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| - Falco is a Mile End institution, tucked away on a cavernous stretch of de Gaspé encircled by megastructures and the Champs des Possibles free-growth urban park. Montreal's railway geography means that you are extremely unlikely to come upon this pocket neighbourhood unless you mean to, and in general, you need to be quite deliberate to enjoy Falco's charms. If you want lunch, you'd better mean it: there is only enough food made to feed those who come on time, and you'll be out of luck if you want to eat much later than 2 in the afternoon. If you want to work, get your data usage done outside of the lunch hour because they shut off the wifi. If you want to come at all, be persistent: Falco is open less than your average bank, and never on weekends.
Your patience will be rewarded with hard-to-find Japanese lunch treats and very good but not excellent coffee. The various bowls are great options, and I can't name another place in the city that has their variety of fresh onigiri (rice triangles stuffed with meat or veggies in a seaweed tab). Tasty chicken salad sandwiches. I like their syphon coffee for its novelty, but I can't rank it among the city's best third-wave brews and I have to admit that it is expensive. But that's an acceptable compromise to spend some time in this soothing, creative, beautiful space that makes you pat yourself on the back for living in Montreal.
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