text: Yes, the selection is amazing.\nYes, it is definitely more manageable than Marche Jean-Talon.\nYes, the fresh fruits and veggies, cheeses, organic meats, fresh cut flowers all amount to a visual feast and food porn.\n\nHowever, my caveat with Marche Atwater is how insanely expensive it is. It definitely caters to tourists, the yuppies in the near-by condos and the Westmount shoppers and that rankles my own leftist inclinations and tendencies. Eating well and the pleasures of food should be accessible to everyone, not just a few.\n\nIt's true you can find some hard-to-find items here especially at Les Doucheurs  du Marche and Fromagerie Hamel and Fromagerie Atwater has to have the best cheese counter in Montreal. Les Fermes Saint-Vincent, inside has a fantastic organic meats butcher and counter. Pizza Mia has to have the most amazing Italian sausage and spinach pizza I've ever had. If you're a one-stop shopper, you'll find almost everything here. If you're like me, who likes to explore neighborhoods and local shops, there are many, many other options around the city.\n\nHowever to illustrate a point of how overpriced items here can get because of the snob-appeal factor, here's a small example. I came here looking for Cal\u00e7ots, a variety of green onions, like ramps, from Catalan and the basis of their famous cal\u00e7otadas, the barbecued onion festival which Catalans then drown themselves with red wine and grilled meats. No such luck. I had to settle for the lowly yet simple green onion instead. The price differential between Marche Atwater and Super C across the street? Easily 3:1. And no, it wasn't organic either.\n\nCome here for a treat, for fun or to find rare items, but if you do your shopping here for easy to find items, you're being ripped off.