Mile End could be the poster child for three recent trends in the city's restaurant industry. The first is the increasing popularity of facsimile restaurants—places that go to great pains to pretend they're anywhere but New York. As with Choptank (Baltimore), Hill Country (Lockhart, Texas), Pies-'N'-Thighs (Podunk, North Carolina), and Keste (Naples, Italy), Mile End wants to make you feel like you're in Montreal. Specifically, it drops you in a neighborhood north of the Plateau notorious for its indie rock, hipster boutiques, and historic Jewish quarter, known as Mile End. In fact, our imitation Montreal deli imports its bagels directly from St.-Viateur, the neighborhood's venerable bagel bakery. But more... More >>>