Dave Smith > wrote in
:

> Maybe he is not aware that they serve food other than poutine. I
> go to Montreal regularly and have never had it there.

Neither have I. I usually reserve poutine eating for a chip truck on
highway 20, near Joly on the westbound lane. It really schmecks.

> I have been
> to a wide variety of restaurants, Greek, Italian, Portuguese,
> vegetarian Indian, a Parisian style bistro, and always had great
> food at reasonable prices. I never had to resort to poutine.

Usually, I eat "en famille" with cousins and aunts and uncles. They
pick the restaurants, on St-Denis, Mont-Royal or Laurier in
Outremont. I have no complaints. I enjoy going to Ben's and
Beauty's though and Chez Cora for breakfast. The other favourite is
the Commensal on McGill College. We've been to the one in Toronto
also, right behind our usual hotel.

If I want to eat "ethnic" I have more than my share of restaurants
within walking distance in Ottawa: Chinese (about 40 or so), Viet
(about as many), Thai (three or four), Sri Lankan (1), Japanese (3),
Japanese fusion (1), Mexican (1), Indian (Hyderabad - 1), Indian (Raj
- 5), Italian (30 or more, it's practically a whole street and then
some), Greek (a few), Portuguese (no), Vegetarian organic (3).

It's like being in Toronto, but without the smog and the annoying
anglos.

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"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

Dostoevski, The Idiot