Citoyenne Brett ([info]antagony) wrote,
@ 2007-08-24 00:47:00
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Current location:my creepy (but clean!) apartment
Current mood: optimistic

I seem to have survived the two weeks from hell, and my work schedule looks like it's going to be a bit more manageable from now on. Still haven't gotten into any of the classes I actually want to take, but whatever. That history stuff is for lamers anyway, right? It's not like it's the only thing that justifies my pathetic useless life or anything.

But that's not the point. The point is, I have four days off starting Sunday and in order to preserve what's left of my sanity I've decided to spend those days in Montreal. I've saved enough money living off pasta and stale muffins that I can even afford to go there! The trouble is, I don't actually know anything about the city.

So, people who know Montreal better than I do (basically, everyone), how should I spend my long weekend? Please to be suggesting things that require little or no money, since the U of T keeps asking me for tuition and I think I may eventually have to give it to them. I plan to spend most of my time drinking coffee and reading books and avoiding eye contact with people anyway, but it would be nice to do a few moderately touristy and/or scenesterish things as well.

So. Yes. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I really have no idea what I'm going to do.


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[info]waldoindiesel
2007-08-24 09:14 am UTC (link)
definitely check out the old town, close to the river
i think metro "square victoria" and walk to the water.

you can eat poutine there. liquour is available to everyone.

guy-concordia metro has some retail like american apparel and used bookstores

rue sainte catherine is the main shopping street, go to the record shops and ask someone for good french music. that's how i found malajube among others.

the neighbourhoods full of young people and the better side
are east and west of the metro stations beaubien, laurier, mont-royal
this area is filled with immigrant food shops, breweries, record shops, used clothing, and the houses are the typical kind with the staircases in front.

places i liked at night, but are pretty hipster but i went there alone and enjoyed myself and i don't like looking people in the eyes either

pick up a copy of the papers like eye weekly, which is the mirror in montreal , or something like that

strip clubs are sometimes free to get into!

sala rossa- music venue and restaurant
Théâtre National- rock shows and concerts
casa del popolo- harder hipster rock shows
club parking-your stable gay club

personally i also enjoy going deep into the underground city to eat and drink coffee. it's basically a 16 block square sized mall.

i'm trying to find the addresses of some more downbeat places, but i can't find them.

i've never had a bad time there, if that says anything





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[info]pretentiousgit
2007-08-24 11:09 am UTC (link)
Rue St. Denis and Rue St. Laurent intersect Rue St. Catherine near the Berri-UQAM station, and both are sort of extremely cool when you walk up them past Rue Sherbrooke. The Plateau in general is a very nice area, particularly around Mont Royal station.

Everything in the city is extremely walkable.

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[info]polocrunch
2007-08-24 02:33 pm UTC (link)
The gay district along Rue St-Catherine Est at Rue Montcalm. Many hot people there of both sexes (and all genders).

Rue St Denis is good for shopping, walking, etc. But the city centre is a bit grim - the buildings are ugly (at least to refined European tastes; North Americans seem to think it's pretty high-falutin'), it's really busy and the shopping is dominated by big, boring chain names. On the other hand, I did go into a good games arcade there, so if that's your thing...

If you're feeling like architecture geekiness, walking along the river front is good. There's a cool Le Corbusier-inspired apartment complex at Avenue Pierre Dupuy called Habitat '67 (if you don't want to walk, look at it from across the river at Rue de le Commune Ouest).

The city is quite spread out: the main shopping along St Catherine Est runs about the same distance as the shopping does along Yonge Street (Front Street up to Bloor, basically). So prepare yourself for a fair amount of walking.

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[info]polocrunch
2007-08-24 02:34 pm UTC (link)
the city centre is a bit grim - by which I mean the big shoppingy bit along St Catherine Est.

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[info]jes_sic_a
2007-08-24 04:27 pm UTC (link)
well, at least that email i sent was on topic. um, so see the fish thing, there is other stuff there besides that, and i would also recommend wandering up the mountain. i consider this area to be my favourite escaping people type of place in montreal (and not just because i have some type of fixation on l'universite de montreal for unknown reasons).

so depending on which way you approach i suppose the closest metro stations for that would be edouard montpetit/universite de montreal(blue line)... to get to the outremont summit. the part on the other side, parc du mont-royal has a lot more people so personally i don't like that but i suppose if you want to see the main thing you should wander the more populated side.

map: http://www.lemontroyal.qc.ca/pdf/carte-f.pdf


if you find yourself in need of real food at some point, i recommend:

-pushap, indian restaurant, i think their food is about 5$ (and they generally offer seconds for 1$). it's around namur metro station (5195 rue Pare).

-the montreal hare krishna place, govinda jaya jaya, with the very typical hare krishna all you can eat vegetarian buffet which is 8$ lunch, 10$ dinner? (i know the lunch price is correct) (263 Duluth E, so sherbrooke or mont-royal metro, very walkable from the bus terminal at berri-uqam).

-le commensal is much better in montreal than toronto. it's a pay by the weight of your plate type of vegetarian buffet so it can be as expensive or inexpensive as you want depending on what you eat. they have 3 locations but i think i've only been to the one at cote des neiges (5199 Côte des Neiges, near chemin queen mary) and the one near mcgill, just off of st catherine ouest (1204 avenue McGill College). the other one is on st-denis somewhere.

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[info]jes_sic_a
2007-08-24 04:29 pm UTC (link)
also, i have some leftover stm tickets and i don't know if they are still valid but you can have them if you want.

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