Fous Desserts

Amazing pastries and hot chocolate. Well worth the price.

OMG, I think I just found the best dessert house in Montréal. I have been to so many bakeries around the world but this place is simply the best! I got a rose flavoured pasty, it was a organism in my mouth. It has so many layers of different flavours and you can taste the dedication the chef put in there. It was so good, I instantly wanted a second piece.
This place also sells a variety of desserts including all kind of baked goods, fine French dessert and chocolate. It is located in the middle of nowhere but it definitely worth the extra steps to get here
It is a must try in Montréal!

Went here for #lgtchocolatchaud, I love the cocoa coated marshmallow. Tried a bar also but wasn’t impressed :(

the croissants are beyond fantastic! so good that I bought a box to bring home! must try! other cakes and pastries are good too, but hands down the almond croissant is my favorite! never had one like it~ yummmm!

WOW this is simply a WOW place. This place is one of those small jams that only locals know about and tourist dream about. The coffee is great but people dont come here for the coffee they come here for the pastries that were touched by angels. Everything is so well made, small details, lots of butter great materials (they dont use cheap or low grade stuff) come in but the simplest Croissant and just sit and listen to your taste buds thank you.

Excellent croissant (choice of regular dough or organic dough). Very fluffly and crunchy. I also tried almond croissant and other cakes directly made from their backdoor workshop. Can try other bakeries such as palmier, brioche, etc. Very reasonable price. great service

I was craving for some pastries and was able to make it here just 15 minutes before closing time.
Sadly I am allergic to almonds, and a lot of yummy creations contained almonds. So I opted for this delicious chocolate raspberry delight. The first bite… Yum! It wasn’t overly sweet, there was enough raspberry to offset the bitterness of the chocolate but also light enough that it doesn’t weigh heavily in for stomach.
Just wish I had more time and was able to come in earlier to check out other delicious pastry creations before they were all gone.

One of the best croissants ever. We had the plain and the chocolate croissants, and they both were outstanding. Flaky and crunchy on the outside yet buttery and soft on the inside. It was really hard to stop just at one!

La boutique est difficile à trouver si l’on n’a pas l’adresse en mains. Toutefois, rendue à l’intérieur on découvre de charmants sorbets (que je reviendrai essayer) et d’intéressants chocolats. Les desserts que l’on trouve dans cette pâtisserie sont parfois originaux parfois pas mais sont généralement bien exécutés. L’ambiance de l’endroit n’est malheureusement pas si invitant bien que l’on sente l’effort pour le rendre accueillant.
Le gros plus: ils utilisent de la farine et du sucre biologique!
Le petit moins: la variété des desserts dont la majorité est très traditionnelle.
On trouve toutefois d’intéressants trucs comme: la belle-​Hélèné qui est une chocolatine agrémentée de poires caramélisées et le «financier airelles-​canneberges, mousseline érable et coulis d’argousier-canneberges»
J’aime le café glacé à la cardamome!

Faire un détour pour essayer leurs gâteaux vaut grandement le coup. Les classiques éclairs, choux et autres mille-​feuilles sont des antidépresseurs parfaits! Les viennoiseries? Ouf… Trop bon! Lorsque vous mettrez les pieds là-​bas et que vous aurez humé le beurre rôti et le sucre caramélisé, vous serez vous aussi des «junkies» de Fous desserts. Il n’y a rien à ajouter. C’est juste TROP BON!!!

Top notch viennoiserie and patisserie. Croissants and chocolatines are to die for, and the cakes, chocolates, and patisseries are all excellent.

I have visited this place this weekend while visiting MTL. We went on Saturday morning to get a croissant and a coffee. The coffee tasted burned but the croissant was divine. Today went again to get some croissants and their amazing chocolatine aux amandes and take it home. Highly recommended if you are in the Plateau.

while they may not hold the title for best croissant in town anymore, they are still great albeit still as expensive.
alongside their hot chocolate, i grabbed one of their ginormous croissant. still flaky, buttery, warm but something was a bit odd in the texture. its still good nonetheless.
as for the hot chocolate, it was somewhat chocolate intense and the milk foam helped in lessening the intensity. it was pretty satisfying.
all in all, its still my to go bakery in that part of laurier

So lucky to have such an amazing place in the neighborhood. Buttery, flaky, warm croissant with homemade jam and a big cup of coffee. The place always has been consistent with its quality for the last few years I have been. Even their cakes and chocolates are very good. Highly recommend the place.

Best desserts. Best chocolate. Their hot chocolate is one of the best i have had. Their plain croissants are the one of the best too. Highly recommended never disappoints.

Délicieux petit gouter chez fous desserts: leurs tartelettes citron meringuées sont exquises (la pâte croquante a souhait). Les viennoiseries sont très appétissantes mais nous né les avons pas goûtées (pain chocolat amandes, chocolat banane, croissants…)
Bonne sélection de thés et chocolats chauds! Parfait pour une pause au cours d’une balade dans le froid montréalais.

My fiancé and I were scouting for the best croissant in Montréal and aren’t we glad that we came to Fous Desserts! I wish we found it earlier so we can come everyday during our short trip in Montréal.
On our first day, we tried their almond croissant and plain butter croissant. The almond croissant was amazing in flavours and buttery texture. I’m usually not a almond croissant fan because of the extract after taste, but this one had none. It was just awesomely good! The butter croissant that my fiancé had was good but he wished it was fresh right out from the oven, even though it was baked on the same day.
On our second day (and sadly last day), we ordered their breakfast sandwiches with a side of greens. My fiancé had their asparagus, bacon and poached egg and he loved it. The asparagus was perfectly cooked and still had a bit of a crunch, and the runny yolks from the poached egg and the fresh buttery croissant was to die for! I had the smoked salmon with mascarpone cheese, it was so very good. The mascarpone spread was delicious and light, and again the croissant sealed the deal!
I wished we discovered this place earlier so we could come everyday. The service was great and friendly (bilingual staff). We will be back whenever we’re in town! For now I can only dream about the buttery goodness…

J’y vais pour les délicieux pains au chocolat, brioches, et la gentillesse du personnel.
Les croissants, craquant à l’extérieurmoelleux à l’intérieur, prix raisonnables

I wanted to try this place after hearing about their delicious croissants.
It is a little shop that is not in the main boutique-​y drag of Laurier street. There is not an obvious big sign above it and it looks unassuming and not all touristy. Inside is so nice and cute and smelled so good! There are lots of chocolates as well as baked goods. They are so nice and friendly here and I got some things to try.
The croissant is certainly very buttery and flakey. It is not as big as some places, but that doesn’t bother me at all. It just means I can eat more of the other stuff/​less calories. I actually just ate it out of the bag as soon as I left because it smelled so good and I was hungry.
Definitely worth checking out! I’ve been back already many times. :)

Nothing beats walking down the street eating a croissant or sandwich. It’s sheer heaven. I pulled the croissant from Fous Desserts out of its wax paper bag and I slowly took a bite. My nostrils flared as I paused to get my mind around what I was experiencing. Flaky, light texture, yet moelleux, soft. The butter. Was. Evident. But not like buttery. I don’t know how to explain it. It was as if butter had been raised to an angelic state and gently blessed this croissant with its essence. There is no other way to describe it. This croissant was perfect. So I know that I said that comparing Montréal and Paris was useless, but this fucking croissant was better than even the ones I’ve had in Paris. For one thing, it was bigger. Not much bigger, but maybe 5% bigger. There was more exquisiteness to enjoy. But never had I tasted something that harmonized the delightful savory/​sweet balance of the croissant so perfectly. It was a cloud with butter. It was pastry with wings. It was delicious!
You can read the rest of my review of this place at my blog. It was good enough to blog about!

First time here and I had an almond croissant and a latte. I have to say the croissant was one of the best I tried so far. Will definitely come back soon.

Amazing! Fous’ croissants are awesome. One bite and I just wanted to go give the chef a kiss and a hug. It was that excellent. I would take a trip to Montréal just for one of his croissants.

J’ai habité un moment au coin de St-​Hubert et de Laurier. Fous Desserts faisait alors partie intégrante de mon quotidien, et c’est un immense regret de né plus pouvoir y aller.
D’abord, le petit comptoir/​bar donnant sur la rue Laurier permet aux gens solitaires de déguster leur trouvaille devant un journal ou un bon livre. Il y a également 3 ou 4 autre petites tables. Les employés sont chaleureux. Ça sent bon le beurre et le chocolat. Une petite musique flotte. Le café est exquis. Sans parler des pâtisseries…
Un comptoir rempli quotidiennement de croissants au beurre, chocolatines (DIVINES soit-​dit-​en-​passant), croissants au fromage et aux amandes et autres pâtisseries classiques, et moins classiques. Puis, vers la gauche, il y a le comptoir de chocolats: car oui, Fous Desserts nous offre l’expertise de chocolatiers pour façonner des créations hors de l’ordinaire qui vous feront EXPLOSER la bouche. (piment d’espelette, caramel fleur de sel, etc.). En saison, vous pouvez vous procurer les oeufs de Pâques ou autres montages en chocolat. Encore plus a gauche, le comptoir des gâteaux. OOOH. On touché a mon point faible ici: la galette des rois est la meilleure du monde. Sinon, un menu varié de diverses gâteries en portions individuelles ou de groupe. Vous devez réserver d’avance si vous en voulez un en particulier.
Bön appétit :)

Had a croissant and hot chocolate breakfast there recently.
The croissants were acceptable but no more. The texture was ok but the taste was very bland.
The hot chocolate, that they make with Valrona melted chocolate, was inconsistent. Mine was very weak tasting but my partner’s was excellent.
The service was rather slow and not as smiley as one would like in the morning.

Bön alors oui on trouve des gâteaux et des chocolats. Et aussi des thés. Mais après? Qu’est-ce qui fait vraiment mériter à cet endroit son nom de fous des desserts? Perso, j’y ai trouvé une sélection pauvre et sans originalité. Pas de quoi se relever la nuit mais pourquoi pas comme ça en passant…

Excellent croissants and pastries, very good coffee, what appear to be very nice house-​made chocolates (didn’t try them today) in a small, relaxed, very pleasant artisinal patisserie. The croissant had a superior balance of flakiness, tenderness, texture and flavor. The seasonal galette des rois (Christmas almond pastry) was beautifully made and delicious. The atmosphere is refined but still casual.