We booked a food tour of Old Montreal, which started at 11am. We took the Metro to get there, but we stopped at Place D'Armes first to look at Montreal's Notre Dame.
After that we headed to the food tour starting point. There were 16 people on the tour. Our guide was pretty good, she had lots of energy and enthusiasm even though it was hot and humid that day. Unfortunately the first thing she said was we weren't going to eat classic Montreal food like poutine or smoked meat, because that is available everywhere. Instead she was going to show us hidden gems that we wouldn't discover ourselves. That's fine, and maybe there are a million places that sell poutine, but how can we find the best one?
Anyway the first place we went was called Brit & Chips and the specialized in fish and chips. Since we were stopping at several places each place had a small portion for us to sample, so we each got one piece of fish and some chips. It was very good. Yanmei devoured it even though she usually doesn't eat fish.
The next stop was called Cantinho de Lisboa and was a Portuguese place, we had a kale and potato soup with chickpea salad. This was Yanmei's favorite stop. Since we got back she's made kale and potato soup twice already.
Then we went to a cafe in the old Royal Bank headquarters building. Royal Bank no longer has offices there, but it is a massive and ornate building with huge vaulted ceilings. The cafe is where the tellers were and they've left the teller stations there so it still looks and feels like a bank. Here we had a BLT, but with prosciutto instead of bacon and shaved celery instead of lettuce.
The next stop was Cookie Stefanie, where we had a piece of gluten free carrot cake. I forgot to take pictures of most of the food, but I got one there. After that we went to Le Petit Dep, which was a fancy convenience store and had a mango-vanilla ice cream cone. Then we stopped at Soeurs Grises, which was a microbrewery pub for beer and cheese tasting, before finally going to Soupe Soup for poudding Chomeur, which is a sweet cake made with maple syrup.
Overall the tour was pretty good, but not great.
We were pretty tired so we drove back to Port Perry that night, and the next day back to Bruce Beach.
-David
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