Montreal’s most iconic 24-hour bagel shop cuts hours for the first time due to pandemic
For the first time since the late ‘70s, St-Viateur Bagel’s flagship Mile End bakery is not running as a 24-hour operation.
But now, its St-Viateur Street premises are getting locked up on a nightly basis. Owner Robert Morena tells Eater he actually had to check that the lock on the front door still works, and had to make copies of the practically-untouched key.has shaken up business for St-Viateur, too — Morena says that with no tourists in Montreal, he’s seeing far more familiar faces drop by , while the demand for bagels in grocery stores has soared.
“It’s day by day, every day I come in and we meet and make the best possible decision for the safety of our staff and our families, then we talk bagel production.”
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