Copette & Cie

Copette & Cie is a charming cheese store on Wellington street with rustic feeling. The cheese shelfs may not look very abundant, but pay attention to the black board on your right and you will figure the store offers vast choices of cheese, including my personal discovery, the delicious French Mimolette. The guys behind the counter will offer you to sample if you look disoriented and recommend alternatives that will fit your taste. They are so patient and wonderful, we created so much confusion during our last visit trying to get special cheese slice for present, and got the best service ever. But the pleasures are not over with a simple cheese selection, you can pick some cold cuts and delicious bread. Sounds like the perfect place to stop by during the weekend this summer, obtain some good food for picnic and bike to some of the nice parks around.

Really great little place on Wellington.
They had almost every cheese I was looking for and had some I haven’t had since France.
Sandwiches to go if u like as well as a large variety of meats to pick from.
They have great Little milks and butter to if You’re looking for something different compared to the ones at iga.

Great selection of cheese, especially Quebec artisan cheese! New: Good gluten free cakes! Fresh bread from Arhoma! Sundays are my favourite days to stop by, as they make Belgium Waffles on demand, the best in town! in addition to that, the staff is friendly and knowledgeable.

Ahhh, Copette!
Jolie petite fromagerie/​boulangerie tout près de chez moi (yahoo!). J’y vais de temps à autre pour chercher des croissants, chocolatines et autres petits délices quand je reçois à bruncher (des fromages, également, bien entendu!). Leurs produits sont toujours très frais et très bons. Leurs prix sont bien corrects aussi.
Les employés de Copette sont chaque fois extrêmement gentils et n’hésitent pas à faire des suggestions (ce qui est particulièrement pratique dans mon cas, car j’ai toujours un peu de difficulté à faire des choix vu le grand nombre de produits qui ont tous l’air plus délicieux les uns que les autres).
Un incontournable quand on habite à Verdun!

J’ai acheté du fromage de chèvre, du saucisson et des baguettes, parfait ! Les vendeurs sont serviables et aimables.

A gem in Verdun! This little shop offers pastries, fresh bread, cheese, a meat counter for cold cuts and various local groceries. On Sunday they make delicious Belgian waffles.
I’m a pastry lover so I’ll concentrate the review on those. The Sunday waffles are amazing. Little pearls of sugar scattered throughout they definitely don’t need maple syrup. There is a blue croissant that has blue cheese inside that is nice too. The chocolatine is nothing to write home about. Cheap on chocolate and the pastry isn’t very buttery. Danish is ok, not the best I’ve ever had. There was also an almond paste mini cake that wasn’t very generous in almond paste.
The variety of cheese is great, and the staff is so friendly. They’ll offer you samples of anything you want to try.
There is a nice variety of fresh bread. Highly recommended!

Verdun wouldn’t be the same without this place! The owners are so, so nice and always take the time to get to know their customers. The cheese selection is amazing. There are lots of great breads and pastries from Arhoma. I think their chocolatines are the best in Montréal. Oh and if you haven’t gone there on a Sunday to pick up a homemade Belgian waffle… then you have been missing out! DELICIOUS!

J’y suis allée pour les gaufres liégeoises du dimanche qui m’avaient été chaudement recommandées et je n’ai pas été déçue.

Fromagerie Copette Et Cie is the kind of small-​gem shop which is helping Verdun to reinvent itself from a so-​so neighborhood to a stellar one. Walking by everyday on my way to work, it’s quite a welcome site seeing the stacks of fresh baguettes and loaves of fresh bread heaped high in the window and then steadily decrease as the day goes on.
That’s exactly how a proper bread shop should work.
Then there is the cheese counter and like other reviewers indicated, if you’re not sure of the cheeses you’re looking for, a tiny sample is usually offered to help you figure out what your tastes are.
There’s also a counter with cured meats and hams, a freezer full of meat pies and another counter full of pates, real smoked bacon, and rillette du canard, probably the single most amazing meat spread which you can pair up with your baguette. They have also started up with some sweetbreads like croissants and other goodies. No joke the brownies here are the best in town and sell out very quickly.
Make sure you come by on Sundays, they make fresh, warm Belgian-​styled waffles which are also usually gone by 1pm.

Une belle petite boutique de fromages dans Verdun. Beau choix de pâtés de qualité, de saucissons et les pains et viennoiseries de la boulangerie Arhoma.
J’ai acheté un pâté de canard et pistaches, une baguette au levain et deux énormes chaussons aux fruits. Le pâté était splendide sur la baguette fraîche, accompagnés de petits cornichons et de moutarde de Meaux. Je garde les chaussons pour mon petit déjeuner du samedi! Donc, pas encore goûté… À suivre!
Service super gentil et efficace!

Un des joyaux de Verdun!
Proprios charmants, qui prennent le temps de répondre à nos questions et qui n’hésitent pas à nous faire goûter aux fromages.
Belle sélection de produits. Outré les fromages, on y trouve du pain et des viennoiseries, des charcuteries et autres «cochonnailles».
Et que dire des gaufres liégeoises du dimanche! *Bave*

One of the best shops in Verdun, if you like cheese of course. The owners are a nice couple that really takes care of their customers. You’ll be able to get all kinds of cheese from Quebec or from elsewhere.
They really take the time to help you find what suit the best your needs or tastes: if you don’t know a cheese, they will cut a little piece for you so you can taste it. If you go there quite often, like I do, they will remember your tastes, I know, it’s awesome.
Last, but not least, if you go on a Sunday morning, you’ll be able to get some delicious freshly baked Belgian waffles!
A place to know in Verdun…

Bien qu’avec le nom de cette boutique on s’attend à y retrouver des produits laitiers de toute sorte, je n’ai jamais goût à leurs fromages. Du moins, pas encore! Ils se méritent quand même un gros 4 étoiles simplement pour les dimanches matins lorsqu’ils font des gaufres de liège comme elles devraient l’être. La file peut être longue, mais si vous pensez en commander plusieurs, soyez-​y sois dès l’ouverture ou bien mieux encore, téléphonez la veille pour réserver vos gaufres. Comment ça vous pouvez leur laisser savoir à quelle heure vous passerez les prendre et elles seront faites à temps pour que vous veniez les ramasser. C’est rendu l’un des moments les plus charmants de mon weekend! La prochaine fois, je m’y prendrai aussi des fromages et un miche de pain Aroma et j’irai sur le bord de la rivière déguster tout ça.

This neighborhood cheese shop might look small at first, but Luc Gendron and Cristel Henssen keep some 100 cheeses on hand that are carefully selected to please and surprise the most discerning of palates. Aside from the specialty cheeses ones might expect to find in very good cheese
shops — such as Guinness Cheddar or the cantaloupe-​like Mimolette — Fromagerie Copette & Cie also carries a wide selection of hard-​to-​find artisanal Quebec cheeses that have won a number of international competitions.
With such a tantalizing variety to choose from, it was very hard to stay focused and on budget, so I asked shop owner Gendron to help me pick four interesting and underrated regional cheeses that I could serve as an appetizer course for a party of six, all the while staying within a $ 25 budget. These were his picks totaling $ 24.90 with an average servingof 85g per person:
Le 14 Arpents.
This soft cheese produced by Fromagerie Médard in Quebec’s Saguenay-​Lac-​Saint-​Jean region is creamy yet strong on flavor with slight hints of hazelnut. It is made from the milk of Brown Swiss cows and is named after the 14-​acre road that borders the farm it is made on.
Cost: $ 5.14 for 120g.
Le Sabot de Blanchette.
This creamy goat cheese is made in the traditional Swiss Normandy style but is produced on a farm in Saint Roch-de-l’Achigan, Quebec. Its natural rind is speckled with blue mold that is unique to its productionand adds to its character. This cheese is low in acid, and a great accompaniment for light dry white wines or ales.
Cost: $ 7.99 for 100g.
El Niño.
This cheese joined Quebec’s artisanal scene shortly after the provincial government re-​raised concerns over unpasteurized (raw milk) cheeses earlier this year. The Fromagerie Des Cantons in Farnham, Quebec felt it would take a big wind to blow this recurring controversy away, and thus named this cheese after these tempestuous trade winds in the south Pacific. This semi-​hard cheese uses Jersey cow milk (most commonly
used in the production of milk chocolate), and is similar in style to Saint-​Nectaire and Reblochon cheeses. The version of this cheese we picked up is extra special, as it’s soaked in a red wine bath for 30 days that lends a purple hue to its rind and adds the taste of wine to every bite.
Cost: $ 5.92 for 130g.
Le 1608.
This cheese from the Laiterie Charlevoix in Charlevoix, Quebec uses Canadian cow milk to produce a firm cheese that tastes farm fresh and has a slight hint of green apples to it. The cows used to make this cheese were first introduced to Canada in 1608 and reached 500,000 in number by the early 1900s. Unfortunately, farmers turned to other breeds that were more widely available, and this cow’s population dwindled down to the 500 that remain today. The farm behind this product is dedicated to preventing their extinction and keeping the unique taste of this cheese alive. Shop owner Gendron says this cheese is his favorite for making a more grown-​up version of traditional grilled cheese sandwiches.
Cost: $ 5.85 for 170g.
No cheese plate is complete without some accompaniments — such as crackers, sliced baguette and grapes. Gendron suggests the addition of almonds, raisins, dried cranberries and apricots, and says he once served a cheese plate with flower-​based artisanal jams and jellies made from lavender, violets, and pansies as an accompaniment. I often serve cheeses with «drunken apricots»; dried apricots soaked overnight in port.
If you are looking for a cheese plate for your party, this fromagerie can also prepare one for you (complete with signs that describe each cheese and all the accompaniments) that is presented on a reusable serving plate you can keep. The charge a very reasonable $ 5 fee for this service.
And if anyone at your party dislikes eating the rinds (though not all are edible), don’t throw them out — the rinds, not your guests — though I must confess I have been tempted to show some extremely picky eaters the door. Gendron suggests storing unused rinds in an airtight bag in your freezer (to stop the aging process), and grating them as needed to add a bit of cheesy zing to sauces or quiches.

Cette fromagerie offre un vaste choix de fromages. J’y ai d’ailleurs découvert un merveilleux fromage à la bière noire, qui est délicieux et constitue un condiment exceptionnel dans un hamburger. Si le choix qu’on y offre né peut rivaliser avec la prestigieuse fromagerie Atwater, situées à quelques kilomètres, ses prix sont beaucoup plus compétitifs. Ce commerce vend également du pain bio et quelques produits fins.

The discoveries continue as I found this tiny but dare I say it, awesome cheese shop in Verdun. With a name like Copette, I was expecting a dainty and delicate woman to be running the store, because Copette sounds a lot like Coquette. But I did not find a coquettish woman, instead I found a burly, gray haired, tattooed roughneck formerly mechanically inclined dude with some serious foodie addictions. For a good 30 minutes we talked cheese, breads cured meats, did a parmesan taste test comparaison and he even showed me his 2 inch thick steaks he had purchased for his evening meal. I mean seriously, two men in a cheese shop comparing their meat. There’s something wrong sounding about all that but fuck it, food lovers unite I say.
The cheese shop is a bit small however it packs a serious punch. The smell is pungent but the good pungent. This guy doesn’t mess around. He has a boulangerie section with breads from the Arhoma bakery from Montréal which has one Best Bread in Montréal. So of course I got a French baguette and I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t had even a decent French baguette in years (because good bread is hard to find) but that was quite possibly the best baguette ever. It’ll be combined with some delicious brie for tomorrow’s lunch. Oh yes, it’ll be awesome.
But wait this is a cheese shop right? Oh yeah, the cheese menagerie is simply stunning. There were many skeezy cheeses, cheeses I’ve never seen before and of course some classics (No American cheese here) and I left with a pound of imported Parmesan Regiano for the affordable price of 25 $ (For parmesan amateurs, this is a decent price) I should have enough for a month or so and the flavour profile was sharp and nutty and perfectly salty and I was in Parm Heaven.
Furthermore he has homemade quiche, among other homemade products. Homemade quiche, some dude left with 3 of them, so they must be tasty and oh yeah bonus time. On Sundays, it’s waffle day. Between 10am & 2pm, he prepares both savoury and sweet Belgian waffles. Woe what? Yeah you heard that right, fresh homemade Belgian waffles. I’m so there next Sunday.
So the owner is a blast who gave me tips on locations in Verdun, he can do specialty orders also, like Mozzarella di Buffalla and stuffed Mozzarella di Buffalla usually prepared for restaurants. And the ultimate bonus for me, less than 300 feet from my home.