Updates: Cafe Myriade, our 08 holiday trip

I mentioned Anthony’s departure as barista at Cafe Sante Veritas a short while back, Anthony now provides some details about his new place, to be opening in downtown Montreal in October, most likely.
Cafe Myriade will be located on Mackay, between Ste. Catherine and Maissoneuve, which means it’s pretty close to that weird new Rice Pudding [...]

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Anthony Leaves Veritas

Anthony Benda has posted to his blog about his decision to leave Cafe Sante Veritas, and apparently strike out on his own, with a new cafe to open in the near future in downtown Montreal.
I wrote about Veritas a few months ago. We went there practically the minute we got off the train in Montreal [...]

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Espresso at Veritas

For about six months, we’ve been reading raves from various Chowhound contributors about Cafe Veritas, the three-group Synesso machine, the coffee from 49th Parallel Roasters, the prowess of Anthony, the cafe’s celebrated barista. So, about two hours after getting off the train, we stopped in for coffee. This close to the holidays, we never assume [...]

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