While NDG might not have as many bakeries as other Montreal neighbourhoods, what they lack in quantity is made up for in quality. Pro baker Martin Falardeau’s La Meunerie flies under the radar, but is home to an award-winning baguette, as well as favourites like éclairs and mille-feuille.

On the western edge of Saint-Henri lies the bakery-café Bernice, specializing in layered cakes and some of the most decadent cookies you’ve ever had. The luminous space makes for a nice place to sit down for dessert, or grab a coffee and snack to go. Warning: serious butter alert, but isn’t that why you came?

Bertrand Bazin’s namesake Westmount spot is a collaboration between the renowned pastry chef and local restaurateur, Antonio Park. It’s the perfect place to grab a coffee and croissant or treats to take home and enjoy when on the west side of town.

Once dubbed the best pastry chef in the province, Patrice Demers mixes occasionally fanciful flavours into its roster of classic pastries. Everything is done exquisitely, from eclairs to kouign amann.

In one of the latest additions to the ever-changing Cité du Multimédia district, pastry chef Olivier Potier took over a ground floor space on Wellington Street to offer everything from delicate cakes and assorted macarons to delightful cannelés.

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 both sweet and savoury, this is the place.

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.

With locations in Ahuntsic, Griffintown, and Laval, access to amazing pastries has never been easier. Enjoy a loaf or a Paris-Brest to go or sit down to sample an ever-changing brunch menu of seasonal delights.

Baker Jeffrey Finkelstein first 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. Hof Kelsten also doubles as a classic brunch spot on the Main.

Eponymous baker Guillaume Vaillant keeps it simple. Try any of the sourdough loaves, Kalamata olive ciabatta, fig-cheddar buns or the light and bready bittersweet chocolate hazelnut squares, but most of all, don’t miss out on the white chocolate “mushroom” brioche.

This Little Italy bakery’s namesake is the cornetto, a traditional, stuffed brioche/croissant-like pastry. But it is also renowned for the cronetto: a Cronut-like bombolone hybrid with flavours ranging from Nutella to strawberry cream. You can also often find tarts, cannoli, and other delicious pastries.

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,” the house specialty can be described as slightly caramelized croissants doubled over on themselves. Oh, and their croissants — at just $1.45 each — are also arguably some of the city’s best.

Winners of Montreal’s best baguette in 2020, this Mount-Royal Avenue bakery is also a popular destination for pastries — think choquettes (French pastry sugar puffs), Gâteau Basque (a traditional sweet from the Northern Basque region of France), and rotating seasonal fruit tarts . It’s also a great place for people in the heart of the Plateau.

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. Be sure to grab a baguette or a loaf before leaving.

When Seth Gabrielse and Julien Roy decided to open Automne Boulangerie together, they wanted to do it right — and they delivered. Working with local grains and long fermentation times, their bread is as good as it gets, 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 fruity layered cake quite literally towering over their classic mille-feuilles and éclairs.

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.

This Plateau mainstay does butter-loaded croissants best, but their Breton specialties such as apricot cake and apple turnover merit equal attention. Find other locations on Rachel Street (also on the Plateau) and Masson, in Rosemont.

All manner of pastries stuffed or filled with praline, mousse, or fruit are available for the Hochelaga masses alongside a cornucopia of bread at the arrondissement's most popular bakery. There’s another location over at Papineau and Ontario.