On my tour de cafés in Montreal my husband recommended this spot. It's a cute little coffee shop which was just a couple of blocks from our hotel. He had been there the day before while I was fulfilling my bridesmaid duties.
The inside is a bare bones coffee shop channeling its inner library with coffee by the pound stacked on the shelves from wall to wall. This place was cute enough, but doesn't offer wifi probably to keep people from tapping away at their keyboards for hours. Not that you would want to in the summer because it gets hot in there! (Probably another way to get their census down). My husband had given me a heads up about how hot it was inside and luckily I was just getting coffee to go. When another patron asked to open the door for ventilation they said the AC was already going... Yikes! Hopefully the baristas keep hydrated to prevent heat stroke! They do offer a nice little patio which might be cooler.
I ordered a cortado with skim milk (I know, but with my coffee intake being off the charts, something's gotta give). Skim ended up being 1%, not sure if fat free exists in Canada, or maybe they're just more honest! The cortado was excellent.
They have a small but respectable selection of pastries to pair with your coffee. Based on the coffee and food this is an excellent choice, however, the lack of wifi and poor ventilation bring this spot down.