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| - I went here for live jazz on the last night of my last Montreal trip. It was early on a Thursday night. Next to the door is a calendar of the month's events and their respective cover charges. Convenient if you're too cheap to pay for an international smartphone plan, too far from your hotel's WiFi, or don't want to suck up your pride to ask. Only the first two apply to me.
They don't have happy hour specials. ("Everything here is special!") After my work in Africa, I learned it never hurts to ask. Even in a joint this cool.
I had a "sangria rouge" that I assumed would be a red wine sangria, but it was more orange and weak. The Guinness my partner had seemed much better. Everyone around us received complementary bread/butter except us. Our food was good/average - my Tijuana hamburger was well done and had sour cream and guac. My partner's tofu burger was delicious. Both burgers came with a green salad - again, love the salads in Montreal - and fries. Portion sizes perfect, not too much food.
We had the restaurant's tiramisu which was average. Then we enjoyed the night's act, The Kandinsky Effect. The leader and saxophonist was from California so we understood him completely. Cover charge $6 each added to our bill. It was good stuff, even if half the audience as the place filled up seemed to be friends of the band.
Overall, a great, intimate place to hear jazz. There seemed to be performances almost every night. Covers vary. Accept credit cards. And the place is actually located downstairs at almost basement level, hence the logo of the resto-jazz-club is upside down. Oh the irony. Stars for the jazz; don't expect much from the food or drinks.
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