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comfort

Though your patience might be running thin as you eagerly wait for restaurants to reopen their dining rooms, at least you can still pick up or get meals delivered from favourites like Bâton Rouge.

Whether you want to treat your partner and yourself to a cozy dinner date, or simply enjoy a gourmet meal while binge-watching the latest Netflix series, this Laval-founded restaurant chain is known for having a menu that always delivers that extra je ne sais quoi to make your mouth water.

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Everyone loves fried chicken. And everyone loves Chinese food. Taiwanese-born Montreal chef Helena Han Lin realized those things and in November she opened a new restaurant in Pointe-Saint-Charles where she’s serving up Asian comfort food, pandemic be damned.

“Our idea was to provide something familiar but also to have fun and be creative with the kind of food that we cook,” she said.

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Services in Montreal are in abundance. From amazing food delivery to great shopping, our little island has got you covered.

However, not many people realize is that you can get just about everything you need from the comfort of your own home. There are so many unique companies that offer at-home services that you most likely didn't know about.

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Whenever the sun gets a little less strong, I begin to crave comforting foods that stick to my bones and keep me warm, especially on those nights I'm eating solo. And, luckily for us, Montreal restaurants know how to serve proper comfort food. 

Comfort food to me is not a specific cuisine, it is, however, warm, filing, and a lot of the times full of cheese and carbs. And our city is full of any food you could ever dream of.

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It's that comfort food time of the year. You know, when all you want to do is stay cozy inside and have a heaping plate of your favourite food at a delicious Montreal restaurant. For many of us, that's favourite is an oldie, but a goodie: mac n' cheese.

In fact, did you know that Canadians eat more mac n' cheese per capita than anywhere else in the world.

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The colder weather is slowly creepin' in on us here in Montreal and you know what that means. No, not just sweater weather. No, not cuddle weather, either. It's the season to seek out some good ol' fashioned comfort food in Montreal.

Being a foodie city, we've definitely got some great food.

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