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Tourists Are Confusing Downtown Montreal's Leonard Cohen Mural For Anthony Bourdain

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Tourists Are Confusing Downtown Montreal's Leonard Cohen Mural For Anthony Bourdain
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This week, we posted a photo on our Instagram account that got a lot of attention, but for all the wrong reasons.

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The photo showed the giant Leonard Cohen Mural painted on the side of a building Crescent street, but when we read the comments we noticed some people were tagging Anthony Bourdain.

Via mtlblog

We took a closer look and noticed that the mural did bear an uncanny resemblance to the famous television host.

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We even made a side by side comparison so you can judge for yourself:

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Via walcoh

This might finally explain the mystery as to why Montreal has two giant Leonard Cohen murals. It turns out one of them is just Anthony Bourdain. It all makes sense now.

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