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Best food and drink in Montréal
The 10 most notable food and drink in Montréal, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Saputo Inc.
6869 Boulevard Métropolitain E
498 m from Madeleine-Parent, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.306, percentile 100 of 10
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2
Aliments Multibar (Les)
9000 Boulevard des Sciences
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.258, percentile 88.89 of 10
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3
Cool et Simple Surgeles
5855 Avenue de Monkland
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.216, percentile 77.78 of 10
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4
Lait Grand Pré
1399 Rue Nationale
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.040, percentile 66.67 of 10
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5
ABC Emballuxe Inc.
700 Bd Lebeau
611 m from Côte-de-Liesse, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 0.847, percentile 55.56 of 10
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6
Evive Smoothie
5524 Rue St-Patrick
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 0.843, percentile 44.44 of 10
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7
El-Ma-Mia
1287 Rue Nationale
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 0.800, percentile 33.33 of 10
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8
Noble Bean Inc
5333 Av. Casgrain suite 902
558 m from Gare du Mile End, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 0.736, percentile 22.22 of 10
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9
Terasse Jacques-Cartier
321 Place Jacques-Cartier
476 m from Champ-de-Mars, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 0.575, percentile 11.11 of 10
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10
Nutrition Mode de vie
5235 Rue Wellington
657 m from Verdun, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 0.379, percentile 0 of 10
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).