Toi, Moi et Cafe: Restaurant Review
Stopped into the Toi, Moi et Cafe at 244 Laurier in Outremont on a Friday night because we were early for our dinner reservations. I had heard they have the best coffee in town. Unfortunately, i am not a coffee drinker and it actually HURT that i couldn’t order an “Honore de Balzac” brew.
The lights were just the right soft-yellow. The wait staff was friendly, helpful and bilingual. I HATE when a waitress gets all flabberghasted when i ask “what would you recommend with that?” Rather, she gave me a breakdown of the benefits of each option. I appreciate when an employee has actually eaten the place’s offerings.
Toi, Moi et Cafe has real food. We didn’t order it. Instead, we got a The Laurier (Black Tea, Grand Marnier and Fragelico with whipped cream on top). The whipped cream was PERFECT. We compared the taste to Christmas gatherings. It was smooth and decadent.
We opted for a chocolate-dipped biscotti from their many options. I love the texture of biscotti and this one was just right. Unfortunately, chocolate-dipped means only about two inches of a rather long biscotti. A little more chocolate would have been nice. It was not the best biscotti, but it was a good one.
The chairs were comfortable, the tables clean and not woobly.
The conversation was… interesting. As i sat with my notebook and paper jotting down thoughts and comparison my table-partner waxed poetic: “Isn’t it funny that if you eat and get paid to write about it, you’re high-class, but if you do the same thing with sex…” Actually, then you’d be Belle du Jour. but that’s not me. I’m not high-class either as the table-conversation demonstrates.
