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"I visited Slice + Soda’s new St-Laurent outpost at 3845 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, its fourth location tucked between Roy and Napoleon and sandwiched between La Vieille Europe and Boucherie Hongroise. They’re slinging the same jumbo New York–style thin-crust slices ($5 a pop or $30 for a full pie) found at their Mile End, Old Montreal, and Concordia-area shops — classic options like pepperoni, vegetarian, four cheese, and bocconcini — but the owners hope this one reads more like the Main: a graffiti mural of the New York subway by a local artist, a vintage 1970s pinball machine, and what co-owner Brahms Yaich calls a slightly more artsy fit-out. The chain is co-owned by Ludovic Marionnet as well, and while you can fold the pizza like you’re running for the subway, the flour comes from Ontario (Yaich says Quebec flour is very tough). As the name suggests, they also offer their own organic sodas in inventive flavours, including one made with raspberry syrup, blackberry, and kiwi sumac bitters, and another with yuzu syrup, rhubarb, and fuji bitters." - Joel Balsam