M Café was a huge hazard to my college studying. Between two libraries, I would run along de Maisonneuve and in the corner of my eye, I'd always catch a spark of color, a layer of cream. One day I looked at the display, and it was all over. Now, all of my trips on Maisonneuve have to include a turn in front of that display, full of layer cakes, big eigth-layered cakes. Mmmm.
I waxed lyrical about it so much that my parents were curious to try it and we went for an actual dinner. They have a regular selection of food, but they do try to keep it original. I was very curious about their salads, so I ordered "la rosace". My mom had the veal and my father treated himself to a generous helping of pasta. My salad arrived, and surprise! Their salads are bit IKEA, in that the ingredients are not mixed together, but lined one next to another. Meh. Separately, the ingredients are fine, but...it's not a salad! The meat and pasta were great and well seasoned, so nothing to report on that front. But now comes the part everyone's looking forward to: DESSERT! That they have, plenty of! And now I finally got to approach the huge cakes face to face.. Except maybe one or two offerings, all the cakes are cheesecakes, but really fancy cheesecakes: creme brulée, lime, lemon, caramel what have you..
Each is delicious. Try them all. right now.
Or, if that's just too much in a sitting, they have plenty of macarons from Point G. They are a bit on the expensive side tough, around 1,50$ per piece, but delicious. I recommend orange-chocolate, passion fruit, and strawberry rhubarb. Not so delicious is the waitress behind the macarons. Don't get me wrong she's lovely to look at, but I remember her quitting serving a gentleman in front of me the moment her friend walked in the terasse. Come on now, I'm spending a fortune in flavoured egg whites over here!