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Showing 24 of 224 places in Montreal
In a downtown building that’s seen more than a century of change, McLean’s carries the torch of the city’s old public ho...
NINI is a hotel bar set inside Sofitel’s freshly revamped Renoir space. The room takes its cues from one of Pierre-Augus...
A bar built for time travel, Le French Line is a distilled version of another era. Set in the reborn 9th floor of the Ea...
Le Billy brings new life to Verdun’s nightlife, taking over the former Bar Palco space on Wellington Street. Named in ho...
Cunningham’s is where the West Island gathers for cold drinks, good food, and a heavy dose of Irish pub camaraderie. Kno...
Taverne Midway has seen some things. Open since 1927, this bar on the corner of Saint-Laurent and Sainte-Catherine has s...
Once known as Blizzarts, Barbossa carries the same local energy that’s long made this stretch of Saint-Laurent a late-ni...
L’Entracte is a downtown non-profit jazz venue focused on Montreal’s local scene, with programming that gives space to e...
This Old Montreal bistro and wine bar serves classic French dishes in its rustic, upscale two-floor dining room. Exposed...
Ye Olde Orchard’s first location opened on Monkland in 1996, and the franchise has since grown into one of Montreal’s mo...
Zach Macklovitch has spent more than a decade opening rooms built for volume: Suwu, Apt. 200, Doubles. Marilyn's runs th...
In the heart of Villeray, Huis Clos does it all—at least when it comes to booze. The cocktail, wine, and beer bar specia...
Santos calls itself a supper club, with food, craft cocktails, and nightly DJs. While they have a modest, Latin-leaning...
Villeray-based brewery EtOH pulls beers from its taps on Saint-Denis and sells cans at various spots throughout the city...
A few blocks from Atwater Market and the Lachine Canal, at the corner of Notre-Dame and Turgeon, Siboire's Saint-Henri o...
Pang Pang brought the South Korean noraebang model to Mackay Street and committed to it fully: private rooms only, no st...
The fact that Bar 8004 is named after its address, 8004 Rue Saint-Hubert, perhaps gives all the insight needed into the...
L'Barouf opened on Saint-Denis in 1993, founded by an Algerian immigrant and his Breton partner who had met in Montreal...
Thammada is a 40-seat Thai restaurant that boasts moody lighting, walls hung with posters and signs brought back from Th...
In 2020, three former colleagues, who’d each spent years working as servers and brewers at other neighbourhood breweries...
3 Minots runs on a one-man economy. The owner is the bartender, the KJ, and the tambourine section all at once, and the...
Finding CEO Karaoke is half the initiation. It's in the basement of an old building, down an elevator that gives no hint...
Showing 24 of 224 places in Montreal
In a downtown building that’s seen more than a century of change, McLean’s carries the torch of the city’s old public ho...
NINI is a hotel bar set inside Sofitel’s freshly revamped Renoir space. The room takes its cues from one of Pierre-Augus...
A bar built for time travel, Le French Line is a distilled version of another era. Set in the reborn 9th floor of the Ea...
Le Billy brings new life to Verdun’s nightlife, taking over the former Bar Palco space on Wellington Street. Named in ho...
Cunningham’s is where the West Island gathers for cold drinks, good food, and a heavy dose of Irish pub camaraderie. Kno...
Taverne Midway has seen some things. Open since 1927, this bar on the corner of Saint-Laurent and Sainte-Catherine has s...
Once known as Blizzarts, Barbossa carries the same local energy that’s long made this stretch of Saint-Laurent a late-ni...
L’Entracte is a downtown non-profit jazz venue focused on Montreal’s local scene, with programming that gives space to e...
This Old Montreal bistro and wine bar serves classic French dishes in its rustic, upscale two-floor dining room. Exposed...
Ye Olde Orchard’s first location opened on Monkland in 1996, and the franchise has since grown into one of Montreal’s mo...
Zach Macklovitch has spent more than a decade opening rooms built for volume: Suwu, Apt. 200, Doubles. Marilyn's runs th...
In the heart of Villeray, Huis Clos does it all—at least when it comes to booze. The cocktail, wine, and beer bar specia...
Santos calls itself a supper club, with food, craft cocktails, and nightly DJs. While they have a modest, Latin-leaning...
Villeray-based brewery EtOH pulls beers from its taps on Saint-Denis and sells cans at various spots throughout the city...
A few blocks from Atwater Market and the Lachine Canal, at the corner of Notre-Dame and Turgeon, Siboire's Saint-Henri o...
Pang Pang brought the South Korean noraebang model to Mackay Street and committed to it fully: private rooms only, no st...
The fact that Bar 8004 is named after its address, 8004 Rue Saint-Hubert, perhaps gives all the insight needed into the...
L'Barouf opened on Saint-Denis in 1993, founded by an Algerian immigrant and his Breton partner who had met in Montreal...
Thammada is a 40-seat Thai restaurant that boasts moody lighting, walls hung with posters and signs brought back from Th...
In 2020, three former colleagues, who’d each spent years working as servers and brewers at other neighbourhood breweries...
3 Minots runs on a one-man economy. The owner is the bartender, the KJ, and the tambourine section all at once, and the...
Finding CEO Karaoke is half the initiation. It's in the basement of an old building, down an elevator that gives no hint...
