Mont éclair

Mont Éclair is what happens when two accountants ditch the spreadsheets and follow the sugar trail. Opened in 2022 by Yasmine Naili and Meriem Aknak—who met while retraining at Montreal’s Calixa-Lavallée pastry school—the Mont-Royal storefront is a bright spot for éclairs, bonbons, and housemade spreads. Their specialty? Éclairs that rotate with the seasons but always keep a few standbys on deck (think praline, salted caramel, and vanilla). The chocolates are no slouch either—Yasmine once won best bonbon in the province with a pistachio-coriander creation—and the boutique’s line of spreads, from almond-dark chocolate to salted butter caramel, makes for dangerously easy gifts. Everything is made in-house by a duo who’ve clearly traded one kind of precision for another. The vibe is friendly, the confections are sharp, and the place has quickly earned its spot among the city’s best chocolate stops.