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| - Finally, finally we managed to organize ourselves and enjoy the amazing food of Dinette Triple Crown in the Little Italy park. It is actually pretty easy and the idea is outstanding. You go in the little bar section, order your food and come to pick up your basket. They will give you a number and shout it out when the basket is filled with goodies in approximately 30 minutes on a relatively busy day. Ideally you have to attack one of the picnic tables in the park, otherwise make sure to have a blanket with you. BYOB is ok in the park, but you can buy beer in the restaurant or the near by deppaneur. Unfortunately the Dinette cocktails are available only in the dining room and you can't have them in the basket.
The basket has everything about quality picnic: table cloth, plastic dishes, cutlery, water and little jars to poor your drink, which is handy if you have forgotten to bring plastic cups. The most important part of course is the food. I got lucky to taste the Dinette food more then a year ago during an Yelp event and I knew how essential is to come back. Delicious comfort food, fried chicken to die for, love the hush puppies, the corn bread, sweet potato fries, the pulled pork is amazing. The concept is so simple and succesfull, you order chicken or pulled pork with two or three sides. The list of sides is pretty good and they always have few seasonal specials.
People who don't live in this city should know that Montreal has a park culture, the same way the Irish have a pub culture etc. That night at the little stage of the park we enjoyed the rhythms of the Brazilian samba and people were dancing to it. To summarize we had a typical Montreal experience: Southern American food in a park called Little Italy in the background of Brazilian music (citation NLM) and I'm so excited about it that need to share this review imeediately. Of course most of my excitement is because of the delicious food of Dinette Triple Crown.
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