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| - After a fruitless 2 hour search of 3 Brasseurs on St. Denis, my friend and I finally settled for Saint-Sulpice at 2AM. (For some reason we could not find that bar though we were in the correct area.) The place was packed and lively, my girl friend and I had to line up and show our IDs to the bouncer. La terrasse was full of drunken anglophones, most of them Americans, and tables and chairs were scattered everywhere. After a long search for an empty table, my friend was kind enough to get a pitcher of sangria as my feet were aching from walking around for 2 hours in 3-inch heels. When she returned, I was disappointed to see that the pitcher was small and it didn't have fruit floating in it.. like the ones I'm used to seeing in Toronto. The sangria didn't taste like it had alcohol in it, it was like fruit punch, or Kool Aid, and it was rather expensive. (Much more expensive and not as good as the ones in Yorkville, Toronto).
Although la terrasse was crazier than I would have liked and everyone was kind of roudy, and the sangria didn't taste like it had any alcohol in it, I did appreciate the bar's late operating hours. In Toronto, I would never arrive at a bar at 2AM and expect to be served. In fact, I would NEVER arrive at a bar in Toronto that late, I would have left at 1AM and be in bed by 2AM.
If you're looking for a happening place late in the evening in MTL, Saint-Sulpice is a safe bet. Stay away from sangrias and stick with beers from the tap or anything that does not require mixing. But don't count on having a meaningful or quality catch-up session with your friends, cos chances are you won't be able to hear them from all the other patrons sur la terrasse.
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