Café Pavé

Great pulled pork, great sandwiches (Naanwhiches!), good dessert and they do unsweetened black iced tea which is surprisingly hard to get in Montréal.
The place is very Brooklyn in a good way, and the service was great.

My daughter and I were on a trip to Montréal and stopped in here for lunch. The atmosphere is great. The service is wonderful. The food is amazing! I got the pulled pork and it was probably one of the best pulled pork I’ve ever had and I eat pulled pork everywhere I go. I would definitely go back here if I was in the area again.

I work right around the corner from Pavé and although you would think that familiarity might breed contempt, I am always pleased by the variety and freshness of their offerings. The friendly staff and laid back ambiance are also a plus.

This place is right around the corner from my new job. I was excited that they had gluten free bread, but the sandwich they made me was missing half its ingredients when I got back to work. Only meat and bread. Gee, thanks.

Excellent food with very attentive and kind staff. Four of us had the Tunis, Louisville, and Philadelphia Paves along with a Java Naanwich, and all were delicious! The staff were very friendly and checked in on us several times to make sure all was well. Matt even took the time to help us with directions for our afternoon plans! Would highly recommend for both the food and the great folks who work there.

Their pulled pork is roasted for 18 hours, y’all. It’s absolutely delicious, like literal melt-​in-​your-​mouth tender and packed with serious flavor.
Everything on Pave’s menu sounds fantastic, but I had to narrow it down and choose something during our lunch excursion. I happily ended up with the Osaka sandwich: the perfect pulled pork, crisp english cucumber, tangy goat cheese, and a kamikaze sauce with candied ginger that tied the whole thing together with a mild spicy kick. The only part of the sandwich that wasn’t fabulous was the gluten free bread, but I was extremely grateful they even had the option available. I think I’d rather just have the contents of the sandwich on their own (or on lettuce), however, since I found the GF bread to be especially dry and bland.
Pave has a ton of creative sandwiches that feature steak, pork, chicken, or bacon — plus an array of vegetarian selections. They also have breakfast, pizza, and desserts. The menu seemed a little bit all over the place, but Adam and I were satisfied with our orders. The kettle cooked potato chips made a great side and added some texture to my meal, and I think the portions were perfect for lunch.
My one regret? Not ordering the gluten free mango cheesecake. What is wrong with me?! Where will I find that again? I’m mildly upset about it you guys.
Otherwise, all positive thoughts when it comes to Café Pave!

This café is ok. Sandwich was a regular sandwich… Nothing special to write home about! The gluten free sandwich was ok. Again, nothing fantastic there. Its a good place for lunch if your passing by with a gluten free friend and want a quick bite. A bit on the pricy side but that is to be expected considering their location.

Tasty, but the pulled pork had the mouthfeel of salmon salad. Kind of weird. The ambience is good, and the location is convenient to the business district. For the location prices are very reasonable, but portions are small so don’t expect a filling meal.

I have to say, the owner of this place has his menu down. For those of us with gluten allergies, he has a dedicated menu to let us know which sandwiches can be safely made gluten free and which ones risk cross contamination. Regrettably, the soup side is not gluten free (although so easily made that way), but I’m seriously happy to be able to eat these delicious sandwich creations.
Absolutely love the athena sandwich — plenty of feta and fresh vegetables.
Come enjoy a meal here, celiacs and gluten intolerants! :)

the beshtttttt!!! sandwiches i have had…
pulled pork sandwich was awsomeeee… meat soooo tender…
i felt cheated when i learnt that they are closed on weekends…
why would you wanna even close down such a place…
Jealous of all the folks who work near this place and eat at this joint again and again…
I was visiting Montréal and i am happy to have stumbled over this location…

Located just a stone’s throw away from Notre-​Dame Basilica, Café Pavé is a great lunch option. They operate from Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Chef Matt is very passionate bout his food and you can see it in his sandwiches. They use ciabatta bread for most of their sandwiches, but they also have a Nanwich option where you can have your sandwich in a nan bread instead. Their pulled pork sandwiches are to die for. My personal favorites being the Lima & Monterey. Did I mention its very reasonably priced? A trio, Sandwich, Drink and a side (soup/​salad/​chips) is around 10 – 13 bucks. Not bad at all. Actually its one of the best lunch spots in the neighborhood. The service is quick and very friendly.
Definitely recommended
P. S. — Try their house «Hot» sauces
Food — Good
Service — Friendly
Ambiance — Casual
Worth the money — Oh Yeaaaah

Great little place for a quick bite! Also the only place I’ve seen that has gluten free bread, which was a selling point for me. I had a veggie sandwich on the GF bread, which was delicious, although seeing as how the gf bread is on the small side, the sandwich wasn’t exactly large. My boyfriend’s sandwich (Buenos Aires) on regular baguette was a more standard lunch sandwich portion, in my opinion. Your sandwich also comes with a soup or a salad, and for $ 9-​$ 11 that’s definitely one of the best deals I’ve seen for a meal in Montréal. Great spot if you are looking to save a little money but still have a tasty meal!

sandwiches are GREAT and full of flavor… soups are BAD. just order the chips. Great options for vegetarians and their ingredients are high quality. Employees are super friendly.

All sandwiches come with a choice of soup of the day, salad or chips… Go for the chips, they’re the thick, kettle-​type chips. Café Pavé is a great lunch option for a quick grab and go or stay and eat. From grain-​fed chicken sandwiches, all out bacon-​based sandwiches and vegetarian choices; fresh ingredients, prepared properly, the sandwiches are warm and substantial; a great alternative to your typical refrigerated cold cuts and loveless sliced cheese. Alternatively, they do offer whole wheat wraps and gluten free bread, but if those are not to your taste, the fresh ciabatta is the best way to go anyways.

Quite possibly the perfect lunch experience for a local business-​person. If you are a tourist and you crave an excellent sandwich. try this place instead of Titanic which is always lined up… for good reason… but try Pave… it’s eye-​openingly good.

I don’t want to oversell it, but the Rio is probably my favorite sandwich ever. The staff here is friendly, the décor of this restaurant is spot on, the soups are good, and the prices are fair. I work around the corner and this is one of my regular lunch spots. I highly recommend it.

Just what we were looking for! After trekking over to Notre Dame in the hot sun this past weekend, we were both weary and looking for some lunch before heading home to Vermont. We were looking for something that was casual, inexpensive, not necessarily the full server experience but definitely something local and not a chain. We stumbled upon Café Pave and were pleased with the menu outside so we wandered in. We ordered two of the lunch specials — a sandwich with either the soup or a side salad and a drink for $ 9.99 + tax. We both got the pulled pork sandwichs (the Monteray and the Osako, I believe) and side salads. The Monteray, in particular, was AMAZING and we both loved the dijon dressing for the salads. The breads for the sandwiches were just lovely — almost an English muffin consistency with a firm exterior. We loved it. The interior of the café was casual but fun and we the chalkboard paint on the walls in the back and bathrooms where patrons could leave quotes or comments was quite clever. The service was very friendly as well and our dishes were brought to us promptly. I bet this place is quite popular with the work crowd!
We took a business card and will definitely be back when we are in town again!

I came to get a take-​out lunch and ordered soup and the Italia salad. The soup was a just passable purée of hard to define vegetables, and the flavor was mainly of cream and salt, although a hint of garlic was detectable. The salad. Oh dear. Well, I ordered it to go, and it was put in a liter soup container, so that the pieces of prosciutto, Parmesan cheese, and capers were on top, and the lettuce below. I had to wait quite a while, even though they were only moderately busy. As I was leaving the cook ran after me and gave me the dressing she had forgotten to put in the bag with my salad, so points for remembering and running after me, but demerits for having forgotten in the first place. When I got back to the office and peeled back the lid on my little salad treasure capsule, I spread the contents out on a plate. The prosciutto clung together in a prosciutto meat ball, and there were a few sprouts that had nothing to do with anything Italian, and then there were about five capers (anyone who knows me knows I am a huge caper fan, so demerits on the lack of capers too!;). On top of everything was some crumbled parmesan cheese. I tried the prodigal dressing, and it was awful. The trinity for this place seems to be cream, garlic, and salt, which is basically what the dressing was, and again, it had very little to do with Italian flavors, except for the garlic of course. If you’re going to call a salad Italia, then a smattering of prosciutto, capers, and parmesan on lettuce is a poor attempt. At least add some grilled eggplant, zucchini, artichoke, pickled mushrooms to the aforementioned, and serve it with a nice olive oil vinaigrette. The cardinal sin for me though, was the fact that they hadn’t even bothered to sort the bad lettuce from the good, and I wonder whether or not they didn’t just reach in a bag of big bulk store restaurant lettuce, without washing it or looking at it to see if it was rotten before packing it up for me. I found about ten to fifteen pieces of edible lettuce, while the rest was wilted, rotting, brown, or just yuck. I have no idea why restaurants that charge $ 10 or more for a meal salad, don’t ensure that the main component of that salad is not perfect, and moreover why people often let them get away with it — this isn’t the first baby romaine disaster I’ve had in Montréal unfortunately. The bulk of my only giving two stars to this place lies with the lack of attention to detail that allowed me to receive a basically inedible $ 10 salad, and with the lack of imagination and poor execution in the dishes themselves. Maybe they make great stuff otherwise, and I just caught them in a bad moment, but there are too many other good places in the Old Port for me to give this one another chance. Sorry so negative! Happy thoughts from now on. Ommmm.

Great food, friendly service, family friendly, an excellent spot for lunch!

Glad to have happened upon what really is a destination café for the freshest soups, sandwiches and friendly service. Really, really good sausage sandwich with braised spinach and super roll. A lentil soup (ordinarily not my favorite… too often gruel-​like and mushy) which was filled with rough-​cut veggies, fully cooked but firm lentils and a beautiful clear broth. Daylight and sky pouring through the façade, gracious personnel. When I met the chef owner, who walked the length of the café to serve me, I said what immediately came to mind: «You obviously know what you’re doing and love what you’re doing.» But don’t take my word for it. Go there.