Montréal’s most instagrammable cafés
Coffee and sweets
If it’s not on your ‘gram, did it really happen? The following Montréal cafés are so photogenic that you’re going to have a hard time deciding which photos to post on your Instagram feed and which to do a story with. Tag us @montreal or at @mtlatable so we can repost you!
Café Constance signé BAZIN
Located in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles, Café Constance signé Bazin serves French-inspired favourites like croque-monsieur, Niçoise salad, and freshly baked viennoiseries in a feminine, cozy décor with Thonet chairs, floral prints and whimsical tutu-like light fixtures. With its warm ambiance and prime location, it’s the perfect downtown stop for a delicious break.
1430 Balmoral Street
Café Redwood
Café Redwood is a bright and modern spot in Pointe-Saint-Charles. It charms with its industrial space that’s warm with light wood tones, communal tables, and a cute summer terrasse. Enjoy specialty coffees, pastries and great sandwiches, as well as weekend brunch.
2604 Saint-Patrick Street
Les 3 Patapoufs
Les 3 Patapoufs, a bakery-café on Ontario Street in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, serves freshly baked pastries, hot coffee, and a tempting selection of quiches, charcuterie, cheeses, and more. Made-to-order sandwiches are a customer favourite, alongside specialties from the founders’ home regions Brittany and Alsace.
3227 Ontario Street East
Olive + Gourmando (Old Montréal)
Olive + Gourmando is an Old Montréal institution that’s been a popular favourite for over 25 years. The bakery-café-restaurant serves marvelous and beautifully plated food in a cozy dining room adorned with warm wood tones, red walls and an incredible vibe. The pastry counter with the bohemian blackboard behind deserve their own post on your feed.
351 Saint-Paul Street West
Bar Darling
Bar Darling is akin to a maximalist fever dream. Rich textures, extravagant light fixtures, a multitude of eclectic objects, warm tones and plush leather couches are all piled up in a dizzying mishmash of colours and textures that make this space unique and welcoming.
4328 Saint-Laurent Boulevard
Café Parvis
Café Parvis is one of the most instagrammed café in Montréal. It’s got a vintage charm with its peeling paint, weathered wood flooring and old-school amber glassware. The hanging plants in the light-filled room complete the look and the excellent food make for a delicious visit.
433 Mayor Street
Crew Collective & Café
Voted as one of the most beautiful cafés in the world, Crew Collective & Café inhabits the historic old premises of the Royal Bank of Canada. Built in the 1930s, the breathtaking space with intricate vaulted ceilings and gold tones has been preserved and makes for a spectacular place to have a cup of coffee and impress your Instagram followers.
360 Saint-Jacques Street
Pastel Rita
Pastel Rita is a Mile End café and wine bar that looks like a set from a Wes Anderson movie. The pink, yellow and green pastel colour palette and symmetrical arches scream fun and beg to be immortalized on your feed: you’ll be more than happy to oblige. Don’t forget to check out the inhouse tattoo parlour.
5761 Saint-Laurent Boulevard
Tommy Café (Old Montréal location)
The original Tommy Café on Notre-Dame Street in Old Montréal is one of the most instagrammed cafés in Montréal, and for good reason. The white space has retained its original Old Montréal windows and stunning mouldings and is decorated with dozens of hanging plants for a dazzling overall effect. One of their other locations is down the street on Saint-Paul Street, and it's a busier space with bold colours, warm woods, and a green plant wall that makes the perfect backdrop.
200 Notre-Dame Street West
Saint-Henri Micro-Torréfacteur (Jean-Talon Market and Mile-Ex)
Saint Henri micro-torréfacteur’s location in the Jean-Talon Market is the cutest spot to grab a coffee. The light-filled space has tiny marble-topped round tables dotting one side of it while their beautifully designed bags of coffee line up on the other side. The Saint-Henri micro-torréfacteur Mile-Ex headquarters is a large, industrial space with cement furniture and pink neon lights that’s perfect for working. It also houses the roasting facilities.
260 Place du Marché-du-Nord and 7335 Mile End Street
The Standard (Westmount location)
Herringbone parquetry, black walls, pristine marble counters and brass accents make Westmount’s The Standard one of the most elegant and luxurious cafés in Montréal. Pose in one of the plush black chairs for a most striking Instagram post.
5135 Sherbrooke Street West
Café Falco
Café Falco is in an industrial space in the Mile End neighbourhood. Cement ceilings and floors and large windows are complemented by a hodgepodge of coffee paraphernalia that lend a science lab ambiance to this Japanese-inspired café. Minimalist prints, hanging bikes and other uncommon objects complete the unique look.
5605 De Gaspé Avenue
Le Petit Dep
The original Old Montréal Le Petit Dep’s façade is, without a doubt, the most instagrammed in Montréal. The bright aqua green exterior attracts the eye and makes for a great photo background. The convenience store/coffee shop’s interior is the perfect place to stock up on candy and Montréal-themed souvenirs. Le Petit Dep has taken its spcific shade of blue-green to other Montréal neighbourhoods.
Bar Caffettiera
A 90’s inspired ambiance and décor and a true Italian “bar” experience will be the background of your photos at Bar Caffettiera. The colourful caffè serves sandwiches, snacks, aperitivo and, of course, Italian-style coffee.
2055 Stanley Street
Café SAT
Located on the ground floor of the Société des arts technologiques (SAT), Café SAT is a minimalist space flanked by floor to ceiling windows. The best background for your Instagram photo is the inside of the SAT façade made up of rows of lights that are continuously changing colours.
6 Place du Marché
SoLit Café
SoLit Café is a welcome oasis in the heart of Montréal’s downtown core. This “orange grove inspired café” has an actual canopy of hanging lights and oranges that provide a gorgeous backdrop to all your photos.
2030 Mansfield Street
Café Holt Ogilvy
A beautiful Parisian-inspired café located inside the Holt Renfrew Ogilvy store, Café Holt’s jewel tones, textured marble walls and plush fabrics make the perfect background for all your Instagram photos. Sink into one of their banquettes and take your shot.
1307 Sainte-Catherine Street West
La Croissanterie Figaro
With its wrought iron chairs, marble-topped tables and tin ceiling, stepping into La Croissanterie Figaro feels like taking a virtual trip to Paris. An institution in Montréal, this Outremont address is even more lovely in the summer when the lush terrasse is open and busy with patrons.
5200 Hutchison Street
Sora 45
A stunning café with an even more breathtaking view, Sora 45 is perched on the 45th floor of Place Ville-Marie in the heart of downtown Montréal. It offers an unobstructed bird’s eye view of the city below and the Mount Royal beyond, the perfect background for your Instagram posts.
1 Place Ville Marie, 45th Floor
Foil Gallery
Foil Gallery, set in a former industrial space in Mile Ex, combines an art gallery with a coffee counter. Sip a specialty coffee, enjoy a pastry, and linger over a drink while taking in the art beneath the original wood rafters. Right outside the door is Parc des Gorilles, a new linear park created to revitalize the area.
6560 Waverly Street
Can’t get enough?
If the cafés listed above are not enough, here are a few more for you to try: Café Ferlucci, Café Sfouf, Café Bloom, Le Butterblume, Café Myriade (Sainte-Catherine Street), Larrys, Les Impertinentes, La Finca, Paquebot Café, Café Pista, Dispatch Coffee (Saint-Laurent Boulevard), La graine brûlée, Paper Hill, Osmo x Marusan, and Café Larue & Fils.
Mayssam Samaha
Mayssam Samaha is a food and travel writer and blogger and the founder behind the blog Will Travel for Food. She travels the world in search of the next culinary discovery. From Iceland to South Africa, she’s already visited over 36 countries and there’s nothing she enjoys more than wandering around a farmers’ market in a foreign city. She is also the founder of the SAISONS intimate dinner series highlighting Québec products and chefs.