Banff has a surprisingly strong restaurant scene for a mountain town of 8,000 people. Years of international tourism have raised the standard considerably — you can eat extremely well here without needing to drive to Calgary. The main strip is Banff Avenue, with most of the best options concentrated within walking distance of each other. […]
Montreal is not like other Canadian cities. It has its own language, its own cuisine, its own internal logic — a bilingual, stubbornly individual city built on an island in the St. Lawrence River, with a mountain in its middle and centuries of French and British history layered into its architecture. Of all the places […]