On my last day in Montréal, I spent the day exploring a livelier, trendier part of Montréal called the Plateau - think Montréal's answer to Shoreditch or Stoke Newington. Lots of street art, excellent restaurants, independent shops, bars and cafés, second-hand (and sometimes anarchist) bookshops, record stores, and most importantly, some of the best smoked meat sandwiches, poutine and bagels in Montréal. I spent the afternoon gorging on a delicious smoked meat sandwich at Schwartz's - a long-running deli in the Jewish tradition with a well-worth-it queue going halfway down the street for both takeaways and eating in - and, almost immediately after, stocking up on hot, freshly wood-oven-baked, beautiful bagels from the Saint-Viateur bakery, always mentioned as one of the two best bagel bakeries in Montréal alongside Fairmount Bagels. This is one of the nicest
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