Excellent food, great service, an attractive staff and beautifully redone digs makes me give this place a full Five Stars without any hesitation.
Good eats in the downtown core of Montreal is practically nonexistent, you either have the choice of astronomically high prices in hotel restaurants or the local food court and not many choices in between.
For years I walked by this place and it was a run-down pub which served pig knuckes from what I saw advertised on one of their signs, never walked in, never wanted to, it just looked too much of a dive and a dead one at that.
Then I started reading about how they had redone the place and was serving gastro-pub fare, a trend which has come over the Big Pond from Old Blighty, in no small part thanks to chefs like Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver, and has set the East Coast on fire.
I finally checked the place out for dinner last night with a good friend and both of us were very impressed with the experience. We both had the steak, a cocktail and dessert, all of it excellent. We were seated at the bar in front of what must be the most amazing copper cappucino machine I've ever seen in my life and looks like it just plucked out out of some Art Deco film like Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".
While prices are a little on the high side, this is still a great place to come for eats either after a movie or before a game.
Really love the old school Anglo-Canadian decor and touches like the wooden coat-of-arm shields representing each province and territory and the wooden molding.
Come here for a drink, you'll like it.