In Montreal, restaurant De Farine et D’eau Fraîche lets you experience pastries, brunches and coffee that will make you travel in Wonderland. Everything is made out of fresh and quality ingredients that vary according to the season. Behind the ovens of De Farine et D’eau Fraîche in Montreal stands Marilu Gungi, pastry cook and chef of this enticing restaurant. She developed her passion and skill as a pastry chef at Cordon Bleu school in Ottawa, and allows you to discover exotic flavours like matcha tea and lemon yuzu. Her combinations are as delicious as they are surprising, and they’re always delicately balanced in every tiny bit of cake or pastry. For brunch with friends, a hearty breakfast, or an afternoon coffee while surfing the web, come visit us! more...See more text
Sweet smells strike you as you enter De Farine et d’eau fraiche, and with the vast flavours they offer from a well-toned menu of organic coffees and teas, cakes, cookies, baked treats and lunches ranging from grilled cheese, bagels and lox, gnocchi, chicken tajin, tacos and fish cakes, you know the sweetness will linger. The bakery was founded in 2011 by Marilu Gunji, a Japan native with Guatemalan roots. Marilu moved to Canada at the age of 18 to study English in Toronto and then at Ottawa’s Cordon Bleu school and quickly discovered herself to be a prodigious baker.
“I can recall the day I found out,” Marilu says in her distinctively energetic and sympathetic manner. “I had missed my first class at school and showed up to the second completely unprepared — the teacher forced me to fend for myself, borrowing scales from classmates and making up techniques as I went along. Then when he came around to taste my cookies, he said they were the best he’d ever had.”
De Farine et d’Eau Fraiche serves up artfully designed French pastries and cakes. The Gay Village haunt makes sure to let gluten-intolerant customers get in on the fun, with several of its cookies and pastries made gluten-free. De Farine also serves brunch, breakfast and lunch.