Definitely a delicious place to have lunch and pastry :)
So glad my mom found this place, and it was so close to our hotel! We arrived a little after 12 and were lucky enough to snag a table for two by the window. Our server was a young man who thankfully was bilingual so we didn't have to use much French. Our waiter served us water right away which I was very thankful for because I was parched from the Montreal heat and humidity. However the water or glass had an strange smell to it which was a bit off-putting but I was so thirsty that I drank my entire glass anyway.
I ordered the beef sandwich and a glass of the passion fruit tea while my mom went with the lobster and crab on choux pastry with a glass of rose lemonade. I enjoyed the sandwich as a whole, especially with the addition of onions, grainy mustard, and cornichons. However there were a few tendons in the most that made biting into the sandwich difficult, and the meat seemed to lack enough seasoning. The side salad was super good though; I really liked the vinaigrette. I also had a taste of the lobster and crab which was light and tasty. My mom said the raspberry sauce on the plate really elevated the seafood flavor which was definitely unexpected!
Passionfruit tea was excellent but it's definitely sweet so be aware. My mom LOVED the rose lemonade; you can really taste the rose water, but for me it was too tart.
As for the pastries, we tried the rose cream on pistachio with raspberries, and the chocolate one with raspberry jam. The chocolate one was extremely rich but definitely tasty. It would be difficult to eat alone though because it's super dense and rich. The rose cream one was much lighter and tasted so perfect with the pistachio tart and raspberries. I wasn't a fan of the white chocolate discs but everything else worked together perfectly.
Just a heads up, the pace here is pretty slow so you have to be assertive if you want the check or need to get your waiter's attention. I asked our server for the check and at least 5 minutes passed with no action on his part. I understood that he had other tables but we ended up having to go to the register in order to close our tab. The lady at the register was super cranky with us that we were trying to pay there, but we would have sat at our table waiting for another 15 minutes if we hadn't gone up there. In the end just be aware of this; and they don't take American Express.