Le Verre Bouteille carries close to a century of Plateau history in its walls. The room began life as a wartime tavern run by Alfred Rouleau, a neighbourhood spot where big-band records and modest steak dinners cut through the gloom of the 1940s. His son Yvon kept it going into the ’70s, when the bar briefly doubled as a western-music haunt before changing hands again within the family.

By the mid-’90s, sisters Sylvie and Nathalie refreshed the space and steered it toward Québécois songwriters, turning the address into a small but influential showcase for local voices. Since 2018, a new trio—Pascal Plante, Patrice Johnson and Jake Warren—has taken up the mantle, expanding the music programming while preserving the intimate scale that’s defined the venue for decades.