Cinqàsept: The Ville-Émard Buvette and Bottle Shop Putting Local Producers First

Not so long ago, tracking down a good local bottle or a piece of artisan cheese in Ville-Émard was its own small expedition. That is the gap Cinqàsept set out to fill in 2020, opening a tiny shop devoted entirely to local products, a rare thing in this corner of Montréal at the time. The boulevard Monk address has grown up since: the early grocery-and-bottle-shop picked up a neighbourhood buvette in late 2024, a room where you eat exceptionally well and where everything circles back to putting Québec producers in the spotlight.

From Art School to a Boulevard Monk Kitchen

The real turn came in January 2026, when Lambert St-Cyr, now the sole owner, took over the kitchen. A graduate in art and design, he comes at cooking as an unapologetic self-taught outsider, “with a different eye, guided by curiosity and experimentation” and by the pleasure of hosting rather than the trade’s usual rulebook. For him, cooking is another way of making something: a playground where instinct sets the tempo, following the seasons and whatever turns up at the door.

When the Harvest Writes the Menu

You feel that freedom in a menu that never stops reinventing itself. The team is small, the space is tight, and instead of chasing complexity, Lambert would rather hunt down the finest products he can and let them speak. The menu takes shape around the harvests, including those from the Ferme des Quatre-Temps, and around the deliveries of the artisans the house works with hand in hand. New dishes turn up every week, and two visits rarely look the same.

Snow Crab So Fresh That Mon Lapin Comes to Stock Up

Spring is when Cinqàsept pulls out all the stops, at the height of snow crab season. By dealing straight with the fishermen, the shop can offer the creature live on the counter and a rare freshness at the table, so much so that celebrated addresses like Mon Lapin and Beba come here to stock up every year. It is the kind of detail that tells you exactly how seriously this small room takes its sourcing.

Eighteen Seats, Québec Wine, and Three Cocktails That Don’t Miss

Built to be shared, this cooking is eaten in an intimate, contemporary and pared-back room where the bottle shop and the restaurant sit side by side: 18 seats, plus another fifteen or so in summer once the terrace opens. In the glass, the house stays true to itself, with Québec and private-import wines at gentle prices, and on the cocktail side, three sure things (negroni, paper plane, gin and tonic). It is the sort of list that rewards regulars without ever feeling exclusive.

More Than 200 Local Beers, and a Bottle for the Road

The adjoining caviste keeps “more than 200 local microbrewery beers,” along with a thoughtful no-alcohol selection of mocktails and zero-percent beers. Whether you are a neighbour or an epicurean chasing good value, out for a date night or a private party, Cinqàsept bends to the occasion without ever losing its corner-shop soul. You come to eat well, drink well, and leave with a find under your arm. And that is something Ville-Émard genuinely needed.

Written by Mikael Lebleu
Photography by Philippe Émond / Cinqàsept

Updated on July 23, 2026

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