Chocolates have always been the go-to gift for everyone and for all occasions. So for a secretary, an aunt, teacher, co-worker, hairdresser, gift exchange, kid, barista or a perfect hostess gift, head to Galerie au Chocolat.  Since they are also Kosher, anyone celebrating holidays, now can buy them to sweeten a meal and the new year.

They had been a secret spot for years, since they were a wholesale but now they sell retail with wonderful prices.

The delish high-quality items which are made with fine Belgian chocolate come in many interesting varieties: almond or cranberry clusters, chocolate covered orange peel or apricots, Rice Krispie or candy cane bark, Amaretto creams, mint chocolate truffles, espresso wafers, or their famous almond bark. Discover more when you come in to the shop.

They have a variety of packaging options. You can easily see the yummies inside their cellophane bags tied with pretty ribbon, or you can buy them in a gift (or just for you) tin or in a beautifully wrapped gift box. You can fax, email or call in your orders any time. Delivery on the island of Montreal is $10.

Location: 8985 Henri Bourassa Ouest,  Ville St-Laurent, QC H4S 1P7
corner: Autoroute 13
Tel: 514-331-8460
Hours: Mon-Fri 9-5
www.galerieauchocolat.ca

Who doesn’t like a good deal? At Sim Centre de Liquidation that’s exactly what you are going to get. This is a clearance center for a huge un-nameable low “Cost” warehouse store, with discounts of 30% or more off on the already low prices, and all prices include the taxes, Wow!

There is no membership required at this liquidation center, therefore saving you even more money.

Returned items or items that just needed to be cleared out to make room for new merchandise (electronics, toys, clothing, auto, housewares, etc.) are sent to this store every week. All items are checked to make sure they work.

The friendly proprietors even keep a reservation book and will call you if an item you are looking for shows up.

It’s never too early to start shopping for Christmas, with 2 locations – Vaudreuil-Dorion & St Jerome, you will be amazed at your finds and will keep going back to check out the new arrivals and great savings.

Locations: 341 ave. Ranger, Vaudreuil – Dorion J7V 2X3 (450-424-0998) and
850 Boul. des Laurentides St. Jerome QC J7Z 4N1 (450-438-8631)
corner (Vaudreuil-Dorion): rue Chicoine
Times: Mon-Wed 10-6, Thurs & Fri 10-8, Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5
simcentredeliquidation.ca/

Coffee imported from Italy is sold at La boutique du café Tazza di Mattina in Roxboro. You can purchase ground, beans or capsule coffee from Gloria, Caffé Harmonia, Dolce Vita, Caffé Barbera, Caffé Moreno, Caffé Lollo. Italcaffé, Caffitaly, Miscela D’oro and many more. If you love real coffee and live on the western side of Montreal, you now have an option of a place near home to buy coffee makers, coffee, and supplies. They carry Saeco, La Pavoni, Avanti, Jura, Caffitaly, Rancilio espresso and cappuccino machines, and coffee.

They have a selection of accessories for coffee as in frothers and cups of different sizes in glass and ceramic. Various cleaning products for all coffee and cappuccino makers are found as well.

If you want to buy a more traditional Italian stove top coffee makers, they’re here too. You’ll have a choice of many different sizes in brands Vev, Bialetti & Laila. Pretty colorful lines of accessories of home and tableware by Guzzini, Verdici and Bugatti are available to dress up your table.

This is also a local repair depot; They can fix your machine on site if it breaks – no more lugging it all the way downtown.

Location: 5 Commercial Ave, Roxboro QC, H8Y 2N9
corner: boul Gouin
Tel: 514-684-6161
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30-5:30, Sat 9-4
www.tazzadimattina.ca  FB: http://on.fb.me/1eNfNva

Anything can be put on a bagel for a lunchtime – cold cuts, tuna or salmon salad, hummus, cream cheese and jam, pizza sauce and mozzarella, pb&j and on and on. St-Viateur Bagel, the famous bagel store open since 1957, is still churning out a constant stream of white (sesame seed) and black (poppy seed) bagels. Wherever you are in the city, there is a St-Viateur Bagel location near you: downtown, the West Island, Laval, Montreal North, NDG, Ville St-Laurent and in the Gay Village.

You can also buy multigrain, cinnamon raisin, flax, rosemary and sea salt or whole wheat bagels, matzoh boards, lox, cream cheese, challah and rye bread and more. Once you bite into a hot one straight from the oven; you won’t be able to eat any other bagel again.

Original location: 263 St-Viateur Ouest, H2V 1Y1 (514-276-8044)
Other locations:  5629 Monkland, NDG H4A 1E2 (514-487-8051): 340 boul. Marcel Laurin, (in Marché Esposito), V.S.L.: 7030 St-Michel (in Marché Esposito) Montréal, H2A 2Z4  (514) 722-2224: 821 boul Tecumseh, DDO H9R 4X8 (514-542-3344); 1127 Mont-Royal Est, H2J 1X9 (514-528-6361); 1585 Dagenais O., Laval, H7L 5A3 (450-625-5552).
Hours: Original location is open 24 hours. Others vary by location.

Making plans for the weekend, perhaps inviting friends over for a barbecue? Expresco has you covered and as always, they can be counted on to make things easy, delicious and inexpensive. Shopping here, you spend less time on preparation and more time with your company.

Load up on grilled chicken wings – perfect for the BBQ or oven, a 6 kg box (approx 160-180) is only $40. Their prices cannot be beat. Open since 1987, Expresco Foods is the leading manufacturer of meat-on-a-stick and their state-of-the-art facility ensures the strictest health standards are enforced.

Conveniently located on the Trans Canada Highway in Ville St-Laurent, Expresco offers you wholesale prices for large quantities of top quality easy to cook skewers as well as a variety of frozen cooked foods. When you go, see what else they have in their freezers to round out your meal. Guaranteed they’ll have you coming back for more!

Location: 8205 Transcanadienne, VSL H4S 1S4 / Google Map: http://bit.ly/29rG4Ex
corner: Poirier
Tel: 514-344-9499 x 270
Date: Aug 23 -26
Time: Wed – Fri 10-6, Sat 9 -3
www.exprescofoods.com
outlet@exprescofoods.com

Once a year, on a Saturday, Le Panier gift store holds its  one and only sale, called The Citrus Sale. Everything (gourmet food, scarves, toys, gadgets, kitchenware, home decor) that needs to be cleared out is sold really cheaply from 50% to 90% off. Come early – things go fast and it’s cash and carry – no cards.

Location: 274 Bord du Lac, Pointe Claire
corner: de Lourdes
Date: Sat, Aug 19, raindate Aug 20
Hours: 8:30 – 3pm
Tel: 514-695-7038
www.thepanier.com

Located in the heart of Montréal’s Little Italy district, not far from the Jean Talon market, Anatol Spices has been an essential spice wholesaler serving restaurateurs, caterers, discerning chefs and all lovers of fine foods. A cornerstone of the community, passed down from father to son for three generations, Anatol carries a complete range of bulk foods for preparing and perfecting your favorite dishes — first-rate foods at affordable prices.

There is a huge inventory with 60 varieties of tea and 150 herbs (some for tea infusions), and it’s only $5.99 lb. for coffee. Add to that 600 types of spices (cinnamon sticks, star anise), 90 kinds of nuts, whole wheat, soya and spinach pasta, buttermilk powder, sugar free candy, wasabi peas, tonka beans from countries around the world to offer you the highest quality at budget-friendly wholesale prices.

For baking expect to find many flavour essences, bulk Callebaut chocolate, candied and dried fruits (papaya, pineapple, blueberries, peaches cherries, cranberries), and silver pieces for cake decorating. You can get even better prices by buying in larger quantities.

Whatever your cooking needs, the friendly team at Anatol Spices is committed to providing you with personalized service and the freshest and highest-quality products available. If you can’t get there, no worries, use their web site for convenient on-line shopping.

Location: 6822 St-Laurent Blvd, Montreal H2S 3C7
corner: Dante
Tel: 514-276-0107
Hours Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat 9-5, Sun 10-4
epicesanatol.com/en
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/11jAYO6
Metro: Station Jean-Talon, Station de Castelnau or Station Beaubien

This no-fee wholesale food store is piled 20 feet high with everything you’d find in a supermarket and beyond. It stocks 4 times more selection than that famous warehouse club with more consistency and choices.

There’s 500 kinds of cheese, ethnic foods (Italian, Latino, Indian, Asian, Mideastern) and they import their fresh produce themselves – no middleman. They buy fresh fruits and vegetables from local growers whenever possible.

Since they are oriented for sales to restaurants, hotels and institutions, their prices have always been excellent. It also means that you can often find select meat in the AA or sometimes AAA grades, whole filet mignons and rib roasts, pork rump and hock, homemade sausages, marinated chicken and pork, fish and seafood.

There’s 70 varieties of olive oil, and dozens of flavorful Italian coffees and pastas. It’s fun to shop around and find items like 10 kg. Skippy peanut butter, an entire prosciutto ham or smoked meat, 15 kg honey, 3.5L bags of chocolate chips, pop-up aluminum foil sheets, or little paper lunch bags.

Don’t forget to pick up this weeks specials, see their flyer below for even better prices.

Location: 9701 boul Louis-H-La Fontaine, Anjou QC H1J 2A3
corner: rue de Lamartine
Date: Aug 2 – 8, 2017
Tel: 514-255-9330
Hours: Mon-Wed 6:45-6, Thurs & Fri 6:45-9 pm, Sat 6:45-6, Sun 9-6
www.mayrand.ca
sales@mayrand.qc.ca ou ventes@mayrand.qc.ca

Get grilling and enjoy your summer with delicious food from Expresco. For the ultimate BBQ this summer pick up their ready- made grilled jerk chicken satays ($25) and grilled chicken wings ($40), both guaranteed to be crowd-pleasers and to enhance your backyard party, and don’t forget to pick up pitas (40/$10).  So easy, inexpensive and delectable, allowing you time to socialize with your guests and actually enjoy the day.

Their prices cannot be beat. Open since 1987, Expresco Foods is the leading manufacturer of meat-on-a-stick, and their state-of-the-art facility ensures that the strictest health standards are enforced.

Conveniently located on the Trans Canada Highway in Ville St-Laurent, Expresco offers you wholesale prices for large quantities of top quality easy to cook skewers as well as a variety of frozen cooked foods. When you go, see what else they have in their freezers to round out your meal.

Get busy and plan your next backyard BBQ, feel like a pro, stress-free, and with ease by inviting Expresco to the party.

Location: 8205 Transcanadienne, VSL H4S 1S4 / Google Map: http://bit.ly/29rG4Ex
corner: Poirier
Tel: 514-344-9499 x 270
Date: July 19 – 22
Time: Wed – Fri 10-6, Sat 9 -3
www.exprescofoods.com
outlet@exprescofoods.com

Perfect on the barbeque to top your steaks, burgers or even fish, is the thick cut artisanal bacon created by the Grumpy Butcher (Boucher Fache). Do you remember bacon the way it used to be?

Rob Braide and his son Ian have been tinkering with bacon recipes for over 15 years to make it the way it should be. They locally craft it using Quebec pork, organic maple sugar and maple syrup. It is free from chemicals and full of character.

They have added to their repertoire: maple cured lardons which are a scrumptious topping for salads or eggs and now Jamaican Jerk bacon – expect a bit of a bite.

The sliced maple bacon is made in small batches for a great big taste. You can  order it on their Grumpy Butcher web site or buy it at Le Panier in Pointe Claire or at 5 other locations around town. Online, minimum orders are $25 and if you spend over $50, there’s free shipping.

Grumpy Butcher or Boucher Faché (La Cuisine 514 Inc.)
www.grumpybutcher.ca  
Tel: 514-316-3606

Le Panier: 274 Bord du Lac, Pointe Claire, H9S 4K9 Tel: 514-695-7038
Cinq Saisons: 1280 av Greene Ave, Westmount, QC H3Z 1C2 or 1180 av Bernard, Outremont, QC H2V 1V3
Boucherie Claude & Henri: Atwater Market, 138 Atwater Ave, QC H4C 2G3, Tel: 514- 933-0386
Alexi Le Gourmand: 1407 St Jacques St, 1H2  Tel: 514- 935-7676
Umami Montreal: 1195 Bishop St, H3G, Tel: 514-871-0401