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Bar Fly
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 4 pm - 3 am
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Music:
- Live
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Good For Dancing:
- No
4 reviews for Bar Fly
4 reviews in English
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Review from Leeanne M.
5/29/2011
Wandered into this place after shopping on St. Laurent.
Anyway, we NEEDED to be drinking in a bar for THE RAPTURE 2011, and we like random places.
Bar Fly looked like our cup of dive bar and we only had 10 minutes before, you know, THE RAPTURE.
Could not have picked a better place.
It was almost six when we wandered in we got our drinks and headed out back to the cementesque patio ( which closes at 9:00pm btw)
About 15 peeps outside, sitting around drinking, chilling and smoking.
Some were complete characters.
Some were just ( happily) drunk.
All were REALLY welcoming, friendly and interesting.
All seemed local.
As the night wore on more and more regulars showed up.
All equally cool.
BONUS: It was one of the regular's birthdays and he BBQ'd a feast on the patio - it was his bday party, he's a chef by trade- and he even invited us to eat. So NICE.
It was awesome!
We stayed until about, errr, 10:00.
By then it was super- packed anyway and we ready to move on. We had made some friends and went out dancing.
NOTES: Good music on the sound system, nice bartender. Definitely a dive joint ( in the best sense of the phrase). We used cash and I would suggest you do too. Not even sure if they take cards.
All-around great experience. -
Review from Jenna Marie W.
Toronto, ON
7/31/2009
Best dive-watering hole (without a patio). I don't think beer is cheaper anywhere else on the main.
They still have tapes behind the bar and an excellent bluegrass night. There's a live band crammed into the back nearly every night of the week and some of the best shows I have ever seen were in those ten sweaty feet of standing-room-only space. -
Review from Mike S.
8/5/2011
dingy little place but the punk rock dive-bar style really is something that I enjoy. The crowd matched up to the decor and the live music hit the spot. Washed my stress away with a few Ricards and friends.
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Review from Erin G.
1/5/2011
A solid dive bar in Montreal, with a dangerous couple steps up straight from the street. This little old building is original - you can tell from the exposed beams and the way the entire bar tilts straight down, but its original in other ways, too. A mixed-age group of people, cheap beers on tap, good music on the juke and still the ocaissional punk show, this is everything a dive bar should be. Within two pints you can be sharing a table with an old guy who tells you stories about rock stars on Caribbean islands, his problems with faith, and hand-draws you maps to Leonard Cohen's bagel joint and the best vintage shops in town.
