Montreal’s best and biggest market, open year round, is Marché Jean-Talon.
Locally grown garlic. This stall ruined cheap supermarket garlic for us.
Great big batches of leek + The Silver Spoon = perfect leek soup.
Artichokes. Tomatoes. Word.
Produce galore: Cabbage, Bell Peppers, Parsnips
Quebec grown apples and cranberries.
The farm eggs we should be buying more often.
Marche Jean-Talon is Montreal’s mothership market. For food tourists, it is a destination not to be missed. Like I said, it’s open year round but with the first bit of snow that just hit, it will go into semi-hibernation. Most of the good local stalls will take the winter off, but there’s still some great food to be had indoors. Not only does Montreal have a few year round markets, but there is also a mini-market open 24-hours during the summer at Metro-Montreal.
There are, count them below, 13 markets in Montreal.
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November 24, 2007 at 12:34 am
Lydia
This is one of my favorite market areas; we go there every time we visit Montreal (which is often, thanks to a Canadian husband and large extended family of both English and French speakers). I love the markets in Toronto, too. Now if we could only get markets like this in little Rhode Island….
November 24, 2007 at 9:44 pm
happygrub
More pictures of the places you go.. please!! This makes me feel bitten by the travel bug..