Nancy H.
Yelp
I met up here with two fellow Yelp Eliters last night (Friday), after hearing that this place had a "serious cocktail menu" (hey, they're talking my language!). What a fun, vibrant place!
I recommend getting reservations for this restaurant, especially if you plan on going on a Friday or weekend evening. When I arrived at 6:45pm, there were a few vacant tables available but I believe they had all been reserved. The hostess at the front told two parties ahead of me that they had a wait. When my party left nearly 3 hours later, the place was totally packed with nary an empty table in the house, and quite a long line at the front door of people waiting to be seated.
I was so happy to see Montreal, my OG hometown, so hopping and busy and full of vibrancy and life, just as I remember it being, growing up here.
Back to this restaurant.... it has a real collegiate feeling about it, with a huge, open, central dining floor, super casual, wooden tables and chairs with booths along some wall, exposed brick walls, a humongous bar at the rear, tons of large wall-mounted tv's airing hockey games, lots of boisterous parties drinking pitchers of sangria or large, colorful cocktails out of big mason jars.... The volume level of the place got kinda loud when the restaurant got full, but it was a happy type of din, and we were still able to hear each other at our table.
Our server was super nice and quite helpful, recommending the perfect cocktail for me. (I wish I had taken note of his name).
Speaking of cocktails, this place is bloody amazing. Their website says this is a "burger bar" but, honestly, they could focus more on their extensive and funky beverages. Check out their drink menu. It is fabulous. And I thought the prices were very reasonable, too. (It's all relative, I guess. I'm from Vancouver and comparable drinks there would easily cost 50-75% there than here).
Food-wise, I had a grilled cheese sandwich with bacon and it was delicious. The accompanying fries were limp, tho, but I'm not a big fries fan so it mattered not to me. My new Yelpie friends shared a veggie poutine and they loved it.
Usually they only reserve a table per party for 2 hours max but they generously allotted us a lot of extra time.
This was a fun and casual place, clearly popular with a college crowd or young under-30 crowd. And even tho I'm clearly much older, I had fun here too.