Montreal's Legendary Joe Beef

Montreal is one of the best food cities in the world and one of the most underrated. This city has the highest number of restaurants per capita in Canada and the second highest in North America after New York City. Montreal's flagship restaurant is Joe Beef, it's just a steak and seafood restaurant the way citizen came it's just a movie the little burgundy neighborhood of

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that was once a neglected part of the city for diving, but then came this one, the magnificent and functional flagship restaurant of these two characters fred moran david mcmillan bon vivald narrator historians of their beloved great white north mention their names to any chef they have ever hosted and there will be an embarrassing anecdote.

I've invited two very special guest judges. They have one of the most famous restaurants in the world. The famous Joe B. Please welcome from Montreal to Chef David. mcmillan and chef fred moran gentleman it's a pleasure to see you both thank you it's the nation's favorite when you want amazing exotic meat. Thank you, welcome when people ask me why you love Montreal so much. I would say my favorite foods in the last five ten years. They've happened in Montreal, I mean, some of the best nights of my life were the drunkest nights at your restaurant. If I had to say my favorite restaurant of all time, I think Joe B's is my favorite restaurant of all time.

I don't like. I gave my all-time number because there are a lot of great restaurants in this world, but damn, if I had to pick one, I think I might pick you guys, you guys are so nice, but we have to take you to other places to change your mind. I don't think you understood, Man Joe Beef, the place's namesake was quartermaster for the British during the Crimean War. Some say that his supernatural ability to get meat for his men, even when things were bad, made him a legend. Joe Beef was originally Charles. mckiernan was a restaurant operator at the crazy old tavern in Montreal, a great

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place, an institution that became known around the world and whose motto might have been something like power to the people, all were welcome and all were fed regardless of racial creed. o color gave much of his life to those in need he helped the salvation army he gave generously to notre dame hospital and

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general hospital and always offered food and shelter to anyone who needed it the ground floor was a restaurant the second floor They were cheap rooms, the third floor were more expensive rooms and somewhere in the building, they say, there was a brothel, people go back and forth about that, whether it's true or not, sometimes some of the clients were so hungry that they swallowed He ate them with such speed that between 1876 and 1884 there were seven cases of suffocation, including three deaths as progressive as he was.

Joe had a kind of madhouse. It is rumored that Joe Beef kept a large menagerie in the basement of the tavern. Monkeys. Wild cats. Porcupines. even an alligator and, of course, Tom the bear. Legend had it that Tom drank 20 pints a day, why can't we be beaten by bears anymore? Anyway, stupid dick, when tempers flare, legend has it that Joe Beef would walk his bear to bring it back. order to the tavern when joe

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died in 1889, they say his funeral procession stretched for blocks, it was only at that time that these two continued the proud tradition while boldly forging something of their own and although today there is a joe

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restaurant in montreal, sadly There are no drunk bears there anymore, are you excited?

Yes, I'm very excited. Where we are? We are joking. I made this reservation in April at the end of June now, to put everything in perspective. Yes, and the only eight hour they had available was at 9.30. They squeezed us in here, we go right away, you are greeted by their pleasant and attentive waiters. One of those gentlemen took us to a private room in the back and led us through the restaurant. It felt like a scene out of Goodfellas. the atmosphere is robust and fun in the kitchen huge chunks of beef and pork in the men's bathroom a stuffed buffalo the menu up there written in chalk is wonderful and sometimes unapologetically over the top and changes daily, they have all kinds of creative dishes like dug fog raw beets cured salmon gravel ox raw Lebanese lamb baked halibut with halibut stuffed tortellini horse fillet if you're a horse lover, cover your ears you were the first people to serve me horse, he brought a horse tenderloin and I said what you guys are eating horse up here and horse tartare now seemed like a better time than any triforce for the first time, it was super tasty and it's no game so far, this place seems completely crazy, yeah it's exactly what they wanted to do. these are flowers they are fried uh we start with a great spring salad and wild mushrooms with local connections these clams on the radio why mmm these oysters everything is so good tony how good is this clam very good we have a steak Here blue cheese and tomato roasted, that's beautiful.

Very good, bon appetit. Fred's signature style is to take perfect ingredients and keep things pretty simple. It's not the food because I would like to sleep with you. That's the food because I would like to make you really happy. exactly, and one way to be happy is excessive excess, start with two 80 gram pieces of duck foie gras coated in fried oil, this organ meat roll is sandwiched around double smoked bacon and voila, a double foie gras sandwich , the mythological double. I eat the folded kentucky fried chicken which is like two pieces of foie gras why what I don't like is an obscenity and a crime against God and everything is decent but it's delicious I'm already taking lipitor, you know, it's better with more salt and Here's Fred's over-the-top version of poutine instead of the traditional gravy, his fries are topped with a lobster and seafood elixir emulsified with pure lardo cured pork fat, check this out, it's crazy, it's insanely good, would you say Do you have any exclusive dishes? lobster spaghetti of course let's go with the coveted lobster spaghetti just wait until you see it it's spaghetti with cream bacon chives and lobster it's so good super easy to make is there a reason it's on the menu all the time?

I will always be grateful to be able to eat this well. Montreal is one of the most decadent food cities I've ever eaten at Joe Beef. It is an exemplary achievement. A culinary master. There's a reason why the best chefs in the world come here when they're in Montreal. it's great food these princes of gastronomy never a suboptimal moment nothing less than excellent accepted beyond excellent the only problem you could have here is not being able to get a reservation it was food you wanted to eat every day and it was a celebration if they were bagels or schwartz's or whatever even the chinese restaurant went out to eat at night it was just a good place to eat and hang out Montreal had been on fire in terms of the restaurant oh it's people discovering Montreal you know it's not even about the chef this is the best gastronomic city in North America because of the people who live here I play my sport on the best playing field in North America my clients eat liver kidneys rabbit duck I cook what I want and I have a very receptive attitude audience we just finished our three hour dinner at joe beef was spectacular we were speechless it's too late anyway we're going to bed it was so incredible an incredible open minded clientele that's why peter corson exists that's why the express is a diamond in north america new york It's not like that everyone eats steak scallops white fish beef we could never take joe beef to san francisco and do what we do never ever in chicago never in new york city that's your horse like but like the tongue and girls and men, people of all ages eat it and they're not like oh my god this is the horse, oh my god they're like oh delicious horse thank you that's the best, like you know this is the best.

You're the best people, I just want to admire your hat, it's fantastic, where did you get the Wild Hanson Brothers glasses bro, these are Christian, you're a man, man?