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They really do speak mainly French here!

I’m not really an idiot, but I was kind of surprised. I guess I expected maybe a 50/50 mix with English, but having just spent four days of Loretta’s fall break there I came away thinking 90/10 en Françoise. Strolling through the older parts of town you might easily feel that you were on the streets of Paris. Most every corner is dotted with bistros, brasseries, cafes, boutiques and small groceries.

Jackie and I are thinking about opening a bagel bakery and this grand city is famous for a wood fired version. Both St. Viateur and Fairmont bagel bakeries were on my list to visit with the locals evenly split on which is better. To me there was no contest. Fairmont easily bested their rival with a nicely chewy texture, achieved through a honey-sweetened water boil. Then they are dredged in sesame seeds, plopped onto 6 foot long wood slats and slipped into the wood burning brick oven for baking. YUM!

Some memorable meals were eaten at Le Local, Garde Manger, L’Express, Holder and a delicious “Smoked Meat” (same as pastrami) sandwich with deli mustard on rye at Schwartz’s on Rue Saint Laurent. I would definitely visit for a weekend in this city again, but next time I would bone up on my French first.

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