During our trip, we went to a couple of places for food that I was looking forward to.

La Banquise was a place that I heard was good for poutine. We went in the middle of the afternoon (3PM) and it was packed, with a lineup outside the door! That was a bit weird, because everywhere else in the city, there weren’t that many people. Guess it is popular with locals too and turns out that it is a 24 hour place, so we should have went at 3AM instead! We ended sharing 4 different small poutines: La Classique, La Mart (hot dog, bacon, mushrooms), La T-Rex (steak, pepperoni, bacon, hot dog), and La Reggae which was a special with jalepaneos, tomatoes and guachamole. The cheese curds are definitely better in Qc but overall I like the poutine in Toronto better – there’s more flavour.

I heard Union Pig & Chicken in Pittsburgh). By the time we got there (1.5h before closing on Saturday), they had run out of chicken and turkey (and ribs after someone else in our group ordered it) so we ended up with a pork sandwich, and a beef brisket plate with braised greens. The most noteworthy thing I had there was a Jamaican style ginger ale!

And a trip to Montreal is not complete without a trip to Schwartz. We arrived when they opened at 10:30AM, and was only able to order smoked meat (the other things on their menu was served starting from 11AM). There was also plenty of seating and no line up (even when we left shortly after 11AM there were still many open seats). One thing new on this trip is that Schwartz opened up a take-out shop beside their main store so perhaps that handled some of the overflow (there were individual seats at the back there).

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