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| - Love Le Lab! We arrived in Montreal on a Sunday evening during Happy Hour, so the bar was fairly empty when we arrived, and about half full when we left. We enjoyed some great cocktails in a dimly lit, fun, and inviting atmosphere. The bartenders were friendly and courteous, one even stopped to take a picture for us tourists.
During happy hour, a select variety of drinks are only $8/each. My first (and only) happy hour cocktail was the Bernardino Sour, with Disarronno, Lavender, and egg white. Happy Hour was, indeed, happy.
The rest of the cocktails are typical "cocktail bar" prices, $10-14/drink. The chalkboard menu was a little difficult to decipher, as we are non-French speakers, so some ingredients were a bit puzzling. The printed menu had both English and French descriptions.
Tuesday night is Tiki Night! Their regular cocktail menu is a comprehensive list of drinks: rum, gin, tequila, bowls to share, and shots. On Tuesdays, there is a menu of 5-6 different tiki-themed cocktails as well, one an homage to Hemingway. But is there a cocktail bar these days that doesn't tip its hat to at least one writer? The Hemingway's Secret is meant to be served punchbowl-style for a group of people, but the bartender kindly offered to make a single drink for me. The mojitos are good here too.
I raised an eyebrow at the "Apple Crumble" shot - with roasted marshmallows. You'll get a shot glass concoction, they light it on fire, you toast your mini marshmallows over the drink, then you you drink it up FAST (through a straw), and proceed to cough like a dragon with bronchitis.
Those shots were an interesting experience, but they scorched my throat and left me sore through the next morning. Don't do more than ONE of these.
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