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| - Well this is cool, a new café in the Mile End! While that sentence may come off un peu sarcastique, I'm actually sincere. The Mile End is pretty full of cafés, but cafés with decent espresso are few and far between if you ask me. It seems as though this city didn't wake up to (or possibly remember) making decent espresso until about 2007 (i.e. when Myriade opened up akak 2008) so that amounts to a TON of coffee houses, as Montréal is a very coffeehouse culture-friendly city, with a shocking deficiency of places that manage to serve coffee that is decent. Pour quelque raison it seems as though everybody wants to just chuck an espresso machine in their enterprise (Leonidas, Le Fin du Finyl, etc.)
Anyway, the coffee here is decent and not an arm and a leg like some other nearby coffee houses. They have some nice looking little plates with delicate and artful presentation. The service was nice and quick and the fizzy-water to go along with my cappuccino was a nice touch.
Lastly, it's also apparently a fancy furniture boutique? This reminded me of the unfortunately short-lived Gilgamesh up on Beaubien in that there was all of this rad, comfortable looking furniture around...that you can't sit on. Bummer. In any case, the bar stool was comfy as could be and the furniture looked lovely. Maybe this is meant to be a metaphor for living in Brooklyn? The apartments look pretty and all, but you probably can't justify the cost.
I'll probably be back to try some of the food.
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