Pâtisserie Callia Restaurant

This was a great small bakery in Chinatown with some delicious, expensive pastries. Highly recommend stopping in for some pastries while you’re in Montréal!

Pastries and treats at sweet prices. I had 3 pastries and coffee under 5 $. The best part however is the quality of the pastries. I honestly took 3 pastries thinking that I would at least like one. I ended up loving the 3 of them. They have there own texture and flavour. It’s not like they made one dough and slapped different custard/​flavour to make «variety». My only complaint is that the coffee is generic and lukewarm. So if you are a coffee addict like me it can be a problem.

After trying to get around with my horrid baby french for a couple of days, it gives me great comfort to go to chinatown because no matter how bad my chinese may be, it can be understood and I can say stuff having to do with food. Whereas in the states I may get a little self conscious going to chinatown after not having spoken any chinese in a while, I had no problem blurting out stuff out like «I would like 4 egg tards please»; They apparently were guarding them in the back. Other stuff are laid out in bins and you can just grab and pay.
The young girls working there were very nice and helpful. They asked me if I wanted a box of them instead which consisted of 6 freshly made egg tards and was a little over 3 bucks. The Hong Kong Milk tea was also very good. I saw them help out a couple of Indian girls who were new to the area and new to the food. There is a little sit down area in the back.
I was surprised someone wrote a bad review of this place. They were very nice to me and my husband. It helps if you try to speak to them a little in cantonese first. After being here for a couple of days I definitely have sympathy for people whose language is not english/​french and can related to them more. The workers here are not rude, just the opposite.

We read about Bakery Calia on here so we decide to go try with son. We spend all day in Montréal Chinatown to try bakeries and we decide this is best one! Not expensive much cheaper than other bakery, $ 1.10 for delicious fresh buns (son buy lots of sweet dessert bun to take back to dormitory) and egg tarts $ 0.25 I think. When we go at noon, egg tart just come out of the oven hot, we enjoy very much and buy twelve. Best price in Chinatown and most fresh too, I come back next time! I think cash only though

Pretty good bakery located in Montréal’s Chinatown. We received good service here too.
Not the best on this street though. Of the three bakeries, Patisserie Callia was second best. The egg tarts and the custard bun were above average. Other goodies were mediocre.
Are they worth returning to? Yes, they are. I would return for their yummy egg tarts and lower prices than the competition.

This is on of a few bakeries on this little road. They have a good variety, with some different items than the other shops however nothing really stood out to me as particularly better. They had a good selection of meat-​filled buns that did seem to have more options than neighboring shops. The BBQ Pork Bun was a delicious quick lunch and the doughnuts were good. I appreciated that she offered to remove the skewer from the doughnuts before we left the shop. Only downside is that it is cash only. I would definitely go here again. The prices are extremely reasonable, much lower than NYC, and portions seem much larger.

Excellentes pâtisseries a prix très bas .Je né peux résister quand je vais dans le quartier chinois!!!

Staying at a hotel near Montréal’s Chinatown is dangerous when you need snacks and have bakeries like this nearby.
Overall it’s your typical Chinese bakery offerings (no different from what you’d find in New York City) BUT The pastries here are LARGE and CHEAPER. That is only if you’re looking for pure quantity.
There are about 2 – 3 other Chinese bakeries along the same block as this one. What sets this place apart is the fact that the prices are relatively lower, but you pay for what you get.
As another reviewer had said, PASS on the bubble tea here. I concur.

loved the japanese cheesecake. a great selection for great prices. i don’t recommend the deep fried taro or any of the deep fried round rolls. They are really thick balls of oil.

Came here again. Egg tart is quite good and the price is reasonable. Beef curry bun is served hot and it is delicious.

The pastries here are wicked but I can’t say the same for the bubble tea! I stopped in here last night to try some Chinese pastries for the first time. This place has a huge selection of pastries, cakes and also sells bubble tea.
I got a coconut custard bun, a egg tart and a green onion roll. I also got a watermelon bubble tea. The bubble tea automatically comes with milk and bobba. My vegan boyfriend wanted to try bubble tea without the pearls so I couldn’t let him try it because of the milk, so that was kinda irritating but whatever. The tea actually tasted okay and the bobba was cooked well (raw bobba = terrible), but I kept biting into these pieces of burnt black stuff. I have no idea what they were but they ruined the drink for me. The coconut custard bun was awesome however, and huge. The coconut filling was so incredibly flavorful and it was only $ 1. The green onion roll was kind of bland and unremarkable, it was also only $ 1. The egg tart was yummy and was only $ 0.50. The rolls were enough to fill me up and it was $ 5.50. Students this is your place!!!

Excellente pâtisserie oú nous avons trouvé les meilleurs gâteaux de Montréal, à savoir des gâteaux de savoie présentés en hauteur dans des moules papiers ou en grosse part avec une fine couche de crème au milieu !!! Une tuerie et pour 1.10 et 2 dollars la part !!!

An interesting selection of Chinese pastries with some that I have never seen in my time in the Boston counterpart. The pastries are unfortunately lukewarm at best and it’s hard to figure out when they just came out of the oven. Overall, however, the food was pretty good and relatively inexpensive.
Food: 3 stars
Ambiance: 4 stars
Price: 3 stars

I don’t even write Unilocal reviews normally, but had to create one just to review this place.
I went to Montréal to visit for two days, hoping to find some good bubble tea to try in Chinatown. Not only did this place have terrible service, their bubble tea tastes completely disgusting. Is it even edible? First sip and I had to spit it out.
I ordered a lychee bubble tea. I asked if it came with boba. The lady asked boba? And I said, «Pearls.» She nodded and I paid. After I paid, she turned around to her co-​worker and started making fun of me for saying «boba». HELLOO! I understand Cantonese too. Don’t be ignorant. After I received my drink, I took a sip and had to spit it out. I let my friends taste it. They hated it. I went to the lady and told her that it doesn’t taste like lychee at all and she speaks to the other woman in Cantonese. The lady makes another one and it’s the same thing. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING. I didn’t even bother and walked out the door and left the drink by the door.
My friend ordered a passion fruit one and she hated it.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE. THE WORKERS ARE RUDE. THEIR DRINKS ARE NASTY. I haven’t tasted their baked goods, but I would never step into this place ever again, so I’ll never know.

I saw a review pop up on the feed about their drinks, which prompted me to mention their baked goods. I actually think most of their baked items are quite yummy! This is was the first bakery I visited in Chinatown, and when the place across the street was busy, this place usually had more breathing room. I feel like this place is more old-​school bakery than catering to young people or tourists, but as a whitey, I’ve never had an issue there.
PS: To Helen, if they did say something rude about you, you should have said something… posting here won’t make them check this behavior because odds are they don’t read Unilocal.Sorry you didn’t like the place :(Try across the street next time, at Harmonie.

There’s nothing quite like a good Chinese bakery buns and Callia does them well! My faves: BBQ pork bun & coconut. A little afternoon snack good for any walkabout Chinatown & Old Mtl. And on cold or rainy days, there’s a little seating area tucked away in the back of the store.

This place is fantastic. Their baked goods are all excellent — the BBQ pork buns (and BBQ pork pastry) are fantastic, the almond cookies are delicious, and I can’t get enough of their wife cakes.
The text on the pastries is a source of amusement for all who see it, but don’t let that bother you — it just makes the food tastier.
The staff is also super friendly, which is an added bonus.

I love their pork buns! (the regular ones, not the sesame coated ones) I also had salted pork cookies here, which were delicious!

Hands down favourite Chinese Bakery on the block.
Here are the reasons why:
1. Almond Cookies. When I was a kid I hated them, Now I love ‘em. They have great almond cookies
2. I like the coconut bun, and the topping of the pineapple bun. As far as I know no other bakery nearby seems to make the ultimate bun, The pineapple bun filled with the coconut insides.
3. They have the old school Vitasoy drink box, and I love the Chrysanthemum Cold Tea.
4. The Little Wife Cookie. The fact that they actually did the english translation of this product slays me. There is also the Big Wife Cookie. I’m a sucker for misspelled product stuff, or literal translations.
5. Japanese Cheesecake. I love it.
6. The cashiers there are super nice.
Only thing that is missing? The coconut gelatin square that I get from down the street east of St-​Laurent, on the same street.

After spending two days in Montréal and realizing that Canadian food is not my favorite, I was ecstatic to find Chinatown and this amazing little bakery. I felt like I was in a sweet shop out of a Harry Potter book; my eyes just couldn’t focus on one thing because there was just too much to look at.
Not only do they have sweets that melt in your mouth, they have a more «practical» hot food section, with pastries full of meats and veggies. This was the cheapest and best lunch I have yet had in Montréal. I also suggest getting some of the refrigerated treats; my favorite were the tiramisu and the mango mousse.

There are so many pastry shops to choose from now on this street. I was determined to try as many as I could within the short time I was visiting Montréal. Callia stood out in my mind because they have a larger selection of crispy pastrys with meat fillings, as well as many of the bun varieties. I had my eye on all of the curry filled pastries and tried one of each. They were not as flavorful as I was hoping for and I recommend reheating in a toaster oven instead of the microwave.
The bacon and onion bun gave me a stomach ache for a couple of days, which made it difficult to sample further. I was not able to try their bubble teas, but I did like the passion fruit bottled tea.

You can take me outside of my hometown New York City, but you cannot take New York City out of me! After a long day’s of driving from New York City and spending two hours at Ausable Chasm, dinner in Montréal’s Chinatown the sweet tooth kicked in. I was hoping for French Chinese flair in their sweets which I didn’t see anything unique except for a sweet donut which was gargantuan. I felt somewhat motion sick since we were driving for hours.
Ultimately, I opt for Dan Tat which is CAN $ 1.00 which after watching Liu Kim Ching (Risky Liu)‘s «Pastry» film made wet my appetite for Dan Tats. The Dan Tat is poorly prepared as the crust and flakes breaks so easily in my own hands.