North Third's interior is a delight, filled to bursting with bric-a-brac, stained glass, a papier-mâché spangled American eagle, high tables, booths, stuffed boars and crows, and of course, the Phillies on TV.
The thing that I had walked into was a flying pig: a stuffed wild boar, black as night, flying in a ceiling of bright paper bunting and balloons.
The richness of fried dates stuffed with boar meat, for only twelve dollars, is cut nicely with a homemade grainy mustard.
I spent only one uneasy night, and that's because I was sharing my hotel room with a stuffed wild boar's head I'd picked up in a Charleston taxidermy shop.
Buoyed by his success, we feast on a traditional Czech meal of braised boar, stuffed trotters and fresh venison liver (our guns bagged 23 beasts in two days, including several fallow deer as well as boars) prepared by ETM Group's top chef, James Lyon-Shaw.
Afterwards, visit Nonna Rosa restaurant on Via dei Tulipani), where you can eat your stuffed gnocchi or wild boar stew sitting astride an old moped, or inside a restored Fiat 500.
Along the calle 31 de Agosto, every other hole-in-the-wall bar does the Spanish standards of moist tortilla and peppery serrano ham, as well as fancier bites such as fungi and paté in mille feuille, tongue with béchamel sauce and peppers stuffed with cod or boar, most of them on a slab of fresh baguette, and all costing just €2 to €4.
In a week exploring Montreal and the towns and villages known as the Eastern Townships, I have eaten, in no particular order of deliciousness, wild boar mousse, rabbit stuffed with foie gras, truffle risotto and bison tartare.
Andrzej Antczak, the associate head forester in Hajnówka forest district, is a climate change agnostic, whose buildings are decorated with stuffed mink, deer and wild boar – a sign of the influence wielded by Poland's hunting lobby which bridges the local community with politicians.
