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Suite 701 Lounge Restaurant
Categories: Nightlife Bars Lounges Restaurants Brasseries Lounges, Brasseries
701, Côte de La Place-d'armesCorner St-Jacques
Montréal, QC H2Y 2X6
(514) 904-1201
- Hours:
Mon-Wed, Sun 6 am - 1 am
Thu-Sat 6 am - 3 am
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street, Private Lot, Valet
- Attire:
- Dressy
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Delivery:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- Free
- Music:
- DJ
- Best Nights:
- Fri, Sat
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- Yes
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Ambience:
- Trendy
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Dogs Allowed:
- No
15 reviews for Suite 701 Lounge Restaurant
13 reviews in English
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Review from john s.
9/11/2011
Pretty cool, laid back night-time rooftop bar in old Montreal. We had a great time here and the crowd was diverse. The service was good and easygoing. The restaurant and hotel looked pretty nice too.
I would go back! -
Review from Caleb A.
9/10/2011
good energy here.
the cucumber bash martini was really cucumbery. -
Review from John A.
8/30/2011 10 Check-ins Here
This is one of my favorite bars in Montreal. It's hidden away in the Place d'Armes hotel at the start of the old port, across from the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal. It's a fun atmosphere with a live DJ and a couple attentive bartenders. It's a great place to start your evening, continue drinking, finish your evening or even a place to just stay at all night.
They are known for Martini's, my favorite! They start at $10, depending on what kind of Martini you are looking for. Their food is pretty good too. The Kobe beef sliders are great for sharing with the table.
No need to dress up, but please, no sportswear. Jeans are ok.
Additionally they have 5-7 specials, at least on Thursday's.
It's a bit small, but fun nonetheless! Highly recommended! -
Review from Dan C.
8/7/2011
One of the few outdoor rooftop bars in Montreal and is was a hit in my book.
My wife and I came here with another couple for drinks around 10pm. We got a great table, ordered a bottle of champagne, and had a great time. The service was very good from the hosts in the lobby that directed us up, to the hostess on the roof, to our server. Our server was friendly and attentive.
The music was good and not too loud, the clientele was definitely upscale, but not pretentious in any way. It was also not too crowded.
If you are looking for some over the top, LA / Manhattan rooftop craziness experience (we were not) - go somewhere else. This is purely an upscale chill spot to go before you go somewhere else to get your night started off right. -
Review from Kiera S.
Montréal, QC
8/7/2011
This place has gone downhill, and now seems to have a borderline trashy clientele, and last time I went on a Saturday night it was half-empty. Just like our server's head.
Nice decor. Drinks are very good, but not the best. -
Review from Moira R.
4/3/2011
This is a service based review.
The staff kept trying to take my food right out from under me. I ordered french toast and had eaten it, but I had also ordered a cheese plate to share and that was slowly getting eaten while we were chatting. Eventually they still ran off with my plate while I was in the washroom.
The worst part is what happened with the bill. I gave $40.00 cash for a $30 bill and sat forever while everyone else got their credit cards back to sign. Where the hell was my change? When I said something about not getting my stuff back she simply gave me a copy of the receipt. I guess she thought I just needed it for reimbursement? Finally, I just showed her the bill and said, I GAVE YOU $40 WHERE IS MY CHANGE. She looked as me like, oh, you wanted change? Really? She was going to take a $10 tip on my $30 bill! NO! Of course I still tipped simply because there were other servers that helped, but this was a clear account of someone trying to take advantage. If I hadn't gone up to her to let her know, very clearly, that I wanted my change, I never would have gotten it.
The food was good and seemed average priced for the area. The french toast was good and the coffee was reasonably strong and they did a good job of keeping my cup filled. The cheeses were good, but I think it was priced a little high for what I received.Listed in: Montreal, QC
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Review from Kasia P.
Montréal, QC
10/22/2011
A couple of my girlfriends and I decided to try this 'trendier' restaurant in the Old Port. We expected the prices for food and drinks to be a bit higher than on average, but we also expected the service to be up to par as well. Great food, but awful service.
The gentleman who was serving us apparently did not want us to enjoy the lounge's exquisite drink list, because he walked away with all the drink menus after we order our initial beverage. Once we got the drink menu back, not once on his own did he ask us if we wanted to re-order.
Couple more hiccups throughout the meal: wrong order, lacking utensils etc. Not at all what we expected at a restaurant which advertises as having " wonderful service in an uplifting setting."
Overall, ok ambiance, good food, but again, very poor service.
As my friend put it "Eating in a restaurant where you're paying over $10 per drink, my straw should have never hit the bottom of my glass."
Consensus among my friends: we will not be returning. -
Review from Brittany D.
5/29/2011
So after seeing a couple churches in a row, I start to get thirsty. It works every time. Lucky for me, it was the first weekend of the season that the Suite 701 rooftop bar was open, which is ranked one of the top 10 rooftop bars in all of Montreal (I don't know which ranking but I agree with it). It was a perfect day for it, a high of 70 degrees and super sunny. On the rooftop there were couples in jeans, a table of businessmen in suits who must've been sweating their asses off, and a large group of girls dressed up like they were going to the prom with fake eyelashes and the other 8 yards. We got a bottle of Chardonnay and relaxed for several moments.
The service was great, the atmosphere was pleasant. Overall a great place to be on a sunny day. -
Review from Jessica M.
4/3/2011
This place was ok. The food wasn't anymore expensive than any of the other places. That's about the most I can say about it.
It had a very pretty indoor seating area, but the wait staff was less than competent.
See Moira R.'s review to come. -
Review from Mike V.
7/7/2010
Definitely up there among my favourite terrasse spots for 5-a-7.
The mojito variations are amazing (equal parts lime and mint with anything-but Flor de Cana).
The top deck is perfect. Very well laid out. Lots of space for loud and inappropriate happy hour conversations. Well... almost enough space sometimes. -
Review from Jay W.
Montréal, QC
11/6/2008
I'm of half a mind when it comes to Old Montreal's sky-top terrasse 5-a-7 haunts. On one hand, getting tipsy a couple hundred feet in the open air is pretty awesome; on the other hand, there's that nagging sense that I'm somehow surrounded by the top executives at Parasuco Denim Cult, and actually closer to Crescent Street detritus than I want to be.
For example, the Verses Bar is kinda shoddy and staffed by well-meaning but clueless bartenders. I ordered a sidecar, (instructions provided by me - first bad sign): it comes in a low-ball glass. And I'm pretty sure that this sugary concoction is made with Lime Cordial. Thanks.
Somehow, 701 avoids this, even though I've heard the same giganto Grecian hotel consortium operates the place. Downstairs or upstairs - the service is spectacular and the drinks are... Suitably heavy, let's say.
One of the sure signs of the decline of Western Civilization and all it has given us is the absence of The Free Pour in bars. Taylorism, penny-pinching accounting and the gradual bureaucratization of those blessed third places - bars, clubs, pubs and watering holes - has forced it into all but extinction. Making a drink is more akin to alchemy than chemistry, which is what makes the Mixologist title thrown about by the W chain so incredibly off-putting. Mixology? Really? Somehow somebody at Suite 701 understands this. And thus, drinks at Suite 701 are free-poured. You can tell the difference. Your palate, your stomach, and the eventual warm feeling of bon homie you will have for your fellow man 15 seconds after sipping your first tipple will prove it.
The key component to Suite 701, that allows it to transcend the "nice place to drink" category is the service, though. The times I've been there, I've been lucky enough to be served by a gentleman of the name of Fernando. A server of the highest caliber who bears not a trace of the forced familiarity nor the aloof haughtiness that so often mark the lesser members of his profession.
What really makes Fernando happy is bus-ing tables. Staying out of the limelight, and just putting in the hours. And yet, because of the high regard with which he is viewed, he is tragically unable to do that. He must serve. And yet, he doesn't grumble or complain... He rises to the occasion. He creates the occasion! Great humour, wit, clever quips, a winning smile, an astonishing memory, and the personable touch - these are his stock in trade.
The appeal of the 701 is truly this, then: a cocktail, well-made and well-served. It's sad that we can't expect that from more places. -
Review from omar b.
8/6/2008 2 photos
before yelp canada arrived, i had to go to the streets to find the cool, local spots in quebec. thanks to an awesome dood that held down a convenient store, he let me in on what he called the current hot-spot in montreal.
made it to old montreal via cab in less than 6 dollars from le centre sheraton. the lounge is actually connected to a beautiful hotel- notre dame.
i went in and was impressed by the exquisite design aspects that reaked of pretentiousness, but this was deflated when i was serviced by the very down to earth barkeeps that were both very model-esque.
after swigging on a generous pour of macallan, i asked of any jazz bars that were open...the monica belluci doppelganger asked if i made it to the terrace yet. that is one thing you realize in quebec, all the hit-spots have a terrace.
made it to the eighth floor from the elevator, confused...walked through a kitchen which brought me to one of the f*cking most incredible skyline views i have witnessed.
the dj was kicking some 90's hip-hop- black sheep's blue cheese and from there the stage was set.
beautiful people, very international crowd (heard like six languages being spoken among groups), well-mixed drinks. i ended up taking it all in, along with a few gin-tonics- which is one of the most ordered drinks in this town and then headed out to cruise old montreal a bit. -
Review from Aaron S.
9/13/2010
I went there with a business group of about 7 people. The staff were nice, but interminably slow in bringing us our food; they also totally forgot one appetizer which we asked several times about. My salad had funky tasting seafood on it an I only ended up eating part of out of fear it might make me ill. I heard the view up top was good, and my cocktail was yum, so maybe advice is to get a drink there bit stay away from the gastronomy.
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