Candi Bar - Too Sugarey

For the past few days my workplace has been buzzing with delegates from around the world who are in Montreal for the International Rotary Convention. Participants are exchanging ideas on humanitarian strategies and finding new forms of standardising processes. Most of our guests came from the Philippines, U.S. and India. They're a very peaceful, intelligent bunch.

Sadly, tomorrow's the last day of the convention. But hotels will fill up again just a few days later, this time, it will be filled with music fans. The Montreal Jazz Festival's starting June 25th!

There's always something fun to check out in Montreal. I had heard good reviews about the new Candi Bar in the plateau, and decided to see the place for myself.

The girlish decor is meant to bring women back to their more youthful days; a time consisting of slumber parties with girlfriends and of course, lots of candy! The large pink and purple Mega Bloks counter and ceiling add to the vibrant look. My group took some very colourful, frame-worthy photos inside.


















But their specialty slush, excessively sweet cocktails were a huge miss. I understand that the drinks are meant to go along with the "candy" theme, but I didn't taste anything candy-like apart from the jelly candies found at the bottom of the drinks. Our cocktails tasted like pre-sweetened water, with extra sugar added to the mix, along with a spoonful of artificial flavour.

Unless they get their concoctions right, over-expensive sugary drinks are what the joint will be notorious for.

The bad taste from my Sushi cocktail is still making me cringe.