Rue Sainte-Catherine
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6 reviews for Rue Sainte-Catherine
5 reviews in English
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Review from Andy H.
8/7/2008
St. Catherine Street (now officially rue Sainte-Catherine) is the main street for all your entertainment needs when you are in downtown Montreal. It is lined with so many places to shop, eat,learn and play.
Some highlights include H&M department store, Eaton Centre Mall, Dawson College, Mexx and Supersexe (one of the last remaining strip clubs). The street runs parallel to the largest segments of Montreal's underground city.Listed in: Oh Yelp Canada!
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Review from Amy S.
7/27/2010 2 photos
It may not be Oxford Street or Carnaby Street, but its still someplace that if you like shopping you'll want to check out. For anyone else, it is a great central location where if you can find Rue Sainte-Catherine, you can find your way anyplace else in the city.
That's what I used it for. Whilst I love shopping, these are the same stores that I can find anyplace else and so I used it more as a compass point to navigate the rest of the city. I did like that the portion from Rue Berri to Rue Papineau is shut down to vehicular traffic and so becomes a pedestrian mall with restaurant patios spilling out onto the street and festivals taking over the road.
Make this one of your first stops in the city if you're a tourist and you'll be able to find your way around just fine!Listed in: Montreal
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Review from Jenni B.
5/14/2009
A shopping and restuarant street which largely resembles every other in a Canadian city. Don't be shocked to see the same stores over and over, or the same chains blocks from eachother. However, as a traveller it was a handy reference point and an easy go to.
I will note I believe it was called Christchurch Cathedral - it's across the Bay in any event - this is a gorgeous old cathedral which makes the walk down through the crowds totally worth it.Listed in: My Guide to Montreal
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Review from Janel Y.
6/10/2010
I was told that St. Catherine St was the place to go for shopping so I headed down here to see what type of shopping Montreal had to offer. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in what I saw. There were the usual State stores such as H&M, Forever 21 and Aldo and then there are the Canadian stores such as The Bay, Roots, Jacob and Lululemon.
I guess when I heard shopping area/district, I was expecting something like NYC's SoHo area, SF's Union Square area or Vancouver's Robson St. It is a main street where you can find people hanging out and meeting up, but a shopping area it is not. -
Review from Ari S.
Ottawa, ON
9/17/2008
The unavoidable main artery of Montreal. For the real experience, ignore everything west of St. Laurent. It's a fairly generic downtown strip with the same stores you find everywhere else. If you head east of St. Laurent, it's far more interesting. The sleazy vibe between St. Laurent and St. Denis is like pre-Giuliani Times Square where junkies, punks, and prostitutes still reign supreme. Anyone who, like myself, has some kind of misplaced and confused nostalgia for pre-gentrified and Disneyfied Midtown should check it out. Go while it's still there since they've been threatening to transform the area into a generic tourist trap with the Quartier des Spectacles. Further east of St. Denis and it's the Village which is also a pretty interesting place worth checking out.
