Montreal food Walk

Montreal: food Walk
I made up an itinerary for a Mont Royal food walk using the mapping system, communitywalk.com. You enter addresses in a city and it creates a map of those addresses. We started with a candy/macaroon store called Marius and Fanny on St. Denis and ordered 6 macaroons (raspberry, choco, pistachio, hazelnut, lemon and chocolate mint). We tried the pistachio (good but it has coconut in it which I don’t like—none of the one’s in France had coconut in them except the coconut). Asha loved it. The chocolate was great, so moist and fully flavored and the hazelnut one was okay. It didn’t have a lot of flavor though. I like the texture, moist and chewy at the same time.
Then it was on to Petits Gateaux Boutique cupcakes on Mont Royal (everything is on Mont royal unless I say otherwise). We tried three cupcakes: raspberry with real raspberries in a white cake, carrot with a nice light cream cheese frosting and vanilla which was more like a sponge cake thing than vanilla cake. All three were good though, fresh and flavorful. Better than Banff.
We figured we needed something remotely healthy before more treats so we stopped at Café Art Java where we had minestrone, a tandoori chicken wrap with salad, coffee and earl gray tea. The tea was great, served in a little pot and very flavorful (in general teas in canada are very flavorable and intense). The wrap was not very flavorable but Asha liked her soup. Vive thought the cap was not very good, it was weak but creamy like a latte. It was pretty.
Then we checked out a couple of markets: Folie en vrag, La Maison du roti. We didn’t buy anything but it was fun to look. Then we got a bagel with cream cheese at St-viateur bagels. They were making them while we were there and the bagels were not of uniform shape but all kinds of circles. We had an everything bagel with garlic and herb cream cheese. I don’t know much about bagels but we liked it: it was flavorful, chewy and not super dense.
Finally, we stopped at a cheese shop, Fromagerie hamel and ordered quebec cheeses: Riopelle lai , Pic Boule Chevre ( fresh goat cheese with chives), 1608 le de Charlevoix. One was a triple cream brie (luscious, almost melt in your mouth), the other a bit more firm but still tasty like a softer parm.
On our walk back, we stopped at a bread store called Le Fromentier, it’s located on Avenue Laurier in a basement underneath a gigantic movie store. We ordered an olive fougasse here that was excellent. I’m eating it right now and its chewy and full of olives, kind of pretzel like. The last stop was a local chocolate shop called mademoiselle Gabrielle where we ordered three chocolates with earl gray tea, chai tea and fleur de sel, but I haven’t tried those yet!