Café Alphabet, a family-operated coffee place in the Mile-End area of Montreal, has queues extending down the street every weekend.
A number of well-known visitors were recently seen enjoying the café's popular Freddo cappuccino.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed, in a video shared on Café Alphabet's Instagram, that it's the best coffee he's had all year.
Trudeau and his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the café while Mitsotakis was in Montreal to mark Greek Independence Day.
Café Alphabet is the brainchild of brothers Tony and Tom Argripoulos.
As Montreal residents of Greek descent, the Argripoulos brothers are carrying on a family legacy. Their uncles owned a Greek bakery in the 1970s just three blocks away.
A visit from the Greek Prime Minister is a rare event in Canada and was a memorable occasion for the Montreal business.
“It was the first time in 41 years that a Greek PM officially visited Canada, and it was beautiful moment for us as a Greek-Canadian business,” the Instagram post reads.
The storefront opened in July and has already gained attention online with its Freddo cappuccinos, a Greek-style iced coffee topped with foamed milk.
In addition to the praise from the prime ministers, the Freddo also attracted the interest of actress Blake Lively.
The Hollywood celebrity paid a visit to the coffee shop last week.
“She told me that this was her first stop in Montreal and she’s been meaning to come for a long time. She saw us on Tik Tok and on Instagram,” said co-owner Tony Argripoulos on Global News Morning.
The café is an offshoot of the brothers’ roasting company, Ambros Coffee, which they have been operating for four years.
Despite the long lines, Tony insists that their coffee is worth the wait.
“There’s music, there’s tempo, there’s youth,” he said. “We find that there’s worse places to wait in the world.”
