Leave it to me to go to one of the most beautiful and cultured cities in North America on an anniversary trip with my wife, and still wind up at a dive bar.
I get the impression that this is a college bar, mostly from the cheap booze and wacky shot/cocktail options. Old Man dive bars may offer the finest bottom-shelf bourbon, but they don't have cartoony drink special menus on the wall.
Oddly enough when I was in there, the place was virtually empty on a Saturday. Granted, it was in the early afternoon, but I would expect a few more respectable drunks to be whiling away their time in such a fine establishment. Perhaps Montreal drunks can learn something from Providence drunks about how to waste a day.
The bar has pool tables if that's your thing, and you can watch sports on TV. Well, you can watch soccer.