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    Coco Disco Club wants to be your neighbourhood everything spot

    The Duluth restaurant aims to fill the third place gap with everything from morning coffees and dinners to late-night cocktails.

    By J.P. KarwackiAugust 20, 2025 - Read time: 5 min
    Coco Disco Club wants to be your neighbourhood everything spot"It's a place where people meet," Fortin says. "Whatever in the day, whatever you want to do, it's a place to be." | Photography by Alvin Sauerberg / @alvinsxx & Melissa St-Arnaud / @meli.sato

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    Every time they'd walk past an empty storefront, Loïc Fortin and Manu Jonik would nudge each other and joke: "Let's open Coco Disco Club there."

    "It's the one name we called everything," Fortin says, laughing about how their inside joke has since evolved into a 30-seat restaurant with a 30-seat terrasse on Duluth—the Plateau's newest social experiment serving deep-fried lasagna alongside clarified butter coffee.

    "There's no position. We're all chefs. We all create the dishes together," says Fortin.

    Bringing everything to the table

    What started as a café concept quickly spiralled into something much bigger when Fortin—known in Montreal's cocktail scene as Loyd Von Rose from his Tittle Tattle and La Gargamelle projects—assembled a Montreal restaurant all-star roster.

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