Le Cathcart | New Glass-Ceiling Food Hall at Place Ville Marie
After Le Central and Time Out Market, downtown Montreal’s third and final gourmet food hall project — Le Cathcart Restaurants et Biergarten — has opened at Place Ville Marie on January 23, 2020.
The new foodie space provides Montrealers with a unique and varied culinary offering, including 3 full-service restaurants, 9 food kiosks (Chikin, Dirty Greens, Hà, Karma Poke, Mon Nan, Omnivore, Patzzi, Tulum Taqueria, Uniburger), two cafés (Café Mirabel, Café Veloce) with a total of 1000 seats and a biergarten (German for “beer garden”) located under the Place Ville Marie’s amazing glass pavilion.
Designed as a public space bathed in light and vegetation, this indoor garden offers a festive social experience where people can enjoy good food and drink, quickly becoming a lively meeting place adapted to the ebb and flow of daily life, and ideal for after-work get-togethers.
Located underneath the glass pavilion, Le Biegarten provides a vast selection of microbrewery offerings carefully curated by beer expert Stéphane Pilon, a wine selection prepared by sommelier Marc-André Nadeau, and an array of sophisticated cocktails created by Daphnée Vary Deshaies.
Designed for groups of all sizes, the beer garden can be an ideal venue for happy hours and other types of gatherings, as the space can be reconfigured for any occasion (i.e. parties, weddings, conferences, etc.). With a monthly entertainment calendar to be announced shortly, Le Biegarten is sure to become a must-see hot spot.
The full-service restaurants of Le Cathcart are:
AKIO
A Japanese cantina that serves meals inspired by Osaka street food, including a selection of sushi and charcoal-grilled brochettes. The concept is a collab between chefs Antonio Park and Olivier Vigneault.
PIZZA DEL FORNAIO
A pizzeria that serves delectable Neopolitan-inspired pizzas from Italian chef Federico Bianchi.
MIRABEL
A new brasserie that serves simple, elegant, accessible fare morning, noon and night, with chef Nicholas Giambattisto creating a menu inspired by French and Italian cuisines.
As Alexandre Besnard, founder of A5 Hospitality and creator of Le Cathcart, was happy to tell us:
“When we were invited to completely rethink the Place Ville Marie food hall, grand architectural gestures had been evoked in order to give downtown residents and workers a new gathering space. That’s what inspired us to create a warm and welcoming space where people would want to go back again and again, to take advantage of an enhanced, varied and affordable food and drink offering. This led us to seek out collaborators who could satisfy a wide range of discerning tastes with popular – yet accessible – concepts.”
Here is what you need to know about Le Cathcart:
Location: Place Ville Marie | 1 Place Ville Marie, Montreal, QC H3B 3Y1
Opening Hours:
Monday to Wednesday 7AM — 9PM
Thursday to Saturday 7AM — 11PM
Sunday 7AM — 6PM
Facebook: @LeCathcart | Instagram: @lecathcart | Website: lecathcart.com
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