Bar Notre-Dame-Des-Quilles
Bar · District de Saint-Édouard ·
Cocktails, pizza, and duckpin bowling in a queer-friendly dive
Cocktails, pizza, and duckpin bowling in a queer-friendly dive
"There are many ways to have fun at Bar NDQ. Wether mini-bowling, cocktails, burritos, or Ru Paul's Drag Race are your thing, all are present in this hodge-podge dive refuge. Frequent DJ nights of Funk, Goth, and Lipster Modern Karaoke are sure to keep you warm through Montreal's 6 months of winter. The burritos are prepared by Velo Burrito, and yes, they deliver!" - Dynamo
"Located inside Beaubien Street’s bowling alley bar, Notre Dame des Quilles was the original home for Pizza Bouquet and left a strong impression on owner André Theriault: he recalls fond memories of a front-row view of the bar’s Sunday-night karaoke and patrons’ late-night bowling antics. While he loved working out of NDQ, the space was very limiting — in that setup he could only do a maximum of around 60 pizzas a night — with insufficient refrigeration for fermenting dough, a too-small oven and electrical constraints that prevented adding appliances." - Valerie Silva
"If you’re queer and have spent more than 72 hours in Montreal, chances are you already have cried in this bar. Remember that time that you walked in to find your ex on a date with your roommate’s ex’s ex and immediately got jealous of how cute they looked in their matching chokers? That was a rough night. But the cheap cocktails, great pizza, and lovely staff made up for it." - Megan Jones
"In its early days, NDQ was the de-facto bar for queer women in Montreal; its clientele is pretty broad nowadays, with its cheap drinks and bowling alley drawing all sorts. But the queer vibes are still there, especially at their weekend dance parties, special events such as LSD (Lesbian Speed Dating), and at Sunday night karaoke staple Lipster." - Tim Forster
"NDQ’s $6 cocktails include the perpetually popular whiskey ginger, plus the Sacré Coeur (vodka, cherry syrup, ginger beer), a Moscow mule, and a Tom Collins. There’s also seven more cocktails, from a mojito to a tequila sunrise, for $7.50. That (plus its new in-house pizza joint, Bouquet) making this Beaubien bar-cum-bowling alley a cheap cocktail mainstay." - Heather Vandenengel