Foie-gras, smoked meat and poutine! Montreal restos make world’s most legendary list

From poutine to smoked meat to foie gras, Montreal’s place as an iconic food destination was just reaffirmed.

The restaurant review site TasteAtlas, which charts dishes and flavours across the globe, added three popular Montreal spots to its 100 Most Legendary Restaurants list for 2024-2025. Montreal is the only Canadian city to make the list.

Among the Viennese schnitzel, Neapolitan pizza, and Indian biryani restaurants in the top 20 is Canada’s highest ranked restaurant at number 18; Au Pied de Cochon.

Au Pied de Cochon on Duluth Street was the highest ranked Canadian restaurant on TasteAtlas’s list of the 100 Most Legendary Restaurants in the World. (Scott Prouse / CTV News)

The foie-gras, pork and French onion soup serving shop on Duluth Street was one of two Montreal (and Canada) joints that cracked the top 50, with Schwartz’s smoked meat on Saint-Laurent Boulevard landing at 41.

At 74, the poutine-tastic La Banquise on Rachel Street made the list for it’s “late-night snacks and daytime meals.”

If you don’t want to wait in line, you need to hit up La Banquise at off-peak hours as lines are known to stretch far down the block. (Scott Prouse / CTV News)

Montreal also ranked 65th on TasteAtlas’s 100 Best Food Cities in the World, and, again, was the only Canadian city on the list. 

For foodies making travel plans, the top three legendary restaurants were Vienna’s Figmuller; Napoli’s L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele and Munich’s Holbrauhaus.