After years (66 of them!) of complicated, and annoying, rules and regulations forbidding the sale of good eatz on Montreal streetz, the city has finally gotten with the program and joined the rest of the 21st century in enjoying meals on wheels.
And then some.
Even the high-end, and mouth-watering, Au Pied de Cochon is getting in on the moveable feast action which currently centres around the Just for Laughs festival in the city's Quartier des Spectacles (no English translation provided on the city's official website).
How bilingual of them.
While the food trucks are sadly not a permanent fixture and have temporarily been given a schedule and set of operating sites by the city, it certainly is a step in the right direction. Mayor-to-be Jean Drapeau took a major step in the wrong direction when he banned food trucks in 1947 because he deemed them "undignified and unsanitary."
Do these look undignified and unsanitary to you?
While Montreal is a little late getting on the mobile meal bandwagon, the Food Network's Eat St. has been singing the praises of street meat and other goodies for the last four years and is a great place to get the low-down on the down low.
Or something like that.
Bon appetit!
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