Woooooooooo. The fact that Schwartz's in the #1 Montréal restaurant on Yelp in horrifying. C'mon guys. You might enjoy to wait 30 minutes for the taste of delicious fat smoked meat, dry rye bread and cherry cola, but Montréal has much more to offer than Schwartz's!!! We also have poutine. Just kidding.
I would be really curious to see what is the ratio tourists/Montrealers there. No offense if you'd drive 7 hours from NY to eat their smoked meat: but I would personally not go out of my way for their stack of meat, not even on a sunny day.
I might get killed for saying that.
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