About this guide
montreal.best is an independent guide to Montreal, built by people who live here.
How it works
Every category has exactly five picks. Not ten, not fifty. Five spots chosen because they are genuinely worth your time. Each one is reviewed and verified by someone who has been there, not scraped from a database or ranked by an algorithm.
What makes this different
Most city guides optimise for volume. More listings means more ads, more clicks, more revenue. montreal.best does the opposite. Fewer picks, more conviction. If a place is on this list, someone is willing to put their name behind it.
Bilingual by default
Montreal is a bilingual city and this guide reflects that. Every page, every description, and every recommendation is available in both English and French.
Sponsorships
montreal.best runs no affiliate links. No commissions, no booking kickbacks, no tracking on outbound links.
Some categories may include a sponsored listing, always clearly labelled and always separate from the five picks. Sponsored spots never influence the main list or its order.
Privacy
montreal.best does not set cookies. We do not run accounts, newsletters, or personal profiles. There is nothing to log into and nothing to log out of.
A contact form and an anonymous feedback form are available. They route submissions through Web3Forms, a third-party form backend, so we do not store a database ourselves. The feedback form does not ask for your name or email.
We use a privacy-first analytics service (Pirsch, made and hosted in the EU) to count page views and see which categories people browse. It is cookie-free and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR. We do not store IP addresses, follow you across sites, or build a profile of you.
Terms of use
Everything on montreal.best is an opinion from someone who lives here. Restaurants change, bars close, neighbourhoods evolve. We try to keep the guide current, but no list survives contact with a city forever. Call ahead for anything that matters, and do your own homework for anything that involves your money or your time.
The content is provided as is, without warranty of any kind. montreal.best is not liable for anything that happens as a result of following its recommendations. By using this guide you accept that it is a starting point, not a contract.