Le Magasin Général du Vieux-Montréal

A little bit of everything French for the tourist who doesn’t want a moose sweatshirt to remember their trip to Montréal.

5 Stars for the shop and 4 stars for the café — but since it’s listed under shops I gave it 5.
This is the cutest shop I’ve seen in a while. They had a wide variety of cool jewelry at very attractive prices — mostly around $ 20 and the ‘high end’ stuff was in the $ 50-​$ 100 range. Also a good supply of kitschy housewares and scarf/​shawl kinds of things.
The café is a mixed bag — bad-​ish service with OK food (a sausage/​rabe pizza) and tasty drinks would normally add up to 3 stars. But the location on the waterfront, the live piano music, and the free wi-​fi bring give it that extra star. One pleasant touch was that the piano player segued lightly from song to song so there was never that awkward silence when the café patrons don’t know if they are supposed to clap.

This store is absolutely amazing. I loved all the jewelry and hone décor. We ate at the restaurant and the pizza was so delicious. Definitely will be coming back!

One of my favorite lunch spots in the old port. Love the ancient interior. They serve really good pizza (better than most pizza places I tried). Especially the one with bacon. I don’t recommend sanwitches. Salads could also be a little better. But once again, the pizza justifies it all. If they didn’t have piano, I would enjoy it even more.

Terrible. If you do not order food, they will not serve you. Took 15 minutes for someone to acknowledge us.

Wonderful atmosphere with a live pianist! The cronuts are super delicious and reasonably priced!

What a great little place! The store is filled with cute unique things that are one of a kind and the café is very nice with great food. Me and my friend had butternut squash soup which was amazing and Mac and cheese which was great. It was the perfect snow day lunch! A must go

Just happened to find this place as a refuge from the rain and snow today. Thank goodness! It was great!
We shared nachos and Mac n cheese. Both were great and the atmosphere is wonderful.
Sitting by the window overlooking the street was lovely. Their claim for the best coffee was true! I have been travelling the USA for 6 weeks and the coffee is terrible… BUT here it was fantastic!!! At last great coffee!!!
Service was fine and atmosphere great with quaint store next door.

The food was delicious — we shared melted Brie, pizza and nachos. The wine was great too. The atmosphere: marvelous. But the service was very slow, although quite nice.

The claim as Montréal’s best coffee is highly dubious. But, my beef with this little shop and café was rude attitude of the owner. After waking up early to drive up to Montréal, we needed a caffeine boost and catch up on social media. The service was lacking from the get-​go. We weren’t allowed to order at the counter; instead, we had to be seated to order our coffee. From there, we were ignored while we waited to place our order. We had to ask her three times for the wi-​fi and even then, she was immediately distrusting of our intentions as she warned us not to download anything on her personal wi-​fi. The coffee was also sub-​par. I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice? Must be a French-​Canadian thing.

A couple of days ago we were wandering around the Vieux Port and went into this store. The first objects to attract my eye were a couple of stunning art glass pieces, curved rectangular forms on stands. They were different from one another and both were beautiful. The store has a range of merchandise, from colorful and functional ceramic pieces to art glass to interesting clocks to junky jewelry to assorted candies in large glass jars. Truly a general store. We saw a clock that interested us and yesterday, when we moved to the ship Alan walked over to the store and bought it. When we reach the US we’ll find a UPS store and ship it home. The clock was sent in a great fabric handle bag and a piece of chocolate was thrown in for good mean. Trés cool.

This shop is on the waterfront in Old Montréal and I stopped in to get something for my hubby since it was his birthday. Whimsically decorated mugs and teapots, clocks, jewelry, scarfs, dishes, sundry items, bags, very large selections. He wasn’t interested in anything in the store, but I bought a lovely pashmina for myself. He, being the great guy that he is, told me to get one in all the colors. I restrained my self and only got one. I would have taken a teapot set, it was so colorful, but realized that our one bedroom apartment in New York City was already chock full. C’est la vie!

Le magasin général du Vieux-​Montréal a de quoi charmer avec la fière allure vieillotte que lui prodigue une architecture pierreuse et briquetée, datant de 1873. L’endroit idéal pour y vendre des produits contemporains, je suppose… On y trouve un peu de tout. Ce sont pour la plupart des objets modernes qui sont supposés venir agrémenter le chez-​soi, des objets du quotidien que tout le monde connaît, tantôt excentriques, tantôt classiques, à la limite du chic stéréotypé. Meubles, verrerie, jetées, accessoires de cuisine, vaisselle, ustensiles, réveille-​matin, horloges, chandeliers, poufs, vases, sculptures, etc… La mode féminine se joint également à la partie: un grand comptoir à bijoux dispendieux mais quand même originaux et des sacoches, dont certaines émaillent un peu trop de fioritures tape-à-l’œil.
Parmi ce tout, il est bien à noter que quelques objets se démarquent. Un appareil photo rétro en carton assemblable? Ou encore des paquets de cartes neufs, mais à l’allure surannée? En tout cas, je né m’attendais surtout pas à y trouver là des diabolos, ou encore une machine à coudre merveilleusement ornementée, brillante de par sa survivance.
Le deuxième compartiment de la boutique est essentiellement réservé à l’exposition d’œuvres picturales. Les toiles varient hebdomadairement.