The Main Deli Steak House, a smoked meat institution frequented by prime ministers and poets, closed its doors permanently this week.
The windows of the iconic eatery, whose sign has hung over St-Laurent Boulevard — a road long referred to as the Main, the restaurant’s namesake — since 1974, were papered over on Monday and a note in the window thanked its customers for their years of patronage.
“Had I known they were closing for good, I would have gone in for last meal,” said Louis Rastelli, the director of Arcmtl Archive Montréal, a history archive, and a former regular at The
