Première Moisson

Bakery: Première Moisson
Address: 860 av. de Mont-Royal, Montreal QC (multiple locations in Montreal)
Website: www.premieremoisson.com
Style: European, French
Price: $$

Première Moisson is a chain of bakeries in the Montreal area (and one in Ottawa) specializing in artisanal baked goods and breads ranging from your simple loaves of bread to some pretty amazing cakes and pastries. Normally, wide-spread chains never live up to the goodies offered by independent bakeries, but PM is really impressive and, in fact, just from stepping in and seeing their huge variety of breads, viennoiseries and pastries, you'd have a hard time believing they do have some 40 locations in one city!

Before the Cake Tour days, I sometimes stepped into the one in the Central Station and was never disappointed. Now, even after going to other places, it's still a great and super delicious spot to visit!

For my first purchase, I got this apple danish ("$2-something" -- as you can see I was not the one that bought it -_-) which was soft, buttery sweet yeast dough folded over an apple (and possibly custard) mass in the middle. Then glazed and with icing on top. Mmm, delicious!

On our way back, I also bought this loaf of "bread" at the train station: it was their 'bread of the month' ("raspberry bread" - $4.95) which was more like a gigantic danish with soft, sweet bread dough with a mass of fresh raspberries mashed with sugar stuffed in the middle and then rock sugar on top. O..M..G..! The person who invented this is a complete genius!! *-* Sure, it's not quite what you'd like of when it comes to "bread", but what a brilliant, brilliant idea! *shrieks in excitement*

Yes, I think I had a great time here. ;)

Rating: ****