Le Panier

This is a great little shop in the Pointe-​Claire village which seems to cater very clearly to upper income bracket yuppies, moms of hipsters and foodies.
There’s a little bit of everything in here, a wall of hot sauces, British teas and biscuits and chocolates, marmalades and jams, unique brands and harder to find food items, tea pots, juice and water carafes, funky doormats, small gardening tools, cast iron pots, homemade fudge in the back, really the selection here is wide and quite spectacular and you can easily and pleasantly spend some time in here and not get bored.
My one reservation is clearly the price. I saw stuff here selling at easily $ 3-​$ 4 dollars more than the going rate at Marche P&A downtown. Case in point: «White Chocolate Wonderful» peanut butter by the Peanut Butter Company. At P&A it’s usually $ 4.99, here it was listed at $ 8.99. Ditto the teas, I usually find York Gold British teas at places like Marche Atlantique for like $ 5.99 and here it’s $ 9.99 or so.
It’s fine if you want to shop here but just be aware that there are other places in Montréal that sell the same items at far lower prices. Things here are really overpriced and unnecessarily so, methinks. I guess they’re marketing on the «snob appeal» factor.
Also, be aware that they «don’t accept coupons since we’re not a normal supermarket». I had coupons from Typhoo Teas which I received from their Salon Des Femmes kiosk and when I tried using them here, I was told they normally don’t accept coupons. However, to the cashier’s credit, she let me use it nonetheless but people should know beforehand.

Voici un magasin que j’ai découvert récemment à Pointe-​Claire. Un pur bonheur pour tous ceux qui ont des difficultés pour trouver des idées de cadeaux. Si vous cherchez des cadeaux originaux, vous les trouverez ici. Des cadeaux sobres mais efficaces, ici aussi. Des cadeaux rigolos, ici encore.
Vous y trouverez des dizaines de sortes de thés, cafés, confitures, chocolats, sauces, chutneys, gâteaux, fromages mais aussi des accessoires de cuisine aussi étonnants qu’originaux (un pèle-​citron, vous connaissiez vous?), des articles de décorations de Noël (c’est la période…), et des centaines de petits gadgets du plus futile (la règle à faire de la musique) au plus pratique (le pèse valise à poignée) en passant par le plus rigolo (Une alarme pour obliger les hommes à rabattre la lunette des WC!) et sans oublier le plus incongrus (un mini tapis de golf pour faire du practice quand vous êtes sur les toilettes!).
Bref, on y entre par curiosité, et on en repart les bras chargés de paquets!