TL;DR/The Short Version:
Korean grocery store in downtown Montreal. Relatively small but has good variety.
The Long Version:
H Mart has arrived in Montreal. I feel a little bummed because I prefer small independently owned businesses over big chain stores, but truth be told, other than the name, the store looks and feels like it did before when it was one of the two "Épicerie Coréenne & Japonaise" locations on Ste Catherine West. This one became an H Mart (known as H Marché in Quebec) the other one is now MTLKFOOD (which is also an Asian grocery store). I don't know the backstory, but the prices aren't very different from before and with the exception of more prepared foods in their refrigerated section and more prepackaged bakery items, they are selling the same products that they did before.
I was really hoping that the advantage of a chain with purchasing power would mean lower prices, but I didn't really see that.
It's still a fun place to poke around and look for Asian items like imported snacks, but if you've been to the store when it was called Épicerie Coréenne & Japonaise, not much has changed.
Review #78 (2025) read more