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| - Ended up here for lunch after seeing the massive line outside Schwartz's. This is a nice spot for a healthy lunch. There is a good selection of hot and cold soups and a few sandwiches. The menu is not big and changes frequently (during the hour or so we were there, 2 soups sold out and new ones were put up on the blackboard). Everything is super-fresh. The space is casual and inviting with a few small outdoor tables.
I like that soups are available in small, medium, and large (large would be good enough for a meal on its own) and sandwiches are available as half or whole. I had a small cream of cauliflower and zucchini soup with a portobello and goat cheese sandwich on baguette. Delicious, simple, and flavourful. DC's also liked their orders -- a beet soup with sour cream, a chilled tomato soup, shrimp sandwich on a hotdog bun... We shared the pudding chomeur (after reading Ben L.'s recommendation). It's sweet and buttery and delicious -- great for sharing too. I wish we had room to sample the other desserts on offer, like the berry crumble, homemade cookies, or panna cotta -- all reasonably priced under $5.
Service was friendly. They had to ask us again for our order because they mixed up who had which soup with which sandwich, but they were very polite and efficient about it. I also like that unlike most places in Montreal they don't immediately switch to English if you are Anglophone (they'll switch if you switch, but if you want to speak French, albeit with an accent, they will let you).
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