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| - Once or twice every year I will find myself in Pointe-Claire and will generally stop off at this mall. Most of the times when I drop by here, I will go to the Best Buy but will wonder around to the Pharmaprix or the Apple Store. The negative thing about the Best Buy store is that it isn't connected to the mall so if you're in the mall and you want to go to Best Buy, you actually have to go outside which isn't a big deal except if it is raining, snowing, or cold.
During a recent trip on a Friday afternoon, I was at Fairview Pointe-Claire since my friend and I felt like having some smoke meat and we were in the area and he told me that there was this good smoke meat place there. Unfortunately when we got there, we couldn't find it. When we asked at the information booth, we found out that it had closed down (Fairview Deli). Since I was taking my friend out for his birthday, we wanted to eat at a sit-in restaurant with servers. I asked him where he wanted to go since Fairview Deli was closed. He suggested the Keg Steakhouse and asked if I had a problem with it. I mentioned that I didn't. The lady in the information booth heard us and mentioned to us that the Keg Steakhouse only opens after 5pm. She mentioned the food court. Since I was taking my friend out for his birthday, I didn't really want to treat him to a meal at the food court. I wouldn't have any issues eating a quick lunch there but it just wasn't what we were looking for. We decided to leave Fairview Pointe-Claire since even though I had the day off, my friend was on his lunch break from work and the time that he needed to be back at work would soon be approaching.
My thoughts of Fairview Pointe-Claire is that it is a very nice mall and very clean. The ATMs/GABs that I saw while strolling around were TD Canada Trust's Green Machines. I did notice 2 bank branches for Scotia Bank and Bank of Montreal there. The food court has a few of the typical places that you find in big Montreal shopping malls that I go to (Thai Express, A&W, & Kojax) and some others that I will occasionally try. Like most of the other malls on the island of Montreal, the food court in this mall has free WiFi. During lunch, your only option if deciding to eat inside the mall is to eat at the food court since their only sit-in (server) restaurant doesn't open during lunchtime. :-(
Parking at this mall is somewhat difficult if you want to be close to the Pharmaprix and Best Buy side of the mall. There is a lot of parking in the mall but this is generally around the area of the La Baie department store which I find somewhat inconvenient for the entrance that I use to get into the mall.
This mall has been on the news a few times because of robberies which occurred at Birks. However, this is a very safe mall and I've never felt unsafe in this mall and as mentioned I find this mall to be very nice and clean (& safe).
The mall also has an STM bus terminal where multiple buses will stop so it makes going to this mall by public transportation very easy. When using public transportation to get to this mall, I will generally take one of the buses that start off at the Cote Vertu metro and wind up at
Fairview Pointe-Claire as either one of their stops or as their final stop. As I mentioned, there are quite a few buses that stop at the Fairview Pointe-Claire shopping center.
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