Avenue Duluth between Mont Royal and Rue St-Denis has so far been the coolest neighbourhood I’ve been to in Montréal. It’s in the very heart of Montréal's Plateau and it's more pedestrian than other areas, there are trees and even flower beds along the road, the pathways are more ‘our’ style and the buildings nearly have a feeling of single family houses (sort of terraced houses as they have them in Britain).
There are many hipster cafés and restaurants, boutiques and interesting corner store and I think I even caught a glimpse of a bearded guy on a bicycle. It is very green and I believe that in the summer it must be very nice.
We - quite by chance - discovered a Tibetan restaurant where I had the best food in Montréal so far - a delicious beef broth with minced meat, green onions, cilantro, carrot and hand made noodles. Fabulous, really. And I have been struggling with the food here so far. This one was in the money well spent category for sure. As you are reading this text I am probably watching cooking videos for khapse, phingsha, tingmo or shapta. I get emotional when it comes to food and a new recipe is something I live for.
This whole Ave Duluth area has already become my favourite as it reminds me of some neighbourhoods in Berlin or Dresden or Vienna. I think I may have felt homesick for a moment.
Street view here.
Incidentally, do you know which TV series (great, by the way) is “Duluth” related to?