Montreal cafe celebrates 80th birthday [Video]

Oxford Café, a restaurant in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, marks a major milestone. They’re celebrating 80 years since the original restaurant opened. In true fashion, they’re hosting with a feast.

“We said we’re going to do a cocktail party at night and we invited all our customers, all our friends to come,” said Gity Pour.

Gity Pour and her husband Mohammad Salgooghian took over in 1997, when the restaurant was already known in the neighbourhood.

“I remember when we started, a lot of people on their lunch hours, construction people coming, plumbers, electricians, even some accountants came to have a lunch,” said Pour.

They wanted to preserve its charm while adding their own spin to the menu.

“Mohammad is a chef and he was making everything here is homemade our pancake is homemade, our benedict sauce is homemade,” Pour said.

And maybe it’s that personal touch that’s the secret crowd pleaser.

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