I've never had coffee this good in Montréal.
To be fair, I am a snob when it comes to coffee. I worked in a fancy little coffee shop during my undergrad and that's when I started my love affair with this painfully non-local product. The coffee was only drip or espresso from an Italian machine from the 1970s and our water was triple-filtered using reverse osmosis. Science.
Given that background, after living in two coffee snob cities (Santa Cruz and San Francisco), I was quickly let down by Montréal's coffee options. Sure, places like Myriade and Olympico can jam out a nice allonge or cappuccino, but for drip coffee there isn't really much happening in this otherwise glutton's wonderland.
Enter Café Falco; a lovely open space tucked next to buildings that house the studios of hundreds of Montréal's finest artists and creators. I went simple: a croissant and a coffee (Siphon aka Vaccuum) is amazing. I need to get one of these siphon coffee filters lest I spend all of my money here. The coffee was rich, delicious, and everything a classic drip coffee should be.
Apparently they have delicious food, too. I'll be back soon.