The first Montreal Cafe to accept Bitcoin

[btctalk]

Café Aunja – 1448 Sherbrooke West

CAFÉ AUNJA: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
It’s around a cup of coffee that My Dear Montréal was born.
A warm ambiance, a vintage decor, a welcoming staff and a lulling melody; we almost feel like home.
Café Aunja offers a healthy menu that changes at the whim of the seasons, refreshing drinks and a large variety of oriental tea.
Grade: 9/10
- MY DEAR MONTRÉAL

Cafe Aunja is the first and only cafe in Montreal that accepts Bitcoin, located at 1448 Sherbrooke West (Google Map), Downtown, Montreal. This place best described by Google: “Cozy basement-level Persian tea & coffee spot offering sweets, art on the walls & live music.”
Also there is a 10% discount if you pay by bitcoin

“Everything about his place makes you want to loose track of time and wonder about the meaning of life (until you find it). The front space welcomes a new exhibition or performance every other day, while the back end, filled with a large couch, is a cosy haven for the intellect at work. Should you need a little dose of caffeine to keep up with conversation, Cafe Aunja has you covered with over 60 varieties of dried flowers and teas to mix into your very own hot drink. Every teapot is served with a few Persian chickpea cookies (Nan-e Nokhodchi) that literally melt in your mouth. So really, you have no reason to leave.”
– MTL Food Snob

More Reviews and pictures:
- Yelp Cafe Aunja
- Introspective Eater - Chill artsy downtown cafe
- Cafe Aunja Instagram Page
- Have your Coffee with Bitcoin #MTL

[knight22]

Neat! Did you convince them yourself?

[124C41]

Bravo!

[HWoodrow]

Very very good news. I wish that many people will pay using bitcoin and not FIAT currency ! is the first of all montreal cafè?

[btctalk]

Neat! Did you convince them yourself?

The owners are pretty open to new ideas and they were really excited about the idea when I told them.
All the work has been done by me, hopefully I would get some feedback to make the backend system more efficient

Very very good news. I wish that many people will pay using bitcoin and not FIAT currency ! is the first of all montreal cafè?

Yes, the first cafe in montreal that accepts bitcoin and also in Quebec province. I did a quick research and couldn't find one in the whole eastern Canada.

[Daniel91]

Neat! Did you convince them yourself?

The owners are pretty open to new ideas and they were really excited about the idea when I told them.
All the work has been done by me, hopefully I would get some feedback to make the backend system more efficient

Very very good news. I wish that many people will pay using bitcoin and not FIAT currency ! is the first of all montreal cafè?

Yes, the first cafe in montreal that accepts bitcoin and also in Quebec province. I did a quick research and couldn't find one in the whole eastern Canada.

Great news!
I hope that many more cafes will follow them!
Recently, we also got first bitcoin ATM in Croatia.
Soon, we will become mainstream

[HeroCat]

Well, very good  When I will be there, must look 

[mezmerizer9]

Café Aunja – 1448 Sherbrooke West

CAFÉ AUNJA: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
It’s around a cup of coffee that My Dear Montréal was born.
A warm ambiance, a vintage decor, a welcoming staff and a lulling melody; we almost feel like home.
Café Aunja offers a healthy menu that changes at the whim of the seasons, refreshing drinks and a large variety of oriental tea.
Grade: 9/10
- MY DEAR MONTRÉAL

Cafe Aunja is the first and only cafe in Montreal that accepts Bitcoin, located at 1448 Sherbrooke West (Google Map), Downtown, Montreal. This place best described by Google: “Cozy basement-level Persian tea & coffee spot offering sweets, art on the walls & live music.”

“Everything about his place makes you want to loose track of time and wonder about the meaning of life (until you find it). The front space welcomes a new exhibition or performance every other day, while the back end, filled with a large couch, is a cosy haven for the intellect at work. Should you need a little dose of caffeine to keep up with conversation, Cafe Aunja has you covered with over 60 varieties of dried flowers and teas to mix into your very own hot drink. Every teapot is served with a few Persian chickpea cookies (Nan-e Nokhodchi) that literally melt in your mouth. So really, you have no reason to leave.”
– MTL Food Snob

More Reviews and pictures:
- Yelp Cafe Aunja
- Introspective Eater - Chill artsy downtown cafe
- Cafe Aunja Instagram Page
- Have your Coffee with Bitcoin #MTL

Nice! I'm planing to open a caffe in Belgrade, we have a restaurant where you can pay with BTC but not a caffe like this. I think it would be brilliant, because there is actually a lot of people from Belgrade that are using BTC. What do you guys think? Any experience with caffe where you can pay with btc?

[ytr8]

More and more business begin to accept bitcoins, but why the bitcoin prices are falling?

[Victoo]

More and more business begin to accept bitcoins, but why the bitcoin prices are falling?

It is still too far from having enough merchants.

Price is falling because still no certainty that governments will accept it or ban it.

[SFMiner]

Great news, and congrats on getting them up and running with Bitcoin!

I'll definitely check it out soon...

[allthingsluxury]

Great job and keep it up! Good to see more and more small businesses accepting BTC!

[btcrich]

Great work!

[btctalk]

Nice! I'm planing to open a caffe in Belgrade, we have a restaurant where you can pay with BTC but not a caffe like this. I think it would be brilliant, because there is actually a lot of people from Belgrade that are using BTC. What do you guys think? Any experience with caffe where you can pay with btc?

There are some small issues that need to be fix. the main one would be a faster way to verify if the transaction is confirmed or if it's broadcasted to the network, it's not realistic to wait 10,15 minutes (yet only for 1 confirmation) to pay for a cup of coffee.
There's this trade off of time vs. security, you either should trust the broadcast (unconfirmed transaction) or wait for the first confirmation.

I'm researching different methods of fast verification and this is a great experience to see how each one works out in real life situations.

Another issue is privacy that you should not reuse one address for all your transactions. The other challenge would be the security of private keys that I assume I've overcome this with some basic cryptography.

and also it's always possible to get a 3rd party like bitpay to go through all this trouble, but I prefer to have everything on my own hands, even if there would be any blames (hopefully not)

More and more business begin to accept bitcoins, but why the bitcoin prices are falling?

Victoo is right on this, and also most of the ups and downs in bitcoin prices are basicly the changes in supply and demand (bid/ask) in the market. we have a long way to stabilize this with the number of merchants that accept bitcoin.

[jennifer21]

I hope every Cafe in the world accepts bitcoin too.

[yayayo]

Neat. Looks like a cozy place!

What worries me a bit are reports by a few people (recently on reddit) that some of the places that once did accept Bitcoin are no longer doing it due to lack of demand and complexity. It seems that some businesses just took the opportunity for some cheap advertising...

I hope this place will continue to accept BTC even if it will take time for real demand to establish. We need more of the smaller and medium businesses to accept bitcoin, because those are the real backbone of the economy.

ya.ya.yo!

[mullerdan]

Congratulations! its a really great new!

[fredthegambler]

Yes! Happy to hear that Canadians are accepting btc with open arms.

[1Referee]

I wish we had some places like that here where I could actually spend some Bitcoins.

Looking forward to see more Bitcoin accepted here logos on store windows

[Madness]

You convinced them by your self ? Good job mate I wish everyone do the same in his area