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| - Location: Monkland village on the corner of Marcil. You can usually find street parking fairly easily however, if you're using transit, you'll want to get off at Villa Maria and walk straight down Monkland. It'll take you less than 10 minutes to get there unless you walk at a snail's pace.
The place: I guess I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to the decor of pastry shops. I view sweets (pastries, cakes etc.) as little works of edible art and thus, have come to expect my pastries to look damn good - and so should the shop that comes with them. In this case, there's nothing memorable about the shop whatsoever. In fact. from my perspective, I kind of felt like I was walking into the M&M of dessert shops. To be succinct, the place was BLEH.
The pastries: Again, BLEH. In looking at the pastries behind the window, I got the impression that they'd been there for a while or that they'd come out of a freezer and been directly placed on display. I tried a chocolate eclair and just wasn't blown away. Taste-wise, it was too sweet, and from a textural point of view, it was tough to cut through which leads me back to the pastries either being old or frozen.
Service: OK but nothing to write home about.
Price: A little overpriced for what you're getting. You can get way better elsewhere.
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