Foires alimentaires: les nouveaux temples de la gastronomie

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2020.07.06

Ouverture le 18 je crois

Selon cet article de La Presse, l'ouverture pour Le Central serait le 16 juillet prochain... 😉 

Le retour des foires alimentaires

PHOTO EDOUARD PLANTE-FRÉCHETTE, LA PRESSE  |  Le Cathcart rouvrira dans une formule repensée le 6 juillet.

La fin de l’année 2019 et le début de 2020 ont été marqués par l’ouverture, coup sur coup, de trois foires alimentaires d’envergure : le Central, dans le Quartier des spectacles, le Time Out Market Montréal, dans le Centre Eaton, puis le Cathcart Restaurants et Biergarten, sous le pavillon de verre de Place Ville Marie. Des endroits qui ont tous dû se résoudre à fermer leurs portes depuis mars dernier.

Publié le 6 juillet 2020 à 11h15  |  IRIS GAGNON-PARADIS  |  LA PRESSE
https://www.lapresse.ca/gourmand/restaurants/2020-07-06/le-retour-des-foires-alimentaires.php

Alors que le déconfinement s’amorce progressivement, ces trois aires de restauration qui offrent un beau panorama de la culture gastronomique montréalaise ont annoncé leur ouverture prochaine.

C’est le Cathcart qui ouvrira le bal le 6 juillet, avec un vaste jardin central reconfiguré pour respecter les mesures d’hygiène et une offre centralisée, regroupée dans une même cuisine centrale. On pourra désormais commander sans contact avec l’application Le Cathcart, ou directement au nouveau comptoir Cathcart. L’ouverture sera graduelle ; pour l’instant, on pourra y déguster les plats sélectionnés des Uniburger, Chikin, Karma Poké, Dirty Greens et Brasserie Mirabel.

Le Time Out Market Montréal suivra le 8 juillet, avec le grand espace de 40 000 pi2 repensé intégrant notamment des cloisons en plexiglas aux comptoirs et aux tables et la possibilité de commander sans contact avec la nouvelle application. La première vague d’ouverture comptera six comptoirs (Marusan, Red Tiger Cantine, Paul Toussaint, Il Miglio, Moleskine, Romados), alors que les bars à vin, bière, cocktails et mocktails seront aussi en fonction. À noter qu’il sera aussi possible de se faire livrer des plats par DoorDash.

Quant au Central, la réouverture est prévue un peu plus tard, le 16 juillet. La plupart des comptoirs alimentaires devraient alors être ouverts et, pour la première fois, l’endroit ouvrira complètement ses grandes portes vitrées, donnant un accès direct sur l’extérieur.

> Consultez le site du Cathcart Restaurants

> Consultez le site du Time Out Market Montréal

> Consultez le site du Central

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Le Cathcart change de modèle d'affaires

https://montreal.eater.com/2020/9/18/21444635/le-cathcart-food-hall-reimagined-italian-piazza-sociale-pvm

Le Cathcart Food Hall Gets Reimagined as an Italian “Piazza”

Piazza Sociale opens on Tuesday, becoming one of the largest sit-down restaurants in town

by Valerie Silva  Sep 18, 2020, 12:36pm EDT

Riccardo Bertonlino, Nicholas Giambattisto, and Federico Bianchi of PVM newcomer Piazza Sociale.
Piazza Sociale [Official Photo]

 

After opening just eight months ago, Le Cathcart is changing course with the launch of Piazza Sociale, a restaurant modelled on Italy’s bustling public squares, on September 22.

Settling beneath Place Ville-Marie’s imposing glass skylight, the sit-down restaurant serving light Italian fare will take over the space previously occupied by the food hall’s three full-service restaurants: Japanese cantine Akio, Pizza del Fornaio, and Mirabel brasserie.

Piazza Sociale will operate within this existing infrastructure, serving cold appetizers, pizza, foccaccia, and more hot plates out of the aforementioned kitchens — though all under the direction of Bologna native chef Riccardo Bertonlino, who prior to this had been the executive chef at Ritz Carlton’s famed fine dining locale Maison Boulud for eight years.

Bertonlino is joined by chef Nicholas Giambattisto (formerly Un Po’ Di Piu) and chef Federico Bianchi (formerly Pizzeria Bottega), both of which have been with Le Cathcart since its opening earlier this year, at Mirabel and Pizza del Fornaio, respectively. Together, the three created a menu that features appetizers (including arancini, burrata and veal tartar) ranging from $10 to $20, pastas sitting at the $20-25 mark and meat mains (branzino, porchetta and beef) hovering around $30.

Piazza Sociale [Official Photo]

“The idea of creating a public space has been with us since day one. When we first designed Le Cathcart, we already had in mind the idea of a piazza, where you have buildings all around you and you’ve got buskers and restaurants and activity. We thought we could take that even further with this restaurant,” says Alexandre Besnard, co-founder of restaurant and bar group A5 Hospitality, which, along with Sid Lee and Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux, designed Le Cathcart and now operates it.

Reconfiguring the space for Piazza Sociale took just over a month, Besnard says: “But the infrastructure was there, even for decor, we didn’t really have to reinvent much. We’ve added patio lanterns and a few other elements, but the bones were already there.”

Le Cathcart/Supplied

The food hall’s east-side counter alley will remain intact, though at the moment only at limited capacity with just five of the usual 12 kiosks running: Dirty Greens salad bar, Korean fried chicken counter Chikin, Canadian burger chain Uniburger, Tulum Taqueria, and Karma Poke are open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the downtown lunchtime crowd.

With an expected 12-month lifespan (likely as long as the lease), Piazza Sociale is what Besnard calls “éphémère,” French for pop-up, though he doesn’t quite like that term. “It could end up being longer depending on how things play out,” he adds.

With physical distancing measures in place, the restaurant has set a 250-person capacity cap, which would make it one of the largest full-service, sit-down restaurants in town, and a good no-reservation-needed option. Before restaurants were mandated to maintain two metres’ distance between clients, the space could have accommodated 1,000 at once.

“When COVID first hit, my partner [Patrick Hétu] and myself were like, ‘We’re lucky; we have one of the largest restaurant in the city and we’ll be able to, at some point, operate okay with the measures in place,” Besnard says. “Even when it comes to the ventilation system, it was built for 15,000 people at the same in that entire building ... I know not everyone feels secure to go right now, but for the people who do, I think we will be at the top of the list. I hope so at least.”

Le Cathcart — part of a broader revitalization project for Esplanade PVM — opened to the public in January, becoming the third food hall to grace the city in a span of just six months. (Le Central, nearby Place des Arts, opened in September 2019, and Time Out Market, in the top floor of downtown’s Eaton Centre, opened in November 2019.) Felled by the pandemic, the food halls were all forced to close in March, until each reopened in early to mid July.

For now, Piazza Sociale will be open for lunch and dinner, but as of October may be adding brunch to the lineup.

Piazza Sociale is open as of September 22 at 1 Place Ville Marie, from Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m..