Last client for the Binerie on Mont-Royal
TVA visited with writer Yves Beauchemin as he ate the last meal at the Binerie Mont-Royal’s 80-year location on the street of the same name. The Binerie’s moving around to the corner of Marie-Anne and St-Denis. Beauchemin featured the restaurant in his popular 1981 novel Le Matou.
Jack 08:41 on 2019-09-04 Permalink
I know I am beating the same drum but as anyone ever read that book ? It makes “The Merchant of Venice” seem banal and it was written only 500 years after.
Kate 12:16 on 2019-09-04 Permalink
I admit I haven’t, Jack. I take it Beauchemin’s got a Jewish villain in the piece?
Jack 14:11 on 2019-09-04 Permalink
Ratablavaskvy (Rat) and Slipskin, with Slipskin moniker having another message ( consult Freud) . Ironically the Beanery itself was celebrated as the place that sold “pur laine” cuisine until those two, by nefarious means… “stole” it. I’ll stop here but its worth a read to see how embedded some of these tropes were in popular franco culture. I truly think that this book would be seen by most young francos for what it is.