You’ll find some of the city’s best Thai food at this Little Italy counter or“curry shop”. Order a pad kaprao (pork and Thai basil stir fry), fried chicken with sweet chili sauce, or any curry on offer, plus some mango sticky rice to soothe your tongue with something sweet after all that spice.

A welcome addition to Mile End’s food scene，Falafel Yoni does its namesake dish justice. Order it in sandwich form, wrapped in a pita with a mountain of red cabbage and tahini, on a platter or atop a salad: there is no wrong way to eat these crispy fried chickpea balls. The sabich — a fried eggplant sandwich — is equally worth a try.

Pull up a bar stool and within minutes, you’ll be enjoyingWilensky’sSpecial, one of Montreal’s most iconic sandwiches. Your Kaiser bun will come topped with bologna and salami, fried on a flat top, with or without mustard. Just don’t dare ask them to cut it in half.

Why have any other fast food burger when you can have aUniburger? Now with locations on Saint Denis, and in St-Henri and Côte-des-Neiges, a perfect 100% Canadian beef burger — served on a Martin’s potato roll with tomatoes, lettuce, cheese and special sauce — is never too far away.

This Chinatown sandwich counter serves a near-perfect banh mi, assembled on the spot for $4, plus other Vietnamese staples like fresh spring rolls or banh cuon (rice paper sheets filled with ground pork).

There’s nowhere else on earth quite likeOrange Julep，and that’s what makes it perfect. Order up a couple steamés, some poutine and the namesake drink — a milky, frothy orange beverage — and marvel at the weird wonderfulness of this highway-adjacent orange dome from your picnic table perch.

If you weren’t hungry before, you will be once you walk into this casual Turkish restaurant just around the corner from Concordia. Order the chicken sandwich, served in their fresh-made sesame seed-covered flatbreads with yogurt and their homemade hot sauce. Perfection in a sandwich.

Just around back from Saint-Henri’s Elena, you’ll finda cozy little placeto grab a coffee or pastry in the morning, or a glass of natural wine and some of the city’s best pizza al taglio later in the day. It’s made fresh every morning. (The P.S. in the name stands for “Pizza Slice”, naturally.)