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| - Food: 3/5
Service: 3.5/5
Atmosphere: 4/5
Cleanliness: 3.5/5
Price: $
Montreal has one of the best cafe scenes in North America in my humble opinion. The island city (yes, Montreal is an island - bet you didn't know that!) always has new cafes sprouting up, and when Tommy Cafe first opened a few years back, it definitely became one of my favourite spots in Old Montreal.
Hubby and I visited the cafe during date night before heading over for dinner at Bonaparte a few blocks down. You can read my review on their tasting menu here. Anyway, Tommy Cafe is in a historical building, so it has many features of the old classical architecture left which gives it a lot of character.
What took my heart away was the ceiling.
Definitely one of the hottest instagram-worthy spots in the cafe! With classical architecture, hip interior decor, and fresh plants hanging off the ceiling, there wasn't anything that I didn't like about the cafe!
Onto the important stuff: the caffeinated drinks and food.
The coffee was okay- to be honest, nothing too extraordinarily good or special that left hubby or me wanting to come back for more. The cafe itself was very nice and its vibes drew us to the cafe more so than the coffee. Though we didn't have food at Tommy Cafe that day, I went back by myself on another occasion to get some work done and I ordered a sandwich to try with my coffee. I had lunch here that day.
First, I found the sandwich to be a little oily but that was okay-I didn't mind too much. Again, the food wasn't anything fancy or special... it was a pretty plain sandwich that met my hunger needs. I definitely recommend the coffee more than the food at Tommy Cafe.
Though Tommy Cafe has a killer vibe, being in a historic building and all, the actual coffee and food can use some improvement. Tommy Cafe is a nice cafe to stop by to get some work done, to grab a bite to eat, or for catching up with a friend. It's definitely a great place to stop by if you're touring Old Montreal, but it isn't the best place to come for the 'best' coffee in the city, so if you're a coffee drinker that takes coffee pretty seriously, this place will probably wouldn't please you the most in that department. I'd still come to get my daily fix of caffeine and take a nice Instagram picture though.
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