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Bar B Barn restaurant in Montreal - does it still exist? |
Travel Info We are planning to go up to Montreal this summer and my sister in law has been raving about the Bar B Barn on Guy Street, but she wasn't sure if it still exists. Does anyone know? Travel Tips It is alive and well. Her is a link to the website. http://www.barbbarn.ca/frameset.htm... Others Yes it does. http://www.barbbarn.ca 514-683-0225 Yes it exists (still at 2 locations - in the city and in suburban Dollard) and it still advertises a lot about its "famous barbeque" but for those that know what real barbeque should be it is still a great cruddy disappointment (yes, you can tell your sister-in-law*) so if you are familiar with true Memphis and/or Carolina and/or K.C.and/or Texas BBQs don't expect anything.at all from the Bar B Barn. In fact, there is no place in or around Montr茅al, this otherwise centre of gastronomy in Canada, where one can find a genuine barbeque. Partly this is caused by severe laws here and fines for restaurants passing ANY odors so building genuine pit restaurants are almost impossible or their complete filtering of odors in their ventilation just too expensive. What passes for barbeque here is usually rotisseried, and often ribs are preboiled and just baked, with the ickiest, stickiest sweet sauce (the classic sauce for the chicken, when not slathered with the same awfully sweet sauce used on ribs, is a uniquely Quebecois sour gravy and takes some getting used to if one is not a native). The nearest semi-decent BBQ to Montr茅al is in Burlington, VT, the nearest great ones are close to Boston, Hartford and New York City. I am a Montr茅aler who travels monthly by car to Boston, often returning with many, many kilos of great BBQ - from Redbones BBQ for anybody reading this who cares to know - in temperature controlled packagings ordered by my friends. In spite of the protective packaging the geat smells still eminate, filling the car and trunk and certainly capitvating interest - and hunger - of Canadian Customs officers. (One is allowed to bring as gifts 10 kilos - 22lbs - per person in case you are interested to do likewise). |
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