Once known as Club Pelicano, Tiradito Lounge sits under—you guessed it—Tiradito on de Bleury, but calling it a “basement bar” misses the point. The place leans hard into its swimming-pool inspiration—those tiled walls and depth-marker details nod to Montreal’s old public baths and Paris’s Piscine Molitor—but the atmosphere is built for DJ nights, late starts, and even later endings.

The team behind Tiradito runs the show, which means cocktails get the same level of care: pisco riffs, vermouth-driven mixes, and a tight list of natural wines. A short menu of Peruvian-leaning snacks rounds things out.

Open a few nights a week, Pelicano has become downtown’s unlikely neighbourhood bar—somewhere to slip in after work, stay far longer than planned, and let the room’s strange, half-aquatic charm do the rest.