Jaimée Sweets & Cie: Outremont’s Indulgent Pastry Café

Jaimée Sweets & Cie, as the name suggests, is more than just a pastry shop. Cookies, cakes, candy, pastries, matchas and coffees all get the same indulgent treatment, and this small, discreet address on Bernard Street commits to decadence from start to finish. The best part is that the vast majority of what you eat there is gluten-free, with no compromise on taste.

At least 70% of the menu at Jaimée Sweets & Cie is, without it being written in big letters and, above all, without you tasting it. Marie-Josée Katcho, the owner, who was, among other things, a director at Boulangerie Guillaume, is gluten intolerant herself. When she wanted to put her carrot cake back on the menu, she had both versions made and had the team taste them. Everyone preferred the gluten-free one. That’s the one that stayed, and the logic carried over to every recipe that followed. She’s even been told her gluten-free cupcakes beat the classics. For us, it was the sesame butter cookie that won us over. Custom cakes for special occasions can be ordered here too. For Marie-Josée, that’s where her passion takes shape, her own way of expressing herself.

The drinks belong to the same family as the desserts. Matchas and coffees play with unexpected flavours here, built with house-made compotes, a premium matcha, a cold brew and a high-end espresso. There’s no claim to please the purists here, but anyone looking for a sweet treat in a glass will find what they came for, and the result is as good to look at as it is to drink, whether you sit inside or on the benches set up out front.

Marie-Josée has never advertised Jaimée Sweets & Cie. “I’m really old school. I believe in word of mouth, in people discovering our products and deciding for themselves that we’re good,” she says. She also points out that none of it would exist without the team she spent years bringing together. We’ll take her word for it: one pastry is enough to understand, and we’re betting that anyone who walks through the door once will adopt the place for good.

Written by Jean-Philippe Tastet
Photography by Alison Slattery

Updated on August 28, 2026

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