Arcade Fire Opening Haitian Restaurant in Montreal This Summer

Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Régine Chassagne are teaming up with a pair of Toronto restaurateurs to open Agrikol, a Haitian dining and cultural space in the band's Montreal, Québec hometown. Arriving later this summer, the new spot will offer Haitian food, music and visual arts, according to The Globe and Mail (and later reported by NME). The Arcade Fire duo will be working alongside Roland Jean and Jen Agg, a fellow husband-and-wife team who run the 6's noteworthy Haitian spot Rhum Corner.  Speaking with The Globe and Mail, Butler described the group's inspiration for the restaurant, one rooted in the warmth of nostalgia (and skilfully replicated by their soon-to-be-partners). "You miss this cultural warmth," Butler said. "It’s something that I felt at Rhum Corner and it’s something that I know that we can do in Montreal."

Agrikol marks the first restaurant from Butler and company, but it's not the group's sole culinary venture by any means; last year, Butler unveiled RaRa, a coffee produced in Haiti in conjunction with La Colombe Coffee.

via Zoe Camp