Creative Lunch Club is a global community for people working in the creative industries. Whether you are a graphic designer, a photographer, a marketer, or a filmmaker, the Creative Lunch Club gives you the chance to regularly meet other creatives in your city for lunch.

Crew Collective & Café is a coworking space and café set inside a former Royal Bank of Canada headquarters in Old Montréal, with 15-metre ceilings and ornate banking hall architecture. Forbes named it one of the most beautiful coworking spaces in the world. Coffee is by local roaster Traffic.

Zú is a creative hub and think tank founded by Cirque du Soleil's Guy Laliberte, housed in the historic Maison Alcan in the Golden Square Mile. Beyond desk space, it offers integrated support for creative projects across their entire lifecycle, from idea to market.

Crew Collective & Café occupies the former Royal Bank of Canada headquarters in Old Montreal, and the 15-metre ceilings and ornate banking hall architecture make it one of the most dramatic places to work in the city. Beyond the cafe, there are private meeting rooms and offices for teams of up to 18. Forbes once called it the most beautiful coworking space in the world, and it's hard to argue.

Montréal Cowork is a friendly, community-focused workspace on the Plateau, built around solo freelancers and small teams of up to ten. It has a strong reputation for welcoming newly arrived entrepreneurs and connecting them with the local creative community. Good value and genuinely welcoming.

Zú is a creative incubator and coworking hub housed in the historic Maison Alcan, founded by Cirque du Soleil's Guy Laliberté. It's focused specifically on startups and companies working in creative industries, offering workspace, mentorship, and a community of fellow creative entrepreneurs. Located right at the base of Mont-Royal, in the Museum District.

Espace Waverly is a bright, open coworking space in Mile-Ex, right on the edge between Mile End and Little Italy. It's the less flashy, more functional option: good natural light, conference rooms, and a ping pong table for downtime. Popular with freelancers and small creative agencies.

La Piscine is a stylish coworking space in Griffintown with a rooftop terrace, equipped kitchen, and event spaces for up to 125 people. The design is clean and contemporary, and the Lachine Canal location means you get that classic Griffintown industrial-meets-polished feel. Good for freelancers and small teams.

Polari is a natural wine bar in a converted garage in Villeray with an eight-seat counter, a handful of communal tables, and a wine list built around low-intervention producers. Snacks run to tinned fish, Quebec charcuterie, and Hof Kelsten bread. No reservations, open from 4pm daily.

Fonderie Darling is a contemporary art centre in two restored industrial buildings in Old Montréal, run by the non-profit Quartier Éphémère. It houses two large exhibition galleries, thirteen artist studios, production workshops, and a restaurant, with a strong focus on creation and artist residencies.

Crew Collective & Café is a coworking space and café set inside a former Royal Bank of Canada headquarters in Old Montréal, with 15-metre ceilings and ornate banking hall architecture. Forbes named it one of the most beautiful coworking spaces in the world. Coffee is by local roaster Traffic.

Baltic Club is a Montréal stationery and paper goods brand with a shop on Saint-Laurent, known for notebooks, diaries, and calendars featuring hand-drawn nature-inspired patterns. A go-to for designers and anyone who still works with pen and paper.

Vin Mon Lapin is a wine bar and restaurant in Little Italy ranked #2 on North America's 50 Best Restaurants in 2025. Chefs Marc-Olivier Frappier and Jessica Noël cook playful, precise, seasonally driven food, while sommelier Vanya Filipovic's wine list is one of the best in the country.

Pastel Rita is a café and natural wine bar on Saint-Laurent in Mile End with a colour palette and design sensibility that feels lifted straight from a Wes Anderson film. Third-wave coffee during the day, natural wine in the evening, and one of the most talked-about interiors in Montréal.

Édition is a concept store on Saint-Paul Ouest in Old Montréal carrying carefully chosen rare and collectible objects, from jewelry and kitchen accessories to furniture and decorative pieces. The kind of shop where you go in for one thing and come out with something you didn't know you needed.

The Belgo Building is a five-storey downtown loft housing over twenty galleries, artist studios, dance spaces, and architect offices. It's one of the densest concentrations of contemporary art in Montréal, with something new to discover on every floor.

Hôtel William Gray is a MICHELIN Keys luxury boutique hotel in Old Montréal, blending two restored 19th-century buildings with a contemporary tower. The rooftop terrace has sweeping views over the old port and the St. Lawrence River.

Foil Gallery is a 4,000 sq ft hybrid art space, cafe and bar that opened in early 2025 in a former ammunition factory in Mile-Ex. Co-founded by digital artist Frédéric Duquette (FVCKRENDER), it combines exhibitions with an audiovisual lab, projection mapping, coffee from Zab Cafe, and DJ sessions. One of the most genuinely exciting new spaces in the city right now.

Hôtel William Gray occupies two restored 18th-century heritage buildings in Old Montreal, with a contemporary glass addition that floods the interior with light. The Living Room at ground level has become a gravitational point for creative visitors, with a full bar, vinyl collection and curated local artwork. Ranked 5th best hotel in Canada by Condé Nast Traveller 2025.

Baltic Club is a Montreal-based stationery and lifestyle studio with a physical shop on Saint-Laurent in Mile End. Everything starts with illustration, and the range covers notebooks, planners, prints, candles and home accessories, all with a bold graphic aesthetic rooted in their in-house design practice. It's the kind of shop that designers actually shop at.

SSENSE is a Montreal-born luxury and avant-garde fashion platform, and its Old Montreal flagship is a destination in itself. British architect David Chipperfield designed the five-storey building-within-a-building, with black sandblasted concrete rooms and a glazed rooftop cafe overlooking Notre-Dame Basilica. The retail model is hybrid: browse online, order to the store, try on same day.

Parc du Mont-Royal is the city's centrepiece green space, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1876. From the Kondiaronk Belvedere lookout you get one of the best skyline views anywhere in Canada. In summer it fills with people having picnics, tossing frisbees and drumming on Sunday afternoons at Tam-Tams. It's as essential to Montreal creative culture as any gallery or studio.

Arsenal Contemporary Art is a powerhouse gallery in Griffintown, spread across 80,000 sq ft of a former 19th-century shipyard complex on the Lachine Canal. It champions Canadian and international contemporary artists across multiple distinct spaces including a private collection and video projection room. One of the most impressive gallery footprints in the country.

LESPACEMAKER is a non-profit community makerspace in Centre-Sud with workshops covering woodworking, metalwork, screen printing, 3D printing, laser cutting, ceramics, leather, sewing and more. It's member-driven, well-equipped and genuinely community-focused. If you need to actually make something, this is the place in Montreal.

HONEYROSE Hotel in the Quartier des Spectacles is a visual treat: terrazzo floors, curved lines, Art Deco touches, and a level of attention to detail in the interior design that makes the lobby worth a stop even if you're not staying. Atelier Zébulon Perron handled the public spaces, and the on-site restaurant Commodore does a solid French bistro menu. Good location for gallery-hopping and live music.

Fonderie Darling is one of the city's best large-scale contemporary art venues, occupying a 38,000 sq ft former metal foundry along the Lachine Canal. It presents ambitious exhibitions and runs artist residencies year-round, with a focus on experimentation and risk-taking. The building itself is worth visiting: raw, industrial and full of character.

Pastel Rita is one of those cafes that people photograph before they even order. The Wes Anderson pastel palette and curvy architecture by Appareil Architecture made it an instant icon when it opened in Mile End. Come for the coffee and natural wine, stay for the vibe. There's a tattoo parlour in the back if you want to make your visit permanent.

Le Butterblume is a perennial favourite in the Mile End for weekend brunch and weekday lunch. The German-influenced menu is refined and seasonal, the space is bright and tastefully designed, and there's a small grocery-boutique next door if you want to take something home. It draws a creative and neighbourhood crowd in equal measure.

Bar Le Mal Nécessaire is a tropical-inspired cocktail bar in downtown Montreal, consistently ranked among Canada's 100 best cocktail bars. The drinks are inventive and the neon-lit interior is maximalist in the best possible way. DJs spin every night, and the vibe skews creative and design-conscious.

Café Parvis in the Quartier des Spectacles is a genuinely lovely space to spend a few hours: high ceilings, big windows, lots of greenery, and a menu of seasonal pizzas, salads and pastries alongside coffee roasted in Montreal. It pulls a creative crowd given its proximity to several major arts institutions and the SAT. Good for a working lunch or a post-gallery stop.

Crew Collective & Café occupies the former Royal Bank of Canada headquarters in Old Montreal, and the 15-metre ceilings and ornate banking hall architecture make it one of the most dramatic places to work in the city. Beyond the cafe, there are private meeting rooms and offices for teams of up to 18. Forbes once called it the most beautiful coworking space in the world, and it's hard to argue.

Montréal Cowork is a friendly, community-focused workspace on the Plateau, built around solo freelancers and small teams of up to ten. It has a strong reputation for welcoming newly arrived entrepreneurs and connecting them with the local creative community. Good value and genuinely welcoming.

Zú is a creative incubator and coworking hub housed in the historic Maison Alcan, founded by Cirque du Soleil's Guy Laliberté. It's focused specifically on startups and companies working in creative industries, offering workspace, mentorship, and a community of fellow creative entrepreneurs. Located right at the base of Mont-Royal, in the Museum District.