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Montreal, say “bonjour hi” to Café Bonjour Hi.

The name is all in good fun, according to owner and chef Dave Plant, who didn’t mean to find himself caught up in our province’s latest language debate.

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Easier said than done. Opened just last week, the St-Denis St. hangout has been on the receiving end of alternating one-star and five-star reviews — mostly the latter — on Google for more than a month, mostly but not always depending on where commenters fall along the linguistic divide.

As evidenced by a slow first week, the majority of reviewers have never set foot inside Café Bonjour Hi.

“I’d like us to be more than just a name,” Plant said Tuesday afternoon. “We’re really trying to do a good thing.”

He insists that the name is in no way meant to be an insult to the French language, as a few unhappy reviewers have suggested. Rather, he says, it is a nod to the unique identity of Montreal, where he lives with his Québécoise girlfriend of seven years and their dog, Leo.