the tamales actually seemed like a p good deal esp for take-out
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
Tachido is a lovely, lovely place, but I have a hard time leaving there with a full stomach. I wish they had actual side dishes.
― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
The place on St. Denis is called "La Matraca" and it's the best/most authentic one I've been to so far. I'm gonna try La Tamalera, though it looks a bit hipster-ish from the pics. No one in Mexico eats hibiscus tacos.
― daavid, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
oh i've been to Petit Coin du Mexique! years ago (with a friend who had a car, haha.) It was good!I like Tachido's tacos, but yeah, i eat meat and i like the mole. also margaritas in jar-glasses. i haven't tried the sandwiches. i am hungry and wish i could eat tacos right now :(
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
i will def try la matracha. i need to visit california soon just to eat tacos and burritos. and see friends, whatever, burritos.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
you know what goes great with friends is burritos
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
its hibiscus juice doy
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
la matraca is pretty good, authentic-feeling, but not like... amazing
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
I can't take any restaurants on this block seriously bc the groceries are all so good.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
greek post office also v charming
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
i post things there all the time.
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
so it's summer now i guess
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
this article is kind of like that maisy one i posted upthread except i agree that they are fucking up the food trucks thing with the permits but i don't really get what it has to do with poor people and immigrants
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/montreals-food-truck-plan-is-a-symbolic-fuck-you-to-poor-people-and-immigrants
― flopson, Friday, 3 May 2013 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/05/12/travel/20130512-SURFACING.html?_r=0
― flopson, Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
henergy
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
Evoo is indeed amazing.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
pretty crazy stuff in this court document by the city of westmount suing my ex-landlord
http://jugements.qc.ca/php/decision.php?liste=68811716&doc=C0F572EC5E0A350672108DC3CDBF7AC293A9FDE6E6BE5CF685FD0DCE5483ED28&page=1
[14] On October 23, 1998, Mr. Fattal wrote a letter to Ms. Joanne Poirier, Westmount’s director of urban planning.[1] He called upon Ms. Poirier to “cancel” the September court injunction and accused her of “malicious, painful and abusive activities” that wasted taxpayers’ money. Mr. Fattal stated that it was time for Ms. Poirier to end her “Gestapo style” behaviour. [15] In the top corner of his letter, Mr. Fattal reproduced a Second World War photo of a Nazi officer, with his boot over the neck of a prostrate concentration camp prisoner. In the background, several other prisoners in striped uniforms hung from posts. Mr. Fattal signed his letter to Ms. Poirier, “Your Hostage”.[16] Ms. Poirier was upset by the letter. Westmount’s lawyers wrote to Mr. Fattal, asking him not to communicate with Westmount officials and to direct all future correspondence to them.[17] A further incident in the autumn of 1998 alarmed Westmount’s building inspectors. One day, Westmount’s employee, Mr. Michel Poulin, was performing an electrical inspection at the Saint Antoine building. Mr. Fattal suddenly appeared behind Mr. Poulin wearing a Saddam Hussein mask and brandishing a baseball bat. Mr. Poulin was frightened, but Mr. Fattal later called it a joke. ...[24] Between 1999 and 2007, he faxed hundreds of pages of correspondence and photos to the City of Westmount and its employees. At times, the fax transmissions were so lengthy they choked the City’s fax machines and disrupted its communications. Often, Mr. Fattal faxed the same pages over and over again.[25] On a number of occasions, Mr. Fattal faxed gruesome photos of himself, bare-chested and gagging. One photo showed a tortured Mr. Fattal, with bulging eyes, and an iron bar across his mouth. [26] Mr. Fattal also wrote to Westmount employees at their homes, mailing large envelopes to them stuffed with letters of complaint, photos of a bare-chested Mr. Fattal in chains, and other offensive documents. ...[48] In 2011, Mr. Fattal got an iPhone and discovered text messaging. Over the next two years, up until the eve of trial in February 2013, Mr. Fattal sent hundreds of text messages to Mtre. Banon, at all times of day and night, on weekends and holidays, including New Year’s Eve in 2012. In his messages Mr. Fattal repeatedly insulted Mtre. Banon, declaring that he should be ashamed to represent “gangsters” and “criminals” who were intent on ruining Mr. Fattal’s health. In one instance, Mr. Fattal attached a photo of himself and photos of several tombstones, clearly implying that Mtre. Banon and his clients wanted him in an early grave.[49] Mtre. Banon repeatedly asked Mr. Fattal to stop communicating with him, but the messages continued unabated, sometimes at the rate of several a day.[50] Mr. Fattal found other outlets for his anger. He created a website on which he posted derogatory remarks and photos of Mayors Marks and Trent, Mr. St. Louis and Ms. Poirier. He attached large posters to the front of his Saint Antoine building that bore similar statements and photos, as well as his website address. These posters are still on the building today. One of them identifies the building as the “Musée d’histoire d’harcèlement par Westmount”. Mr. Fattal’s building is festooned with City of Montreal flags, indicating his displeasure at being located in the municipality of Westmount.
[15] In the top corner of his letter, Mr. Fattal reproduced a Second World War photo of a Nazi officer, with his boot over the neck of a prostrate concentration camp prisoner. In the background, several other prisoners in striped uniforms hung from posts. Mr. Fattal signed his letter to Ms. Poirier, “Your Hostage”.
[16] Ms. Poirier was upset by the letter. Westmount’s lawyers wrote to Mr. Fattal, asking him not to communicate with Westmount officials and to direct all future correspondence to them.
[17] A further incident in the autumn of 1998 alarmed Westmount’s building inspectors. One day, Westmount’s employee, Mr. Michel Poulin, was performing an electrical inspection at the Saint Antoine building. Mr. Fattal suddenly appeared behind Mr. Poulin wearing a Saddam Hussein mask and brandishing a baseball bat. Mr. Poulin was frightened, but Mr. Fattal later called it a joke.
...
[24] Between 1999 and 2007, he faxed hundreds of pages of correspondence and photos to the City of Westmount and its employees. At times, the fax transmissions were so lengthy they choked the City’s fax machines and disrupted its communications. Often, Mr. Fattal faxed the same pages over and over again.
[25] On a number of occasions, Mr. Fattal faxed gruesome photos of himself, bare-chested and gagging. One photo showed a tortured Mr. Fattal, with bulging eyes, and an iron bar across his mouth.
[26] Mr. Fattal also wrote to Westmount employees at their homes, mailing large envelopes to them stuffed with letters of complaint, photos of a bare-chested Mr. Fattal in chains, and other offensive documents.
[48] In 2011, Mr. Fattal got an iPhone and discovered text messaging. Over the next two years, up until the eve of trial in February 2013, Mr. Fattal sent hundreds of text messages to Mtre. Banon, at all times of day and night, on weekends and holidays, including New Year’s Eve in 2012. In his messages Mr. Fattal repeatedly insulted Mtre. Banon, declaring that he should be ashamed to represent “gangsters” and “criminals” who were intent on ruining Mr. Fattal’s health. In one instance, Mr. Fattal attached a photo of himself and photos of several tombstones, clearly implying that Mtre. Banon and his clients wanted him in an early grave.
[49] Mtre. Banon repeatedly asked Mr. Fattal to stop communicating with him, but the messages continued unabated, sometimes at the rate of several a day.
[50] Mr. Fattal found other outlets for his anger. He created a website on which he posted derogatory remarks and photos of Mayors Marks and Trent, Mr. St. Louis and Ms. Poirier. He attached large posters to the front of his Saint Antoine building that bore similar statements and photos, as well as his website address. These posters are still on the building today. One of them identifies the building as the “Musée d’histoire d’harcèlement par Westmount”. Mr. Fattal’s building is festooned with City of Montreal flags, indicating his displeasure at being located in the municipality of Westmount.
― flopson, Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
wow
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
whoa. i remember reading some stuff about this guy a few years ago, but this is next level.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
i haven't really been surprised by the direction mtl food trucks have gone in...but yesterday i did see a guy wheeling a hot dog stand down the street! really! i was on my bike and didn't stop to ask wtf!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
hot dog cart i mean
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
haha sweet, power to that dude
i sell ice cream out of a cart on the weekends for spare cash but it's technically illegal, apparently if you get a ticket the boss pays it tho
― flopson, Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
i basically agree with the vice article but i'm suspicious of the whole "poor people and immigrants" angle, given the source
― flopson, Friday, 17 May 2013 01:21 (ten years ago) link
just seems like concern trolling, vice dudes probably just want food trucks to be unregulated because then it'd be more "authentic"
― flopson, Friday, 17 May 2013 01:22 (ten years ago) link
.. And they could co-opt any "poor or immigrant" cuisine that became popular.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:42 (ten years ago) link
Or not pay $10 for food served in a truck?
idk makes sense to me
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Friday, 17 May 2013 12:46 (ten years ago) link
Please to point me to Montreal event listing pages (now that the mirror's gone, sadly).
― ed.b, Sunday, 19 May 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
I use this for concerts http://www.cheapthrills.ca/news.html
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 19 May 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
http://cultmontreal.com/events/
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 19 May 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
On a scale of 1 to 10, how brown is your water today?
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
*spits montreal tapwater all over computer screen*
― flopson, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
i will likely be writing about summertime family things to do for tourism montreal in, like, May, so... stay tuned?
rrobyn did this come out?
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
we'll be there in about a month. got my renewed passport and confirmed our airbnb. pumped.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
i just ate aubergine at kazulines smaller when it rains :D
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
where's your beebs?
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 30 May 2013 08:12 (ten years ago) link
Is a boil water advisory a common occurence? I am drinking minty ice tea
― flamboyant goon mayor denuded (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:49 (ten years ago) link
in Montreal it is known as brownmint glace. not sure if it is common but having to talk about it makes the mayor sound like such a sketchy landlord.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
not common at all, apparently there was one in 2008 but i don't remember being aware of it
― flopson, Thursday, 30 May 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:12 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
in the vicinity of parc villeneuve and parc gills-lefebevre? basically a couple of blocks west of the mont-royal station
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 30 May 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
awesome. literally down the street from me! (i live just north of villeneuve)
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
cool!
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
what are your dates?
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 30 May 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
june 30 - july 6
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 30 May 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
Montreal's mayor arrested by the anti-corruption squads. Uh oh.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 17 June 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link
hey Montreal I'm going to be in you too, from the 3rd of July probably. totally suggest FAP.
also, where is cheap and good to stay?
― pink, fleshy, and gleeful (sic), Monday, 17 June 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
define "cheap"
(and define "good" i guess too)
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 17 June 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
stay at brendan's, if it's available:http://hotelcastleruins.com/
― sean gramophone, Monday, 17 June 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
if you happen to know of a hostel that is not terrible
areas of the city that are near some cool shit without being too grotty or murdery, so if I find anyone on couchsurfing.org I have half an idea where they are?
(also feel free to nominate cool shit you love about the place, or things that are on. I will expand this thread and read the others before I get there though)
― pink, fleshy, and gleeful (sic), Monday, 17 June 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.logement.umontreal.ca/eng/temporaire.htm
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 June 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
oh merci mille fois
― pink, fleshy, and gleeful (sic), Monday, 17 June 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link