Posted on 16/12/06
A legendary sandwich shop is toast
MONTREAL -- Ben's delicatessen, the fluorescent-lit Montreal landmark where poets, prime ministers, Hollywood stars and feathered chorus girls went to eat, has served up its last smoked meat.The downtown restaurant, which lived its heyday in the 1950s and seemed frozen in time ever since, is closing after 98 years in business in the city that gave Canada the smoked meat sandwich.
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