Homemade marshmallows, yuzu soda, private chefs, gluten-free, dairy-free dream-worthy chocolate cherry-vanilla frosted cupcakes, buttery, gluten-y cupcakes, mixed spiced nuts, duck and rabbit rillettes, $32 green apple-balsamic vinegar, seaweed fertilizer and worm castings for your garden, farm-to-restaurant online ordering, moka frozen yogurt, Jamaican patties, donuts, better-than-fairtrade dark chocolate from Vietnam...what did I miss? It's all at Montreal's Salon J'ai Faim from 11am to 6pm, Sunday May 19th at Église-Saint-Enfant-Jesus-du-Mile-End.

Last week at B&M Restaurant on St-Viateur two esteemed butchers armed with nothing but cutting boards and, well, knives, faced off against each other and two whole lambs. Their goal: to break them down into the nicely tied shoulders, legs, neck, chops, filet, loin, ribs, rack and all the odd bits we see - or don't see - in butcher shops. They took two giant slabs of cleaned meat and raced for 30 minutes to see who could do the best job.

It's a city of album launches and sunny terrasses this week. Get your ears ready, because things are getting "better"...after the jump...

While a fast food empire reigns four floors below in Montreal's underground maze of shopping malls, way up on the fifth floor of the Eaton Centre is a new bistro and wax museum, the North American outpost of the Parisian museum and similarly decorated restaurant of the same name. Beaux Arts this ain't, but the lunch fare by Montreal's Restaurant Europea, the "through the looking glass" Imax-style intro by Moment Factory and the uncannily realistic portrayal of Quebecois, Canadian and international celebrities in wax (Jacques Cartier's eyes don't follow you, but Trudeau is a bit shifty) makes the Grevin Wax Museum a strangely enticing new downtown attraction.

Guess who's a Polaris judge! Greg is! Whoo! So this week, in addition to great tunes, you get to hear about that honour being bestowed upon him. Did I mention there are also some great tunes? It's as though the whole world (of Canada) is coming through Montreal in preparation for Canadian Music Week coming up in Toronto. Well, we'll take 'em. More music for us! Here's what you should go check out this week.

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Put 16 of Montreal's top mixologists in a room along with a DJ and 750 thirsty patrons, shake and strain, and you've got yourself a recipe for one hell of a party.