Montreal will be hosting a coffee festival in May to celebrate the independent coffee shops who have a tough time competing with the coffee monster corporations such as Second Cup, Tim Hortons and Starbucks. The festival is called Café Fest. The participating coffee shops include Anticafé, Café Osmo, Le Dépanneur Café and Avenue G. I am sure most of our EC Montreal students have never heard of these small, independent coffee houses. For this reason, this festival is so important. We always try to promote small business hours and local companies.
This will be Café Fest’s fourth edition of this festival. It takes place from May 5 to May 11. Participating coffee shops will be selling coffee for only $1 for the ristretto, espresso, americano and filter coffee and $2 for the cappuccinos and lattes.
The fest is also holding an Instagram contest! Take a photo of your coffee in a participating store, Instagram it and you could win one year of coffee, a workshop for two, or a coffee basket from Barista Microtorréfacteur.
Look for an outing at one of these coffee houses on EC Montreal’s May calendar of events!
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