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| - A wonderful shop which specializes in hard-to-find products, European specialties, cheeses, cold-cuts, cured meats, sauces, coffees, teas and biscuits at very reasonable prices.
If you're craving proper British teas like "Taylors of Harrogate", German chocolates like "Ritter Sport"or "Milka" along with stand-by marinade sauces from Stonewall Kitchen, then show up here. I'm always on the lookout for products I grew to love while living overseas but I find many of the specialty-food shops which specialize in European foodstuffs charge an ungodly amount when I thought the whole point to free-trade and liberalization laws was supposed to make this stuff cheaper, right? I guess not but I digress...
After comparing with other shops, La Vieille Europe has the best prices going. True, some of the items still remain insanely expensive but how many times are you going to go out of your way to buy marinated black truffles? On the other hand some of the German mustards which go beautifully with the fresh sausages on sale won't break the bank anytime soon.
Overall, a wonderful spot to pick up or try out new food items...and minus the tourists of Atwater and Jean Talon markets.
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