St Viateur Bagel Shop

After conducting exhaustive and delicious study, I’m going to boldly state this is my second favourite bagel place in Montréal. I realize that may be highly contested but St. Viateur was edged out only slightly. It’s still tasty though.
If you are seeking the best St Viateur go here… and don’t be tricked by the other location down the street which is just a café with the same name.
This place is busy… cash only… and when you get to the front of the line you better know what you want and have cash in hand or the staff will be extremely rude. My plans were foiled because they were out of a couple of my choices which resulted in last minute mental reorg and if looks could kill I probably wouldn’t be writing this review.
On a return trip I probably would just buy whatever is hot. The colder bagels were good but honestly nothing worth a long wait for. Maybe if my first choices were there I might think differently… but I only can only go on what I was given.

This place is everything. It’s for your midnight cravings after you had 5 beers at a Mile-​End bar (accompanied with hummus or cream cheese), or is your company for the breakfast next day, or just an afternoon snack because why not. You probably heard of the rivalry between Fairmont. To me, St-Viateur’s softer bite will dominate the other one’s harder shell any day.

Bagel mastery. Bagel gods. Bagel mafia? Maybe. Bagel artisans. Bagel angels. Bagel dreams. Prepare for bagel serious dreams. Sesame — the classic. Get it hot to experience true gluten perfection. So pillowy. It will melt in your mouth which defies science. You will fall in bagel love and all other bagels will never compare.

Had to try these when visiting Montréal! I enjoyed these more than Fairmont bagels. They were crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside with a almost sweet aftertaste. Very different than the NYC bagels I am used to. I’m glad I gave them a try! When in Rome! I don’t need to go back but I would recommend this to people visiting Montréal for sure!

Impossible d’ignorer cette enseigne présente à plusieurs endroits dans la ville. Les bagels St Viateur sont présents dans les cafés, les épiceries, les restos… Bref cette marque assez célèbre à Montréal, mérite totalement son succès.
Les bagels, préparés sur place, à la rue St Viateur, sont super bons, moelleux et frais. L’endroit est ouvert 24h sur 24 et propose aussi du fromage frais, du saumon ou encore du Nutella pour accompagner votre bagel.
Astuce: ils sont tout de même plus frais et meilleurs si vous allez les acheter directement à la boulangerie situé rue St Viateur que si vous allez les chercher en pack de 6 au magasin.

Amazing bagels for sure, but they go from fresh to stale within literally an hour. Eat them straight out of the wood burning oven for max enjoyment, and they won’t even need butter or cream cheese.
HOWEVER. This is why I take a star away. They can’t be bothered to deal with any of the cream cheese or additional toppings, making it highly annoying when you want to treat it as a breakfast when on the go. Frustrating, because not everybody is taking it directly home, especially us out of towners!
Besides, surely they are missing out on additional profits by being so stubborn

GET A SESAME BAGEL. comes out piping hot from the oven, fresher than fresh, and gorgon inside and crisp on outside. Wow. So good.
I started with a flaxseed to be healthy. But when hubby got a sesame we went back for second round with only sesame. Yes that’s the one to get.
Best bagel we both ever had

If you’ve never been to Montréal and love bagels, this is the place to go. Bagels are baked fresh on wooden boards in a wood fired oven ²⁴⁄₇. Most of the time they are still warm when they bag them for you. There’s nothing like a Montréal Bagel. I always bring 3 or 4 dozen home. You can freeze them and then defrost and toast them. Once you try these, you’ll be hooked.

So so bagel sandwiches. Not worth going out of way for. Flavours mediocre. Packed to the brim, definitely not worth waiting for.

Good price. Amazing quality. And delicious bagels. I bought 4… 2 for lunch and 2 for breakfast in the morning, along with some cream cheese, and peanut butter and jelly. Very friendly and quick service. The bagels are as good as people say. I’m coming back in the next couple days for another round. If you’re in the neighbourhood or visiting Montréal, don’t miss these bagels!

These bagels are my favorite among many delicious options in Montréal. First off, they’ve got a rustic morphology to them — the bagels are heterogeneously shaped and have this nutty aroma (if you go with the recommended sesame version). The ovens have clearly been loved and taken care of for decades, likely adding to the interesting finish. Second, the bakers are focused on one thing — making excellent bagels and providing fast and efficient service. Now who can’t appreciate that?!

I like the setting of the shop where you can see how they make the bagel. It’s also really cool to see the mountain pile of bagels coming out of the oven.
Not sure if this is the best bagel ever, and I still have to decide if I like the honey sweetness in Montréal bagels. Still, the chewyness of the bagel is top notch and better than most bagels I have had in the US!

Internationally known and locally respect St-​Viateur is for the real bagel P.I.M.P.S. Shout-​out to all my hooligans in Brooklyn, but Smoke Meat and Bagels are an OG Montréal thing.
Must visit bagel shop in MTL.

Legend has it that there is a bagel shop in Montréal that rivals even the best of the best bagels in NYC. Well my Jewish bretheren, look no further for all the stories you heard of as a child are true — St Viateur has some baller bagels that can induce uncontrollable salivation simply upon perception of their fragrant smell.
Tons of flavors, a reasonable price and memories that will last a lifetime.
No combos, just bagels in their purest form. You can get some spreads from the freezer and they have plastic knives available for those on the go. It was worth my $ 30 CAD cab ride to get them before I left Canada. Or this could just be the hangover from the bachelor party talking.

I have lived and eaten bagels in New York for 23 years of my life. I know I will get sh** for saying this but the bagel I had from St Viateur was the best bagel of my life and it haunts my dreams every night. I has a sesame bagel with lime and coriander cream cheese. I shared it with my boyfriend, which I regret. If I ever come back to Montréal I will have many of these bagels and will not share with anyone.

Découvert lors de mon escapade à Montréal, sur les conseils avisés de ma sœur. Je peux dire que j’ai goûté aux meilleurs bagels !
Délicieusement délicieux

Yep, just as I thought. I bought bagels from both St-​Viateur and Fairmount. I tasted them, unidentified from which shop. It’s impossible to tell them apart!
Here’s my therory: It’s like that TWIX chocolate bar commercial. Two brothers got into a quarrel and decided to open their own bagel shop. They are equally convinced that theirs are better. While in fact, it’s probably the same recipe.

It really feels more like a bagel factory (so so many bagels). It can be a bit overwhelming if you don’t live in Montréal. The line to the cashier goes really fast, so you don’t have much time to decide. You can get hummus, cream cheese, and other spreads from the fridge right next to the line. They also have little to-​go cream cheese and strawberry jam that you can grab from the fridge right in front of the cashier (it’s on the lowest shelf so it might be hard to see). They give you plastic knives if you need them.
It’s efficient and quick (no seats), perfect for breakfast on the go or just picking up bagels for the rest of the week. I got the rosemary bagel and it was wonderful. I was disappointed that we visited the last morning we were in Montréal so we couldn’t go again. I would definitely come back another time!

OH! Such a cute place with delicious bagels! The Montréal bagel is quite different from the New York bagel I’ve known all my life, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The bagel sandwich combos are delicious with a very reasonable price point to match. I wouldn’t buy the cream cheese or other items in their fridge — that is rather overpriced. However, when buying just bagels, it is extremely well priced, particularly when considering the taste!
Just be sure to bring cash — they don’t take credit.

Hands down the best bagels I’ve had in my life. And mind you, I lived in New York City one summer.
I’m used to gross bagels that are dense and tasteless as hockey pucks, and I’ve always hated them and avoided them.
I feel like I’ve finally found out what bagels are supposed to taste like. I don’t really know how you can beat their bagels. They hand make them with all natural ingredients, poach them in honey water, and bake them in wood ovens. When you get the bagels, they are fresh and piping hot.
I’ve heard people complain that the bagels are too sweet. I’m generally on a keto diet so I’m very sensitive to sugar, and I have no problems with these bagels. Speaking of the keto diet — I’m glad I don’t have these back home as I wouldn’t be on the keto diet anymore. They’re so delicious.
Anyways — definitely go. The bagels are cheap, service is great, and they are open ²⁴⁄₇. What more could you ask for?

Food
— This is a must when you visit Montréal
— Its a 24hr joint
— Bagels are always being made fresh
— At night, the selection is limited, but regardless the bagels are amazing
— Bet you can’t just eat one
— Great selection of cream cheese and dips as well
— Prices are great too
Service
— No complaints and for it being late, the staff was pleasant to deal with

St. Viateur Bagel Shop proffers an admirable simplicity. Bagels (mostly sesame) are served warm from a giant metal sluice that sits next to a table where an aproned man whacks and shapes dough he then shoves, on large trays, into the oven (whence they spill forth via the sluice). There’s a refrigerator case stocked with bagel-​angled groceries: many varieties of cream cheese, two or three of capers, half a dozen smoked salmon options, and several salmon spreads; a few jams, butter, and some stuff we failed to note. There’s another small refrigerator with non-​alcoholic drinks.
The drawback is that the bagels suck.
«Suck» is too strong, but we’d been advised that Montréal’s bagel scene rivals New York’s, and that turns out to be a lunatic’s delusion. In flavor, this dough isn’t far from a simple street pretzel. What a street pretzel has that these bagels lack, of course, is a thick pelt of salt. Any flavor you get at St. Viateur comes from that refrigerator. The bagels give you a warm smooshy vessel for salmon, cheese, jam, etc., thus fulfilling only the most rudimentary function of a bagel.
It was late, though; we had played a show and everything else was closed; and so we fell onto the St. Viateur bagels like half-​starved hyenas stumbling across an unguarded scrum of newborn kittens (must happen sometimes). Given the strictly-​takeout nature of the spot, that meant huddling around a tiny ersatz picnic blanket of paper bags on the sidewalk out front, scooping and spreading cream cheese and sawing salmon with little plastic knives no stiffer than stir sticks.
There’s something attractive about the rudimetary nature of these bagels. Like inchoate little vertebrates crawling out of the sea on their journey to articulated limbs and teeth and wings, St. Viateur’s product arouses in the modern mammal an instinctive gratitude. That’s not to say, though, we’d ever elect willingly to shed our teeth and thumbs, our poppy seeds and garlic and swirls of pumpernickel.

Il s’agit d’une boulangerie de Bagel. Au choix, sésame, graine de lin, thym, pavot, et j’en passé des meilleurs! On y vend également des cream cheese philadelphia de toutes sortes. Par contre si vous cherchez un sourire de votre vendeur, vous pouvez toujours courir!

Ouvert ²⁴⁄₇!!!
Open ²⁴⁄₇!!!
Enjoy

S’il y a une place où acheter ses bagels, c’est bien celle-​ci! Des bagels tout frais, comme le pain dans une boulangerie artisanale. On s’est déjà que notre achat sera direct sorti du four étant donné le succès que connait ce commerce. Fraicheur garantie, les amis!
De plus, c’est un réel plaisir de voir les bagels se fabriquer sous ses propres yeux, voir le tour de mains de ses messieurs.
Bonne dégustation!

Si tu habite Montréal et que tu n’as jamais été là… faut revoir tes priorités !
Sérieusement, Les Bagels St-​Viateurs sont surment les meilleurs bagels à déguster sur l’île de Montréal. La Boutique na rien d’expetionnelle sinon que son odeur se propage et enivre tout les passants.
C’est une instutitution Montréalaise tout simplement !

Je né comprends pas la rivalité Montréal /​NY avec les Bagel. En toute honnêteté j’m’en fou, je trouve que c’est s’obstiné sur des stupidités. Récemment on avait un débat mon ami et moi sur: Qui fait les meilleurs Bagels entre St-​Viateur et Fairmount Bagel. Je dois admettre en toute sincérité né pas y voir de différences. La majorité des fanatique mange leur bagel avec du fromage à la crème et je dois admettre à mon tour que c’est pas quelque chose que j’aime. J’aime mieux le fromage de chèvre genre le Sabot de Blanchette bien croulant avec une overdose de jambon polonais. Sinon juste du beurre, trop de beurre c’est mieux que pas assez. Je comprends le monde qui dit que c’est plus dur a manger que ceux de NY parce que c’est moins épais mais c’est surtout là que j’trouve que ça fait son charme, j’aime mes bagels vraiment bien rôti, parce que le côté dur et très cuit c’est mon truc.
Le bon côté? C’est frais, pas cher, la majorité des restants de change nous permettre d’aller plus loin et d’avoir des bagels frais. Le vendeur m’a même dit, voyant que j’étais en arrière de la ligne et n’avait plus personne après moi… je vais te donner des bagel chaud si t’attends 1 minutes. Hell yeah! Je veux dire, directement sorti du four. Bön service, courtois et rapide. Cash seulement. C’est pas mal un petit commerce avec 1 fridge qui a du fromage a la crème, du saumon fumé et voia.