New Wine Dive Bar Le Plongeoir Arrives on the Mile End Scene

Put three wine nerds together in an informal back alley-style spot, throw in a billiards table with a chalkboard highlighting limited quantity bottles from its cellar, and you’ve got Le Plongeoir: A new Montreal dive-inspired wine bar in the Mile End.

There are a lot of wine bars in the city lately, but few look to serve quality wine in places dead-set on doing away with pretension. The basics here is that Montrealers looking for a cheap but swank glass of wine don’t need to look further than this spot, where the glou-glou juice is as easy going down as the vibes are chill.

Officially opened as of March 29, the 35-seat project comes from a happenstance group of restaurant and wine industry vets: Buvette Chez Simone alumni Antoine Denis and Frédéric Létourneau-Archambault (who also worked at Cabaret L’Enfer and Île Flottante), Frédéric’s trusty dog Trotsky, and the self-described “papa of the group” John Hale who’s part of the small wine importation group Grand Ordinaire with Lawrence Fiset of Gia Vin & Grill.