Author: Blair Dohey
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The Book Report
I made two New Year’s Resolutions in January. One of them was to write in a journal everyday (some details that don’t make it onto DJNL make it into that journal) and the other was to alternate between reading a French and an English book each few weeks for the entire year. With the year’s…
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The Routine
Guys, whether you’re pounding away the hours at your 9 to 5 or you’re making your own hours and your own rules, we all must do our best to stay in shape and look good doing it. Jack Black has been on our radar ever since we had a friend smuggle some of that fantastic…
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The Great Razor Debate
I know that for a great number of men their biggest worry is the size of their – beard. Making sure your manscaped face is shaven and sculpted to perfection is as important as the razor you use. We recently tested the difference between Harrys razors and Gillette’s Mach 3 and here’s what we thought.…
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L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon
The night sky is full of stars and although some may shine brighter than others, they all have their place in a tapestry that reaches deep into milky way. The same can be said for Montreal’s equally vast culinary scene. I get to spend my nights rubbing elbows with this city’s finest chefs and restauranteurs,…
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Nespresso Atelier
Imagine for a second that it’s early morning. The blankets that you’re wrapped in are warm and you grip them snugly so no cool morning air can creep in. After waking you get out of bed quietly, hoping not to wake anyone else, and slowly make your way to the kitchen. There’s absolute quite and…
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Atelier d’Argentine
Every now and then an experience at a restaurant completely blows my mind. I’m eat out at least three or four times a week and while many of these experiences are pleasant, there are those that are completely forgettable. From the get-go every restaurant has the potential to dazzle but its what they do with…
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Bromont
As much as I love the feeling of lifting off the tarmac at Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport and having an aircraft whisk me away to a vacation far, far away it’s not always that feasible or affordable. Sometimes a weekend vacation with a few friends can be just the vacation you need. Hopping in your…
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Nolana
I’ve been meaning to try Nolana for quite some time. The Italian restaurant on McGill Street in Old Montreal has been open for a few years now and every time I’ve walked by I’ve been captivated by the decor and how people seem to be enjoying themselves so much. Last week I finally got my…
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Northern New Brunswick
Atlantic Canadians are some of the nicest, most creative and entirely inviting people you’ll find across the country. This holds true for the people that call the region of Northern New Brunswick home. A group of very lucky bloggers gathered last week to experience a taste of Northern New Brunswick as we were introduced to…
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ARTSIDA 7
The ACCM’s (AIDS Community Care Montreal) Artsida art auction fundraiser draws hundreds of people every year in support of those affected by HIV and Hepatitis C in communities across the city. On March 12th art lovers will come together at the celebrated Musee d’art comtemporain for an exciting evening that will feature the works of…
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Osheaga 2017
A very exciting first look. More details to follow.
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WRG Classic
For those looking to redden their cheeks a little while watching a stylish game of our nation sport, this weekend WRG magazine is hosting its 4th annual WRG Classic. Inspired by early 20’s fashion, the friendly series of games is played on an outdoor rink and its players are spiffed up in their finest bow…
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Henden
After conquering the fried chicken world by opening Bird Bar on Notre-Dame west less that 3 months ago, Kimberly Lallouz has set her sights on becoming the Queen of cocktails in Griffintown. Last week some of Montreal’s movers and shakers of the city’s media and social scene gathered for the VIP opening of Henden, a…
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Le Boucan 2 Is Open
Montreal isn’t a big city. Sure our island is home to millions of people and it sprawls from the West Island all the way east to Point aux trembles but the centre, the main neighbourhoods of the city are relatively close making it easy to get from one end to the other by metro, Uber…
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La Fête de l’érable
As human beings we each react differently to things that affect us emotionally. Some of us rejoice as early winter sets in and the first fall of snow blankets the ground. Others sneer, turn up their collars and trudge threw the months as best they can. Our lives are a series of emotional responses to…
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Body Break Confirms Santa Clarita Diet
Netflix latest bingeworthy offering, the Santa Clarita Diet starring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Ophalant debuted last week on the streaming service. Hoping to convince Canadians that the Santa Clarita Diet works for everyone, Netflix has hired two national health heros to help them promote the series. Have a look at the video below featuring Hal…
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Super Bowl Trailers
While football fans from around the globe gather to watch the biggest sporting event of the year, the rest of us watch the Super Bowl for the halftime shows and the commercials. Here’s a rundown of this year’s most amazing TV and movie trailers featured during this year’s Super Bowl! Stranger Things 2 Easily one…
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Lady Gaga’s Halftime Show
Super Bowl Halftime shows are extraordinary feats of engineering, pyrotechnics and above all else remarkable talent. Everyone from Prince to Diana Ross, Madonna to Beyonce, Michael Jackson to Bruno Mars and many more have all given epic performances that keep building to bigger shows every year. When we learned late last year that Lady Gaga…
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Inside The Nightlife 01.29.2017
Le Chop For 5 years the restaurants under the Ville Marie Collection group have banned together and slashed prices on their menus. Both Atelier d’Argentine restaurants (in Old Montreal and on Crescent), Wienstein and Gavino’s and Decca 77 have prepared special 3 course menus and wine parings that start at $25. We went to Decca…
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Structube
Our homes are our sanctuaries, a space where we begin and end our days, where we curl up with a good book or sit around the table with friends enjoying great food and wine. Our homes are as unique as the people that inhabit them and there’s nothing like find that great piece of furniture…
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Le MTL Resto + Bar
In order for a restaurant or a bar to survive Montreal’s busy scene it needs to stand out. Investments in top notch decor, the best food and most importantly great people are key to making an establishment a success. MTL Resto and Bar recently opened on the Plateau, the city’s most densely packed neighbourhood, and…
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Super Bowl Sunday
For hundreds of millions of people around the world, the Super Bowl is the biggest event of the year. If fans are not at the event to see it live, they are gathered in their favourite bars and restaurants or they get together at home to watch the game and of course the halftime show.…
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CONTEST: Laidback Luke at New City Gas
DJNL and New City Gas have teamed up to give away two VIP ticketss to lucky fans of Laidback Luke. Performing at New City this coming Saturday, January 28th, Laidback Luke himself has provided us with 40 of his favorite tracks of the moment which you can listen to below. Simply head to our Facebook…
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Taqueria Arturo
Prince Arthur Street, between St. Laurent and Laval used to be a bustling hub of restaurants, cafes, bars and shops that attracted people from all over the city. It was one of a few pedestrian promenades in Montreal and it was busy morning, noon and night. In recent years the area has become less popular…
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Nespresso’s Cafe Gourmand
Back in December four up and coming pastry chefs were put to the test as they competed in the second edition of the Cafe Gourmand contest. Presented by Nespresso and held at the Institut de l’Hotellerie et Tourisme du Quebec (ITHQ), the contestants were required to create unique coffee pairings with two creative mignardaise (bite…
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5 Things To Do In Montreal In January
Montreal is a diverse collection of eclectic neighbourhoods filled with wonderful things to do and see. Here are our picks of five great things to do in five of our favourite hoods in January. Le Plateau Mont-Royal Perhaps Montreal’s most well-known neighbourhood you’d need to spend a great deal of time on the Plateau if…
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Europea
Although there are thousands of restaurants to choose from in Montreal, it’s difficult to find a lunch table that matches the impeccable attention to detail that you will find at Restaurant Europea. Over the holidays I paid a visit (my first ever) to the restaurant with one of the Montreal Food Divas and I was…
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Making Your New Year’s Resolution Work
After a month of celebrating the holidays with our friends and family, indulging in cookies, candies, chocolates and so much more it’s always nice to find one’s self in the calm after the storm. January is a month of quiet repos where our time is spent resolving to reset and start the new year off…
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Spa Le Tsar
Starting January 20th the Tsar Spa returns for its 8th edition. What is Tsar Spa you might ask? It’s only one of the most relaxing, immersive and multi sensory massage experiences you will ever have. For three days only (January 20-22) you can enjoy a deeply calming massage inside the vaulted structure of the St.…
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Happening Gourmand 10: Food Edition
Happening Gourmand has been treating us to some great food for a full decade. Feast your eyes on some of the food we sampled at the launch late last week. Running until February 5th, 9 restaurants throughout Old Montreal will be serving up specially created lunch and three course dinner specials. This combined with some…
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Happening Gourmand 10
Early January means the return of one of our favourite food festivals, Happening Gourmand. For it’s 10th edition, Montreal’s media and VIP guests crowded Modavie on St. Paul to kick off this year’s month long celebration of great food in Old Montreal. To celebrate 10 years of serving inventive meals from specially created menus at…
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Estrimont Suites & Spa
While many of us perpetually dream of bottomless Pina-coladas on endless sandy beaches, others are strapping on their snowshoes, snapping into ski boots and lacing up for laps around the ice. With its vast forests, pristine lakes and perfectly cold temperatures, Quebec is a great place to spend the winter months. Mini winter escapes for…
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XO Best Of Both Worlds
While everyone is clamouring to get to the best New Year’s Eve parties across the city to celebrate the end of a crazy year, we already have our first party of the new year to look forward to. On January 1st, 2017 a crowd of over 500 people will gather at the Windsor Ballroom for…
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Dolcetto & Co.
I’ve walked past Dolcetto & Co. in Old Montreal a thousand times or more and almost every time the restaurant’s marine inspired decor has caught my eye. Anchors, buoys and life preservers are not things I would normally associate with an Italian restaurant but upon finally getting a chance to try their food last week,…
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LOV In Old Montreal
Up until now I don’t think I have ever uttered the phrase “let’s go to a vegetarian place for dinner”. My love of meat (especially hamburgers) and chicken is well documented and my fear of fainting from hunger after eating vegetarian or vegan has often led to a second supper. Up until now there hasn’t…
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Inside the Nightlife 12.18
From anniversary parties to one of the biggest openings of the year, last week was a big one for Montreal’s social scene. We partied among the clouds at the third anniversary of Stylissme PR and Antonio Park continued his slow takeover of Montreal with the very successful opening of Kampai. Let’s get into it. Stylissme…
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New Year’s Eve In Lachine
From 3pm on December 31st, families from across the city will gather in Lachine’s new Marina d’escale park to being their New Year’s Eve celebration. Featuring a giant side, an explosive light show, hula hoop, face painting and plenty more activities for kids of all ages. At 8pm we pick up the pace with music…
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The Holidays At Le Richmond
There are a number of reasons why I keep going back to Le Richmond. The larger-than-life decor is still as impressive as the first time I saw it, the ambiance is as lively as ever and the food keeps getting better. The main reason why I love going back to the restaurant and the market…
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Kampai Garden
The hottest new bar in Montreal right now is Kampai Garden and it has everything. The highly anticipated new project from local celebrity chef, Antonio Park, recently held it’s massive opening and it might just have been one of the biggest openings of the year! Have a look below! Park and his team have created…
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New Year’s Eve
There isn’t another night of the year in Montreal, or the world, that has more pressure on its shoulders to be the biggest night of the year. On New Year’s Eve in the city, hundreds of thousands of people will be out on the town, dressed to impress and looking for that special kiss when…
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Inside The Nightlife 12.4
As the Holidays approach it gets tough to keep a calendar open! Last week’s biggest events included two restaurant openings, one gigantic bar opening and ended with a quiet Saturday brunch. Let’s get into it. Bird Bar Fried chicken and champagne. Those words are enough to get me out of the house and into a…
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La Grande Guignolée des médias
Every year Montreal’s media and bloggers receive hundreds of invitations to VIP nights out on the town. We attend the hottest openings, the coolest launches and eat at the greatest new restaurants all while rubbing shoulders with some of the city’s brightest stars. Last week we received a mysterious invitation from Bob le chef, a…
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La Petite Garçonne and Chapitre 2
Three years ago La Petite Garçonne was born. Boutique 1861 had gotten so popular with shoppers from around the world that the dainty and aesthetically pleasing clothing couldn’t be contained in one or two simple stores. La Petite Garçonne offered a generation of woman a French inspired collection of clothing an accessories. When the store…
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Ichigoichie
A few years ago Montreal went through a Japanese Izakaya moment. A number of them quickly opened and just as quickly closed throughout the city as we moved onto the next trend du jour. The thing about restaurant trends is the first one or two of their kind are original but then the money grabbers…
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Aliments -40
It’s the perfect time of year to stay in and cook for our friends and family. Cocooning by a roaring fire while the scent of food baking in the oven wafts from the kitchen, through our home and into our warming hearts is sometimes made a little easier when the cooking is done for us.…
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Brit & Chips
If you’ve read any other article on this website (or you know me personally) you know about my contentious relationship with fish and seafood. For the first half of my life, growing up in a small fishing village in Newfoundland, I ate fish on an almost daily basis. Whether it was baked, fried, caked, fresh…
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Inside The Nightlife 11.27
There’s nothing like a Thursday night event marathon to get your blood pumping. Here’s a look at last week’s biggest openings, anniversaries and parties. La P’tite Grosse Although we are still lamenting the loss of Rosalie (those pizzas!!), the show must go on. After series of restaurants spun through the revolving door that’s become the…
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The New DJNL
We are very excited and proud to present the brand spanking new Day Jobs Nightlife! We’ve spend much of 2016 developing this exciting and sparkly new look while adding a few great new features that will improve your experience on our site. Since 2012 we’ve scoured the city of Montreal (and beyond), bringing you the…
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Bombay Sapphire
Every now and then, a group of Montreal’s media and bloggers are invited to congregate for a special night out. Getting us all sharing the news on social media, there’s no better way for a brand to announce a new product, especially when that brand is Bombay Sapphire Gin. For the launch of the new…
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Taberna
I had big plans for this year’s MTLATABLE. With over 150 restaurants participating during the 10 day food festival, there was almost no limit to the choices that were offered. Well, those 10 days slipped by quicker than expected but I did manage to snag myself a table at Taberna towards the tail end and…