Matcha Scout

How it works

Matcha Scout is a shared, human-written guide to Montréal cafés and restaurants. There are no scraped star ratings here — every entry came from someone texting in a photo and a sentence about a place they liked, and it's kept exactly as they wrote it. Nothing rewrites or summarises what you send.

Adding a spot

Text a photo plus a line about the place to +1 438 901 9530. Anything you'd tell a friend works — the name, roughly where it is, and what it's actually like.

You → 📷 “Café Olimpico in Mile End, big terrasse,
       cash only, best cappuccino in the city”

Us  → Saved in Mile End — thanks. It's in.

You can search by text too, and get a few suggestions back:

You → “any quiet matcha near Mile End?”

Us  → Found:
       Kettl, monastic room, no wifi · Mile End (0.3km)
       Sey, bright and calm in the morning · Mile End (0.6km)

Text it a question instead

Anything that reads like a question comes back as a few matching notes, so you don't have to open this page at all.

Reply FORMAT at any time and it will text you these examples back. (HELP is intercepted by the carrier and answered with their own generic text, which is why the keyword is FORMAT.)

Neighbourhoods it recognises

Mention one of these and the note gets pinned to it on the map. Anything else is saved with no location rather than guessed at.

Mile End · Le Plateau · Mile-Ex · Little Italy · Outremont · Parc-Extension · Villeray · Rosemont · Hochelaga · Downtown · Chinatown · Old Montreal · Griffintown · Saint-Henri · Verdun · NDG · Westmount · Mont-Royal

These are approximate — a note pinned to Mile End sits at the middle of Mile End, not at the venue's door. That's why the map labels them with a ~.

Messaging terms

You opt in by texting the number. We only reply to messages you send us.
Message frequency depends on you — typically one reply per message.
Message & data rates may apply.
Reply STOP at any time to stop. Reply HELP for help. En français : ARRÊT pour arrêter, AIDE pour de l'aide.
We store your phone number only as a salted hash, and only long enough to reply. See the privacy policy.