Bossa and Clarke Café are part of a growing number of popular Italian-inspired sandwich and coffee shops popping up all over Montreal. The key ingredient is family.
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There’s a sandwich I’ve been dreaming about for years. Spicy Hungarian salami on a fresh, soft cheese bun, with lettuce, tomatoes, extra pickles the whole thing fairly dripping with mayonnaise and yellow mustard. That was my sandwich at Boulangerie Clarke, the beloved Mile End shop that closed in 2015. How exactly this came to be my sandwich, I couldn’t tell you. In the regular course of things, it never occurs to me to eat spicy salami. But that’s what I chose off the board the first time I was there, and I don’t believe in messing with a good thing. Even with extra pickles, the whole sammie only cost about $5 an extraordinary bargain for a made-to-order lunch on a freshly baked bun roughly half the size of your head. Between the liberal toppings and the lavish saucing, it was a five-star and five-napkin sandwich.