There’s a Van Houtte, a sort of upscale coffee shop chain, on just about every corner in Montreal, though the quality tends to vary a little bit. If sitting down, you get clunky coffee mugs and the decor is slightly more cafe/hotel cafe than Starbucks’s forced diggs.
At this branch, I was once served hot chocolate loaded with foam and chocolate shavings on top, but in subsequent visits there was only half-hearted foam. Has a small selection of chilled sandwiches. Generic date squares available at cafes throughout the city. This was also has a large tv usually tuned into francophone news. Probably my current top recommendation for coffee shop in the area, since the Starbucks is sometimes francophone-only (with equally variable quality), and Claude Postel is too dark.
165 Rue St. Paul O. at Place Royale
metro: Place d’Armes
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