Streetlevel: A Taste of Montreal for Hoyt Street
Earlier this week, BlackBook broke the news that a new Montreal-style restaurant is under construction at 97 Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill. What’s the big deal? Evidently when the new spot, to be called Mile End, opens it will offer up a dish called Poutine, which is basically french fries topped with gravy and cheese…
Earlier this week, BlackBook broke the news that a new Montreal-style restaurant is under construction at 97 Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill. What’s the big deal? Evidently when the new spot, to be called Mile End, opens it will offer up a dish called Poutine, which is basically french fries topped with gravy and cheese curds. The restaurant also plans to serve a microbrew from Montreal called St. Ambroise. Sounds like a winner. GMAP
Chacun a son gout, Biff! Obviously, I can’t argue with your tastes or experiences (I’m horrified by the racist comments — our service was great, but then each time I’ve gone, my dining companions and I were lily white). But really, you found the smoked meat juicier? I found it drier and less flavorful than Carnegie, Katz’s, Stage, etc.
I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting Vancouver, and I’ve only had Chinese in Toronto and couldn’t find good Szechuan there. In Montreal, I had excellent Indian and Thai — though given our taste perceptions, probably neither of us should be making restaurant recommendations for the other!
I rarely log on during the weekend, but was very curious to see if the Awaye thread had more posts, which it did.
Anyhoo, ProfRobert, I really enjoy your posts, but on the one above, I couldn’t disagree with you more!
Poutine is delicious.
Smoked meat is far juicier and tastier that the dried up corned beef and pastrami and Carnegie, Katz’s, etc.
Asian cuisine in Montreal is average at best. Toronto and Vancouver have much better Asian cuisine.
La Queue de Cheval is one of the worst steakhouse experiences I ever had. While the food was edible but hardly worth returning for (almost every steak I’ve had in NY tops it), the experience our large group had was horrific. The service was rude (during the times we could even get the waiters’ attention) and we even heard slurs uttered from more than one of them during our meal – my group was predominantly comprised of Far and East Asian individuals.
But alas, these things are all a matter of personal taste.
Vive la différence!
Have to agree with Babs re. poutine. As for smoked meat — it’s pastrami with all the flavor taken out of it (and, yeah, I tried it at the famous delis). As much as I love visiting Montreal, it’s not for the local food (though the Asian cuisines there are excellent, and there’s a steakhouse, La Queue de Cheval, that’s as good as anything in NYC).
I know that “gravy fries with cheese curd” may not sound that delicious–but it is. I can hardly wait for this place to open.
great news!
just biked pass this today, saw a bunch of chinese construction workers sitting outside smoking, and wondered what was being built here. lo’ and behold the answer is here.
the poutine at pomme frites has nothing on the poutine in montreal. hopefully this place has something closer to the real thing!
poutine is IT. I cannot wait for this place.
those ladies are RUNNING from the canookian invasion fer sure! run ladies run!!
*rob*
My quebecoise friend swears by them. I was raised in a culture where the only proper topping for fries is cheese whiz though. So… not sure.