On the corner of Fairmount and St-Laurent, Caffé Grazie-Mille has spent years doing what good Italian cafés do best: making people feel like they wandered into someone's kitchen by accident and were told to sit down. Owner Nat runs the room with the kind of easy warmth that turns a quick espresso stop into a twenty-minute conversation about carbonara technique. The cannoli—filled to order, Sicilian-style—are the headline, available in ricotta, pistachio, and limoncello, but the menu stretches into sandwiches, soups, and housemade pastries that change with the season. The coffee is strong and taken seriously.