Drogheria Fine - Montréal

Drogheria Fine serves as a good reminder that you don't have to blow your budget to eat well in the city! We picked up two boxes of their piping hot gnocchi with chili flakes parmesan cheese for just $10 (taxes in! , and took a nice long walk to and through Little Italy. Just remember to stop by the bank beforehand – it's cash only.

Drogheria Fine is a small storefront selling sauces, gnocchi and other Italian products on Fairmount. It is the best idea I have seen in Montreal in a while.  Stop at the window and your gnocchi  are literally served hot in two seconds flat, that is if there is no line up.  Take out gnocchi in a take out container. Pure Genius. The cost $5.00 fora generous portion. Pick  some up on your way home  for a quick lunch or diiner. The sauce is authentic and the gnocchi delicious. They even top it off with some good parmesan cheese. Why does the plateau get all the best places, Kem Coba, Wilensky, Fairmont Bagel and now this. I am jealous.

Soooo yummy! You have to come try these gnocchi and the sauce is perfect too. Stopped here on our food tour and it was a lot of peoples favourite stop.

I love gnocchi. At Drogheria Fine, you can get a small takeout box for $5 including taxes. If you want extra parmesan, it's an additional $1 (if it had been reggiano, I would have taken it, but it's romano). In short, the gnocchi were cooked perfectly, but the tomato sauce was a bit too acidic for my taste. Make sure to grab plenty of paper napkins just in case, as the sauce was dripping from my box and I had it all over my fingers! Enjoy your meal! P.S. Cash only.

When we were in Italy we wondered why the concept of fresh pasta to go didn’t exist in Montreal. In Venice we found a gorgeous little take out window with the most delicious fresh pasta made on the spot, topped with various sauces that were sent out in little Chinese takeout containers. In Montreal you can grab Chinese food, pizza, hot dogs and hamburgers, even sushi to go, but what about pasta?