Furthermore, Schwartz's was always much more popular among tourists who lined up there for hours while ignoring the Main Deli, attributed to Schwartz's "worldwide fame that makes it a must-enjoy attraction for tourists after 95 years in existence". While both establishments continued to be rated highly in recent years, Main Deli never won the ‘Best Montreal Sandwich Award’ which usually went to Schwartz's. The two restaurants were often compared against each other in their patronage and the flavours of their Montreal-style smoked meat. Main Deli was right across the street from their main business rival, the famed Schwartz's Montreal Hebrew Delicatessen. running Smoke Meat Pete which won the Montreal Gazette’s annual ‘Best Montreal Sandwich Award’ in 2001. The deli remained a family business, and two of Varvaro's children have opened their own deli restaurants in the suburbs of Montreal using their father's secret recipe for smoked meat, with Philip operating Delibee's, and Peter Jr. Varvaro was Italian in background, but grew up immersed in the Jewish language and culture. Main Deli was established in 1974 by Peter Varvaro Sr. in Mile End two ways - one a winter scene with fluffy snowflakes, the other as a summer scene.The Main Deli Steak House, also known simply as Main Deli or The Main, was a delicatessen and steakhouse located on Saint Laurent Boulevard in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He painted a favourite building near St-Viateur St. He painted the man in his kitchen, with a friend looking in the window from the street. Montrealer David Schwartzman’s painting based on a photograph he took of a Little Burgundy resident who donned a multicoloured robe for him. He painted the man seated in his kitchen, with a friend talking to him through an open window from the street. In the early years following his retirement, Schwartzman used to strap his bicycle to his car, drive to a neighbourhood he wanted to explore, “take my bike and zigzag through every street and every laneway in the area.”Ī painting inspired by a photograph he took in Little Burgundy depicts a resident who donned a multicoloured robe for him. “If I am happy with it, I feel that others will be happy as well.” “In the end, if the picture makes me smile, I know it was successful,” he said. To a painting of the fountain in the centre of Sir George-Étienne Cartier Square in St-Henri and the greystones and curved iron railings characteristic of the neighbouring homes, he added a few characters from his imagination - including one intended to evoke his now-departed dog, Chewy. Often, he introduces his own additions - people, mainly - to animate the scene. Self-taught, Schwartzman usually works from photographs and favours bright colours. Although he has sold a few paintings, “I don’t want to part with them I would prefer them on the walls of my home.” He has had a couple of exhibitions and another will take place May 21 to Jat the Eleanor London Côte-St-Luc Public Library. His paintings bring to mind the work of artist Miyuki Tanobe, known for her paintings of the daily life of Montrealers, or the American folk artist known as Grandma Moses. His goal, he said, “is to document my love of the city and of nature and also to interpret it for other people.” “The first thing I documented was farm life,” Schwartzman recalled. In 2001 or 2002, he bought his first acrylic paints and began to set his memories down on canvas. Still, he passes through Mile End “very often, with great fondness.”Īfter he retired at 51 from a career in insurance, mainly consulting in group insurance, a Heritage Montreal class about the city’s development and its old homes and rooflines gave him “a nudge” toward painting. Schwartzman still lives in Côte-St-Luc, not far from where he grew up, and in warm weather he and his wife divide their time between the city and a chalet by a lake in Vermont. and St-Joseph Blvd., by Montrealer David Schwartzman. A scene based on a photo of Rue de Grand-Pré on the Plateau Mont-Royal, near the intersection of St-Denis St. “Two different worlds - one in which you walked with your relatives and the other where you were a complete outsider,” he recalled. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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