St-Viateur Bagel & Café

Personally I love the monkland village because it has the perfect atmosphere for a cozy lunch and coffee. Service was friendly, welcoming and very accommodating. I ordered a chicken bagel which comes with the choice of a soup or salad. I ordered the tuna salad, must I say the portion given was ‘ginormous’. I noted that there was not a lot of chicken in the bagel but the waiter acted quickly and got the cook to grill me extra one. Overall, it was satisfying but nothing out of the ordinary really. I would Come back here for a cheap ‘home-​like’ lunch.

Best bagels I’ve ever tasted… always fresh out of the oven… hot and yummy, the sesame ones are the best.

Good place for a really healthy breakfast or brunch. Bagel is served with very fresh and tasty salad. You can add a bagel for just 1 $. I just don’t like the idea of heating bagels. They should be hot straight from wood oven or just cold. But for my first Montréal bagel experience it was almost perfect apart from that it’s a no credit card place what caused me some problems. They should warn you when you order not when you pay.

Hip area with a lot of local people and families. Lots of shops and cafes too.
The café has patio and inside seating. We sat first available, which was inside.
My wife had the Traditional bagel sandwich, which has salmon, cream cheese, and onions. It comes with a huge portion of «salad» which included options like artichoke hearts, chopped egg, crab, caesar, etc.
I had the western omelet, which was a large 2-​egg with ham, peppers, and onions, served with potatoes.
Both meals were very «American» breakfast which was both good and bad, as there was nothing special about the breakfast. the bagels are good, but just a smaller and thinner version of most bagels.

Cute red knives. Good potatoes Bagels toasty. Had the martin. Very good. Nothing remarkable. But crowded with good breakfast food

Love love this place! One of the best breakfast I have ever had! The bagel is crunchy! I had the smile! So good. Egg yolk was runnin through the bagel after the first bite. There was this pork aspic to put it on the bagel! It’s so so good! I ate it with potatoes as well!

Mon premier repas au Canada! On s’est installées en terrasse couverte et on nous a servies de grandes cartes. Il y a beaucoup de choix et c’était très difficile de se décider.
J’ai opté pour un thé vert servi dans les mugs de la maison (avec le logo du restaurant) et un bagel sésame avec œuf, bacon, pommes de terre sautées et fruits pour 9 dollars.
Tout était très bon! Le bagel parfaitement cuit, bacon croustillant, pommes de terre yummy. C’était un petit déj impeccable! Le service était sympa, pas trop pesant. Une bonne première experience!

I love to get the one with prosciuto and pesto with a smoothie. It’s a bit on the pricey side for bagels though. The service is alright, it’s what you’d expect cause it’s always so busy.

Friendly service good food. I have gone for breakfast and lunch here probably about 20 times now still love the ambiance and service.

The bagels are freshly made and the smoked salmon sandwich is pretty good. It’s a bit pricey compared to other bagel places.

One of the best breakfast’s we’ve ever had! If you’ve researched this place, you know they have the best bagels in Montréal. But that’s not all. They have an entire breakfast menu. It was all great. Service was great as well! Everything was great about this place. Its worth the trip.

This a cozier location and a bit crowded but I soon discovered why. I had the 2 Eggs and sesame bagel which was fantastic. What I didn’t expect was how good the coffee was too. The pricing is more than fair and excellent bilingual service. Would definitely return to try other menu items!

Delicious and accessible, I come to this place practically every time I visit Montréal. Though the lines get long after 11 it is with good reason: the bagels are baked fresh in a huge oven, and emerge thin, doughy and just a little chewy.
Service is consistently good, and the coffee is refilled before you can finish a cup. The bagel toppings, eggs, bacon and sides lack creativity, but the ingredients are of high quality, and highlight the main reason you came to St. Viateur in the first place.

The service was okay. Took them a while to assign a table outside.
if you’re going to eat outside in the fall/​winter, bring a sweater because its kind of annoying to eat with your winter coat.
The food is great, really good and fresh bagels and cream cheese. I ordered a omelette with a raisin bagel but i got a sesame bagel. I din’t make a fuss about it and i ate the sesame, it was good as well. Overall the food is great but 40 $ for 1 omelette/​bagel and a morning bagel is a bit expensive

Great place to have a coffee with friends, a filling breakfast/​lunch or a quick bite. I love the fresh saint-​viateur bagels and the great friendly staff. I would definitely recommend this place :)

I absolutely love this place. It’s always busy but I’ve never had to wait too long for a table. The food is great and the portions are perfect. Everything on the menu is good and the bagels are always fresh.

First thing that happened when we stepped in? The waitress and another worker said that we could only sit on a certain side of the café because the other section was reserved for her «friends» to watch the habs game. I’m not sure if the staff are allowed to do this, but as more diners came in, she eventually gave up telling people where they could and couldn’t sit. I really wasn’t too pleased about these «special reservations».
My friends and I ordered different variations of the 5 quarter bagel. I had a question about the desserts, and I had to get the waitress’ attention twice before she noticed me. Same with my friends, who wanted to order additional items… again, what was with the service?!
So I guess the plate I ordered was pretty worth the $ 3.25. You get a VERY generous amount of spread. I had about 5 or 6 tablespoons of cream cheese in a little pot. Make sure you order a spread you like. The plate also came with 2 pieces of cantaloup which was a nice surprise. A nice thing to order for a snack.
I looked around at the other patrons plates; the bagel sandwich looked AMAZING and came with a side of soup or salad. Very generous portions of those.
Too bad the service was wonky…

I know there’s an ongoing debate between who makes the best bagels — Fairmount or St. Viateur? As far as I’m concerned, these guys win, hands down.
Location: The heart of Monkland village.
Bagels: If you’re not in the mood to grab breakfast here, then head straight for the back where men sporting white aprons make these awesome bagels on site. You can order, plain, sesame, poppy seed, all dressed, cinnamon & raisin etc. A dozen will run you $ 7.50 (the ‘specialty types like cinnamon & raisin go for $ 9.60) and if you stop in at the right time, you’ll be getting those bagels fresh out of the wood-​burning oven. HELLO! The guys even cater to my OCD need for ‘light’ bagels and handpick them for me when prepping my dozen. Love it.
Eating: I usually go for breakfast and it’s pretty decent. The portions are pretty good for the money and I’ve never left there feeling hungry. Of course, every plate comes with your choice of bagel — like you had to ask! they offer a great variety of eats that will satisfy everyone. If you go on a weekend, plan to go early or expect to wait for a table. It’s a pretty popular breakfast place.
Service: It’s OK but I think it depends when you go. I’ve had great service, but I’ve also had mediocre service. Regardless, I’ll still go just for the bagels!

5 stars for sure!!!
I don‘t normally like bagels but this place made me fall in love with bagels and have them every morning for over 6 months straight!!! You can take out fresh bagels out of the oven or enjoy a good soup and bagel sandwich

I love St-​Viateur. The bagels are the best in MTL, coffee is free with breaky, and the portions are large. It’s not that expensive compared to most brunch places and you won’t leave feeling ripped off.
I love the smile breakfast, served with an all-​dressed bagel. I’m always stuffed after finishing it.
The staff are very friendly and always love to share a laugh with my little boy =P
You can also pick up some bagels around the counter area and get it to go with some cream cheese. Makes for a lovely breakfast at home.

My wife’s family is from Canada. Her grandfather still lives in Montréal. My wife has fond memories of visiting her grandparents, and she constantly raves about Montréal bagels. So, Montréal was a must on our trip to the Northeast, and finding a good place to buy bagels was a very high priority.
This St-​Viateur is sort of in the suburbs of Montréal, but it was close to where we were staying so it was a good choice for us. In addtiion to the bagel bakery, they have a nice restaurant. We ate breakfast here two days in a row, so I have to say it has my stamp of approval.
Motreal bagels are different from just about any other bagels I have tried. The biggest difference probably that they bake them in wood fired brick ovens. This gives the bagels a bit crispier outside. Also, they don’t seem to be quite as doughy. They basically come three ways — plain, poppy seed, and sesame seed. Whatever flavor you choose, they are delicious.
Breakfast here was very good. The coffee and tea were high quality. The egg dishes were well prepared and tasty, but the star of every dish was the bagel. Service was also excellent with each request addressed promptly.
We bought two dozen bagels to go for the remainder of our trip. We should have gotten three or even four dozen because the eight of us went through the two dozen in about three days.
For an excellent version of unique Montréal bagels, St-Viateur’s is a great place to go. Highly recommended.

Absolument tout sur le menu est un vrai delice!!! Seul petit probleme, il y a toujours trops de monde., mais ca vaut la peine d’attendre!!!

Certains disent que les meilleurs bagels de la ville se trouvent à Saint-​Viateur. Bien que je les aimes beaucoup, j’ai eaasyé le «all-​dressed» ce matin, je n’ai pas encore essayé d’autre «bageleries» donc je né sais pas encore si c’est la meilleure.
J’aime leur déjeuner et leurs sandwhichs, et le service est très bien. Notre serveuse pouvait même se souvenir des tous nos plans sans noter quoi que ça soit, et tout était parfait.