This place is right in the middle of the old city on its busiest street. It has an open-air terrace facing out onto the street, so you can take photos of people taking photos while you sip your drinks if you’d like. As you can image, it's a tourist trap and seemed generally filled to the brim with people just wanting to rest up in that central location. Despite the relatively high prices charged in places like this, there is something inevitable about it all, especially on a hot day in a nice place. You wander past people sitting under parasols with half-eaten salads and glasses of beer.So, you peer along the terrace, trying to determine if there's a free table, and wander in tentatively to be greeted by a 19-year-old usher who permits you to seat yourself in a spot of her choosing. These places do such a roaring trade that they can afford to employ somebody who does nothing much other than tell people where to sit.
Anyway, we sat down; looked out onto all those people out there in the sun, who were obviously wishing they were where we were; and took a deep breath before looking at the prices. As it happens, they were high-ish but not terrifying - C$4 and up for a small glass of beer, C$4 for a plate of frites mayonnaise, and C$13 for a Glos Plat de Nachos. All in all, C$30 for a unscheduled midday snack stop is a bit steep considering the purchases, but you must also take into account the value of the stop and experience itself, offering you the chance to pause a while and soak up the atmosphere of this lovely city over a beer.
The name of the place, judging by the signage and parasols, would appear to be the Pub St Patrick, but our bill was marked up as Cafe Bruyere, so I'm not entirely clear what it prefers to be called.