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Cock'n Bull Pub
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Music:
- Live
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Coat Check:
- No
- Has TV:
- Yes
6 reviews for Cock'n Bull Pub
6 reviews in English
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Review from Richard N.
1/19/2012
My wife and I were here years ago, glad it's still around. I'll give you a little story about this place.
We we're in town visiting mon grandmere, and had to get out of the house, get away. We had our 8 month old daughter and we had a rental car and were trying to find a place to grab a cocktail with our daughter in tow. We parked and started walking. A bar we went into said no minors allowed unless they served food. So we popped our head into like two or three more bars and none sold food but a person told us about the Cock'n Bull Pub close by.
Not knowing we were being followed by 2 Montreal Police Officers we asked do you serve food when we entered, they did so we pulled up to the bar. The Bobbies came in moments after and started questioning us, they asked if we were trying to sell our child, since we had popped into so many bars getting to theirs. These police said you should not have children anymore and we are bad parents, we were stunned, like are you kidding me. Our daughter hated her shoes at 8 mos and would always kick them off, so the police said our daughter had no shoes and again we were bad parents, well the English bartender had enough of this bullying and just got totaly pissed and told them to get the F out of his bar, we serve food here and they are our customers. He was great. After he was done those two police officers left with their tails between their legs. Montreal has some arogant people and officers but this English pub is great.
Let me say, I don't remember what we ate, if anything, but we got our drink on before going back to grand ma ma's. -
Review from Sean D.
Updated - 11/18/2011
Ok...here's my big complaint about this place. They do not take credit cards! I am usually annoyed at places that don't take Amex, but this place doesn't take any!
There's an ATM at the front of the place that, (because I am a stubborn bugger), I won't use. I will walk a block or two to a bank before giving the bar my $2 to take cash out of their machine because they won't take credit cards...ridiculous to me.
That's my rant, and the reason for only 2 stars this time. Sometimes a guy just wants to pay how he wants to pay.
I'll keep going though because of the musicians they hire.Listed in: Neighborhood Hangouts
1 Previous Review: Show all »
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10/25/2011
4 stars here are not for the food...the entertainment here is fantastic. I go about once a month.… Read more »
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Review from Seb A.
10/30/2011
I've only been here once, but I'll be going back.
I'm going to make the obvious joke and say that the inside smells a lot like bull cock, because I really can't help it. But most dive bars have that sour, semi-inviting and semi-nauseating yeast smell floating around as if they'd spent all day cleaning the whole place with beer-soaked rags - so that isn't necessarily a point against Cock'n Bull. But to be clear though, it did smell like a mushroom cellar when I went.
I found the booze to be incredibly cheap during happy hour which was a plus. And I mean cheaper than the other establishments I frequent around happy hour, which is saying something. Cheap enough to have me drink twice as much as I usually do before class for the same amount of money. Cock'n Bull was the enabler to my getting inordinately drunk before class. They were the vehicle to my losing my inhibitions and yelling out inappropriate statements in class, and also the ultimate authority that later crushed and weakened me into constantly uttering, "Yes, I agree," during group work while desperately hoping I can hold my urine in until the end of class.
I'll be back to bury my heart under you, you ol' Cock'n Bull. -
Review from Tim G.
8/30/2009
Now closed but once was
a cool place, except on Arts
and Crafts Mondays. -
Review from David B.
4/15/2010
Ok it's a dive bar. Fine but the drinks are cheap and the locals are cool with visitors. There are some nice women that stop in during the weekends and a few are even friendly!! Wow!
Use the local currency..no credit cards. -
Review from Pepper A.
10/6/2008
I always seem to end up here in Montreal, and I love it. At the dirty far end of Ste. Catherine st. is this gem of a punk rock irish dive bar that serves chinese food. Bizarre awesome. I always fid new friends here and get ito adventures.
