Schwartz's Deli and Kale Salad

This morning we went for a walk away from the downtown area towards the neighboring residential area. The goal was to walk to Mont Royale to see the cross and then for lunch have a Montreal smoked meat sandwich at Schwartz's Deli. We got to the base of Mount Royal but it was way too hot today for either one of us to want to venture to the top. So we just hung around the park for quite a while.
Once we started getting hungry we wandered over to Sainte Laurent Blvd to find Schwartz's Deli. This place is supposed to have the best Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich in the city. It was lunch time when we found it and the lineup went down the street and around the corner. We decided to go have a poutine from Patati Patata while waiting for the line up to go down. The poutine was very good. We then slowly made our way back to the deli. The line up was a little shorter so we joined. As we waited Gerard noticed another door with people moving in out quite quickly. Our line was quite slow. We were told that what Gerard saw was the take out door and that we were in line for the restaurant. We just wanted take out anyways so in we went and got our smoked meat sandwich. The sandwich was really good and now that I am writing this I think I want another one.
It was super hot so we went back to the hotel to cool off and get ready to go out to see our second comedy show. We discovered an underground mall yesterday. It is under the festival site. So we went to the mall food court for supper. I was craving salad so I went to a kiosk that clearly sold salads but the menu was all in French. So far we have been able to figure out the French menus. I got a salad and the greens were chou frise, found out the hard way that means kale 😝. It was actually pretty good and that is coming from someone who really doesn't like kale.
After supper we saw our second show, which was really funny. All British comedians. Then we did another tour of the festival site. Came back to the room and wrote blog posts.Read more