Le Cathcart

Le Cathcart, Place Ville Marie’s Food Hall and Biergarten, Opens This Thursday | Eater Montreal

"Opening on Thursday, January 23, it's a sprawling new food hall and beer garden on the Place Ville Marie Esplanade created as part of a $1-billion collaboration between Projet Nouveau Centre and Ivanhoé Cambridge to revitalize Montreal’s downtown core. It includes three full-service restaurants, nine food kiosks, two cafés and can serve up to 1,000 people at once; a covered rooftop beer garden will host events and serve a range of wines, cocktails, sake and microbrews. The drink program was assembled by notable talent: Vilains Brasseaurs’ Stéphane Pilonis curating the beer list, Jatoba sommelier Marc-André Nadeau heading the wine list, and Daphnée Vary Deshaies (ex-Foxy) handling the cocktail menu. Designed by A5 Hospitality and Sid Lee architecture, its large glass ceiling looks out onto the Place-Ville-Marie towers while the central dining area is laden with plants and mismatched-but-chic patterned furniture, and most of the space is open to anyone rather than restricted to diners at the three full-service restaurants (those restaurants sit off to the west side in full view of the glass ceiling). On the east side are the faster-service restaurants with a sizable thoroughfare to accommodate lunch crowds, and overall the layout feels less cavernous and more intimate than Time Out Market, with various nooks and crannies that make it a place you could return to repeatedly. It will open daily at 7 a.m., running until 9 p.m. Monday–Wednesday, until 11 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, and until 6 p.m. Sunday." - Tim Forster