What is the best place for...

[NickMontreal]

What in your opinion is the best place in Montreal to buy a certain thing?

(e.g. chocolate from Le Maitre Chocolatier, beef from La Maison du Rôti, etc etc)

[Bake Sale Girl]

For Coffee beans or ground coffee, Cafe Rico, 969 rue Rachel Est (cross street Boyer). Such great organic, fairtrade coffee, tea and nuts. Cute relaxing cafe to sit in too. http://www.caferico.qc.ca/

For a great cheap meal, Patati Patata, 4177 St-Laurent corner Rachel. Love the mini burgers with salad and fries. Or the veggie filled poutine! There is sometimes a line but it's worth the wait.

A cool retro cafe is Atomic Cafe 3606 Ontario street east. The even have a video store in the back. Wi-fi is available too.

[C70]

St. Viateur for bagels
Gryphon for scones
Nostos for gyro
Abu Elias for shish taouk, and rotisserie chicken too
Mahrouse for arabic baklava

[bigfellow]

The scones I had at The Sparrow were much better. IMHO

[kpzoo]

I agree that The Sparrow's scones are awesome. Just to let people know so they won't be disappointed, they don't always have them as they rotate their baked goods - sometimes it's scones, but other times it's crumpets or croissants or something else.

Gryphon d'or's scones are also fab - and their shortbread alone makes it worth a trip to NDG, IMO.

[english muffin]

Today it was eccles cakes with clotted cream... swoon!

[pyropaul99]

Was that real clotted cream? Or just thick regular cream? I wish the Quebec dairy industry would get off its collective ass and start making decent cream without any seaweed, gums or other un-necessary additives. Cream should contain only cream!

Paul.

[english muffin]

Real, made on the premises (I asked). Not a huge scoop though, a perfect little mound on top of the eccles cake. Heavenly...

[superbossmom]

I read the title of this thread as meaning "where to buy" the best food items
in Mtl........

which bakery sells scones as good as Sparrow's ?

[BLM]

Has Nostos on L'Acadie temporary closed, because the place next door was firebombed(& it also damaged Nostos). Not sure, I thought I saw a news report sometime this week mentioning Nostos.

[hungryann]

Yes, it was severely damaged and they are renovating. They are supposed to be opening in the next month or so.

[ios94]

Yah, the owner lady was on Pulse news last week, it looks like they had residual effect of the firebombing and are renovating from the look and sound of the report.

[Lowe Arthorbit]

Caraibe delite (ave de parc north of villeneuve) for boneless chicken roti with hot sauce

saveurs de quebec store in jean talon market is THE place to stock up on edible quebec goodies.

Gourmet Laurier for Grey Poupon, better than maille brand mustard

Diablissimo on Mont Royal for fresh pesto sauce

queue de cauchon for sausages (in fromentier bakery location)

coco rico for rotisserie chicken

India beau village for channa somosa and onion kulcha

anyway, these are my personal go-to places for these items

[NickMontreal]

*Saveurs du Quebec* - where in Jean Talon market?

[kpzoo]

They probably mean "Le Marché des Saveurs" - it's at the southeast corner of the market.

http://www.lemarchedessaveurs.com

[The Ice Cream Man]

Seconding Caraibe Delite.

Rotisserie Romados for Portuguese grilled chicken.

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Rotisserie Romados
115 Rue Rachel E, Montreal, QC H2W1C8, CA

Cuisine Caraibe Delite
4816 Av Du Parc, Montreal, QC H2V4E6, CA

[pyropaul99]

Pushap for samosas, vege thali as well as Indian sweets
Bombay Choupati for dosas and other South Indian delights
Caribbean Curry House for rotis
Pho Bac for ca phe sua da Vietnamese iced coffee
Akhakan for middle eastern supplies
Patisserie Bella Vista for Portuguese natas (and especially the choco-natas and pastel de feijão)
Domaine Pinnacle for ice cidre and especially their fortified 1859 product

[KSC02]

Restaurant Pik'S for jerk chicken and oxtail dishes.

[souschef]

I would say Milos for crab cakes, but Milos is the only restaurant in Montreal where I have had crab cakes. Theirs are the best I have had anywhere, though.

[NickMontreal]

Oh god I love crab cakes. Good one..

[TheSnowpea]

Café Myriade for coffee beans!

[souschef]

I'll second chocolate from Le Maitre Chocolatier.