Great fire. Great blues guitar, had a fabulous night. No food are served
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Mr Reviewer
Fun atmosphere with live music! Definitely looking forward to my next visit!
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Alejandra Gomez
Súper cool place to take a drink and listen some live music, u have to stop here, staf is really nice, parking could be hard to Find, take the metro🫶🏻
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sangria Rouge
Nadjim Sennoun
The best bar in Montreal especially with the beautiful and good music that the artists play
Claire Glaine
Very good atmosphere! Beautiful place, haunt of musicians
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Aaron Wyville
Objectively, it was a decent bar, but for what we thought it was / how it was marketed it was a little disappointing. From the outside it’s marketed as a Montreal classic blues bar with this amazing aura, but inside it’s really similar to a regular pub with live music. The music was quite good to be fair, but I wouldn’t say it’s anything miles above everything else. Drinks were same as any other bar, good but nothing special. The one thing that annoyed me is the owner / bouncer takes advantage of non-regulars charging an arbitrary cover charge to anyone he wants. Claimed this was the only place in MTL with live music, like I’ve been living under a rock and never seen live music before. I only realized this was consistent with others’ experiences by reading their reviews after it was too late, and noticing no one else was getting dinged with one. I hope they will consider changing their ways or at least being more honest about it as non-locals are a key part of the economy.
Atmosphere: 4
Service: 3
Maritza
The waitress was very rude to my husband because we didn’t tip immediately after ordering our first round of drinks. We’re not locals so maybe we’re unaware of the tipping culture, but usually we tip once we’re done eating/drinking and ready to leave. Instead she closed out our tab, left us our receipt at our table with a terrible attitude and told my husband a rude comment about being cheap. My husband and I were stunned. Confused, my husband approached her at the bar to tip her. He explained to that we weren’t done ordering and had every intention in tipping her well. She replied, “yeah, sure, whatever.” Just a bizarre and hostile experience. I think if you’re not a local, they want nothing to do with you. For additional context, this was a Wednesday night in Nov 2023, the bar was practically empty, so I don’t understand why we were targeted with such hostility. We’re Americans where tipping is highly expected and valued. We believe in tipping servers well because they may not be making a full wage. We left disappointed and confused. We weren’t even given the chance to tip at the end of our outing and again if we were suppose to tip every time we order a drink then that should have been at least communicated to us. If you have a similar experience, I’m sorry, they’re just very professional.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Nicolas V
Very friendly bar with good local beers, a musical atmosphere and pleasant service.
Atmosphere: 4
Service: 5
Mandeep Singh
Fire place for a beer
sylvie roy
Great evening! I’ve been there twice now and I’m impressed by the quality of the bands! Worthy of the Austin shows!
Good atmosphere, great music. Too bad we can't snack while listening to the musicians
Atmosphere: 4
Service: 4
Angela Martin
Impossible to miss this flagship place if you are a fan of blues and/or rock! Happy evening guaranteed 🤠
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 4
Tirthanu Ghosh
I wanted to enjoy a couple of beers over live music and reviews suggested this was one of the better places in the city for that. I did arrive a little early in the night and there was no one at the door, however later once the band started setting up, the door man (big guy on roids) started doing the rounds and would go around spotting people who were clearly not locals (including me) and try to extort a cover charge (which wasn't mentioned anywhere on the entry or menu, to be clear). I politely said I don't carry cash and will finish my beer and leave and he backed off. 90% of the place was filled with locals who knew the bartenders and they weren't asked for it. The drinks are reasonably priced for the location but they'll definitely try to pull a fast one on you so beware. I was able to catch the live act playing that night and they were pretty mediocre garage band sounding blues band, so nothing to go out of your way for. Funnily enough they'd let random drunk locals chip into their performance and make it sound horrible
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
Bryn Rose
had to pay 10$ to go in and not all of our group did so didn’t go in but heard good things and cool atmosphere
Great fire. Great blues guitar, had a fabulous night. No food are served
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Fun atmosphere with live music! Definitely looking forward to my next visit!
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Súper cool place to take a drink and listen some live music, u have to stop here, staf is really nice, parking could be hard to Find, take the metro🫶🏻
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sangria Rouge
The best bar in Montreal especially with the beautiful and good music that the artists play
Very good atmosphere! Beautiful place, haunt of musicians
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Objectively, it was a decent bar, but for what we thought it was / how it was marketed it was a little disappointing. From the outside it’s marketed as a Montreal classic blues bar with this amazing aura, but inside it’s really similar to a regular pub with live music. The music was quite good to be fair, but I wouldn’t say it’s anything miles above everything else. Drinks were same as any other bar, good but nothing special.
The one thing that annoyed me is the owner / bouncer takes advantage of non-regulars charging an arbitrary cover charge to anyone he wants. Claimed this was the only place in MTL with live music, like I’ve been living under a rock and never seen live music before. I only realized this was consistent with others’ experiences by reading their reviews after it was too late, and noticing no one else was getting dinged with one. I hope they will consider changing their ways or at least being more honest about it as non-locals are a key part of the economy.
Atmosphere: 4
Service: 3
The waitress was very rude to my husband because we didn’t tip immediately after ordering our first round of drinks. We’re not locals so maybe we’re unaware of the tipping culture, but usually we tip once we’re done eating/drinking and ready to leave. Instead she closed out our tab, left us our receipt at our table with a terrible attitude and told my husband a rude comment about being cheap. My husband and I were stunned. Confused, my husband approached her at the bar to tip her. He explained to that we weren’t done ordering and had every intention in tipping her well. She replied, “yeah, sure, whatever.” Just a bizarre and hostile experience. I think if you’re not a local, they want nothing to do with you. For additional context, this was a Wednesday night in Nov 2023, the bar was practically empty, so I don’t understand why we were targeted with such hostility. We’re Americans where tipping is highly expected and valued. We believe in tipping servers well because they may not be making a full wage. We left disappointed and confused. We weren’t even given the chance to tip at the end of our outing and again if we were suppose to tip every time we order a drink then that should have been at least communicated to us. If you have a similar experience, I’m sorry, they’re just very professional.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Very friendly bar with good local beers, a musical atmosphere and pleasant service.
Atmosphere: 4
Service: 5
Fire place for a beer
Great evening! I’ve been there twice now and I’m impressed by the quality of the bands! Worthy of the Austin shows!
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Great atmosphere 👍
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Good atmosphere, great music. Too bad we can't snack while listening to the musicians
Atmosphere: 4
Service: 4
Impossible to miss this flagship place if you are a fan of blues and/or rock! Happy evening guaranteed 🤠
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 4
I wanted to enjoy a couple of beers over live music and reviews suggested this was one of the better places in the city for that. I did arrive a little early in the night and there was no one at the door, however later once the band started setting up, the door man (big guy on roids) started doing the rounds and would go around spotting people who were clearly not locals (including me) and try to extort a cover charge (which wasn't mentioned anywhere on the entry or menu, to be clear). I politely said I don't carry cash and will finish my beer and leave and he backed off. 90% of the place was filled with locals who knew the bartenders and they weren't asked for it.
The drinks are reasonably priced for the location but they'll definitely try to pull a fast one on you so beware. I was able to catch the live act playing that night and they were pretty mediocre garage band sounding blues band, so nothing to go out of your way for. Funnily enough they'd let random drunk locals chip into their performance and make it sound horrible
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
had to pay 10$ to go in and not all of our group did so didn’t go in but heard good things and cool atmosphere
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