If a Montrealer grew up in Ahuntsic, this was where they ate hot dogs. A tried and true veteran of the hot dog scene, Chez Ma Tante is worth the pilgrimage for a steamé.

At new wave snack bar Chez Tousignant, chef Yann Turcotte makes the kind of hot dogs he loved as a child, except from scratch, and with no fillers it’s been wowing critics ever since. Try the eponymous Tousignant dog with American cheese melted on top, bacon, topped with special sauce and pickle slices.

Dimitrios Goulpegazis and Constantinos Psaradellis opened Mont-Royal Hot Dog in 1965. The diner is now managed by Nickolaos Psaradellis, but Mont-Royal Hot Dog's flagship roteux-moutarde-chou has not changed one iota, save for a $5 prix-fixe menu that features its delicious dogs.

Lester's is where a lot of Montrealers were weaned on smoked meat and other Jewish deli staples. That includes toasted kosher franks with ballpark mustard.

While famous for a stacked burger, or the local favourite Zeke sandwich, this classic Village diner serves every style of Montreal dog: steamé, toasté, Michigan rôti and vapeur, and Pogo.

This hot dog upstart in the Plateau departs from traditional Montreal steamés and toastés in a major way. No ingredient is unfit for a hot dog in this eatery, with the wide variety of ingredients piled on so high that the sausage is, at times, buried below. Something for everyone’s to be found here.

A poster child hot dog peddler since 1969. Unchanged over the decades, Decarie Hot Dog is a Ville Saint-Laurent legend.

Montreal Pool Room keeps chugging along after it cleaned up its act and moved across the street after a century on the west side of the lower Main a few years ago — and many still consider it the place for a classic Montreal steamé.

Perhaps a nod to the famous and extravagant hot dog found in the Plateau, Olive and Gourmando’s daily menu features their own Majestique: a bacon-cheddar sausage, with apple coleslaw, pickled corn and jalapeños, fried shallots, all topped with creamy mustard on a house bun.

Victoire served toasted dogs and spruce beer for decades downtown before a 2011 move to a downtown tower’s food court. Probably the most clandestine hot dog on this map.

A singular Montreal landmark built by Hermas Gibeau to serve his trademark orange drink — and hot dogs. Gibeau's original restaurant on Sherbrooke East was torn down in 2009 after 80 years in business, but the big orange on Décarie still looms large.

Steamés by day, toastés by night, and Michigan dogs all day figure prominently at this popular Saint-Henri greasy spoon from casse-croûte stalwart André Annoussos. Open since 1962 and counting.

Very little has changed at this Saint-Henri diner, notable for steamés, in almost 70 years. It has since expanded its menu into new territories of new toppings, prompting Montrealers for a refresher course.

Corner snack bar Pierrette Patates serves up the best in classic blue collar Québécois hot dogs for the borough of Verdun.