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| - Situated in Old Montréal, Le Cartet offers healthy yet gourmet European style breakfast at moderate pricing.
For coffee, the restaurant uses Illy espresso, a great coffee with its roots in Italy, and my breakfast tea was from Paris, from the brand Kusmi Tea. What I found interesting and thoughtful was that the milk for my tea was frothed!
The restaurant opens at 7am and serves their breakfast until 11am. We arrived at 7:30am, and by 8 o'clock, we were very surprised to see the restaurant fully packed with a line forming at the front waiting for tables! Our advice to you is to arrive before 8am and beat the morning rush. The restaurant offers a great vibe in their loft-like space, and is a great place to bond with your colleagues or friends. If you're looking for a quick coffee, the restaurant has an open coffee bar at the front which operates much like a café to get your caffeine fix. They also have a great selection of pre-packaged foods for a quick lunch midday, ranging from salads, yogurt bowls, pasta, and much more.
I had Le Brunch Sucre. Because of its name, I expected most of my breakfast to be very sweet. To my surprise, most of the foods were sweet, but very balanced. For example, the raspberry jam on my crepe was more acidic than sweet. This is probably because they didn't add as much sugar than your generic jam company does, which provided a much refreshing taste when eaten together with the maple syrup.
The yogurt and their granola also blew me away. The granola was tasted nothing different at the beginning, but as I kept eating it with the yogurt, I found myself tasting the ginger more gradually and realized that I didn't really need the honey to sweeten it. This means a lot, from someone that loves their things, especially yogurt, sweet! The yogurt was great; it seemed very fresh, thick, and dense in consistency. It balanced everything else in the bowl very well. I saw many women ordering the yogurt bowl as part of their breakfasts, and I agree, it's a great way to start your morning!
The butter and maple syrup that the restaurant provided was quite different from the typical store-bought (or mass produced) goods as well. The butter tasted amazing, and was very light and fluffy in texture - not the hard and dense kind you see most of the time. The apple butter on the french toast was my favourite, and had to really hold myself back from buying a jar of it on my way out. It really was a perfect pairing with the french toast, and a great alternative to having your typical syrup and butter on it.
Overall, I really recommend this breakfast to anyone that's looking for a sweet yet healthy option. The restaurant offers breakfast every weekday from 7am-11am, and also offers a weekend brunch both Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 3:30pm.
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