History: memories of a chicken resto
The Centre d’histoire piece this weekend looks back at the Chic-N-Coop on Ste-Catherine, a place I recall my mother mentioning wistfully as having had better barbecue sauce than any of the surviving chicken places, although I don’t think she ever tried any of the Portuguese ones.
The resto closed after a fire in 1962.
Bill Binns 11:59 on 2019-01-14 Permalink
There isn’t a photo of it in the article but wasn’t this the place with the magnificent, three story tall neon rooster for a sign?
Seeing those old color photos of St Cat lit up with Neon like the Vegas strip make my heart ache for what was lost.
Kate 14:31 on 2019-01-14 Permalink
Bill Binns, you may be thinking of the original St-Hubert rotisserie location on the street of the same name, which was lit with neon signs almost as much as Ste-Catherine back in the 1950s, I think.
Patrick 13:04 on 2019-01-14 Permalink
I wonder what other chicken places there were that roasted birds in view of the street. There’s a famous description in Hugh MacLennan’s Watch That Ends the Night of unemployed people during the Depression walking aimlessly up and down Ste-Catherine and gazing hungrily at the chickens they can’t afford to eat.