There are quite a few similarities between the New York's and Montreal's Jewish food. It started with similar communities who immigrated from the some places and more or less at the same time. Every town has maintained its variations, but one place in Montreal maintains the unity with the big apple downsouth. Cheskie's bakery is neighborhood institution founded 13 years ago. They sell the tastiest Babka (sweet yeast cake) in town, with incredible balance between doe and chocolate and other Jewish Eastern European pastries in New Yorker style. Few people know that Cheskie is a copy of Cheskie's brother bakery "Shlomie's Heimshe Bakery" in Brooklyn. The locals don't care, this is their famous Montreal bakery where Orthodox jews, hipsters, & French bourgeoisie line up together to buy Kokash (Russian babka), Cheese Crowns (Austrian dessert), and NY style black and white cookies. This is Montreal at its best.