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This revamped arty bar/ restaurant, popular among local journalists, offers patrons an eclectic menu. The food-critic-turned-owner culls the best cuisine from different nations.

A boisterous crowd, yet friendly and welcoming, fills this tavern-like sports bar which includes numerous big-screen TVs, a great choice of beers and sports memorabilia on the walls.

This is a popular meeting place, located in the W Hotel. The bar overlooks a lively lounge area, ideal for people watching.

This is Montréal’s most written about restaurant, which offers a ground-breaking, highly original menu. Reservations are a must.

One of the oldest inns in North America (1754) is now a bar/restaurant set in a romantic location with inspired French architecture. An extensive wine selection is available.

A celebrated inn where Benjamin Franklin met with the Sons of Liberty in 1775. It has a cosy lounge with fireplace and an interior atrium garden where breakfast is served (see Auberge Pierre du Calvet).

Locals flock to this lively bar in the center of Vieux-Montréal, where atmosphere reigns and draft beer is on tap. Moderately priced wines too. There’s also an excellent table d’hôte Italian menu.

The bar attached to the popular Keg Steak House attracts a coterie of regulars spanning a wide range of occupations, nationalities and storytelling talents.

A favorite actors’ hangout near the Centaur Theatre (see Centaur Theatre, Montréal), this Polish café/restaurant has a superb kitchen serving hearty borscht soup, great sausages and authentic apple strudel.

Replacing the long-standing jazz club L’Air du Temps, this newly renovated café/restaurant features wonderful panini sandwiches during the day, and turns into a tapas bar at night with live music and comedy.