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Montreal's La Poutine Week starts tomorrow — Here are 7 of the wildest creations you can try

If there was ever a time to indulge in Montreal's signature dish, it's right now.

The 13th annual edition of La Poutine Week is back from Saturday, February 1 to 7, bringing a week-long celebration of the city's most beloved comfort food.

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Over 50 Montreal Restaurants Are Serving Up Massively Cheesy Creations At La Poutine Week

La Poutine Week is officially back.

The week-long poutine festival has returned to Canada and will run from February 1 to 7, 2024 across all 10 provinces in cities including Montreal, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, and Winnipeg, to name a few.

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2023's La Pizza Week​ Is On & Here Are The Montreal Pies We Gotta Try

From Greenspot's The Deli smoked meat pizza to a sushi pie from Poke Bento, La Pizza Week's 2023 Montreal pizza offerings are already proving to be as weird and wonderful as the dishes from sister food festivals La Poutine Week and Le Burger Week.

La Pizza Week runs from May 1 to May 14 in cities across Canada, including Montreal, Gatineau and Quebec City. Montreal's options include an organic meat masterpiece from Italian-certified restaurant Pizza 900 and a creative breakfast pizza from L'Oeuf Cochon.

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Canada's La Poutine Week Announced Its Winners & Montreal Dominated

On Valentine's Day, the nation's greatest contest ended for the 11th time. Now, La Poutine Week has unveiled its best-in-show, from publicly voted-upon to privately judged poutines.

Four of the five La Poutine Week concoctions that topped the people's choice list are from Montreal.

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A Quebec Cheese Pro Made A Gravy-Filled Burrata Poutine & It Looks Sinfully Delicious

If you grew up in Montreal, then chances are you've seen (or eaten) your fair share of deliciously creative poutines, whether it be a French onion soup poutine, a poutine served atop a Beaver Tail or one made with loads of foie gras — the options are endless. But odds are you've never come across a burrata poutine. And if you somehow have, it surely wasn't like this one.

Quebec content creator Fred Fromager Urbain crafted a sinfully delicious burrata poutine, and he did it all from scratch.

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Montreal's Poutine Week Festival Is Coming Back This Winter & It Can Get Pretty Wild

La Poutine Week, an annual celebration of the iconic québécois dish, is returning for its 11th edition from February 1 to 14, which means soon Montrealers will have the chance to indulge in some of the cheesiest, most scandalous, unhealthy yet delicious poutines our city has ever known.

Presented by Sysco and DoorDash, the event invites local restaurants to create one original poutine. City folks will have two weeks to try them out, share mouthwatering pics on their socials and vote for their favourite dish on the festival's website.

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These Montreal Poutines Are Winning La Poutine Week RN & You Have 3 More Days To Try Them

Looking for something to do this weekend that has nothing to do with Valentine's Day? For those of you whose first love is food, La Poutine Week 2022 is here to save you — and there are currently three Montreal poutines on the leaderboard that you'll probably want to try before it's too late.

While the festival is ongoing, which means people are still voting in real-time and the final winners have yet to be secured, it's not surprising that, as of Friday afternoon, the top five poutines in Canada were all based in Quebec.

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Poutine Week Has A Poutine Inspired By The Sunwing Influencers (Minus The Bad Taste)

Just when you thought you'd heard everything you could ever want to know about the infamous Sunwing flight scandal, a delicious poutine named after the incident was born. As part of La Poutine Week 2022, La Bêtise Rosemont has created the "Tulum's Influencers Birria Taco Poutine" and you can taste it in Montreal right now.

"As part of Poutine Week, you can now try our Tulum Influencers Taco Birria Poutine," wrote La Bêtise Rosemont in an Instagram post. "One bite and you'll be whisked away to Mexico, of course without taking the Sunwing flight."

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