St-Viateur Bagel offers delivery throughout  North America. Since no one can get here during the pandemic, what better way to cheer someone up than by sending them to someone who misses Montreal, or  anyone who you’d like to share a taste of Montreal. Place your order at: stviateurbagel.com/en/shop

What can be more synonymous with Montreal then the legendary St-Viateur Bagel, baked at the longest running bagel shop in Montréal? This family business has had over 65 years of tradition and one famous recipe throughout the years. Made with 100% natural ingredients, their bagels contain no artificial preservatives.

What makes St-Viateur’s bagels so special: each bagel is hand-rolled, dipped in honey water, and baked in a wood-fired oven that was designed to both bake and flavor the bagel. What comes out of this process is a light, chewy, slightly sweet bagel, that bagel aficionados’ will agree, is incomparable to any other bagel being made today.

For decades they churned out a constant stream of white (sesame seed) and black (poppy seed) bagels. Nowadays, they have  bagels for every taste including multigrain, cinnamon & raisin, flax, rosemary, all dressed, sea salt and more. We can all agree that nothing compares to the flavorful aroma that consumes you as you walk in and you won’t be able to resist eating a hot one straight from the oven, right out of the paper bag.

Smeared with cream cheese, layered with lox, or simply toasted – St Viateur bagels are delicious for breakfast, lunch or absolutely any time of day.

Original location: 263 St-Viateur Ouest, H2V 1Y1 (514-276-8044)

Other locations:  821 boul Tecumseh, DDO H9R 4X8 (514-542-3344); 1127 Mont-Royal Est, H2J 1X9 (514-528-6361); 1585 Dagenais O., Laval, H7L 5A3 (450-625-5552).

Hours: Varies by location, approximately 7am-7:30pm during lockdown
stviateurbagel.com

What can be more synonymous with Montreal then the legendary St-Viateur Bagel, baked at the longest running bagel shop in Montréal? This family business has had over 60 years of tradition and one famous recipe throughout the years. Made with 100% natural ingredients, their bagels contain no artificial preservatives and are so popular that their landmark location operates 24/7.

What makes St-Viateur’s bagels so special: each bagel is hand-rolled, dipped in honey water, and baked in a wood-fired oven that was designed to both bake and flavor the bagel. What comes out of this process is a light, chewy, slightly sweet bagel, that bagel aficionados’ will agree, is incomparable to any other bagel being made today.

For decades they churned out a constant stream of white (sesame seed) and black (poppy seed) bagels. Nowadays, they have  bagels for every taste including multigrain, cinnamon & raisin, flax, rosemary, all dressed, sea salt and more. We can all agree that nothing compares to the flavorful aroma that consumes you as you walk in and you won’t be able to resist eating a hot one straight from the oven, right out of the paper bag.

St-Viateur Bagel offers delivery throughout  North America. Send them to someone who misses Montreal or  anyone who you’d like to share a taste of Montreal. Last shipping date for the US before the holidays is December 10th, 2019 (will resume on January 14th 2020). Place your order at: stviateurbagel.com/en/shop

Smeared with cream cheese, layered with lox, or simply toasted – St Viateur bagels are delicious for breakfast, lunch or absolutely any time of day.

Original location: 263 St-Viateur Ouest, H2V 1Y1 (514-276-8044)

Other locations:  821 boul Tecumseh, DDO H9R 4X8 (514-542-3344); 1127 Mont-Royal Est, H2J 1X9 (514-528-6361);
1585 Dagenais O., Laval, H7L 5A3 (450-625-5552).

Hours: Original location is open 24 hours. Others vary by location
stviateurbagel.com

What can be more synonymous with Montreal as the indomitable bagel and home of the world famous Montreal Bagel is the legendary St-Viateur Bagel Shop. It’s so popular that it is open 24 hours day.30

St Viateur Bagel has had 60 years of tradition and one famous recipe throughout the years; It has grown to include 8 bakeries, 3 of which are Bagel Cafés, and still churning out a constant stream of white (sesame seed) and black (poppy seed) bagels.

You can now also buy multigrain, cinnamon raisin, flax, rosemary, all dressed and sea salt or whole wheat bagels, matzoh boards, lox, cream cheese, challah and rye bread and more. Nothing compares to the flavorful aroma that consumes you as you walk in and you won’t be able to resist eating a hot one straight from the oven, right out of the paper bag.

Their bagels have no preservatives and are made with 100% natural ingredients. Each bagel is hand-rolled, dipped in honey water, and baked in a wood-fired oven that was designed to both cook and flavor the bagel. What comes out of this process is a chewy, slightly sweet bagel, that bagel aficionados’ will agree, is incomparable to any other bagel being made today.

St Viateur bagels are delicious on their own, but they’re equally yummy as part of a sandwich – get creative and dream up your own creation.  How about smoked meat or pb&j or tuna salad, avocado and cream cheese or hummus? Lunch is always better when it’s between two halves of a bagel.

You can send them to anyone who misses Montreal or someone who you would like to share a taste of Montreal. You can now order bagels across Canada and the US through their web site www.stviateurbagel.com

Original location: 263 St-Viateur Ouest, H2V 1Y1 (514-276-8044)
Other locations: 5629 Monkland, NDG H4A 1E2 (514-487-8051): 340 boul. Marcel Laurin, (in Marché Esposito), V.S.L.: 7030 St-Michel (in Marché Esposito) Montréal, H2A 2Z4 (514) 722-2224: 821 boul Tecumseh, DDO H9R 4X8 (514-542-3344); 1127 Mont-Royal Est, H2J 1X9 (514-528-6361); 1585 Dagenais O., Laval, H7L 5A3 (450-625-5552).
Hours: Original location is open 24 hours. Others vary by location
www.stviateurbagel.com

Who doesn’t love a freshly baked bagel spread with cream cheese?  However you can get very creative with putting almost anything on a bagel and zuzzing up lunches for everyone. How about smoked meat or pb&j or tuna salad or hummus?

Experience one for yourself at any one of St. Viateur’s bakeries or cafés; When you enter, the flavorful aroma will consume you. St Viateur’s world-famous bagels have been enjoyed by millions of people all over the planet.

You can send them to anyone who misses Montreal or someone who you would like to share a taste of Montreal. You can now order bagels across Canada and the US through their web site www.stviateurbagel.com

St Viateur Bagel has 60 years of tradition and one wholesome family recipe throughout the years,  and still churning out a constant stream of white (sesame seed) and black (poppy seed) bagels.

You can also buy multigrain, cinnamon raisin, flax, rosemary and sea salt or whole wheat bagels, matzoh boards, lox, cream cheese, challah and rye bread and more. Once you bite into a hot one straight from the oven; you won’t be able to eat any other bagel again.

Their bagels have absolutely no preservatives  and are made with 100% natural ingredients.  Each bagel is hand-rolled, boiled in honey water, and cooked in a wood fired oven that was designed to both cook and flavor the bagel. what comes out of this process is a chewy, slightly sweet bagel, that bagel aficionados’ will agree, is incomparable to any other bagel being made today.

Original location: 263 St-Viateur Ouest, H2V 1Y1 (514-276-8044)
Other locations:  5629 Monkland, NDG H4A 1E2 (514-487-8051): 340 boul. Marcel Laurin, (in Marché Esposito), V.S.L.: 7030 St-Michel (in Marché Esposito) Montréal, H2A 2Z4  (514) 722-2224: 821 boul Tecumseh, DDO H9R 4X8 (514-542-3344); 1127 Mont-Royal Est, H2J 1X9 (514-528-6361); 1585 Dagenais O., Laval, H7L 5A3 (450-625-5552).
Hours: Original location is open 24 hours. Others vary by location
www.stviateurbagel.com

Our Prime Minister took the feminist lead when he packed his cabinet with 51% women. Now the Centaur Theatre with this production, Successions, has stacked the female deck with: a female playwright – Michaela Di Cesare, a female director – Tamara Brown, a female set and costume designer – Dianai Uribe, a female lighting designer – Audrey-Anne Bouchard, and even a female “fight co-ordinator”  Anita Nittoly. This team of girls is a real anomaly,  since  this play is very much about brotherhood.

Playwright Michaela Di Cesare admits that she attributes her active imagination to her Only Child Syndrome. Usually authors are told to “write what you know”, but Di Cesare chose to write this play about siblings – and male siblings at that. Enzo and Anthony are St-Leonard Italians who have just lost their mother and inherited a dilapidated junk-filled house (well-imagined by Tamara Brown, the set designer).

Instead of the usual “who did Mommy like best”, this play is more about who despised whom the most.

Di Cesare notes that “When both parents die, the family is cut off from the head”. Like a chicken without a head, these two brothers, David Chiazzese as Enzo and Carlo Mestroni as Anthony, keep circling and attacking each other both mentally and physically. It is painful to watch the enormous hostility and resentment between them. The difference between the would-be plumber and the lawyer-politico wannabe is too huge a gap to bridge. While Anthony just wants to get out of the junky house (in more ways than one) and snarkily dismisses his brother with “my time is to me my most valuable possession”, Enzo retaliates with the biting, “Am I about to be lawyered?”.

Though deaths can bring love and forgiveness between siblings, we see little of it here. Even Enzo’s heavily pregnant fiancee Nat (Gita Miller) and Anthony’s upscale wife, Cristina (Tara Nicodemo) verbally shadow box around the guys as they butt heads.

The  fun part for Montrealers are the lines that place the play here in Montreal, like the people who “get hives if you go east of Frontenac” or saying food is healthy like bagels.

All of the actors proved Di Cesare’s  point, which was that siblings have the capacity to hurt one another because they know so well how to push each other’s buttons. And she then goes on to say, “What I find so interesting about siblings is that they are the only people who bear witness to your whole life.”

Location 453 St-Francois-Xavier
corner: Notre-Dame
Tel: 514-288-3161
Dates: til May 6
Prices: $37.50 – $51.75 (deals for students and seniors)
www.centaurtheatre.com
Metro: Place d’Armes

Who doesn’t love a freshly baked bagel spread with cream cheese?  Experience one for yourself at any one of St. Viateur’s bakeries or cafés; When you enter, the flavorful aroma will consume you. St Viateur’s world-famous bagels have been enjoyed by millions of people all over the planet. This is a perfect gift to send to anyone who misses Montreal or someone who you would like to share a taste of Montreal. You can now order bagels across Canada and the US through their web site www.stviateurbagel.com

St Viateur Bagel has 60 years of tradition and one wholesome family recipe throughout the years,  and still churning out a constant stream of white (sesame seed) and black (poppy seed) bagels.

You can also buy multigrain, cinnamon raisin, flax, rosemary and sea salt or whole wheat bagels, matzoh boards, lox, cream cheese, challah and rye bread and more. Once you bite into a hot one straight from the oven; you won’t be able to eat any other bagel again.

Their bagels have absolutely no preservatives  and are made with 100% natural ingredients.  Each bagel is hand-rolled, boiled in honey water, and cooked in a wood fired oven that was designed to both cook and flavor the bagel. what comes out of this process is a chewy, slightly sweet bagel, that bagel aficionados’ will agree, is incomparable to any other bagel being made today.

Original location: 263 St-Viateur Ouest, H2V 1Y1 (514-276-8044)
Other locations:  5629 Monkland, NDG H4A 1E2 (514-487-8051): 340 boul. Marcel Laurin, (in Marché Esposito), V.S.L.: 7030 St-Michel (in Marché Esposito) Montréal, H2A 2Z4  (514) 722-2224: 821 boul Tecumseh, DDO H9R 4X8 (514-542-3344); 1127 Mont-Royal Est, H2J 1X9 (514-528-6361); 1585 Dagenais O., Laval, H7L 5A3 (450-625-5552).
Hours: Original location is open 24 hours. Others vary by location
www.stviateurbagel.com

Anything can be put on a bagel for a lunchtime – cold cuts, tuna or salmon salad, hummus, cream cheese and jam, pizza sauce and mozzarella, and on and on. St-Viateur Bagel, the famous bagel store open since 1957, is still churning out a constant stream of white (sesame seed) and black (poppy seed) bagels. Wherever you are in the city, there is a St-Viateur Bagel location near you: downtown, the West Island, Laval, Montreal North, NDG, Ville St-Laurent and in the Gay Village.

You can also buy multigrain, cinnamon raisin, flax, rosemary and sea salt or whole wheat bagels, matzoh boards, lox, cream cheese, challah and rye bread and more. Once you bite into a hot one straight from the oven; you won’t be able to eat any other bagel again.

Original location: 263 St-Viateur Ouest, H2V 1Y1 (514-276-8044)
Other locations:  5629 Monkland, NDG H4A 1E2 (514-487-8051): 340 boul. Marcel Laurin, (in Marché Esposito), V.S.L.: 7030 St-Michel (in Marché Esposito) Montréal, H2A 2Z4  (514) 722-2224: 821 boul Tecumseh, DDO H9R 4X8 (514-542-3344); 1127 Mont-Royal Est, H2J 1X9 (514-528-6361); 1585 Dagenais O., Laval, H7L 5A3 (450-625-5552).
Hours: Original location is open 24 hours. Others vary by location.

St-Viateur Bagel, the famous bagel store open since 1957, is still churning out a constant stream of white (sesame seed) and black (poppy seed) bagels. Head up to their newest location in Laval to bite into a hot one straight from the oven; you won’t be able to eat any other bagel again.

New location: 1585 Dagenais O., Laval, H7L 5A3
Phone: 450-625-5552
Original location: 263 St-Viateur Ouest, H2V 1Y1 (514-276-8044)
Other locations:  5629 Monkland, NDG H4A 1E2 (514-487-8051): 340 boul. Marcel Laurin, (in Marché Esposito), V.S.L.: 7030 St-Michel (in Marché Esposito) Montréal, H2A 2Z4  (514) 722-2224: 821 boul Tecumseh, DDO H9R 4X8 (514-542-3344); 1127 Mont-Royal Est, H2J 1X9 (514-528-6361)

Le Panier and Clair de Lune are 2 different types of gift shops. Clair de Lune is all about candles and decor accent pieces while Le Panier offers up gourmet goodies, useful gadgets, jewelry, toys, Christmas tableware, and sweets.

Here are some of the cool items I found this year at Le Panier (300 bord du Lac in PointClaireVillage) www.thepanier.com
– Mop Slippers ($9.99) which you wear on your feet, walk around and clean the floor
– Credit Card shield ($5.99) prevents thieves from passing you and grabbing information off of the card in your purse or pants.
– Hot chocolate variety 12-pack ($22.99)
– Bagel guillotine ($22.99) to slice bagels and not fingers
– Trudeau cutting board with drawers (24.99) which separate food you are cutting
– Cake lollipop molds ($17.50) for the latest craze
– BBQ Spatula in the shape of a guitar ($22.99)
– BBQ lighter in the shape of a fishing rod ($22.99)
– Purse perfume atomizer ($12.99) to keep your favorite scent at hand
– Scarf hanger ($19.99) to keep your favorites in view in a closet
– Angry birds toque ($11.99)
–  Solar motor kit: car, boat, animal ($24.99)
–  Diet Dog bowl has posts in it so your doggie slows down his eating ($19.99)

Claire de Lune (6801 Rte Transcanadienne, Pointe-Claire in Fairview Pointe Claire Tel: 514-426-8797 and other locations www.clairdelune.ca)  is Canada’s most extensive candle store. A gift from here  can make your home (or someone else’s) smell just delicious as they have the many fragrances, exclusive decorative candles, aromatic lamps, reed diffusers and scent diffusers.

Choose from Clair de Lune’s exclusive collections of candles: floating ones, aromatic decorative pillar types, tealight, scented votives, mosaic and striped options and even a bird, cactus, rabbit or sparrow candles. To add a wonderful ambiance to a room, you can even buy hanging candelabras which hold real candles. There are many candle holders (of course): ceramic ones, mosaics, 5′ tall giants, elephants and glass blown beauties.

Gift ideas such as Eden & Berger Lamps for diffusing fragrances can be purchased, but also vases and dried flowers, Buddha statues, potpourri, piggy banks, cute notebooks, paper napkins and decorative dancer statuettes, small fountains, cozy throw blankies or scents for a car.

The yummy candle aromas come in: vanilla, Brazilian coffee, eucalyptus, cranberry, mint chocolate, spiced orange, ocean breeze, country fresh, lemon & lavender, mandarin and cranberry, apple, black-eyed Susan, lilac, lily and rose.

The bagel that sets the benchmark for the taste of Montreal bagels has now opened up near Costco in Pointe Claire.

This famous bagel store churns out a constant stream of indigenous white (sesame seed) and black (poppy seed) bagels. For 70 cents each for these basic ones, ($.75-.85 for the others) you can bite into a hot one straight from the oven; you won’t be able to eat any other bagel again.

You can also buy plain, cinnamon raisin, whole wheat, flax seed, all dressed multi-grain, and rosemary sea salt (but why would you?), as well as matzoh boards, challah and rye bread.

To slather on the bagel, there’s lox and cream cheese, of course, but also veggie pates, hummous, eggplant spread and tofu.  This is one of the locations where there is a cafe on site to scarf it all down on the spot.

West Island location: Pointe Claire, 821 Tecumseh (514-542-3344)
Hours here: Mon-Wed 6am-8pm, Thurs & Fri 6am-9pm, Sat & Sun 6am- 7pm

Other locations: Original one, 263 St-Viateur O. (514-276-8044); 158 St-Viateur O. (514-270-2972); inside Marche Esposito, 340 boul. Marcel Laurin (514-747-1649); inside Esposito 7030 boul. St-Michel (514-722-2224); Cafes: 1127 Mont-Royal E. (514-528-6361); 5629 Monkland (514-487-8051) .

You can now order bagels across Canada and the US at
www.stviateurbagel.com