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La Sala Rossa
Categories: Arts & Entertainment Music Venues Nightlife Music Venues Restaurants Spanish Music Venues, Spanish [Edit]
4848 Blvd St-LaurentMontréal, QC H2T 1R6
(514) 284-0122
- Hours:
Tue-Sun 5 pm - 11 pm
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- DJ, Live
- Best Nights:
- Thu
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- No
- Coat Check:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
14 reviews for La Sala Rossa
Review Highlights
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"...but bigger) sister to Casa del Popolo, and a favorite venue." In 3 reviews -
"Goat cheese balls are great and sometimes I wake up..." In 3 reviews -
"okay, there's meat and fish tapas, too." In 5 reviews
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13 reviews in English
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Review from Jill L.
Montréal, QC
2/29/2012
The restaurant on the first floor is one of my favorites in Montreal, especially for a large group of people.
They serve a great selection of tapas and the paellas are amazing. I suggest sharing a couple of tapas dishes (1 per person) and then ordering a paella (1 is good for 2-4 people). The potato croquettes are delicious. The sangria is also a must-have.
I just simply love the ambiance; it feels like you're having dinner in a family restaurant in the middle of Spain.
I suggest you make a reservation, especially if you're planning to go there on a Friday or Saturday night. -
Review from Mike S.
10/10/2011
Not impressed.
There's a dumpy feel to the place. You walk in and say "this might be cool" but at the end you're like "really... 90$ for that?"
The food was ok. Not the best Spanish food in town. Not at the price they charge. Spend another 25$ and go to Pintxo or Tapeo. It's worth the difference.
I really wanted to like it. I live 5 min away by foot! But I won't go back. -
Review from Oonagh S.
Montréal, QC
7/17/2011
I'm surprised there's so few reviews for a place like Sala, a long time fixture in the Mile End/Plateau 'hood, the younger (but bigger) sister to Casa del Popolo, and a favorite venue. I'm not an expert when it comes to acoustics, so I can't speak to that but I CAN say that when The Walkmen played there last year it sounded AWESOME.
The tapas restaurant at Sala and the venue aren't really the same business, but for our purposes they may as well be. First, the restaurant. It doesn't hurt to make a reso if you're 4 or more but chances are you won't need to. I like it here best in the fall or winter (it's cozy and warm) with 2 or 3 friends, a litre of the house red (which is cheap and drinkable, and that's about all i can say about it) and plates of chorizo, calamari, garlic shrimp, rapini, and fried honey drizzled cheese balls that should be on the dessert menu. With 3 people the bill would be what? 70 bucks with tip?
Sala Rossa upstairs is great. They book a wide selection of bands and events (DJ nights/occasional readings and performance) and it's large enough that it can feel like a total party but small enough that that party feels organic. It gets pretty not in there some nights.
I don't have much love for the bar selection - no bourbon, no wine, beer might be warm - or the bartenders. Some of the same people have been there since way back and a few of them seem tired, a little unpleasant. Like, I'm doing you a huge favor right now, so let's just appreciate that. Know'msaying? But the drinks are cheap and it's a pretty minor woe in a place where everyone is usually friendly.
A tip: The restrooms at Sala upstairs are pretty small and often just freshly out of toilet paper, so if you're faced with a line up follow the staircase all the way to the basement where you'll find both men's and women's restrooms with 4 stalls each.
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Review from Risa D.
Updated - 9/14/2011 1 Check-in Here
Delicious tapas restaurant on the ground floor of the big stone building which, upstairs, also houses the venue Sala Rossa (note the double ss.) Goat cheese balls are great and sometimes I wake up thinking about them, and I smile. The sausage, paella, ceviche are very tasty and relatively inexpensive and the Thursday Spanish guitar and flamenco are a delight.
Listed in: Good Stuff on St Laurent, Weekend in Montreal, Culture Vultures, When I'm Hiding Out, Inexpensive Family Dinner…
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9/14/2011
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Review from Chance X.
QC
3/13/2009
You have to have to have to come here for tapas and flamenco show on Thursday night. This is a quaint little institute - it is not a restaurant really, it feels like a Spanish expat social club in Montreal. Once you step in, you are in Spain - not Barcelona but this small Spanish town by the sea. The free show starting at 845 every Thursday is terrific. It is actually the first flamenco show I saw. I was astonished by how beautiful and fun it was. The female dancer was full of passion. The musicians were happy, cheering. They put together an unforgettable performance.
Yes, I tried the goat cheese fried ball with honey. It is indeed delicious. So was the grilled squid. The paella was OK. It is not an expensive restaurant and not fancy but very cozy. It is not the great tapas you get in a fusion tapas restaurant, but you feel more in Spain then in any other Tapas place.
Love love loved it, will def take another out of town guests here :-) -
Review from Jon F.
2/6/2010
Gotta be one of the top indie rock venues in the city. I've seen a number of great shows here, including the late, great Jay Reatard (R.I.P.). It's the epitome of a good concert hall - cool looking, great sound, and cheap beer combined with quick service. And as other reviewers have posted, they're pretty quick on the turnaround between sets, which doesn't hurt. I should also note the coat check - important for going out in the cold (and I think was only $1).
This was one of the first places I went after moving here and it felt like home to me. As long as they keep booking the top indie acts, I'll definitely be in the crowd. -
Review from A b.
Montréal, QC
3/18/2010
Sala Rossa (the venue) has great sound, better than Casa del Popolo, and miles above Il Motore (all three are owned by the same people). Drinks are not so great, but decently priced. But you don't come here for the bar, you come for the artists, and if you're lucky you catch a good one, because it is a great venue for great artists. There is ample seating in front of the stage, and a coat check. It's dark and crimson, with wonderful antique light fixtures. It feels intimate, even though it is twice as big as Il Motore.
There's also a yummy restaurant downstairs, which is owned by the same people. I've never had the food, but it does smell delicious. -
Review from Rebecca L.
7/30/2009
La Sala Rossa is a great venue, on the small side with a bar, scattered tables and a nice stage.
They book great shows here ( caught Mt.Eerie in the Spring) and it's run by the same people as Casa del Popolo
(NOTE:some of the reviews on the Casa..page are for La Sala Rossa).
There's also a restaurant downstairs but I've yet to check it out. -
Review from Sara S.
4/14/2011
Such a wonderful place. The restaurant is exceptional, great food and good service. The venue upstairs is one of my favorites, though the drinks are massively overpriced. Good sound, though, intimate atmosphere! A+
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Review from evan b.
1/26/2009
first for the restaurant, la sala rosa on the ground floor:
what you need to know is, it is great. that is pretty much it. okay fine, how about it if say goat cheese balls deep fried with honey drizzled on top, how about a chick pea garlic tomato thing. okay, there's meat and fish tapas, too. whatever you want, man.
just bring an empty stomach and eat whatever is given you and smile. it's run by hipsters who seem like they just arrived off the plane from williamsburg or greenpoint, and i mean that in the best sense of the description. honestly from the first time i walked into this place i felt at home.
now for la sala rossa, the small venue above the restaurant:
you know that indie rock venue in the semi-transitional neighborhood just down from the american apparel that usually holds like two hundred people at the very most?
YOU know.
the place where you saw the junior boys seven months before your less hip friends even knew about them. or that time where you were front and center when bradford cox spit up his own vile phlegm in a fit of rock n roll ecstasy and rage and it landed on you, and you were happy about it. or how about that night in 2002 when you got blissfully wasted with 150 of your newest friends while robert pollard and guided by voices celebrated their 8,000th show and 10,000 beer.
you know-- the place where the people who work there are as friendly as the indie rock nerds who show up a half hour early to hang out with the dude from the merch table, who also happens to be the roadie. and the bassist.
that's this club.
and the only thing missing from it are three dollar PBR tall boys. -
Review from chris r.
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, QC
10/9/2009
came here for popfest to see thee oh sees and the fresh and onlys. what was smart about the setup was in order for there to be less time in between the last two bands, the headlining band had their instruments set up on the floor, away from the stage and ready to play. i wish more places would do this, as it kept the energy level constant.
people went crazy, i mean really crazy, prompting the singer to ask "what is wrong with you people?" but i think that was in reference to the guy who, for some reason, decided to take his shirt off and jump on top of the crowd. still, it's refreshing to see an entire room of people dancing at a show instead of just standing around posing (i'm looking at you NYC.)
the venue is on top of a restaurant and bar. i can't imagine the racket the people below must have heard with the floor shaking from everyone jumping up and down, but i think the restaurant portion was closed by then (the shows start on the later side.)
drinks are cheap.. 3.50 shots 4.50 mixed drinks. they didn't have bourbon. other than that i really liked the place. -
Review from sophie p.
Montréal, QC
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Review from magali s.
4/18/2011
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i used to love la sala rossa. just went this week end with 2 other friends and service was awful. none of us got our food together, the waitress forgot to order some of our appetizer and potatoes, then blamed it on the kitchen (NO-NO!!!) waited for the end of the meal to ask us if we wanted anything else to drink, and a couple of days later, 2 of us realized they completely overcharged our cards! this is a definite "never-ever" no matter how cool the place used to be. a disaster of a dinner.
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