Ben & Tournesol

This place is a gem!
Everytime I need a present or want to buy myself a little something different I head to this store. The owners and staff are so helpful and give such great advice.
I also visit this store every year before Christmas and get all my ‘tricky’ gifts there. You don’t know what to get for someone — this store will have something for anyone!
I love the Matt&Nat selection as well as the variety of items.
The dogs are sweet and make this place feel even more welcoming.

I recently heard of this store on a Facebook post. They looked like they had some nice stuff for gifts or home, so I decided to drive up and see what they had to offer. BIG MISTAKE. First of all, as soon as I walked in I went over to look at some throw pillows and let me just be clear unless you are a 65 year old westmount woman or a gay guy into florals this is not the place for you. I fit into the latter category but just barely. As soon as I touched a pillow a sales-​girl came over and said ‘I see you’re wrecking our display’, she was trying to be funny and apparently flex her comedy chops which she clearly did not posses. I laughed it off because I have a sense of humour and clearly she doesn’t. I continued to look around with my boyfriend when I said ‘oh look at this 120 $ devil head pencil sharpener, I like it, I don’t know why I like this devil design I’ve seen from Jonathan Adler but I do…’. The unsolicited response from the woman at the desk was, literally was ‘maybe you’re the devil’. At this point I was beginning to understand that this was clearly a situation of 2 middle aged westmount women with incredibly bad senses of humour and customer skills being trapped in a box of over-​priced bric and brac for way too long. It didn’t stop there. I picked up an air freshener for 24 dollars that the lid fell off of when I touched and I fumbled a bit and I said ‘I probably shouldn’t touch anything in here haha’ and the response to that was ‘you probably shouldn’t, we have the dog in here for the past 3 years and they don’t make as much of a mess as you’. I felt like I was at a really bad comedy show that at this point was just becoming offensive. I ended up spending 165 $ and left, I wish I wouldn’t have. The Jonathan Adler box I bought I found on line for half the price and I think I’ll just end up giving it away. Everytime I look at it at home it just reminds me of the brutal experience I had there, so it really lost it’s luster for me. I am a really successful hairdresser in Montréal and we do nothing but talk, I’ll make sure to promote this place as a no-​fly zone for anybody who doesn’t want to pay double or be treated with epically bad customer service!

One of my favorite shops in Westmount — and perhaps in all of Montréal. This boutique specializes in home accessories, gifts, and some jewelry, with a nice kids/​baby section, and a nice pet section. (I’m not sure why this store is categorized under women’s and men’s clothing. It is not a clothing store).
This is where I go to find unique gifts… items that I haven’t seen in the States. Sure, there are gorgeous Kate Spade and Hermes plates, but there are also funky wine accessories and Jonathan Adler knickknacks and beautiful pens and soaps and candles. I purchased the best passport/​travel document case here about 8 years ago and it still looks like new, despite a ton of use and abuse.
The guys that own this shop have a humongous, sweet dog here named Emma who my kids fawn over. She’s a gentle giant who sleeps all day (seemingly) and I consider her to be the store mascot.
The owners are always friendly and seem to know everyone in the neighborhood.
Great, great store!!!