A great culinary concept

With a variety of eateries and bars found under one roof, it’s a culinary concept that combines the quality of fine dining with a fast-casual delivery. The result is a place turns dining out into one grand and centralized experience that does away with eating out of paper bags from franchises and doubles down on the fun and frivolity of eating shoulder-to-shoulder with locals and visitors. 

The major factor that makes this food hall stand out from the other is its novel approach, one that uses Time Out’s writers’ and editors’ knowledge of and experience with Montréal as the foundation for what it will offer in food, drink, and culture.

A downtown destination for food and culture

In late 2019, the downtown core’s Eaton Centre became a major hub for food and culture with the arrival of Time Out Market Montréal. Following in the successful footsteps of Time Out Markets in Lisbon, Miami, New York, Boston and Chicago, this location is designed to be a unique expression of the city’s best talents. No two Time Out Markets are alike, as each collects its respective city’s local talents from across the dining spectrum and gathers them in one place to do what they do best: wow us.

Inside, Montrealers and tourists alike are invited to grab seats at its long, communal tables to be fed by 14 eateries that have been handpicked by the media brand’s editors, helmed by restaurants they feel best represent what Montréal has to offer. That includes as many fine dining options like a signature concept from chef Chanthy Yen and Americas BBQ from chef Paul Toussaint as there are casual ones like Vietnamese street food hotshot Le Red Tiger and the fine-tuned churrascaria concept Campo making Portuguese chicken—a full list of what’s on offer can be found here.

There’s entertainment too, as the space additionally feature a culinary academy for classes in food and drink, retail, an retro arcade supplied by local barcade North Star Pinball, and a performance space in its bar area that’s jampacked with local talent.

A culinary concept whose time has come

The idea for this food hall started with the magazine of the same name. It was five years ago when Time Out’s editorial staff in Lisbon came up with a plan to bring its magazine to life, a living, breathing representation of its curatorial abilities. Bringing together chefs and restaurants from around their city, the editors’ and eateries’ collaborative effort created the first Time Out Market, a bellwether location for visitors to collectively celebrate good eating. It’s been a popular destination in Lisbon with a lasting impact ever since, seeing nearly 4 million visitors in 2018.

If you’ve never picked up a copy, Time Out began as a publication that was centered around editorial recommendations for what was the hippest and most happening things to do in London in 1968. The goal: to keep a finger on the pulse of the city and act as a guide to what the best things to do, see, eat and drink were. While the print editions of Time Out have been retired since June 2022 following in favour of digital editions following the COVID-19 pandemic, the brand remains a worldwide media network spanning 315 cities in 58 countries—Montréal, and Canada by extension, joined them in January of 2019 with the same mandate.

If those aren’t all reasons to be excited, we don’t what is.