In Montreal
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 03:28
I'm going to be in Montreal for a little while on business. Montreal is home to a variety of Romanian pastrami, known as "smoked meat" in Canada.
I'll be having some soon.
If you've never heard of it, imagine pastrami, but spicier, with more like a pickling-spice rub.
From what I understand, Montreal steak spice was originally one restaurant's response to a customer who wanted a steak to be seasoned like smoked meat. So it's the rub, plus salt which would have come from the cure.
The oldest and most respected place for smoked meat is Schwartz's , but I think they're over-rated and living on past glory. My favorite is Lester's. I've heard conflicting opinions on another place called Smoke Meat Pete. I'll try it, I think.
Of course YMMV.
For anyone in the NY area, a place called Mile End opened up in Brooklyn that makes Montreal smoked meat. (Mile End is also the name of the neighborhood in which I grew up in Montreal and home to both Schwartz's and Lester's. I was there last night. )
I'll be having some soon.
If you've never heard of it, imagine pastrami, but spicier, with more like a pickling-spice rub.
From what I understand, Montreal steak spice was originally one restaurant's response to a customer who wanted a steak to be seasoned like smoked meat. So it's the rub, plus salt which would have come from the cure.
The oldest and most respected place for smoked meat is Schwartz's , but I think they're over-rated and living on past glory. My favorite is Lester's. I've heard conflicting opinions on another place called Smoke Meat Pete. I'll try it, I think.
Of course YMMV.
For anyone in the NY area, a place called Mile End opened up in Brooklyn that makes Montreal smoked meat. (Mile End is also the name of the neighborhood in which I grew up in Montreal and home to both Schwartz's and Lester's. I was there last night. )