With locations in Ahuntsic, Griffintown, and now Laval, access to amazing pastries has never been easier. Take a loaf or a Paris-Brest to go, but be sure to stay for brunch or lunch and enjoy an ever-changing menu of seasonal delights.

Although bread is the specialty here (and the bakery mills its own flour on site), this new Villeray spot also offers sweeter options like pain au chocolat and a selection of cookies. Just don’t forget to grab a baguette or a loaf before leaving.

One of the city’s finest Portuguese bakeries churns out natas (egg tarts) and a small menu of other treats sweet and savoury, at this spacious spot on the edge of Petite-Patrie.

From the owners of reputable Hochelaga restaurant Hélicoptère restaurant comes this next-door café/pâtisserie combo. Expect seasonal treats like matcha cookies studded with ruby chocolate or squash cake with pumpkin seeds and spiced cream.

This linchpin Parc-Ex bakery has served Montreal’s Greek community since 1971. Look for decorated cakes, and a plethora of sweet and savoury phyllo classics.

When Seth Gabrielse and Julien Roy decided to open Automne Boulangerie together, they knew they were going to do it right. There are no shortcuts here; working with local grains and long fermentation times, their bread tastes like bread should, and the same goes for everything from tarts to buns to chocolatines.

Adorable Rhubarbe, headed up by pastry pro Stéphanie Labelle, walks the line between pastries and desserts, with stunners like their grapefruit-pistachio layer cake quite literally towering over their classic mille-feuilles and eclairs.

With its cute name and even cuter interior, this Plateau mainstay does butter-loaded croissants best, but their Breton specialties such as apricot cake and apple turnover merit attention too. Find other locations on Rachel Street (also on the Plateau) and Masson, in Rosemont.

Eponymous baker Guillaume Vaillant keeps it simple — avoiding gaudy cakes and frostings, he mixes up flavours inside his offerings: try the fig-cheddar bun, or light and bready bittersweet chocolate hazelnut squares.

Normandy-trained patissier Nicholas Henri keeps a minuscule menu, laser-focused on churning out the city's finest kouign amann. Roughly translating to "butter cake", they're like slightly caramelized croissants doubled over on themselves.

Arte & Farina whips up bombolini, focacce, pizza al trancio, and profuse other baked goods steps away from Marché St-Jacques.

Baker Jeffrey Finkelstein made a name for himself with breads, babka, and other Jewish baked goods. Turns out he knows his way around non-Jewish classics too, from croissants to sweet brioche. Finkelstein also has a location named Hof Sucrée in Montreal’s Time Out Market, downtown.

This unassuming pâtisserie on Parc and Villeneuve features a wide array of both individually-sized and larger-format desserts from French classics like mille-feuilles to homey favourites such as carrot cake. They also do custom cakes for all occasions. (Despite the name, there’s no connection to nearby restaurant Lawrence.)

A Chinatown staple, Harmonie pumps out signature sweets like Hong Kong style egg tarts and sesame buns filled with bean paste. For desserts that combine sweet and savoury, this is the place.

Maison Christian Faure is a force to be reckoned with in Montreal’s pastry scene, with locations of this high-end boutique situated in Old Montreal and on de Maisonneuve West, downtown. No time to make dessert? Grab a selection of decadent treats on the way home.

Once dubbed the best pastry chef in the province, Patrice Demers mixes occasional fanciful flavours into its roster of classic pastries. Everything is done exquisitely, from eclairs to croissant-esque kouign amann. They also offer an excellent and very affordable lunch and brunch menu for those looking to try more savoury options.

NDG might not have the same volume of bakeries as some other Montreal neighbourhoods, but what they lack in quantity, they’re making up for in quality. Pro baker Martin Falardeau’s La Meunerie flies under the radar, but is making award-winning baguette, as well as favourites like éclairs and mille-feuille.

Tucked away in Verdun, Sweet Lee's are all-rounders at baked goods from brownies and cookies through to full-sized tarts and pies. But it hit its stride on more bread-based sweets, from classic sticky buns to maple-cinnamon rolls.