a guide to the ultimate Bishop & Bagg

The new you needs an old haunt, of course. Bishop and Bagg, a pub located on Saint-Viateur, has probably some of the best pub food in Montreal, maybe some of the best pub food we’ve ever tasted. Personal highlights would have to be the lamb kebabs and the jerk chicken—both of which pair excellently with the mounted deer’s head. A true pub should be (A) generally wood-paneled and (B) imprinted everywhere by vaguely English-resembling insignia. Rest assured that the all-new-you will fnd both criterium amply met: the building here is palpably historic and some heraldry is never far from your periphery, be it stamped on a pint glass or embodied in the good-cheer grin of one of many jolly pedestrians who, in the summertime, promenade leisurely and gregariously by the open-air storefront with maws literally watering at the sight of your food, at your delectably mysterious drink that oozes desirability. The place is located in a great spot, city-wise, too—you’re not far from a warm bag of bagels at St-Viateur Bagel nor a fresh bag of denim at Jeans Jeans Jeans; generally, the new-you may fair well in situating this approximate intersection at the crux of your new character. That’s all to say that Bishop & Bagg is a place for rejuvenation, as is any good watering hole.