Café Replika — Restaurant in Montreal

Location: On Rachel, west of St. Denis. Metered parking - use transit or walk.

The space: I really like this loft-like café, with its communal tables and roomy interior. It offers up a very casual vibe, with good tunes and plenty of daylight. I also liked the funky art that is scattered throughout the place.

The food: I ordered a Simit sandwich with black olive tapenade, avocado, tomato, sprouts. It was DELICIOUS. For those of you who don't know, a Simit is basically the Turkish equivalent of a bagel, but these are thinner and lighter than your standard Montreal bagel. Having had Simit in Istanbul, I was pleasantly surprised at how bloody good these were. The clerk told me they make these in-house, so I guess that explains it. I also ordered the homemade lemonade, which was both refreshing and tasty.

Service: Good.

Price: Worth it. For $10, I got a huge sandwich and homemade lemonade.

Verdict: Go. It's a great place to get a quick snack, chill out over a good book or to get a coffee with friends. Also, they carry the same brand of Turkish coffee that I brought back from Turkey...

[UPDATED] I've been coming to work here for MANY years and I recently got an upsetting experience here with a homeless person that was in the cafe: I was focused on a work meeting on my computer while the homeless person went behind my back, took my backpack and started going through it trying to take stuff. This went on for a couple of minutes before I noticed and had to go to the unpleasant experience of confronting him and verifying that he had not taken anything from the bag. The worst thing is that I only realized this because I saw the surprised faces of everyone around me -yet nobody said anything to me!

This is not the first time that I see something like this going on in the plateau. Its URGENT to reconsider how far we go with the tolerance of these behaviors while excusing the people that we'd like to think of as...

Stars is really depend on what you looking for. I give 5 starts because i was looking a place for studying which has some good drink. And yes this place offer me more than what I need. Its quite, chill vibe, has amazing drink and food (for main food they only have empanada and soup). For such a cafe, their food is surprisingly delicious. Also the matcha latte is the best! (I am a matcha lover and can say that theirs is sooo good)

So, if you looking for quite, cozy cafe which has some good options for drink but not really into main food, I can guarantee u will love this cafe. But if you looking for fancy, cute cafe which has good chair, and craving for various main food, then you...