JP Karwacki is a writer and editor.

Currently the managing editor of The Main, he’s a veteran storyteller with a focus on food and drink in Montreal.

Having called the city home since 2006, he was the inaugural editor who launched Time Out Montreal and has written for publications including Time Magazine, the Montreal Gazette, and NUVO Magazine. He’s been a contributor and guest editor on Eater Montreal (plus a short stint in Dallas), and was the food editor for Cult MTL from March 2015 to January 2019.

He’s written about Montreal’s next generation of diner owner-operators as well as its first urban winery, a self-sustaining network of rooftop greenhouses and gardens, whether or not size determines the quality of a restaurant, and the future of liquor in Copenhagen’s meatpacking district. He’s also written about eating pumpkin spice-flavoured Kraft Dinner and praying for death.

Beyond food and drink, he has written about circus acts in a neo-Gothic church, dating during a pandemic, the rise of cowboy culture in Quebec, how Montreal is becoming a giant open-air gallery through its murals, and climbing skyscrapers for the gram. He’s also written at length about design and architecture, and was the national creative writer for Lemay, where he wrote on everything from the invisibility of conservation architecture, reusing and recycling industrial land, and the second lives of churches to a sweeping Canadian design manifesto.

He loves recommending spots to eat and drink—maybe you’ve read one of his many “best of” lists and city round-ups—and has appeared on CBC to both give recommendations and talk about giving recommendations among other appearances.