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| - Ahhh, those cute little "Chez" places we always hear others talking about...
Well, Chez Catherine is actually Catherine's place, which she recently opened, to serve some of the best crepes and coffee we had a chance to find during our enjoyable recent stay in Montreal. And we looked around all over and gobbled other crepes down wherever we could (we would often split one so we could then go to another place and split the next one. Yeah, we like to eat!).
What makes Chez Catherine a five star find is a combination of pleasures that start on a strong foundation of one really friggin' good crepe! I mean, my newly wedded wife is a yoga instructor and she commented, without a hint of hyperbole or mistaken metaphor, that these crepes had "breath". And by that she meant a lightness and airy quality that is otherwise hard to describe but damn easy to taste. And taste we did. We came back a couple days later for seconds. They were that good.
The other wonderful aspect is that Montreal in summer is overrun with tourists and that means inflated tourist prices as well as insensitive service, but even though Chez Catherine has a great location down by the water the prices don't gouge you for the premium location. As well, Catherine herself is there to pamper you and also share stories about her business, including that her husband's colleague's parents retired and took up the hobby of hand making maple syrup and packaging small runs, which Catherine points out as she serves to you your maple syrup to pour over your fabulous crepe that has the breath of the good life still within it.
Winner.
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