin Trudeau 3 Wet’suwet’en/First Nations 5 Pipelines
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Best Neighbourhood Best Instagram Spot
1 Mile End 1 Belvedere on Mount
2 Rosemont Petite-Patrie/ Royal
Little Italy 2 Pastel Rita
3 Plateau 3 HideSeek pop-up
4 NDG 4 Beaver Lake
5 St-Henri 5 Orange Julep
6 Verdun
7 Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
8 Villeray
9 Parc Ex
10 Centre-Sud/Village
Best Place to
Have Public Sex
1 Mount Royal
2 Parc Lafontaine
3 Lachine Canal
4 Wiggle Room bathrooms
5 Cinéma l’Amour
“I can’t deny the fact that you like me! RIGHT NOW! YOU LIKE ME! Bless all the people who vote for me year after year.
To those who are too scared to get political, or to engage in deep and crazy ways with our community, this proves that
“Many thanks to the readers of Cult MTL. I am delighted to have such fantastic fans who always cheer for me when I play in Montreal or anywhere else in the world, it means a you can do it and still be loved. Get out there, use your voice for the better. #BlackLivesMatter #PrideWasARiot Gahd
lot to me. I wish all of them much strength and courage in these trying times.”—Felix Auger-Aliassime, Best Sports Personality #4 Bless!”—Uma Gahd, Best Weirdo #5, Best Twitter #3, Best Play #4 (Are You There, Margaret? It’s Me, Gahd)
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Media
As always we thank our
readers for voting us into
the #1 spot for both Best
Newspaper and Best
Magazine — we like to
think of ourselves as a
magazine on newsprint,
so we’re pretty guilty of
blurring the line there. We
will take issue with our
win in the Best Website
category, however — sure
our site is great (especially
after the redesign we did
a year ago), but how could
we possibly have beaten
Pornhub? Especially during
the pandemic, when they’re
offering their premium
content for free (not a
sponsored sentence). We
assume that a fair number
of voters don’t know it’s
a local site. It’s the only
explanation. On another
note, shout-out to FNoMTL
for winning Best Instagram
and Best Twitter, and to
#GeekTastiqCypha (part
of the Franklin Armstrong
Collective) for rising up into
the Top 5 from last year’s #9
spot in Best Podcast.
Best Radio Station
1 CKUT 90.3FM
2 CJLO 1690AM
3 CHOM 97.7FM
4 CBC 88.5FM/93.5FM “Any sort of culinary recognition is like a love boost. I’m in love with food, I’m in love with feeding people, so knowing that I have this sort of recognition and people enjoy my food and they love what I do makes me feel really good inside. I came
[to Montreal] to study food and to eat at different places, see what people have to offer and I connected with people that way. It’s nice to know I’ve won the hearts of people through their stomachs.”—Dino Babydoll Luciano, Best Chef #4,
Best TV Personality #5, Best Hip Hop Act #5
5 Virgin 95.5FM
Best Radio Host Best Newscaster Best Magazine Best Website
Best Radio Show 1 Terry DiMonte 1 Mutsumi Takahashi 1 Cult MTL 1 cultmtl.com
1 Underground Sounds
2 Mitch Melnick 2 Céline Galipeau 2 Lez Spread the Word 2 pornhub.com
(CKUT 90.3FM)
3 Jason Rockman 3 Patrice Roy 3 Urbania 3 mtlblog.com
2 La soirée est encore jeune
4 Nick Schofield 4 Paul Karwatsky 4 Maisonneuve 4 montreal.eater.com
(ICI Radio-Canada Première
5 Julien Bernatchez 5 Pierre Bruneau 5 Fugues 5 mtlcityweblog.com
95.1FM)
3 Country Classics (CKUT Best TV Station Best TV Personality Best Newspaper Best Twitter
90.3FM) 1 CTV 1 Mutsumi Takahashi 1 Cult MTL 1 @FNoMTL
4 Terry in the Morning 2 CBC 2 Jay du Temple 2 The Gazette 2 @CultMTL
(CHOM 97.7FM) 3 Radio-Canada 3 Jean-René Dufort 3 Le Devoir 3 @UmaGahd
5 Des si et des rais ( 4 Télé-Québec 4 Horacio Arruda 4 Métrot 4 @Pornhub
CHOQ.ca) 5 Global 5 Dino Babydoll Luciano 5 Journal de Montréal 5 @TrannaWintour
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Nightlife LIBRAIRIE DRAWN & QUARTERLY
176 & 211 BERNARD, MILE END
This is the bitter in the m tl . dr aw nandq u ar ter l y . c o m
bittersweetness of Best
of MTL 2020. Homestyle
drugs and drinks aside, the
entirety of this section is
closed or otherwise inactive.
Well, with some exceptions.
CURBSIDE PICKUP IS BACK AT 176 BERNARD W! *NEW* DOORWAY RECOMMENDATIONS!
Cinema Politica is streaming
documentaries online and
Burgundy Lion is delivering
food, while a few of the
performers on the list have
OUR STAFF LOVE MAKING SUGGESTIONS VIRTUAL BOOK CLUBS
had some visibility online. AND CAN SELL YOU BOOKS AT THE DOOR!
Congrats to Hurley’s for JUNE 11, THURSDAY | 7 PM NEW READS
increased visibility in the Bar
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(a boylesque artist new to the
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as Charlie Deville and Sisi
Superstar, new to the Best Umma’s Table by Yeon-sik Hong
Drag Queen/King category.
St-Henri’s Bar de Courcelle
Or stop by TUESDAY–SUNDAY from 12–5 at either JULY 2, THURSDAY | 7 PM
and Mile Ex’s Notre Dame location to talk in-person. We’ll be wearing our INDIGENOUS LITERATURES
des Quilles are as popular as
ever with our readers. We’re masks and hope you will too! Wendy, Master of Art by Walter Scott
“C’est une consécration de notre statut de gay icon, mais aussi preuve qu’une vie sexuelle avec de multiples all hoping public health will
partenaires peut paver le chemin vers la gloire.” —2Fxfs le Matin, Best Podcast #1 announce some physical JULY 7, TUESDAY | 7 PM TRUE READS
distancing guidelines for all Free shipping in Quebec for orders The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
bars with terrasses, at the
Best Instagram Best Podcast very least. Until then, we have over $40 continues!
our memories. JULY 19, SUNDAY | 6 PM COOK BOOK
1 @fnomtl 1 2Fxfs le Matin
Pasta Grannies by Vicky Bennison
2 @all_day_breakfast 2 Chosen Family
“Didn’t see this coming! I’ve gotta say that I’m missing all my customers and friends and Montreal nightlife. Can’t JULY 22, WEDNESDAY | 7 PM GAY READS
3 @burymeatleritz 3 #GeekTastiqCypha wait to be able to have a pint with you guys at Hurley’s.” —Turbo, Best Bartender #1 (Hurley’s, Best Bar #4)
I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom
4 @murphycooper 4 Mike Ward Sous Écoute
JULY 29, WEDNESDAY | 7 PM LOCAL READS
5 WellSaid
Best Bartender Best Wine Bar Best Live
5 @pontomtl Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough
1 Turbo (Hurley’s) 1 Vinvinvin
Music Venue
1 M Telus AUG 4, TUESDAY | 7 PM TRUE READS
2 Gern F. Vlchek (Grumpy’s) 2 Loïc Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
3 Rashta Kruger (Blue Dog) 2 Théâtre Corona Virgin
3 Pullman
Mobile
AUG 11, TUESDAY | 7 PM STRANGE FUTURES
4 Maya Rice (Brutopia) 4 Vin Papillon The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
5 Megan Turcotte (Burgundy 3 Turbo Haüs
5 Buvette Chez Simone
Lion)
Best Club
4 Casa del Popolo
5 La Sala Rossa
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Best Bar 1 Datcha
1 Turbo Haüs 2 Stereo
Best Underground
Music Venue
2 Grumpy’s 3 Bord’Elle
1 La Plante
3 Notre Dame des Quilles 4 Sky
2 The Bog
4 Hurley’s 5 Nesta
3 Durocher Lofts
5 Bar de Courcelle
Best Club Night 4 Fattal Lofts
Best Dive Bar 1 Glitter Bomb 5 Traxide
1 Barfly 2 Mec Plus Ultra
2 Bar de Courcelle 3 Moonshine
Best Promoter
3 Grumpy’s 1 Blue Skies Turn Black
4 Blush
4 Bifteck 2 Evenko
5 LuvHaus
“Montréal, j’aimerais [CENSORED] partout sur toi, tu gorges mon [CENSORED] d’un plaisir si pur que je dois le
5 Brasserie Beaubien 3 Greenland
partager à tous avant de retourner sur ma planète.” —Julien Bernatchez, Best Weirdo #4, Best Radio Host #5
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“We stand with all our fellow restaurateurs and friends in hospitality and nightlife. We have been amongst the hardest hit and our world is still filled with great uncertainty. However at Bord’Elle we pride ourselves in bringing joy, entertainment and great food to the masses and we are certain that things
will get better soon. The human spirit is richer when we are able to share and celebrate special moments in life, and we will be there for you when the time is right.”—John Edward Gumbley, John Jay, President Jegantic Group, President Bord’elle, Best Club #3
4 Hot Tramp Management 4 Sugar Vixen 3 Bowling Darling 4 Sugar Sammy Best Drug
5 Hello Darlin’ 5 Lou Lou la Duchesse de 4 Forum 5 Akeem Hoyte-Charles 1 Marijuana
Rière 5 Laurentian Lanes 2 MDMA /Molly
Best Strip Club Best Comedy Night 3 Cocaine
1 Chez Parée Best Drag Queen Best Film 1 Open Mike (Le Bordel)
4 Mushrooms
2 Café Cléopâtre or King Screening Series 2 Battle of Wits (Diving Bell
5 Ketamine
1 Mado Lamotte 1 Cinema Politica
3 Cabaret Kingdom Social Club)
2 Uma Gahd 2 Trannavision
4 Kamasutra 3 Squad Laughs (La Plante) Best Drink
3 Charlie Deville 3 cELLEuloid
5 Wanda’s 4 Stand Back 1 Beer
4 Rainbow 4 Minuit au Parc
(Notre Dame des Quilles) 2 Gin & tonic
Best LGBTQ2+ Bar/ 5 Sisi Superstar
5 Drunken Cinema
5 There’s Something Funny 3 Bourbon/whiskey
Club
Best Comedy Venue Going On (Blue Dog) 4 Wine
1 Notre Dame des Quilles Best Pool Hall
1 Fats 1 Bordel Comédie Club 5 Old-fashioned
2 Sky
Best Karaoke Bar
3 Chez Mado 2 Fitzroy 2 Comedy Nest
1 Pang Pang Best Cocktail Bar
4 Bar le Cocktail 3 Forum 3 Diving Bell Social Club
2 Club Date 1 Atwater Cocktail Club
4 Le Skratch 4 Le Terminal
5 Le Renard
3 3 Minots 2 Coldroom
5 Montreal Pool Room 5 Art Loft
4 Notre Dames des Quilles 3 Le Mal Nécessaire
Best Burlesque
Performer Best Bowling Alley Best Comedian 5 Bar le Cocktail 4 La Distillerie
1 Lavender May 1 Quilles G Plus (including 1 Tranna Wintour 5 Cloakroom
2 Tristan Ginger Rose Bowl) 2 Mike Ward
3 Miami Minx 2 Notre Dame des Quilles 3 John St. Godard
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Best Singer-song-
Music writer
1 Patrick Watson
2 Storry
Bud Rice is the king of the 3 Bud Rice
Music section this year,
topping the Best Solo Act 4 Charlotte Cardin
category and appearing in
the Best Folk/Country and 5 Katie Moore
Best Singer-songwriter
categories as well. Glam/
pop eccentric Hubert Best Busker
Lenoir continues to thrill
our readers, who voted him 1 Graham Downey (aka
into the Freakiest Act and
Most Pretentious categories
bagpipe dude)
— dubious distinctions to
2 Dog mask violinist
some, perhaps, but we love
our weirdos here at Cult 3 Jorie
MTL. In terms of continuity,
Arcade Fire remain at the 4 Spoonman
top of Best Band (despite
the fact that most of them 5 Big Daddy
don’t live here anymore),
Loud tops Best Hip Hop
Act, Li’l Andy (recently Best Record Label
seen playing live on the
rooftop of Ursa with Martha 1 Stomp!
Wainwright as part of
POP Montreal’s pandemic 2 Constellation
singalong series) continues
3 Secret City
his reign as Best Folk/
Country Act and Kaytranada, 4 On a Roll
who dropped his critically
acclaimed second LP Bubba 5 Dare to Care
late last year, takes Best “Black Lives Matter.”—Backxwash, Best Solo Act #3, Best Hip Hop Act #2
Electronic Act.
Solomon Krause-Imlach
“This is an amazing surprise — thanks to everyone who voted! When I used to visit Montreal before moving here, I would always grab the Best of MTL edition and thought all the artists were the coolest... honoured to be a part of it now! This
city inspires me and I can’t wait to keep releasing new music and videos leading up to my first full-length album in 2021 on Hot Tramp.”—Maryze, Best Electronic Act #2
Best Band Freakiest Act Heaviest Act Best Club DJ Best Folk/
1 Arcade Fire 1 Hubert Lenoir 1 The Great Sabbatini 1 Diskommander Country Act
2 Mountain Dust 1 Li’l Andy
2 Half Moon Run 2 Screaming Demons 2 Awwful
3 Godspeed You! Black 2 Solstice
3 The Damn Truth 3 Big Sissy 3 Frankie Teardrop
Emperor 3 Bud Rice
4 Caveboy 4 Jean Leloup 4 DJ Jeffany
4 Voivod 4 Katie Moore
5 Corridor 5 Natasha Nebula 5 Kaytranada
5 Big Brave 5 Sin & Swoon
Best Solo Act Most Pretentious Act Best Electronic Act
1 Arcade Fire Best Hip Hop Act 1 Kaytranada
Best Jazz Act
1 Bud Rice
1 Dave Gossage Septet
2 Patrick Watson 2 Hubert Lenoir 1 Loud 2 Maryze
2 Backxwash 2 Kalmunity
3 Backxwash 3 John Jacob Magistery 3 Milk and Bone
3 Alaclair Ensemble 3 Dominique Fils-Aimé
4 Janette King 4 Lakes of Canada 4 Awwful
4 Urban Science Brass Band 4 Eric Hove
5 Shane Murphy 5 Céline Dion 5 CRi
5 Dino Babydoll Luciano 5 Urban Science Brass Band
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Film &
Arts
For those of you unfamiliar
with #5 Best Film Hall,
the premise is as follows:
“When a debilitating
sickness spreads across
a long hotel hallway, a
few scattered victims
fight for survival, and try
to escape from the dark
narrow stretch of isolated
carnage.” A little too real
for 2020, perhaps, but this
horror film by Francesco
Giannini was released in
early 2019, after all. It’s
nice to see a woman in
the Best Filmmaker Top 5
(Sophie Deraspe, director
of Antigone, the #1 Best
Film). Welcome to the Best “WOW! I’m fucking honoured!”—Kelly Craig, Best Actor/Actress #4
Graffiti Artist/Crew Top 5,
Ink Chemistry — you went
straight to the top. And to
all the festivals in the Top 5,
Best Actor/Actress 4 Chris Bavota & Lee Paula Best Theatre 3 Trapped in Elon’s Mansion
and the Top 10, and all the 1 Marc-André Grondin Springer Company 4 Are You There, Margaret?
rest that have been and will
be affected by COVID-19: 5 Sophie Deraspe 1 Centaur It’s Me, Gahd
2 Jay Baruchel
we love you, we miss you,
2 Black Theatre Workshop 5 Late Company
we wish you the best of 3 Évelyne Brochu
luck. Note that the Fringe Best Film 3 Segal Centre
Festival is going online 4 Kelly Craig
this month, and that POP of 2019–2020 Best Dance
4 Théâtre du Nouveau
Montreal is streaming a 5 Tristan D. Lalla
mini-fest called Funhouse 1 Antigone
Monde
Company
during the first weekend in
June — POP’s proper five-
2 Mafia Inc. 1 Les Grands Ballets
5 House of Laureen
day fest is still scheduled
3 Dead Dicks Canadiens
for September. Best Filmmaker
1 Xavier Dolan
4 La femme de mon frère Best Play 2 Marie Chouinard
5 Hall 1 Mythic 3 Les Ballets Jazz de
2 Denis Villeneuve
2 J’aime Hydro Montréal
3 Podz
all photos by Cindy Lopez
Best Festivals
4 La La La Human Steps Best Gallery Best Cartoonist/ 4 Behaviour Interactive 2 Miss Me
5 Helen Simard 1 Fondation Phi/Phi Centre Comics Artist 3 A Shop
2 Arsenal 1 Aislin Best Fashion 4 K6A
Best Museum 2 Michel Rabagliati Designer
3 Station 16 5 Waxhead
3 Rick Trembles 1 Jennifer Glasgow
1 Museum of Fine Arts 4 Never Apart
4 Sophie Labelle 2 Markantoine
2 Musée d’art contemporain 5 BBAM! Best Festival
5 Walter K. Scott 3 Eliza Faulkner
3 McCord Museum 1 Jazz Fest
Best Living Author 4 Denis Gagnon
4 Canadian Centre for Archi- 2 Osheaga
1 Heather O’Neill Best Video 5 Marie Saint-Pierre
tecture 3 POP Montreal
2 Michelle Franklin Game Company
5 Pointe-à-Callière 4 Just for Laughs
3 Sean Michaels 1 Ubisoft Best Graffiti
4 Dany Laferrière 2 EA Artist or Crew 5 Fringe
“We’re beyond thrilled to have Dead Dicks included in this list. It’s incredible when something you create is embraced by your hometown, especially since so many talented Montrealers helped make this weird little movie a reality.”—Chris Bavota and Lee Springer (Best Filmmaker #4), directors of Dead
Dicks (Best Film #3, pictured) 5 David Goudreault 3 Eidos 1 Ink Chemistry
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Goods & (New) 1 Barbier Belmont 5 Angus Byers Instrument Store
1 Cinéma du Parc 4 Gym St-Henri 1 Ritz Carlton 3 Kitsch’n Swell 5 Pourquoi Pas...fleurs
1 Simons (DFA Tattoos) 1 Steve’s Music Store
Services 2 Queen of the World 2 Cineplex Forum 5 B.Cycle 2 William Gray 4 Eva B
2 Frank & Oak 2 Jimi’s Music Store 3 Fairmount Queen Elizabeth 5 Marché aux puces
Best Massage Spot
3 La Section 3 Cinéma Moderne
3 Off the Hook Best Record Store 3 Moog Audio Best Yoga Studio 1 Espace Nomad
4 Freyja 4 Dollar Cinema 4 Four Seasons St-Michel
Internet Service Providers (New) 2 Bota Bota
have fared well in recent 4 Zara 4 Archambault 1 Modo (fka Moksha) 5W
5 Helmet 5 Cinémas Guzzo
months, along with all 1 Aux 33 Tours
manner of grocery stores 5 Jeans Jeans Jeans 5 Diplomate Musique 2 Naada Best Jewellery Store 3 Spa Vert
— too bad we don’t have 2 Phonopolis Best Health
pharmacy and dépanneur
Best Tattoo Parlour Best Bicycle Shop 3 Enso Food Store
1 Tiffany 4 Ovarium
categories (practically the Best Vintage 1 DFA Tattoos
3 Le Vacarme Best Internet Service 2 Inchoo Bijoux 5 Scandinave Spa
only other spots we’ve been 1 514 BMX 4 Yoga Club 1 Rachelle Bery
allowed to visit lately),
Clothing Store 4 Cheap Thrills Provider
2 Psych Ward 2 C&L Cycles 5 Wanderlust 3 Birks
but the reasons for their
1 Eva B 2 Marché Tau
exclusion should be kind of
5 Sunrise Records 1 Vidéotron
3 Two Horses 3 Bikurious 4 Freitag
obvious. Luckily retail stores 2 Renaissance 3 Branche d’Olivier
and massage spots have been 2 TekSavvy Best Spa
4 Bait & Schlang 4 Recycle Cycle 5 Joel Mueller Design
able to reopen recently, and 3 Empire Exchange Best Record Store 4 Bio Terre
3 Bell 1 Bota Bota
hairdressers, tattoo artists 5 Adrenaline 5 Bicycles McW
and spas are coming back 4 Citizen Vintage (Used) 5 Loco
(if they choose to do so) this
4 Ebox
(fka McWhinnies) 2 Scandinave Best Florist
month. This is the first time 5 Annex Vintage 1 Cheap Thrills
we’ve ever included a Best
Best Tattoo Artist 5 Fizz 3 Strom Best Kitsch / 1 Dragon Flowers
Hotel category — interesting
2 Aux 33 Tours
1 Morning Gory Best Bookstore (New) 4 Espace Nomade Antique Store 2 Florateria
timing — and their reopening
date remains unknown, as
Best Hair Salon 3 Phonopolis Best Electronics
(DFA Tattoos) 1 Drawn & Quarterly 5 Finlandais 1 Kitsch à l’os… ou pas 3 Westmount Florist
is the case for gyms. Rather 1 Queen of the World 4 Encore Books & Records Store
than analyze ups and downs 2 Kevin Ward (The Psych 2 Indigo
in these categories, this year 2 Freyja 5 Death of Vinyl 1 Best Buy
we’ll leave it at this: support Ward) 3 Librairie Saint-Henri Books
local businesses! 3 Two Horses 2 Addison Electronique
3 Randy Nixon 5 Chapters
4 Helmet 3 Moog Audio
(Ink Chemistry)
5 Unlisted 4 Apple Store
Best Bookstore (Used)
1 The Word “Our stages stand ready to bring theatre
2 Encore
back into your life when the time is right”
3 Cheap Thrills
— Eda Holmes, Artistic & Executive Director, Centaur Theatre Company
4 S.W. Welch
5 L’Échange
Best Comic
Book Store
Pointe-à-Callière
Photo: Raphaël Thibodeau
1 Drawn & Quarterly
at Home! 2 Crossover Comics
3 Librairie Planète BD
The Incas, Treasures of Peru exhibition, While waiting for the Museum to reopen, there
Collection P. & D. Janssen-Arts, L’Agence des Arts et du Patrimoine de la communauté flamande et le MAS, Antwerpen.
extended from the reopening until October 4! 4 1,000,0000 Comix
are tons of activities for young and not-so-
@unvegetalienamontreal
young to enjoy! 5 Millenium Comics
Virtual Tour: stroll through our permanent
exhibitions, free of charge Best Smoke Shop
Pointe-à-Callière Live: tours and discussions, 1 Prohibition
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
live on Facebook, every Thursday at noon
Photo: Hugo Maertens / Linden-Museum Stuttgart. Photo: D. Drasdow
2 Utopia
The Museum for families: games, colouring pages,
creative workshops, and educational booklets 3 Boutique Rock
4 Psychonaut
See pacmusee.qc.ca/athome for complete details
5 High Times
Donate to the COVID-Recovery Campaign CENTAUR THEATRE
Photo: Stéphane Brügger
Best Gym
The Last Wife by Kate Hennig · Directed by Eda Holmes · Set Design by Michael Gianfrancesco
1 Econofitness Lighting Design by Andrea Lundy · Centaur Theatre Company, Season 50 · Photo by Andrée Lanthier
@pointeacalliere 2 YMCA
20 JUNE 2020 • Vol. 8 No. 9 • CULTMTL.COM JUNE 2020 • Vol. 8 No. 9 •CULTMTL.COM 21Food &
Drink
As usual our Food Editor
Clayton Sandhu has written
about your restaurant
picks at the end of this
issue, taking a slightly
different approach this
year: his editorial is titled
Resto Rights instead of
Resto Wrongs. Normally
we wouldn’t even include
“cooking at home” in the
Best Food Trend category,
but right now it’s more
than a trend — it’s the
new normal. That said,
we can all support our
favourite restaurants as
the pandemic shutdown
continues by ordering in, at
least once in a while, and/
or by donating to crowd-
funding campaigns and
charitable organizations
like Montreal Restaurant
Workers Relief Fund and
Rally for Restaurants. New
to this section this year are “What makes Damas a special restaurant is that it refuses to offer a merely ‘regional’ or a merely ‘ethnic’ dining experience — terms that still carry a Eurocentric weight and the latent racism that comes with it. Damas does, of course, offer a
cuisine from a very specific time, place and tradition. But it does so with uncompromising ingredients, technique, and with a decor, service, and wine list to match. The chef-owner Fuad challenged the North American stereotype that Middle
Best Hotel Bar/Restaurant, Eastern food = cheap kebabs, a vision that resulted in a singular restaurant revealing the sophistication and beauty of Syrian cuisine. An extravagant tasting menu with a wine pairing no longer belongs to European or a-territorial ‘chef-driven’
which was topped by Four restaurants alone, and the city’s food scene is richer, more diverse and representative for it.”—Daniel Gillis, sommelier at Damas, Best Middle Eastern #1, Best Pricey Eats #2
Seasons hotspot Marcus,
and Best Afternoon Tea,
which went to the ever-
popular Mile End tearoom Best New Best Cheap Eats Best Breakfast/ Best Food Truck
Cardinal. We cannot wait
to eat out again. We ♥ Food Trends Brunch 1 Grumman 78
1 Nilufar
Montreal restaurants.
1 Veganism 1 Vieux Vélo
2 Boustan 2 Winneburger
2 Poke bowls 2 Arthurs Nosh Bar
3 Patati Patata 3 Le Cheese
3 Food halls 3 L’Avenue
4 Green Spot 4 Mi Corazon
4 Cooking at home
4 L’Oeufrier
5 AA 5 La Panthère Verte
5 Ramen
5 Cosmos
Best Pricey Eats Best African
Best Chef Best Pub Grub Best Afternoon Tea
1 Joe Beef 1 Le Nil Bleu
1 Danny Smiles 1 Burgundy Lion
1 Cardinal Tea Room
2 Damas 2 Queen Sheeba
2 Chanthy Yen 2 Ye Olde Orchard
2 Burgundy Lion
3 Chuck Hughes 3 McKibbins 3 Montréal Plaza 3 East Africa
3 Ritz Carlton
4 Dino Babydoll Luciano 4 Bishop and Bagg 4 Île Flottante 4 La Khaima
4 Gryphon d’Or
5 Sean Murray Smith 5 Brutopia 5 Le Bremner 5 Maquis Yasolo
5 Camellia Sinensis
Best New Restaurant Best Hotel Bar Best Late Night Eats Best Caribbean
Best Delivery Service
1 Beba or Restaurant 1 La Banquise 1 Lloydie’s
1 Uber Eats
2 Mano Cornuto 1 Marcus (Four Seasons) 2 Boustan 2 Agrikol
2 Palm Court/Maison Bou- 2 Foodora (RIP)
3 Wolf & Workman 3 Chez Claudette 3 Boom J’s
lud (Ritz Carlton) 3 Skip the Dishes
4 TimeOut Market 4 AA 4 Caribbean Food Factory
3 Bar George 4 Golo
5 Parliament Pub & Parlour 5 Nouveau Palais 5 Jardiin du Cari
(Mount Stephen) 5 Door Dash
4 Bartizen (W)
5 Maiolo (Le Meridien)
22 JUNE 2020 • Vol. 8 No. 9 • CULTMTL.COMBest Chinese Best Greek Best Japanese Best Mexican Best Thai
1 Hong Mere 1 Milos 1 Kazu 1 El Rey del Taco 1 Épicerie Pumpui
2 Maison VIP 2 Marven’s 2 Jun I 2 Tacos Frida 2 Bangkok
3 Aunt Dai’s 3 Marathon Souvlaki 3 Noren 3 La Capital Tacos 3 Thai Express
4 PM 4 Arahova 4 Nozy 4 Escondite 4 Thaïlande
5 Kam Fung 5 Villa du Souvlaki 5 Otto Yakitori 5 Ta Chido 5 Chu Chai
Best Russian Best Indian Best Korean Best Middle Eastern Best Portuguese
/Eastern European 1 Bombay Mahal 1 GaNaDaRa 1 Damas 1 Romados
1 Euro Deli Batory 2 Star of India 2 Mon Ami 2 Boustan 2 Ma Poule Mouillée
2 Stash Café 3 Pushap 3 Omma 3 Alep/Le Petit Alep 3 Chez Doval
3 Café Baba Yaga 4 Thali 4 Chez Bong 4 Sumac 4 Piri Piri
4 La Caverne Russe 5 Omnivore
5 Chand Palace 5 Seoul Chako 5 Jano
5 Budapest Roma
Best Italian Best Latin-American Best Spanish Best Vietnamese
Best French 1 Pho Tay Ho
1 Elena 1 Arepera du Plateau 1 Tapeo
1 L’Express
2 Pasta Casareccia 2 Bocadillo 2 La Sala Rosa 2 Pho Bang New York
2 Leméac
3 Gema 3 La Chilenita 3 Iberica 3 Pho Lien
3 Quartier Général
4 Club Espagnol 4 TRAN Cantine
4 Impasto 4 El Chalateco
4 Taverne sur le Square
Vietnamienne
5 Bottega 5 Los Planes 5 Alma
5 Monarque
5 Le Red Tiger
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24 JUNE 2020 • Vol. 8 No. 9 • CULTMTL.COM“I feel completely humbled to be considered one of Montreal’s Best Chefs. I am so grateful that people took the time and effort to submit their votes. Truly, thank you, everyone, I am happy to know that my work and my ideas are being appreciated! Each of these chefs worked [tirelessly] to get to where they “The restaurant industry is so much work, it’s very nerve-racking to go on your own, especially when there are no big backers. It’s just me and my brother, in this case, so it’s been very fruitful and it’s allowed us to become comfortable in our own space. [Winning Best New Restaurant] is a wonderful sur-
are and you can see their passion come through in their food. To the chefs who ranked in the top 10 and those who haven’t, we recognize you and we thank you for all the hard work you put into the craft. There isn’t just one model for making food and being passionate about it, so congratulations to you all.” prise, honestly. In these times, something like this really makes our year.”—Ari Schor of Beba, Best New Restaurant #1
—Chanthy Yen, Best Chef #2
Best Bagel Best Donuts Best Fish and Chips Best Pad Thai Best Ribs Best Smoked Meat Best Taco Best Craft/ 4 Saint-Henri 3 Copette & Co.
1 St-Viateur 1 Léché Desserts 1 Brit & Chips 1 Pumpui 1 Blackstrap BBQ 1 Schwartz’s 1 Tacos Frida Microbrew Beer 5 Melk 4 Bleu et persillé
2 Fairmount 2 Krispy Kreme 2 Comptoir 21 2 Thai Express 2 Bâton Rouge 2 The Main 2 La Capital Tacos 1 Dieu du Ciel 5 Qui lait cru?
Best Coffee
3 Bagel St-Lo 3 Mr Puffs 3 Burgundy Lion 3 Bangkok 3 Bar B Barn 3 Smoke Meat Pete 3 El Rey Del Taco 2 Brutopia
(Beverage)
4 Ville-Émard Bagels 4 Trou de Beigne 4 Ad Hoc 4 Tampopo 4 Le Boucan 4 Snowdon Deli 4 Escondite 3 4 Origines Best Ice Cream
1 Dispatch
5 Beaubien Bagels 5 Tim Hortons 5 Parliament Pub & Parlour 5 Pamika 5 Rubs 5 Lester’s 5 Grumman 78 4 Messorem Bracitorium 1 Kem Coba
2 Olimpico
5 Isle de Garde 2 Dalla Rose
3 Myriade
Best Chicken Best Dumplings Best Fries Best Pizza Best Sandwich Best Steak Best Ramen 3 Ca Lem
4 Saint-Henri
1 Chalet BBQ 1 Qing Hua 1 Frites Alors 1 Adamo 1 Clarke Café 1 Moishes 1 Kinton Ramen 4 La Diperie
Best Bakery 5 Melk
2 Romados 2 Har Bin 2 Patati Patata 2 Elena 2 Dépanneur le Pick-Up 2 The Keg 2 Yokato Yokabai 5 Ripples
1 Guillaume
3 Ma Poule Mouillée 3 Sammy Soup Dumpling 3 McDonald’s 3 No. 900 3 Santropol 3 Gibbys 3 Tsukuyomi
2 Automne Best Teahouse
4 Côte-Saint-Luc BBQ 4 Mademoiselle Dumpling 4 Lafleur 4 Pizza Bouquet 31 4 Schwartz’s 4 Joe Beef 4 Umami Ramen Best Chocolate /
3 Hof Kelsten 1 Cardinal Tea Room
5 St-Hubert 5 Mei Wei 5 La Belle Province 4 Gema 29 5 Aux Vivres 5 L’Express 5 Ichifuku Sweets
4 Arhoma 2 Camellia Sinensis
1 Juliette et chocolat
5 Sweet Lee’s 3 Cha Noir
Best Burger Best Falafel Best Hot Dog Best Poutine Best Shish Taouk Best Sushi Best Vegetarian 2 Chloé
4 Gryphon d’Or
1 Uniburger 1 Falafel Yoni 1 Lafleur 1 La Banquise 1 Boustan 1 Sushi Momo 1 Aux Vivres 3 Chocolats favoris
5 Rosie-Lanoi
2 Notre-Boeuf-de-Grâce 2 La Panthère Verte 2 La Belle Province 2 Poutineville 2 Amir 2 Park 2 LOV Best Café (Place) 4 Geneviève Grandbois
3 Nouveau Palais 3 Falafel Saint-Jacques 3 Montreal Pool Room 3 Patati Patata 3 Omnivore 3 Jun I 3 Lola Rosa 1 Olimpico Best Fromagerie 5 Lecavalier Petrone
4 Burger de Ville 4 Nilufar 4 Dirty Dogs 4 Chez Claudette 4 Sumac 4 Le Kioko 4 La Panthère Verte 2 Dispatch 1 Hamel
5 Chez Tousignant 5 Boustan 5 Decarie Hot Dog 5 La Belle Province 5 Basha 5 Saint Sushi 5 Sushi Momo 3 Myriade 2 Atwater
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Clayton Sandhu
BY CLAYTON SANDHU placing Danny Smiles. Remember last year’s straight-white- (read: fine dining) category falling behind only Montreal’s
male dominated list? Well, the status quo is being shaken up favourite son, Joe Beef. A lot has been said about “ethnic”
Holy hell, what a year — and I could still in no small part by Chanthy and chefs like him. The Parliament food and its struggle to find its acceptance in the world of
and Cold Room food director cut his teeth at Fantôme, ran the fine dining. In my opinion, Damas has excelled in all aspects
be saying that even if COVID-19 never of fine dining, from professionalism in service, to finely
short-lived but popular restaurant Fieldstone and is currently
happened. running a Cambodian take-out operation out of Parliament. executed cuisine, to an exceptionally curated wine program
Emma Cardarelli also ranked in the Top 10 this year and while (the restaurant employs two full-time sommeliers) for years.
If 2020 has taught us anything so far, it’s to expect the Not to mention the ornately decorated room that recalls the
more women and more chefs of colour ought to be on this list,
unexpected, especially when the unexpected is an opulence of that old-world style of restauration seldom seen
it’s a noted improvement from last year. Somewhat bizarrely
unprecedented catastrophe. As is done every year, I’m going these days. It’s been up there for me for years, but it seems
is the #4 ranking of Dino Babydoll Luciano, who for many will
to do my best to comment on the results of this year’s Best as though Damas has officially arrived.
be an unfamiliar name. Luciano, a New York City transplant,
of MTL Food section in what we like to call the annual Resto
is freshly arrived in Montreal and his cooking background
Wrongs. This year, however, is a bit tricky, besides the fact St-Viateur Bagels retain their spot on the top and the
is almost unilaterally tied to his 2017 MasterChef U.S. win
that nobody has eaten at a restaurant for the better part of Uniburger still reigns supreme, and I for one am happy to see
— the only vegan chef to ever do so. Luciano, today, is best
three months, COVID-19 has seriously called into question some non-Neapolitan pizza places like Adamo and Pizza
known for his Italian inspired vegan pop-ups and works in
the continued existence of many of the restaurants in Bouquet firmly stake a claim for some of the best pizza in
Montreal as a private chef. His appearance on this list comes
this survey. While it’s true that I can be very critical when
as a surprise to me, but hey, you guys voted him in. town. Perhaps most unlikely of all, considering the amount
it comes to talking restaurants, I am first and foremost a
of Italian (and Italian adjacent) restaurants opened in the
staunch supporter of the restaurant industry — I owe so Beba was the hands-down favourite to win Best New last year, is that an old NDG stand-by, Pasta Casareccia,
much of what I have in life to working in our restaurant Restaurant this year and what a well-deserved win it is. found its way to second place amongst the Best Italian
scene. So while I would like nothing more than to take a strip After six years of running the kitchen at Liverpool House, Ari restaurants in the city, reinforcing that age-old Italian logic
off the tasteless troglodytes who think McDonald’s coffee Schor parted ways with the Joe Beef team to open a small that the old ways are often the best ways.
is some of the best in town, the results of this year’s survey Argentinian restaurant with his brother. The result has been
(barring a few very weird submissions) actually link up with exceptional and an intimate introduction to the harmonious While the future of the restaurant scene is wholly unclear,
my personal preferences pretty well. blend of Italian and Spanish influences of Argentine cooking it still feels so nice to reflect on those restaurants that
that has long been overshadowed by the Argentinian
mean the most to us. Many years from now we’ll look back
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, as they say. I suppose Steakhouse. Having been open for less than a year, Beba’s
on this time and we’ll reflect on the importance of some
it only took a world-wide mandatory lockdown to remind rise to the top is about as meteoric as you can get. If you
Montrealers of the finer things our city has to offer. So with restaurants, the ingenuity of others and the utter trivialness
haven’t had the chance to taste their food, Ari and his team
that in mind, I’m going to ditch the nit-picky criticism for this of attempting to rank food and restaurants as if taste were
recently launched a take-out menu alongside some hard to
year and focus on what you got right. objective. I’m choosing to look at this year’s list differently:
come-by wines.
instead of thinking of it like a ranking system, I’ll think of it
Let’s start at the top. This year saw Chanthy Yen skyrocket Damas, which continues its reign as best Middle Eastern more like an extremely thorough black book — a take-out
to #2 in the Best Chef category behind the perennial first restaurant, also jumped up a few spots in the Pricey Eats directory for the ages.
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