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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 68 cafes and juice bars

Best cafes and juice bars in Montréal

The 10 most notable cafes and juice bars in Montréal, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Plentea Tea Bar

    377 Sainte-Catherine St. West

    257 m from Place-des-Arts, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.319, percentile 100 of 68

  2. 2

    La Brume Dans Mes Lunettes

    378 Rue Saint-Zotique Est

    329 m from Beaubien, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.315, percentile 98.51 of 68

  3. 3

    Maison de the Cha Noir

    4611 Wellington St

    349 m from Verdun, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.314, percentile 97.01 of 68

  4. 4

    Cha Do Raku

    750 Rue de Bienville

    241 m from station 13, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.313, percentile 95.52 of 68

  5. 5

    NumberTeashop

    52 Rue de la Gauchetière O

    110 m from Place-d'Armes, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.311, percentile 94.03 of 68

  6. 6

    Totem Tea & Spice

    4411 R. Notre Dame O

    285 m from Place-Saint-Henri, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.308, percentile 92.54 of 68

  7. 7

    Oishi Bar a Matcha

    1289 Rue Beaubien E

    593 m from Beaubien, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.301, percentile 91.04 of 68

  8. 8

    Tisanerie Mandala

    3555a Rue Ontario E

    547 m from Joliette, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.301, percentile 89.55 of 68

  9. 9

    Le Salon Enchanthé

    3770 Ontario St E

    601 m from Joliette, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.299, percentile 88.06 of 68

  10. 10

    The Gryphon D'Or Tea Room

    5968 Monkland Ave

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.296, percentile 86.57 of 68

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).