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| - Le Falco is one of the latest additions to Mile End's ever-expanding and apparently unstoppable restaurant/café scene. Tucked out of the way in the Garment District, this is definitely something new for Montreal: it's got a designer feel, the menu combines sandwiches with rice balls and other Japanese snacks, and the coffee is prepared strictly in Japanese siphons and served in Japanese ceramic cups. On Saturdays, they offer a Japanese brunch, featuring a rice bowl with braised chicken or tofu, du puy lentils, sprouts, grated carrots, and pickled daikon, plus miso soup, coffee, juice, and a muffin (!). Good deal, and fairly tasty too, but I wish the rice bowl had less of a hippy vibe. Maybe I just wish that it had been prepared by Kazu or David Chang.
M. noted that it felt like we were in Vancouver, or maybe Toronto, and I knew what she meant.
Roast on tap was fair trade organic from Kickapoo Coffee.
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