West Island happy hours supplement
Created | Updated Jun 23, 2002
As one of the recent graduates, from punk teenager to spiffy salesman, I feel that I have the right to make a few ammendments to the entry about happy hour on the West Island. Just so that people don't get the wrong idea about suburban Montreal living.
True, most places on the W I are bland and filled with the same old same old, however, there are a few gems scattered about. Cheers is one such place. Yes salesmen are allowed, just leave before happy hour turns into nightly specials. Difficult to distinguish your best bet is to leave as the really young crowd (the legal drinking age, 18, is after all "just a suggestion", along with stop signs and speed limits) starts to arrive. The drink specials are great, the barmaids are better and if that isn't enough, they have pokies!
Another gem of a bar, if not a little unpolished, is Kelly's. Having never dared to set foot inside, fearing instant greying and balding, I can only say this about it. "Sports fan's, music fan's, we've got your thing right here!" During the World Cup's early rounds it was not uncommon to notice stumbling men parading around in the after sunup hours without bothering to switch the lager flutes for a coffee mug. Music wise, my little sister tells me, yes she is underage but she loves her music, they pull some fairly decent bands plus "once they had that guy who sings that song! You know about that girl and he get his heart broken...its a country song"
Sorry to say, but one of the best places for an after work drink, La Cachette, is now gone for ever. French for Where the f@#K is this place? La Cachette was one of the best places for watered down draft beer and entirely too greasy food. It will be sorely missed.
We now have to find pleasure elsewhere, I suggest something along the lines of "Source du Sexe" loosely translated it means the source for sex, and why anyone would frequent a place like this for a meal is beyond me. But the food is good and cheap, the drinks are fair and fair and those punk teenagers are all turned away at the door.
As entertainment-less establishments are concerned, (although with that much alcohol involed is there really such thing?), The Manoirs and Brasseries are probably number one is ther hearts of all casual West Islanders. Offering the best in beers, on tap and bottled, fine cuisine, "try the pigs feet, they're delicious!" always at reasonable prices, these places really are diamonds in the ruff. Montrealers in general love our terraces, on a hot summers day, beer on a sun soaked terrace seems to be everyones favorite place to cool off. As there is very rarely a place to sit at these places.
Just get there early and don't even move to got the washroom.
True, most places on the W I are bland and filled with the same old same old, however, there are a few gems scattered about. Cheers is one such place. Yes salesmen are allowed, just leave before happy hour turns into nightly specials. Difficult to distinguish your best bet is to leave as the really young crowd (the legal drinking age, 18, is after all "just a suggestion", along with stop signs and speed limits) starts to arrive. The drink specials are great, the barmaids are better and if that isn't enough, they have pokies!
Another gem of a bar, if not a little unpolished, is Kelly's. Having never dared to set foot inside, fearing instant greying and balding, I can only say this about it. "Sports fan's, music fan's, we've got your thing right here!" During the World Cup's early rounds it was not uncommon to notice stumbling men parading around in the after sunup hours without bothering to switch the lager flutes for a coffee mug. Music wise, my little sister tells me, yes she is underage but she loves her music, they pull some fairly decent bands plus "once they had that guy who sings that song! You know about that girl and he get his heart broken...its a country song"
Sorry to say, but one of the best places for an after work drink, La Cachette, is now gone for ever. French for Where the f@#K is this place? La Cachette was one of the best places for watered down draft beer and entirely too greasy food. It will be sorely missed.
We now have to find pleasure elsewhere, I suggest something along the lines of "Source du Sexe" loosely translated it means the source for sex, and why anyone would frequent a place like this for a meal is beyond me. But the food is good and cheap, the drinks are fair and fair and those punk teenagers are all turned away at the door.
As entertainment-less establishments are concerned, (although with that much alcohol involed is there really such thing?), The Manoirs and Brasseries are probably number one is ther hearts of all casual West Islanders. Offering the best in beers, on tap and bottled, fine cuisine, "try the pigs feet, they're delicious!" always at reasonable prices, these places really are diamonds in the ruff. Montrealers in general love our terraces, on a hot summers day, beer on a sun soaked terrace seems to be everyones favorite place to cool off. As there is very rarely a place to sit at these places.
Just get there early and don't even move to got the washroom.
