My friend loves this place and has definitely spent a fortune eating here. It was only a matter of time before he dragged my not-from-Quebec butt to Schwartz's.
I had honestly never heard of this place until a few months in when I moved to my second apartment in Montréal, just two blocks from Schwartz's. To be fair, I was never a big fan of smoked meat type foods. That being said, I tried their smoked meat sandwich and wow, that's a good sandwich.
It supposedly took God 7 days to create the planet but who'd have thought it only takes 3 ingredients to create heaven? Bread, smoked meat, and mustard.
In all the time I lived by there, never have I ever seen it without a massive line outside.