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Espace Boutique Europea, Montréal

It has an unfortunate name, but Montréal's Espace Boutique Europea, at 33 rue Notre Dame Ouest, is one of the coolest one-off retail nooks we've seen in some time. Part delicatessen, part boutique, part café, Europea is encased in an attractive, clean space.

Associated with Restaurant Europea (at 1227 de la Montagne), the Europea boutique is jammed full of hard-to-find gourmet objects. While food and drink are the core products at Europea, cosmetics and housewares are also on offer.

Highlights include the Rolland Chocolatier chocolate collection, which include chocolate from São Tomé and Príncipe and Cuba, among other places, and Ark Land Water, an Armenian mineral water that comes in the coolest bottle we've seen in quite some time.

The overall impression is one of a retail shop in which every last object was carefully chosen. We like that.