Discover the best cafés in Montreal. Browse profiles, photos, and details for each location.
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Showing 24 of 195 places in Montreal
Cha Noir has been a fixture in Verdun since 2003. What began as a modest tea house grew steadily under the stewardship o...
Le Parloir opened in 2010 as the realization of owner Sylvie Marchand’s long-held idea of what a tea room should feel li...
La Brume Dans Mes Lunettes has been doing its own thing on Saint-Zotique since 2015, building a loyal following around t...
Just off Beaubien, Horizon Matcha Café adds a calm counterpoint to the usual café circuit. The focus here is Japanese te...
What started as a wholesale bakery supplying cafés across the city is now a quiet lunch stop on the banks of the Lachine...
Café Cin Cin is the Montreal outpost of Rocanini, a Vancouver-based roaster known for its methodical approach to coffee....
Les Joyeux Naufragés is the second café project from Manu André, also behind Le Loup Bleu on the Plateau. Opened at the...
Palmieri is a café shaped by Italian coffee culture without trying to recreate it wholesale. The project takes familiar...
Fluffy’s is a café–bakery built around a simple premise: good coffee works best when it’s tied to community. The project...
This bright outpost of one of Montreal’s pioneering micro-roasters, Café Saint-Henri, is perfectly at home among Marché...
Le Moineau Masqué is a charming third-wave neighborhood café tucked away on a quiet street in the Plateau. Open since 20...
In Villeray, Café littéraire Chez l’Éditeur provides a cultural space where books and coffee go hand in hand: A place to...
Wedged just across from Laurier metro, Café Noble is small, fast, and serious about its coffee. Opened in 2015 by engine...
In a quiet corner of Old Montreal, Dispensa has been serving Italian coffee, sandwiches, and pantry staples since 2014....
L’Épicerie & Café Ste-Madeleine is part neighbourhood grocer, part café, and entirely a reflection of what makes a local...
Café Santropol has been a Plateau landmark since 1976, when it opened to save its building from demolition. Over the dec...
At Espace Kine, the coffee bar isn’t an afterthought—it’s part of the routine. This new hybrid space on Saint-Denis comb...
Launched by longtime friends Daniel Safi and Khaled Abdelfattah, this Montreal spot embraces a quirky, offbeat vibe wher...
Kaizen Manga Café is a two-storey experience just steps from Concordia’s downtown campus. Upstairs, the K-mart serves a...
Matcha Zanmai brings a slice of Japanese tea culture to the corner of Mackay and Sainte-Catherine, offering a focused me...
There’s no February 30, and that’s kind of the point. Le 30 Février, from the Café Tordu team, brings a surreal edge to...
Victor Rose Espresso Bar is the kind of place that makes a neighbourhood feel like home. Run by a mother-daughter duo, t...
Café Éclair doubles as a café and a tightly curated micro-bookshop in the Mile End. The space is designed to collapse di...
Bar Edicola reclaims a former downtown newsstand and turns it into a café-bar with serious range. The team—behind Caffet...
Showing 24 of 195 places in Montreal
Cha Noir has been a fixture in Verdun since 2003. What began as a modest tea house grew steadily under the stewardship o...
Le Parloir opened in 2010 as the realization of owner Sylvie Marchand’s long-held idea of what a tea room should feel li...
La Brume Dans Mes Lunettes has been doing its own thing on Saint-Zotique since 2015, building a loyal following around t...
Just off Beaubien, Horizon Matcha Café adds a calm counterpoint to the usual café circuit. The focus here is Japanese te...
What started as a wholesale bakery supplying cafés across the city is now a quiet lunch stop on the banks of the Lachine...
Café Cin Cin is the Montreal outpost of Rocanini, a Vancouver-based roaster known for its methodical approach to coffee....
Les Joyeux Naufragés is the second café project from Manu André, also behind Le Loup Bleu on the Plateau. Opened at the...
Palmieri is a café shaped by Italian coffee culture without trying to recreate it wholesale. The project takes familiar...
Fluffy’s is a café–bakery built around a simple premise: good coffee works best when it’s tied to community. The project...
This bright outpost of one of Montreal’s pioneering micro-roasters, Café Saint-Henri, is perfectly at home among Marché...
Le Moineau Masqué is a charming third-wave neighborhood café tucked away on a quiet street in the Plateau. Open since 20...
In Villeray, Café littéraire Chez l’Éditeur provides a cultural space where books and coffee go hand in hand: A place to...
Wedged just across from Laurier metro, Café Noble is small, fast, and serious about its coffee. Opened in 2015 by engine...
In a quiet corner of Old Montreal, Dispensa has been serving Italian coffee, sandwiches, and pantry staples since 2014....
L’Épicerie & Café Ste-Madeleine is part neighbourhood grocer, part café, and entirely a reflection of what makes a local...
Café Santropol has been a Plateau landmark since 1976, when it opened to save its building from demolition. Over the dec...
At Espace Kine, the coffee bar isn’t an afterthought—it’s part of the routine. This new hybrid space on Saint-Denis comb...
Launched by longtime friends Daniel Safi and Khaled Abdelfattah, this Montreal spot embraces a quirky, offbeat vibe wher...
Kaizen Manga Café is a two-storey experience just steps from Concordia’s downtown campus. Upstairs, the K-mart serves a...
Matcha Zanmai brings a slice of Japanese tea culture to the corner of Mackay and Sainte-Catherine, offering a focused me...
There’s no February 30, and that’s kind of the point. Le 30 Février, from the Café Tordu team, brings a surreal edge to...
Victor Rose Espresso Bar is the kind of place that makes a neighbourhood feel like home. Run by a mother-daughter duo, t...
Café Éclair doubles as a café and a tightly curated micro-bookshop in the Mile End. The space is designed to collapse di...
Bar Edicola reclaims a former downtown newsstand and turns it into a café-bar with serious range. The team—behind Caffet...
