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Showing 24 of 224 places in Montreal
L’Espace Public was born from an off-the-cuff joke between founder Pierre Lessard Blais and his partners after a failed...
Au Vieux St-Hubert is all about karaoke every night of the week. The Village bar has long been a dependable stop for peo...
When the team behind Le Club Chasse et Pêche, Le Filet, and Le Serpent decided to open a bar in Mile End, they didn't tr...
Part board-game destination, part pub, L’Adversaire pairs a shop-sized library of English and French games available to...
The name is a clue, but only part of the story. Quilles (bowling in French) does happen at Bar NDQ's two lanes, though b...
An Irish tavern with genuine depth behind the bar, Le Trèfle occupies two floors on Wellington with a terrace out front...
French-inspired buvette Éléonore comes from the same group behind Hochelaga’s Junco and Rufus & Anna, pairing an extensi...
Chez Josie is a neighbourhood spot that serves both food and drinks. The plates lean French and Italian, with dishes lik...
There are bars you go to, and bars you end up belonging to. Brasserie Le Manoir has been the West Island's version of th...
Le Bled Resto Lounge sits at the corner of Saint-Denis and Sherbrooke in the Plateau, operating as both a restaurant and...
L'Astral 2000 is a dive in the fullest, most affectionate sense: cash only (there's an ATM if you forget), cheap beer, s...
ÔRA Cafe & Cocktail takes its name from a word that means something different in a dozen languages: now, time, life, lig...
Up a flight of stairs on Crescent, Bar K runs the noraebang playbook with no wasted motion: private rooms from small to...
Lovebird is a cocktail bar and music salon set within the stone vaults beneath Hotel Nelligan in Old Montreal, opened in...
Directly across from the shrine that gives it its name, Taverne Saint-Sacrement has been a Plateau fixture since 2012. I...
Monkland’s Typhoon Lounge has been open since 1997, with the purpose of becoming a proper neighbourhood bar—one it has s...
Bar St-Laurent Frappé has been a Plateau fixture long enough to feel genuinely lived-in: two floors, a covered courtyard...
NextDoor has been holding down a corner of Sherbrooke West since 2008, long enough to have earned genuine neighbourhood-...
A few steps from Guy-Concordia metro, Le Mic does private-room karaoke the way the format was meant to work: you, your h...
Montreal has exactly one floating bar, and it's moored at the Atwater quay, a fifty-year-old Canadian bateau-mouche rest...
Dièse Onze is a candlelit jazz bar and restaurant in the Plateau, where live bands take the stage nightly, playing every...
Riverside sits in one of the odder and better settings in Saint-Henri: 5020 St-Ambroise, wedged along the Lachine Canal...
Named for the anise-forward aperitif that arrives here in serious quantities, Monsieur Ricard is a compact Parc Avenue b...
Moku is a Japanese bistro on Sainte-Catherine West in Westmount, working a compact menu that moves from izakaya standard...
Showing 24 of 224 places in Montreal
L’Espace Public was born from an off-the-cuff joke between founder Pierre Lessard Blais and his partners after a failed...
Au Vieux St-Hubert is all about karaoke every night of the week. The Village bar has long been a dependable stop for peo...
When the team behind Le Club Chasse et Pêche, Le Filet, and Le Serpent decided to open a bar in Mile End, they didn't tr...
Part board-game destination, part pub, L’Adversaire pairs a shop-sized library of English and French games available to...
The name is a clue, but only part of the story. Quilles (bowling in French) does happen at Bar NDQ's two lanes, though b...
An Irish tavern with genuine depth behind the bar, Le Trèfle occupies two floors on Wellington with a terrace out front...
French-inspired buvette Éléonore comes from the same group behind Hochelaga’s Junco and Rufus & Anna, pairing an extensi...
Chez Josie is a neighbourhood spot that serves both food and drinks. The plates lean French and Italian, with dishes lik...
There are bars you go to, and bars you end up belonging to. Brasserie Le Manoir has been the West Island's version of th...
Le Bled Resto Lounge sits at the corner of Saint-Denis and Sherbrooke in the Plateau, operating as both a restaurant and...
L'Astral 2000 is a dive in the fullest, most affectionate sense: cash only (there's an ATM if you forget), cheap beer, s...
ÔRA Cafe & Cocktail takes its name from a word that means something different in a dozen languages: now, time, life, lig...
Up a flight of stairs on Crescent, Bar K runs the noraebang playbook with no wasted motion: private rooms from small to...
Lovebird is a cocktail bar and music salon set within the stone vaults beneath Hotel Nelligan in Old Montreal, opened in...
Directly across from the shrine that gives it its name, Taverne Saint-Sacrement has been a Plateau fixture since 2012. I...
Monkland’s Typhoon Lounge has been open since 1997, with the purpose of becoming a proper neighbourhood bar—one it has s...
Bar St-Laurent Frappé has been a Plateau fixture long enough to feel genuinely lived-in: two floors, a covered courtyard...
NextDoor has been holding down a corner of Sherbrooke West since 2008, long enough to have earned genuine neighbourhood-...
A few steps from Guy-Concordia metro, Le Mic does private-room karaoke the way the format was meant to work: you, your h...
Montreal has exactly one floating bar, and it's moored at the Atwater quay, a fifty-year-old Canadian bateau-mouche rest...
Dièse Onze is a candlelit jazz bar and restaurant in the Plateau, where live bands take the stage nightly, playing every...
Riverside sits in one of the odder and better settings in Saint-Henri: 5020 St-Ambroise, wedged along the Lachine Canal...
Named for the anise-forward aperitif that arrives here in serious quantities, Monsieur Ricard is a compact Parc Avenue b...
Moku is a Japanese bistro on Sainte-Catherine West in Westmount, working a compact menu that moves from izakaya standard...
