Anis Ghozzi opened Kahwa Café on Mont-Royal Est in 2010 as a neighbourhood refuge for students and artists, but the pandemic changed that plan. With government grants and a happy accident involving an underpowered oven, he pivoted to sandwiches, developing a turmeric-and-black-cumin bread that gets baked to order in two minutes flat. The menu built around it is tight and North African-leaning: kebab with Quebec lamb and mint yogurt, merguez maison, Tunisian tuna with fried egg, falafel with tahini. The house Kahwa sauce, harissa and mayo, threads through most of them. Coffee is still on the menu, espresso to mochaccino, but the bread is the reason people come back.