Discover the best cafés in Montreal. Browse profiles, photos, and details for each location.
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Showing 24 of 196 places in Montreal
Café 5th Floor sits on avenue Dollard in LaSalle, run by the three women who started it as a micro-bakery out of their f...
Chez MaBelle sits behind a yellow façade on avenue du Parc, marked by a mural from Gavin W. Sewell. The name comes from...
The second storefront from Brossard's café Kuya, Kuya Saint-Henri is a sleek shop on Rue Notre-Dame offering Filipino-in...
A sibling to El Pacífico next door, Aurora Café brings a warm, unhurried energy to rue Ontario Est in Hochelaga. The bru...
Maison Café is a neighbourhood coffee shop in LaSalle built around espresso drinks, matcha, and a short menu of café sta...
The Wellington outpost of this Notre-Dame original runs larger and looser than its older sibling, with high ceilings, ge...
Structure Torréfactures is a coffee roaster first, an Old Montreal café second. Opening in 2017, the roaster’s aim is tw...
Three friends from the restaurant world—Stefano Sperduti, Luca Macera, and Alen Dzinic—took over a long-vacant space on...
A neighbourhood café on avenue Bannantyne in Verdun that draws on surf town culture as its organizing aesthetic. The cof...
Melbourne's specialty coffee culture arrives in Montreal via Fine Fine Fine, a café opened on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in...
Campanelli is a family-run Italian café in Saint-Henri, opened in 2010 by Tony Campanelli and Sophie Hébert, with roots...
On the corner of Sherbrooke and Saint-Laurent, Café Origine occupies the ground floor of Hotel 10 in Ville-Marie, its mu...
Roussette Café is a neighbourhood café from the team behind Théâtre Sainte-Catherine, serving coffee, sandwiches, and ho...
On a quiet corner of Rue Alexandra, just south of Little Italy proper, Noble Café brings the same formula that made the...
Bello Deli sits on Place d'Youville in Old Montreal, a couple of streets south of the Saint-Paul tourist run, doing coun...
Café Saint Louis occupies a sunny corner at Villeneuve and De Bullion, where it has served the neighbourhood since June...
Through Kujira, owners Gabriel Comtois and Maxime Verreault set out to present a coffee shop with high-quality ingredien...
Pampa Social Club posits that Mile End doesn’t need another café, but it does need a living room. This Argentine-inflect...
Zoé Duval and Joshua Monroe-Blanchet built Café BRUT around a simple idea: that Griffintown needed a proper neighbourhoo...
Down a few steps from Sherbrooke Street West, Café Aunja has been drawing regulars to its basement-level Persian tea hou...
Angelini Café occupies the ground floor of the Yorkshire Building on Saint-Jacques, in the stretch of Old Montreal that...
Projet Seoul occupies a large room on rue Bishop, downtown, planted heavily and fitted with a few actual trees to echo t...
On Dante Street in the heart of Little Italy, steps from Dante Park and across from Pizzeria Napoletana, Café Conca d'or...
Founded in 1957 on Saint-Laurent, Café Lino Espresso claims a notable distinction: it was the first business in Canada t...
Showing 24 of 196 places in Montreal
Café 5th Floor sits on avenue Dollard in LaSalle, run by the three women who started it as a micro-bakery out of their f...
Chez MaBelle sits behind a yellow façade on avenue du Parc, marked by a mural from Gavin W. Sewell. The name comes from...
The second storefront from Brossard's café Kuya, Kuya Saint-Henri is a sleek shop on Rue Notre-Dame offering Filipino-in...
A sibling to El Pacífico next door, Aurora Café brings a warm, unhurried energy to rue Ontario Est in Hochelaga. The bru...
Maison Café is a neighbourhood coffee shop in LaSalle built around espresso drinks, matcha, and a short menu of café sta...
The Wellington outpost of this Notre-Dame original runs larger and looser than its older sibling, with high ceilings, ge...
Structure Torréfactures is a coffee roaster first, an Old Montreal café second. Opening in 2017, the roaster’s aim is tw...
Three friends from the restaurant world—Stefano Sperduti, Luca Macera, and Alen Dzinic—took over a long-vacant space on...
A neighbourhood café on avenue Bannantyne in Verdun that draws on surf town culture as its organizing aesthetic. The cof...
Melbourne's specialty coffee culture arrives in Montreal via Fine Fine Fine, a café opened on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in...
Campanelli is a family-run Italian café in Saint-Henri, opened in 2010 by Tony Campanelli and Sophie Hébert, with roots...
On the corner of Sherbrooke and Saint-Laurent, Café Origine occupies the ground floor of Hotel 10 in Ville-Marie, its mu...
Roussette Café is a neighbourhood café from the team behind Théâtre Sainte-Catherine, serving coffee, sandwiches, and ho...
On a quiet corner of Rue Alexandra, just south of Little Italy proper, Noble Café brings the same formula that made the...
Bello Deli sits on Place d'Youville in Old Montreal, a couple of streets south of the Saint-Paul tourist run, doing coun...
Café Saint Louis occupies a sunny corner at Villeneuve and De Bullion, where it has served the neighbourhood since June...
Through Kujira, owners Gabriel Comtois and Maxime Verreault set out to present a coffee shop with high-quality ingredien...
Pampa Social Club posits that Mile End doesn’t need another café, but it does need a living room. This Argentine-inflect...
Zoé Duval and Joshua Monroe-Blanchet built Café BRUT around a simple idea: that Griffintown needed a proper neighbourhoo...
Down a few steps from Sherbrooke Street West, Café Aunja has been drawing regulars to its basement-level Persian tea hou...
Angelini Café occupies the ground floor of the Yorkshire Building on Saint-Jacques, in the stretch of Old Montreal that...
Projet Seoul occupies a large room on rue Bishop, downtown, planted heavily and fitted with a few actual trees to echo t...
On Dante Street in the heart of Little Italy, steps from Dante Park and across from Pizzeria Napoletana, Café Conca d'or...
Founded in 1957 on Saint-Laurent, Café Lino Espresso claims a notable distinction: it was the first business in Canada t...
