Tag: Montreal
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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KazaMaza
If you are going out for Middle Eastern food and you happen to choose Kazamaza on avenue du Parc, you better show up hungry. I recently paid a visit to the restaurant with one of the Montreal Food Divas and the kitchen laid out a feast like I’ve rarely seen. The restaurant is located in…
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Oktoberfest At Home!
Handed down to the modern world from Bavarian tradition, Oktoberfest is synonymous with getting together for a good time and enjoying good food and of course, the best beer and wine. Even though its easy to spend every night of the week out in Montreal, trying new restaurants, bars and cafes, sometimes it’s great to…
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Inside The Nightlife
Last week we attended the launch of the latest issue of Dinette Magazine, the unveiling of the new Aperitivo menu the W Montreal’s house restaurant, ÊAT, the opening of the new La Cage Brasserie Sportive at Complexe Dejardins and we got a look at the latest AS 98 collection of clothing for men and women…
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Les Soeurs Grises
Brunch is something of a sacred institution in Montreal. Every Sunday morning people rush to their favourite restaurants to sit, gab and eat for hours on end. During brunch we recap the week, we catch up with old friends and we do it all while hauled into our favourite neighbourhood restaurant. In Old Montreal, the…
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Jerry Ferrer
A year ago last week, the very first Chez Jerry (recently renamed Jerry Ferrer) opened on Beaver Hall, just a short walk south of Rene-Levesque. Famous for restaurants like Europea, Jerome Ferrer has made quite the name for himself in Montreal. Over the last year Jerry Ferrer has expanded into half a dozen casse-croute (diner)…
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Inside The Nightlife
Heading into autumn, Montreal’s fall social calendar has already started amping up. From openings to anniversaries and everything in between, here’s what we saw last week. Le Gras Dur A few years ago food trucks rolled back onto Montreal’s restaurant scene and since that moment some of the these trucks have stood out from the…
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NICO S/S 2017
NICO is one of Montreal’s most colourful labels and last week Montreal was treated to a look at the hotly anticipated new spring/summer 2017 collection. We gathered at the trendy W Hotel’s Plateau Lounge for a front-row look the Mediterranean inspired collection of delightfully patterned tunics, colour blocked shirts and seductive swimwear. Featured below are…
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MTLàTABLE
Fall is a great time to be in Montreal. Whether you’re from the 514 or just visiting, the season brings coloured leaves, cooler temperatures and the hotly anticipated return on MTLàTABLE, one of our city’s largest food festivals. From November 3rd to the 13th, over 150 restaurants across the city will offer fixed-price menus for…
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Main And Local
The thing about Montreal is that whether you were born here, you moved here or just spend a weekend from time to time, there’s something special about our city that sticks with you. Montreal is creative, it’s vibrant and it moves to the beat of something different for those who love it. I started DJNL…
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L’Gros Luxe Deluxe
In a very short time, L’Gros has grown to become a neighbourhood favourite throughout Montreal. They recently opened their second Plateau location after transforming their original St. Andre and Roy location into the first ever entirely vegetarian L’Gros Luxe. Until this week, the new Plateau location (451 Ave Duluth E) was serving only food…
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Emiliano’s
Two weeks ago Emiliano’s woke up the neighbourhood with a mariachi infused grand opening that sent the sounds of Mexico wafting through the corridors of Old Montreal. Hundred’s of people gathered at the 3 month old restaurant to mingle, try the food and get a feel for what they owners hope to accomplish with their…
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Tartare Fest
In Montreal, almost every type off food imaginable has a week or two dedicated to having us run around the city, trying the food that each participating restaurant has created for the special occasion. Tomorrow brings a close to the 10 days of Tartare Fest. This was the inaugural year for the festival that brought…
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Inside The Nightlife
There’s never a dull moment in Montreal and we’re out and about in the city, catching as much as we can and bringing back to the Internet for your reading pleasure. Each week we will recap the biggest events that happened in Montreal! Is it just me or did September fly by? During the month,…
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Le Germain Hotels
It was almost 30 years ago that the first Le Germain Hotel opened in Quebec City. Named Germain-des-près, the boutique hotel was the launching point for one Canada’s most successful homegrown hotel chains. Today, with 6 hotels in operation across Canada (and one coming soon in Ottawa) under the Germain banner and 6 hotels (with…
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Autumn In Montreal
Montreal is a great city to live in all year round but autumn in YUL is spectacular. The sweltering heat of summer begins to cool off, the trees go from deep green to fiery yellow, red and orange and wrap ourselves in the warmth of cozy sweaters and scarves as we move from September to…
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Five To Follow
Follow these acounts to fill your Instagram with things other than cats and brunch. @bestofyul A photo posted by Best of YUL (@bestofyul) on Dec 14, 2015 at 6:58am PST “Exploring Montreal’s most established institutions” is his tagline but this highly addictive and completely hilarious Instagram account reviews anything but. He spends his days…
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Omnivore 2016
From the 16th to the 19th of September, Montreal will be getting culinarily creative at Omnivore. This highly anticipated international food festival is presented in collaboration with the Société des Arts et Technologies (SAT) and will feature four days packed with activities and will feature both local chefs and guest chefs from around the world. …
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Socialito
The world can’t seem to stop raving about Montreal’s Mile-End neighbourhood and who can blame them? It’s one of the most densely packed neighbourhoods in Canada, overflowing with plenty of colourful things to see and do. Mile-End has a wealth of restaurants that draw inspiration from around the world. Socialito, a Mexican restaurant that recently…
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Diner en blanc 2016
This year I attended my very first Diner en blanc. For the last decade, Montrealer’s and visitors to our city have gathered the their folding tables and chairs, found the perfect pure white outfits and built extraordinary works of art out of their place at Diner en blanc. I wasn’t sure what to expect but…
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Oysterfest 2016
At DJNL we wanted to do something extra special for this year’s Oysterfest. For the 8th edition of Canada’s biggest Oyster celebration we will be teaming up with Walter Craft Caesar Mix, bringing you the best Caesars you’ve ever sipped. Walter Caesar Mix is proudly Canadian and the guys behind the Mix are very excited…
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L’Auberge St-Gabriel
L’Auberge St-Gabriel is one of the most beautiful places in Old Montreal. It’s modern, chalet-inspired interior, with fur-decorated stone walls, segmented dining rooms and dim lighting make it the perfect place to cozy up for a cocktail. The smell of wood fire wafts through the space inspiring comforting thoughts of deep winter, drifting snow and…
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Allô Mon Coco
For the last 15 years Allô Mon Coco has been serving up delicious breakfast in over 20 beautifully designed locations across Quebec. Last week those 15 years were celebrated by media and VIP guests at the new Plateau location on the corner of St. Laurent Boulevard and Mont-Royal Avenue. We traded in our coffee for…
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Drift Away After Dark
On Friday September 2nd, Bota Bota, one of Montreal’s most unique spas, is hosting an exclusive event after dark and DJNL has a pair of tickets to give a way to our lucky readers. From 10:30pm to 1:30am, Bota Bota invites you to experience a unique evening in the heart of Old Montreal. After the…
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Apéritivo Pizzaiolle
I’ve lived in Montreal for over 15 years and during that time I must have walked up and down McGill Street in Old Montreal hundreds of times. Walking towards de la Commune from downtown I’ve passed Pizzaiolle on many occasions and thought about how nice the place looked from the outside. The brick exterior, the…
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RuPaul’s Superstars
For 8 seasons, RuPaul’s Drag Race has produced some of the best characters, the wildest moments and the most over-the-top antics to ever bless our TV screens. Competition TV seems like it was custom made for the all the laughs and drama produced every week on the long running reality show. The thing about these…
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Lobster Summer
Growing up on the Canadian East Coast, I’ve eaten my fair share of seafood. From cod to crab and most everything in between, it was common to come home from a day at school and see a pair of lobster writhing in our kitchen sink. The sight was all too familiar but despite seafood being…