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Kate
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Kate
A special Covid clinic for the unvaccinated has opened in the Village and is being looked at critically by the Collège des médecins du Québec.
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Kate
Two years ago, the Quebec government talked about spending millions to enlarge a number of CEGEPs including Dawson College, but now it has yoinked back the offer to Dawson and is keeping the cash to create more spaces in French-language CEGEPs instead.
Given Bill 96, the CAQ government’s tightening of the Charter of the French Language, which is expected to include limits on access to English-language colleges, it’s only logical to cut off any new support for Dawson. It won’t need the room, will it?
Spi
These types of projects usually take the better part of a decade to plan, and to my knowledge it’s not like there’s an other at a francophone cegep that can use the funding. The new building was meant to house most of the health care programs, and I presume increase the numbers of nurses/technicians that can be trained, I guess having more of those isn’t that big of a priority if they’ll be providing services to the English population/sector.
Health care and education such a priority that the CAQ still doesn’t mind playing political games.
Uatu
This and the backtracking on the COVID stuff just shows that there’s an election coming up and Legault will do anything to suck up to his base. I’d like them to demand he eat shit live on camera and watch him follow through to get them votes….
Joey
This reminds me of the Ajustement McGill, which occurred around 2000 following an update to the province’s formula for funding universities. The TLDR is that universities receive both fixed and variable per-student amounts of funding, such that every enrolled student generates a basic level of funding and an additional level of funding that reflects the fact that teaching science is more expensive than teaching arts (the ministry studies enrolment reports to determine how to allocate funding, examining enrolment data at the credit-level, so the allocations are extremely precise and reflect classes students enrol in, not their programs or majors).
Periodically the government, working with the universities, reviews the formula to ensure it aligns with actual relative cost discrepancies. They use this formula to divide up the university funding pie, so any change will create winners and losers if the pie isn’t increased to compensate those who’ve lost out.
When they did this in 2000, the new funding formula was going to provide a relative benefit to McGill, given its focus on relatively expensive subjects. What could the government do? Abandon the new formula or admit that it had identified McGill, numebr one symbol of Anglo oppression, as deserving of a larger share of government funding? Simple: they created the “Ajustement McGill,” which clawed back $10M annually from McGill to allocate to the province’s other universities.
In addition, the other universities used to get (might still do, I’m not sure) millions each year in additional funding for “missions particulières,” basically for being special in ways that McGill isn’t. Actually, sometimes they got extra money for being special in ways that McGill most definitely is. UdeM, for instnace, was allocated $4.5M in 2010 “pour accélérer son développement et lui permettre de conserver sa position parmi les grandes universités en Amérique du Nord.” That same year Laval got $4.1M for being (a) a large university in a city (same as McGill) and (b) for running faculties of dentistry and music (same as McGill).
The Minister of Education at the time: Francois Legault. This time around, he’s arguing that Dawson, which everyone agreed up until last week needed these funds to expand capacity to meet its *current* student population, will swipe these funds to enrol *more* students, even though the Legault government has *already* capped its enrolment.
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Kate
Le Devoir’s Jeanne Corriveau looks at ideas for creating urban densification in a way that makes people actually want to live in town. It’s a summary of an online panel held last week, and she does her best, but the ideas are on the feeble side despite coming from respected experts.
Yes, we need to preserve Mount Royal so downtown dwellers have access to green space, OK, but that’s nothing new. McGill’s expert says “We can have multiple urban forms. You can have a big tower surrounded by lots of parking lots. You can have a series of three- or four-storey buildings with small parks, or townhouses or Plateau-type duplexes.” He also suggests adding a floor to all the existing buildings, while another expert proposes “new living environments, which include public transit, green spaces, shops, a social mix.”
None of this addresses adding density in the older part of town. There’s a recent piece on BBC about tiny houses, to which someone on Facebook responded that we should start by reclaiming all the empty houses that are unoccupied. I’ve written about this before as it applies in Montreal, and there it is: densify by passing laws making it financially cumbersome to hold residential space unoccupied, unless there’s a renovation permit (with a time limit) in effect. But it doesn’t sound like those experts are even aware of this problem.
Edited to add: Jacques Nacouzi on Twitter shows some Google aerial shots of extensive parking lots around town that could be built up densificationally.
Em
I’ve always thought it’s a shame that there appears to have been amost no innovation in recent years to create dense living environments that still give people the sense of privacy they crave.
Habitat 67 was a good example: a dense environment that still gave every owner a good amount of private space (each unit has a big balcony/garden, and none are directly attached or facing their neighbour’s). I understand the criticisms of the project (it became very expensive, and some elements are impractical for maintenance/updates), but I’m sure those concerns could have been solved in the last 55 years if anyone had any vision.
I’m also curious that this article seems to suggest building higher towers as an alternative to urban sprawl. We need to densify the suburbs/exurbs far more than downtown. That means finding something in between sprawling single family home developments and big towers. I’m a big fan of townhouses/plexes, which are pretty dense and still offer that private home feeling and a bit of garden. But no developer wants to build them for less than a million dollars each these days.
DeWolf
Montreal is already miles ahead of other North American cities in allowing for gentle density. There is a lot of talk of the “missing middle” in urban planning circles, and it’s a big problem in Toronto and Vancouver where giant condo towers are the default mode of development. Montreal is pretty much all missing middle, thanks to its plexes, and for every condo tower going up downtown there are dozens of modern triplexes and small three-storey apartment/condo buildings that have been built or are being built around the city.
Adding floors to existing buildings is an excellent way of adding density without being too disruptive. Over the past several weeks, I’ve noticed several single-storey buildings that have recently had extra storeys built on top: the old bank at Jean-Talon/Clark, a row of shops on St-Hubert near de Castelnau, and the Intermarché on Mont-Royal near Papineau. The city should have programs that support homeowners who want to add an extra storey to their duplex or shoebox house – especially if that extra floor will be used to create a new apartment that can be rented out. Montreal should also legalize laneway houses. Many neighbourhoods like Rosemont and Hochelaga have surprisingly deep lots that could easily accommodate an extra row of houses along the alleyways.
It also makes no sense that there are many metro stations surrounded by detached single-family houses. Sauvé, Jolicoeur and Honoré-Beaugrand spring to mind. I’m not sure what the zoning is like in these areas, but it seems clear that property owners should be encouraged to replace bungalows with triplexes.
Then there’s all the space used up by parking. There are hundreds of strip malls and shopping centres in the inner suburbs that could be easily redeveloped into apartment buildings. It’s already happening (eg the Wilderton Centre redevelopment in CDN) but the trend needs to be sped up with proactive rezoning by the city. The whole stretch of Jean-Talon from Langelier to the Galéries d’Anjou could be home to tens of thousands of people if the parking lots were redeveloped.
Kevin
I have no problem with towers IF they include amenities for the residents. Courtyards. BBQs and park benches. Splash pads. Penthouse atriums.
And, of course, family-sized units.
Essentially, make sure the building can act like a community centre as well as a home.ant6n
Attempting to fight urban sprawl with skyscrapers strikes me as .. uh, pretty stupid. People want walkable neighborhoods. Some people want apartments, others want something resembling their own uses with back yards — this is what the Plateau gives you, at pretty high density. Adding floors to that mix doesn’t help in any way. Getting more residential floor area is not useful if people don’t want to live there.
…What Montreal really needs more of is polycentricity, not monocentricity. You get a bunch of pockets of relative high density sprinkled throughout the metro area, where there’s more commercial acticity, then a ring of higher density apartment type buildings, then falling off into medium (but still not low) density town houses (which already exist in so many places in the city). Basically retrofit a couple high density areas throughout the city. This can work especially well if it’s built together with high capacity, fast transit system – wherever stations are, density can easily form. When places are connected quickly, policentricity can emerge.
This, btw, is where the REM was a wasted opportunity. The REM’s stations are built on highways, where pockets of density won’t grow. An approach focusing more on turning the city’s underutilized freight railways into transit would’ve probably worked much better – since there are often big former industrial spaces and few cars.
Joey
@DeWolf “The city should have programs that support homeowners who want to add an extra storey to their duplex or shoebox house – especially if that extra floor will be used to create a new apartment that can be rented out.”
Adding an extra storey should be supported *only* if it creates a new dwelling – not to let the wealthy build rooftop mezzanines for themselves.
Kate
I was thinking about those mezzanines, Joey. I’ve seen a few go up on older buildings in town but they always look like extra room for the building’s owner rather than a new distinct dwelling. They seem most likely to appear when someone’s actually removed a dwelling by turning a duplex into a single house.
Apropos the bit about “new living environments, which include public transit, green spaces, shops, a social mix” – do we even know how to do that any more? How does Wellington Street in Griffintown compare to Mont-Royal between the Main and Papineau, or Masson in Vieux-Rosemont, or indeed Wellington itself in Verdun?
DeWolf
Griffintown is a mess but the city is making big strides to improve it. All the streets are being redone, there are several new parks and plazas planned, and it actually has decent diversity in terms of housing stock. There are several co-ops and student residences in addition to all the market rate housing. There is a mix of commercial and residential all throughout the area. In 10 years it will actually be a pretty interesting and diverse neighbourhood.
The Faubourg Québec just east of Old Montreal is more in line with what you’re talking about. It’s horrible. But it also referents another era of urban planning. Most new areas being planned today have a better mix of uses and housing types.
I would point to Prével’s Esplanade Cartier development as an entirely new neighbourhood that has the potential to be very diverse and eclectic. Its 21e Arrondissement development just west of Old Montreal is pretty nice, with a public plaza ringed by shops and cafés, and Cartier is even larger in scale with more of a social component (eg a new home for the YWCA).
Joey
@DeWolf the Esplanade Cartier project looks interesting – clearly the promoter is interested in neighbourhood-level development. Unfortunately it seems all the units are tiny – can’t imagine you’d have anything other than single people and transient couples living there (unless I’m missing some aspect of the project).
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Kate
There was a mini protest in Montreal on Sunday in support of the Ottawa protest. Some drivers just wanted to get together and honk a lot, I think.
François Legault has spoken of his desire to tendre la main to these protesters. He spoke of the importance of trucking, while he must know that the majority of truck drivers simply want to get on with doing their jobs. But Legault also knows that the populist end of his voting base is in tune with some of the ideas being expressed in Ottawa.
Our politicians need to understand the anti-vaxxers, the anti-science people, even the Trump supporters and Nazis that have turned out in Ottawa. It would be foolish to ignore the groundswell of bad ideas coming from social media and percolating up from the United States. But understanding it, finding ways to counter it when necessary, is a far cry from holding out a hand to them.
Joey
Legault can talk about “tendre la main” as much as he pleases – between Quebec’s various pandemic restrictions and the looming unvaxxed tax, he’s doing considerably more than Justin Trudeau to ‘restrict their freedom’. Perhaps he’s just better at being a politician than JT….
Ephraim
Let’s see, there were Confederate flags, Gadsden flags, Nazi flags, Trump flags, desecrated flags, upside-down flags, and hate Trudeau flags. There were members of the National Socialist Black Metal. And desecration of the Terry Fox statue as well as both war memorials in Ottawa. Not to mention that they were anonymously donating to the cause… it all smacks of the HATE movements. And if you don’t quickly move to exclude those flags and support of hate… you are accepting it. I have absolutely NO SYMPATHY for this group, because they didn’t act to exclude HATE.
What do they say in Germany? If you have a Nazi at the table and no one says a word, you have a table of Nazis.
Kate
Ephraim, as Christopher Curtis tweeted yesterday, If people show up to your rally with swastikas and an actual Nazi flag and they aren’t immediately shouted down/kicked out, it’s their rally.
Meezly
I sincerely wish if it were that simple. The far right has become so adept at disinformation, they’d frame it as the feds planting fake Nazis and extremists to sow doubt.
I was surprised to learn that parents I know who live here traveled with their kids to the Ottawa rally. They’re educated professionals and their photos showed a family-friendly event with Canada/PQ flags being waved.
I wonder if the cognitive dissonance is also so strong that if they saw Nazis supporting the same cause they believe in, they’d still find a reason to explain away why they’re in the same company as them.
Ephraim
@Kate – Exactly. That’s why the donations were made anonymously. That’s why they didn’t act to curtail their actions. And the CPC supported it all…. they are also complicit.
js
On Reddit someone in Ottawa counted the trucks in the convoy. It was only about 150. This thing is just more fleecing of the rubes.
denpanosekai
I saw entirely too many “Freedom” pickup trucks in Lasalle over the weekend.
Blork
I wish we could get a data set a few months down the road that would reliably track how many infections were a direct and indirect result of this shitshow.
More important: how many hospitalizations, how many deaths, how many tangential deaths due to overwhelmed hospitals and suspended surgeries, how many front-line worker burnouts, etc.
I doubt we’ll ever see that, but it would make for a revealing documentary in a year or two.
Phil from Frelighsberg
Great to see people fighting against repression. Glad to see people speaking up against the tyranny in Quebec and Canada. One step at a time to get the politicians listening to the message that we want our freedom back.
Tee Owe
‘Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose’ – it’s all yours Phil
MarcG
Phil: Can we assume that you’re willfully refusing to be vaccinated and the freedoms you’ve lost involve the passport requirement?
MarcG
The freedoms that I’ve lost in the past 2 years are lost because there’s a virus circulating, not because of the government.
Blork
Further to MarcG’s point, the freedoms I’ve lost have been due to a deadly pandemic, and they CONTINUE to be lost because too many people refuse to chip in and assume their fair share of masking, isolation, and vaccine in order to remove the source of the loss of freedom (the virus).
walkerp
Somebody plop the pacifier back in Phil’smouth.
Kevin
Phil which is not your real name,
Like I said before, you know grifters better than anyone else. Why are you supporting this group of conmen?
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Kate
TVA says we’ve had the coldest January in 18 years in Montreal.
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Kate
CTV outlines the changes in pandemic measures coming on Monday.
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Kate
The Centre des mémoires montréalaises has an interesting bit Sunday about a 19th‑century restaurant owner who wasn’t Joe Beef. Philip “Dolly” Isaacson had a resto on St‑François‑Xavier in the days when the Canadian parliament was on Place d’Youville. Isaacson was also invited to open a buvette in the parliament building, but so much drinking went on there that he lost the contract.
CBC looks briefly into a historical heist of 1980, in which a set of rare misprinted stamps was made off with. They’ve never turned up.
Radio-Canada has a piece on Chinatown, and how it’s had to defend itself for 120 years. In the 1950s, 5000 people from China are said to have lived in the area, by the mid‑1980s it was down to 500, and now I would be surprised if more than a few dozen Chinese folks lived nearby.
DeWolf
The 2021 census data isn’t available yet, but in 2016 there were 1,120 people of Chinese descent living in and immediately adjacent to Chinatown, out of a total of 3,513 people. The biggest concentration of Chinese people in Chinatown is in the Guy Favreau complex, which is home to 544 people, 58% of whom are Chinese.
Kate
I tend to forget the GF complex has residential space as well as government offices. Thanks, DeWolf.
MarcG
Lots of old folks we probably don’t see much of are living in the https://www.montrealchinesehospital.ca/home_en.html as well.
Kate
A few years ago I realized that one kind of retail still vigorous there were Chinese herbalists, most of whose clientele would be on the elderly side. A lot of their stock is liniments of various kinds for creaky limbs. I don’t know how many are still in business.
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Kate
Michel C. Auger, always worth reading on any topic, looks at the proposed route change for the REM de l’est and sees a glaring problem: the REM will no longer link up with Honoré-Beaugrand metro station. Since the Caisse de dépôt makes money for every passenger-kilometer, it’s in its interest to force people to stay aboard its trains. As Auger says, “the metro, the backbone of public transport in Montreal, is treated as a competitor from whom the REM wants to wrest market share.” An excellent analysis.
ant6n
The REM 2 is indeed running approx parallel to the green line for much of it’s length…
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Kate
A pregnant, unvaccinated woman critically ill with Covid had her baby induced early and is now on life support at the MUHC hospital. Her body, her choice I guess.
jeather
Birth at 30 weeks has a surprisingly high survival rate, which is good news. Sure, pregnant women shouldn’t be forcibly vaccinated. I understand, also, why pregnant women would be exceptionally wary of this vaccine — it was tested on women, and I think even pregnant women, but there was little to no discussion of the effect on, say, periods (a real, temporary, effect), and I’d put money on the previous research in mRNA vaccines more generally not looking at how it affects women, or pregnant women, just like every other drug test. There’s a history — think Thalidomide — here.
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Kate
It’s been a real classic cold January, but we’ll get a brief break from the cold on Tuesday.
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Kate
The deadly attack on the Quebec City mosque was five years ago, and memorials are being held, but a vigil planned in Ottawa was cancelled because of the convoy taking over that city.
Blork
Because the “freedom” to infect and kill our most vulnerable neighbours with a deadly pathogen is obviously more important.
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Kate
Ted Rutland writes about how Montreal is superfunding the SPVM. The article’s also available in French.
Joey
Hard to tell what “superfunding” means when Rutland doesn’t even explain what percentage increase the $45M represented for the SPVM (and it’s actually less than the previous year’s overspend). No benchmarks with other cities, etc., either.
Chris
Joey, it’s labelled an opinion piece, so he’s unlikely to explain anything that goes against his argument/opinion/viewpoint.
Kate
Chris, Ted Rutland has been critiquing the city and its policing policies for awhile. I’ve linked to some of what he’s had to say, in various media, but didn’t see a need to make a summary of his entire commentary on Montreal policing.
Ted
It does say it was the largest increase in Canada this year (so there’s the benchmark). Last year’s increase was $14.6 million. It’s smaller than last year’s overspend, but there’s nothing stopping the SPVM from overspending by the same amount or more this year. There will be a piece on police budgets across Canada in the Breach today.
Joey
Perhaps the story in the Breach will define “superfund”…
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Kate
A developer is suing the city and the mayor personally over one of the towers planned for the old Children’s Hospital site. This was meant to be social housing, the developer balked, the city cut down the scope of the permit, and now it’s going to court.
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Kate
An idea that’s been percolating for ages is a new bridge to link Nuns’ Island to Verdun. Whether this would be a link for walking and cycling only, or allow motor vehicles, is yet to be decided.
As I recall, the denizens of the island traditionally resist this plan, although with Wellington Street’s trendiness in recent years the islanders’ attitudes may have relaxed a little.
Now that I look at the map, linking Verdun’s Galt Street to the island’s Marguerite‑Bourgeoys Boulevard would have a benefit not mentioned in the brief article: it would create a link between De l’Église metro and the island.
GC
I don’t live in Verdun, but it seems sensible to me to have one for emergency vehicles. And then, of course, let pedestrians and cyclists also use it.
MarcG
I have a friend who doesn’t drive who lives at the far end of Nun’s Island and he’s very isolated. There are a few grocery stores at the other end which he has little choice but to shop at and says that the prices are significantly marked up. One problem I see with this bridge is that it would ruin those sections of the waterfront walking/biking/skiing paths on both sides. The Verdun side in that section has already been kind of ruined by the beach, but I would be surprised if they plopped a regular traffic bridge down right next to it.
Kate
Wouldn’t your friend benefit from being able to cross the bridge to shop along Wellington?
I can’t imagine choosing to live in that area without driving. I’ve walked around in Nuns’ Island a little. It’s surprisingly big and not generally very welcoming to pedestrians.
MarcG
I’m sure he would really appreciate a pedestrian bridge. The reason he lives there is because the apartment buildings aren’t made of cardboard like they are in Verdun.
GC
Thanks for clarifying where it would likely land on the Nun’s Island side, MarcG, as I don’t know the geography that well. I’ve only visited a handful of times and it certainly did not appear very pedestrian-friendly, but that’s just a shallow observation as a visitor. 90% of my visits were to see a friend who is the sort that would drive five blocks to get somewhere because he loves his car that much.
Kate, do you know on what grounds the residents are generally against it? Is it a no-traffic thing? A no-motor vehicles thing? Protecting the waterfront, per Marc’s post? Just a strong desire to remain isolated?
Nicole
I’ve lived on Nuns’ Island for 11 years, and I am strongly in favor of another link to the mainland, which would provide easier access to shopping and restaurants on Wellington as well as an alternate way off the island when there’s construction around the highway exits, which there often is. The walking/biking trails won’t be ruined–there’s already a paved road that goes almost to the waterfront at that point. I think the island residents who are against it (who are probably still the majority) are mostly isolationist; for instance, my neighbor is afraid it that will attract a “bad element” (which seemed to mean people who aren’t white and wealthy) from mainland Verdun.
Kate
GC, I can’t cite you a reference, but there was, at least at one time, a feeling in Nuns’ Island that they didn’t want to be bracketed with Verdun, and there were some who wanted it to be declared a separate entity. This would’ve been before Wellington Street had any cachet. I don’t know whether this tendency was supported by developers on the island, or by residents who resented having their taxes possibly used for things on the Verdun side. It’s not a notion I’ve heard much about lately, but see what Nicole has to say – the river keeps the canaille out.
walkerp
If you’ve seen Cronenberg’s classic Shivers, you’ll know that we want fewer not more ways to get off of Nuns Island.
GC
walkerp, I was also thinking of https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4546694, which involved a fictional island that felt like an even wealthier version of Nuns’ Island.
walkerp
Nice! I’d forgotten about that. I’ll add that to my watch list. I hope they have it in the original french because the dubbing sounded quite bad.
Max 22:30 on 2022-01-31 Permalink
Nice to see that he didn’t bother to cover Cheskie’s. That place (and much of their clientele) is revoltingly ignorant of Covid public health measures.
M 09:36 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
Max – agreed. After being a Cheskie’s customer for 20 years, the sign they recently put up on the door basically saying ‘don’t say anything to our staff or customers for not wearing masks’ was enough to put me off the place for good.
Kate 10:47 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
I’ve never been to Cheskie’s – not a big fan of cookies and other pastry stuff – but now I know not to go.
CE 11:19 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
I went the other day. I saw the sign but was confused as to whether it was telling people to wear their mask or if nobody should care about it. It was aggressive but weirdly vague. Everyone was wearing their masks but the place was pretty full. No worse than being on the bus at rush hour though. Everything I got was delicious (only had cinnamon babka though which is, as everyone knows, a lesser babka).
Joey 11:50 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
@CE typically mask-wearing has been optional at best at Cheskie’s since the pandemic started. My Hasidic brethren are really letting me down when it comes to health and safety on this one. I guess the owner/staff/regulars got tired of being scolded for crappy mask-wearing so they put up that ‘mind your own business’ sign (and not, you know, a ‘just wear the fucking mask’ sign, which would have been equally rude/effective). Still worth the risk for some dessert tho! Double mask and hold your breath LOL
jeather 12:02 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
I am a fan of Cheskie’s but zero surprised they are not great at mask wearing. (I liked it better when they had limits on the number of people inside.) I’m curious what the sign reads.
Have to give that article props for seriously comparing the big orange to the Eiffel tower.
js 18:22 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
I wonder if the Hassidic stores in Mile End/Outremont that, unlike “crossover” hit Cheskie’s, get few if any outsiders have signs like this.
Christopher 19:39 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
The problem at Cheskie’s isn’t the owner or staff, all of whom wear masks, but the occasional maskless customer. I’ve been there when people have gotten into arguments with somebody for not wearing a mask. I’m disappointed the business took the site of the anti-maskers but not surprised. If you go into Lipa’s (the kosher grocery at Park/St-Viateur) almost nobody is wearing masks, including staff.
M 20:25 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
I was so surprised by the sign at Cheskie’s that I took a picture of it. The sign reads:
“Dear customers,
Regarding masks, please take care of yourself ONLY!
Please don’t harass customers and/or employees.
If you find it hard to comply, please shop elsewhere.
Thank you!
Management”
So I decided to shop elsewhere.
GC 20:53 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
Thanks, M. I was very curious what it (specifically) said. It’s not quite as bad as I feared, but I wouldn’t call it great… I went there a couple of times, because it’s close to my office, but I haven’t been in since the Pandemic started because I haven’t been going to my office. I didn’t think it was that great, but I might just not have been ordering the right things.
CE 21:10 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
You were not ordering the right things.
GC 23:13 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
Entirely possible! I really don’t know my way around Jewish desserts, in general
dwgs 23:48 on 2022-02-01 Permalink
I’ve never been there, know nothing of the vibe, but that sign could be read either way, especially if as someone said, the owner and staff are always masked.
CE 09:27 on 2022-02-02 Permalink
You’ll never go wrong Russian chocolate babkas (the mini ones).
Joey 10:42 on 2022-02-02 Permalink
Also the cheese crowns are worth the COVID risk. And if they have fresh cinnamon danish on the back counter, go all in.
GC 12:40 on 2022-02-02 Permalink
Thanks for the tips, CE and Joey. If I ever go back, I’ll keep those in mind.
jeather 13:06 on 2022-02-02 Permalink
Everyone is right: mini chocolate babkas, cheese crowns, and I personally like the mini danishes (cinnamon, vanilla and raspberry). I’m sure they have other things that are good, but those are what I buy.