LA MAISON DU RÔTI
Read moreOpen since 1969, this gourmet grocery store is one of the musts on the Plateau. You come here mainly for the meat section, but you'll also find deli meats, fine cheeses, ready-made meals, Fair Trade Certified homemade roast coffees, and a whole bunch of small jars of various sizes that make your mouth water and make you want to buy everything... if you can afford it! Their unemployed pudding, a traditional Quebec dessert, is to die for. A specialty not to be missed!
ILS EN FUMENT DU BON
Read moreIf sausage were a drug, Félipé St-Laurent would be today's hottest cartel kingpin. The man who calls himself the "sausage pimp " has made a name for himself by playing up the image of the contraband product. We remember the early days, in 2012, when orders could only be placed by referral and the boss discreetly delivered his customers by car. Three stores later, he's become the go-to place for high-end sausages. Bonus: a boutique specializing in Quebec microbrewery beers.
BOUCHERIE GRINDER
Read moreIt makes you wonder if you're in a butcher shop or a jewelry store. Meat is displayed, is on show, is admired, from the window to the cold room. The master of the art, Charles Bizeul, is a neo-butchery singer trained at Fleisher's in New York, no less. His credo: traceability and animals worked "from snout to tail". His specialty: aged meat (up to 150 days), without a doubt the best in the Griffintown district. The delicatessen (sauces, spices, burger buns, pickles...) completes the picture of this small carnivorous paradise.