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Showing 24 of 225 places in Montreal
Club DD’s is a queer-owned dance bar and performance venue breathing new life into a historic address on St-Laurent Boul...
Sample occupies a basement beneath a 19th-century greystone in Old Montreal, built around a serious analog sound system,...
L’Entracte is a downtown non-profit jazz venue focused on Montreal’s local scene, with programming that gives space to e...
Once known as Blizzarts, Barbossa carries the same local energy that’s long made this stretch of Saint-Laurent a late-ni...
Lovebird is a cocktail bar and music salon set within the stone vaults beneath Hotel Nelligan in Old Montreal, opened in...
Sans Soleil is a listening bar in Chinatown, located in the basement of the Japanese restaurant Fleurs & Cadeaux. This u...
A project from the team behind the wood-fired Pizzeria Magpie, Magpie Magique deviates from that concept entirely with a...
Zach Macklovitch has spent more than a decade opening rooms built for volume: Suwu, Apt. 200, Doubles. Marilyn's runs th...
Bar Henrietta’s a refined Portuguese-style bar that recalls community taverns of the 1960s and ‘70s. Named for owner Ale...
In the heart of Villeray, Huis Clos does it all—at least when it comes to booze. The cocktail, wine, and beer bar specia...
Villeray-based brewery EtOH pulls beers from its taps on Saint-Denis and sells cans at various spots throughout the city...
The fact that Bar 8004 is named after its address, 8004 Rue Saint-Hubert, perhaps gives all the insight needed into the...
Chez Josie is a neighbourhood spot that serves both food and drinks. The plates lean French and Italian, with dishes lik...
L’Espace Public was born from an off-the-cuff joke between founder Pierre Lessard Blais and his partners after a failed...
Ye Olde Orchard has built a solid reputation across Montreal, evolving from a single neighbourhood pub into a full-blown...
In 2020, three former colleagues, who’d each spent years working as servers and brewers at other neighbourhood breweries...
Part board-game destination, part pub, L’Adversaire pairs a shop-sized library of English and French games available to...
Monkland’s Typhoon Lounge has been open since 1997, with the purpose of becoming a proper neighbourhood bar—one it has s...
Ye Olde Orchard’s first location opened on Monkland in 1996, and the franchise has since grown into one of Montreal’s mo...
Avant-Garde Artisans Brasseurs is a microbrewery and pizza spot anchored by a wood-fired oven and an open kitchen. Found...
French-inspired buvette Éléonore comes from the same group behind Hochelaga’s Junco and Rufus & Anna, pairing an extensi...
Thammada is a 40-seat Thai restaurant that boasts moody lighting, walls hung with posters and signs brought back from Th...
From the crew behind NOMI, Jatoba, and Hà, this is their passion project, their “baby.” Tucked into St-Henri, it feels m...
Le Billy brings new life to Verdun’s nightlife, taking over the former Bar Palco space on Wellington Street. Named in ho...
Showing 24 of 225 places in Montreal
Club DD’s is a queer-owned dance bar and performance venue breathing new life into a historic address on St-Laurent Boul...
Sample occupies a basement beneath a 19th-century greystone in Old Montreal, built around a serious analog sound system,...
L’Entracte is a downtown non-profit jazz venue focused on Montreal’s local scene, with programming that gives space to e...
Once known as Blizzarts, Barbossa carries the same local energy that’s long made this stretch of Saint-Laurent a late-ni...
Lovebird is a cocktail bar and music salon set within the stone vaults beneath Hotel Nelligan in Old Montreal, opened in...
Sans Soleil is a listening bar in Chinatown, located in the basement of the Japanese restaurant Fleurs & Cadeaux. This u...
A project from the team behind the wood-fired Pizzeria Magpie, Magpie Magique deviates from that concept entirely with a...
Zach Macklovitch has spent more than a decade opening rooms built for volume: Suwu, Apt. 200, Doubles. Marilyn's runs th...
Bar Henrietta’s a refined Portuguese-style bar that recalls community taverns of the 1960s and ‘70s. Named for owner Ale...
In the heart of Villeray, Huis Clos does it all—at least when it comes to booze. The cocktail, wine, and beer bar specia...
Villeray-based brewery EtOH pulls beers from its taps on Saint-Denis and sells cans at various spots throughout the city...
The fact that Bar 8004 is named after its address, 8004 Rue Saint-Hubert, perhaps gives all the insight needed into the...
Chez Josie is a neighbourhood spot that serves both food and drinks. The plates lean French and Italian, with dishes lik...
L’Espace Public was born from an off-the-cuff joke between founder Pierre Lessard Blais and his partners after a failed...
Ye Olde Orchard has built a solid reputation across Montreal, evolving from a single neighbourhood pub into a full-blown...
In 2020, three former colleagues, who’d each spent years working as servers and brewers at other neighbourhood breweries...
Part board-game destination, part pub, L’Adversaire pairs a shop-sized library of English and French games available to...
Monkland’s Typhoon Lounge has been open since 1997, with the purpose of becoming a proper neighbourhood bar—one it has s...
Ye Olde Orchard’s first location opened on Monkland in 1996, and the franchise has since grown into one of Montreal’s mo...
Avant-Garde Artisans Brasseurs is a microbrewery and pizza spot anchored by a wood-fired oven and an open kitchen. Found...
French-inspired buvette Éléonore comes from the same group behind Hochelaga’s Junco and Rufus & Anna, pairing an extensi...
Thammada is a 40-seat Thai restaurant that boasts moody lighting, walls hung with posters and signs brought back from Th...
From the crew behind NOMI, Jatoba, and Hà, this is their passion project, their “baby.” Tucked into St-Henri, it feels m...
Le Billy brings new life to Verdun’s nightlife, taking over the former Bar Palco space on Wellington Street. Named in ho...
