I visited Montreal for the first time fourteen years ago. I thought I knew a lot about Texas barbecue back then, but I knew nothing of Montreal-style smoked meat beyond what the guidebooks said. The ...

Corned beef, pastrami and Montreal smoked meat, despite their similarities, hail from very different parts of the world. Corned beef comes from Ireland, where salted beef was made as far back as the ...

You could call it a cross between pastrami and corned beef. Or, you could borrow Lex Gopnik-Lewinski’s more colorful description. “It’s like pastrami and corned beef got a fine bottle of Napa Valley ...

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio — A Northeast Ohio restaurateur’s decades-old food memory is coming home. Thirty years ago, while visiting Montreal’s famed Schwartz’s Deli, Brad Friedlander tasted his first ...

The Jersey Shore’s ever-evolving food scene is about to get a taste of Canada. And it tastes really, really good. Berg’s Smoked Meat & Poutine, a ghost kitchen in Asbury Park cheffing up Montreal ...

New Jersey has scores of amazing delis — as NJ.com has faithfully reminded you — but how many places in the Garden State are serving Montréal smoked meat sandwiches? Berg’s Smoked Meat & Poutine, a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Constantine Katsaros and Jack Messer got their start competing in barbecue contests at festivals around the country and did a little catering on the side. But they wanted more.

There are few things that scream Montreal more than smoked meat. Not quite corned beef, and not as heavily spiced as pastrami, the deli staple — layered and piled high onto fresh rye bread with a swab ...

When I grew up in Toronto in the 1980s and early 1990s, a lot of my classmates in day school were the children of recent transplants from Montreal, and they brought with them nostalgia for the Jewish ...

Brenna Houck is an Oregon-based dining editorial manager for the Eater network, overseeing the Cascadia, Midwest, and Southeast regions. She previously edited Eater Detroit and reported for Eater. You ...