Bar Waverly

Montreal, Canada

3.5

Closed now

24 reviews

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Telephone:
+1 514-903-1121
Website:
www.barwaverly.com
Address:
5550 Saint Laurent, Montreal, QC, H2T 1S8
Plateau-Mont-Royal
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
100 ftSt-Viateur / St-Laurent
110 ftSt-Laurent / St-Viateur
440 ftSt-Viateur / St-Urbain
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Accepted Cards
Credit, Debit
Parking
Street
Bike Parking
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Ambience
Trendy
Noise Level
Loud
Music
DJ
Good For Dancing
No
Alcohol
Full Bar
Happy Hour
Yes
Best Nights
Fri, Sat
Coat Check
No
Smoking
Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Has TV
No

Today

Today 4:00 pm – 3:00 am
Closed now
Local time (Montreal) 8:24 AM Saturday, June 14, 2025

Business hours

Monday 4:00 pm – 3:00 am
Tuesday 4:00 pm – 3:00 am
Wednesday 4:00 pm – 3:00 am
Thursday 4:00 pm – 3:00 am
Friday 4:00 pm – 3:00 am
Saturday 4:00 pm – 3:00 am
Sunday 4:00 pm – 3:00 am

Description

Specialties

Bar Waverly on St-​Viateur in Montréal’s Mile End. A neighborhood bar with an edge, not a night club. This doesn’t preclude us from hosting a roster of the freshest DJs around playing the gamut of rare grooves, new electro, vintage tracks, and everything in between, minus the crap.

Bar Waverly sur St-​Viateur au coeur du Mile End de Montréal. Un bar de quartier qui sort de l’ordinaire. Meme si nous né sommes pas une discothèque, ce qui né nous empêche pas de présenter une équipe de DJs parmi les plus éclectiques, présentant des groove recherchés, entre l’electro et les tracks vintage. Tout et n’importe quoi, avec la crap en moins.

History

Established in 2011.

Opened by two well known players of the Montréal bar scene, Richard Holder (Business, Swimming, Royal, Holder) and Olivier Farley (Royal, Sofa, Au Feu), Waverly is an unassuming yet completely hip joint sitting in the heart of Montréal’s Mile End district.

Rehashing a space that had long lost its lustre from its glory days as 1920 brothel, Waverly attracts a varied crowd of geeks, ivory felines, incognito food critics and hipsters, in funky-​post-​industrial settings.

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24 reviews of Bar Waverly

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Place rating: 4
Montreal, Canada
Great place to meet with friends for a drink or two. Excellent cocktails, friendly staff and welcoming atmosphere. It can get a bit crowded and loud, but that’s normal for almost every bar.
Place rating: 4
Montréal, Canada
Un endroit très agréable où aller les soirées où ce n’est pas plein à craquer. La liste des drinks n’est pas très longue mais ils sont tous excellents (ceux que j’ai essayé… la plupart ;)). L’ambiance était bonne, le barman très gentil… Nous étions assises au bar et nous sentions entre amis !
Place rating: 2
Montreal, Canada
It’s your typical bar with your typical drinks with your typical service with a pretty atypical review from me (whoopsie). Bro-​ish on weekends. Ubisoft peeps during the week. Pretty much sums it up. I wouldn’t recommend it to a friend unless it were a frenemy. They do not serve haterade despite this review. Bye!
Place rating: 5
Cleveland, OH
Music with just enough thumpy bass, bartender with perfect boy hair, good gin and tonic (happy hour price $ 5.50) I felt totally comfortable here, just hipster enough but also homey and accessible. Open windows, twinkly lights, community table, I felt like I could hang here all night and enjoy myself.
Place rating: 3
Terrebonne, Canada
The Wave has a feel like you are in some cabana dive bar. The evening I came was a very rainy wet one and it was packed inside. Not much great real estate to sit down at so we moved around. They had the windows open and the lights were dim and low. I had a Makers Mark on the rocks and my friends had a few pints. MM serving was a very small ounce for the price. Drinks a tad more priced and the vibe was okay but not amazing. I’d recommend getting here earlier in the evening if you want prime location. We didn’t stay long just one drink.
Place rating: 2
Montreal, Canada
Went there a few times and I can confirm what others have said about the music being VERY loud (can’t hold a conversation), and the suffocating heat. Past a certain hour, they had to close the windows to limit the noise and the place literally became a oven. I suppose their fans weren’t working or something. Other than that it’s fine, but nothing to really write home about.
Place rating: 4
San Francisco, CA
our gin tonics were good and the price is ok. Maybe too loud, it was very hard to did a conversation.
Place rating: 3
Montreal, Canada
Located right on the corner of St Viateur and St Laurent, the exterior of this bar on a busy night is very inviting. Popped by with a few friends and got seated in a corner booth which was nice. Drinks were fine and apparently food was ok but I didn’t try any. Reason for three stars? The music was super loud (because the speakers were right above our heads), and it was *REALLY* hot (fans not working that night). So, drinks + heat + girls in nice dresses with their hair done + not being able to hear each other = a meh experience. Nights like this remind me of why I don’t like these kinds of places: p. when I go out with friends, the goal is usually to catch up and so hearing them is usually of importance. But to each their own I guess: p
Place rating: 4
El Raval, Barcelona, Spain
Very nice place to hang with friends!!! I had a mojitos for 9 dollars. Just curious, why the waitress couldn’t deliver the check, but I had to go to cashier myself.
Overall lovely place!
Place rating: 5
Montreal, Canada
Picture this…
A glorious summer Saturday in Montréal. At 6pm I am going to catch the roller derby game nearby at Arena St Louis. I know i am meeting friends for a quick bite nearby pre-​game (that review is for another jour)
Being restless and easily bored i meander from my place thru the streets between Mt Royal and St Viateur. Lo and behold Waverly is open at 4 pm. The windows gloriously open, seating on the sidewalk as their terrace. A warm humid day parched me to get a drink stat. I walk up to the bar, order a Gin Tonic and message my friends with my coordinates.
The beauty of the open windows is when the breeze flows in, it reminds you why you love Montréal. Sure its packed in the evening and getting seats are hard when you arrive late-​ish. But now I have a roller derby pre-​game ritual thats here to stay!
Place rating: 4
Montreal, Canada
A very cool vibe, with great tunes on this Saturday night, the staff is friendly and the crowd is young and diverse. I will be back,
Place rating: 3
Encinitas, CA
Didn’t get to fully try this place as I just stopped in for a refreshing drink after exploring that part of Montréal. Thus the average rating. The crowd and set up were very welcoming and energizing. The drink menu was extensive. I tried their Sangria which was dead on delicious. Look forward to my next visit when I can try more of their food and drinks. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Place rating: 3
Montréal, Canada
La serveuse était Ok, nos drinks étaient Ok, la musique était Ok, les prix étaient Ok, l’ambiance était Ok. (On voit où je veux en venir?)
C’est un bar ben correct si on veut prendre un verre entre amis et qu’on est dans le coin ou qu’on attends de se faire rappeler pour nous dire que notre table au Maïs est libre. Mais je me déplacerai pas spécialement pour aller à ce bar là en particulier.
Place rating: 4
Chicago, IL
We were shopping while on a visit to Montréal, and were delighted to see a traditional bar without astronomical prices. The open air seating was great for people watching, and the staff was very friendly. The only disappointment was the lack of food — if you don’t count the grilled cheeses they make on a small hot plate behind the bar.
Place rating: 3
Montreal, Canada
I visited the Waverly for the first time last night, and I will definitely be going back, should I find myself nearby and in need of a drink. I wouldn’t necessarily go out of my way unless there was a special event, but if I lived within a couple of blocks I would definitely drop by from time to time. The space itself is really great, full of small corners that are both sheltered and open to the rest of the space, on multiple levels. The music playing wasn’t too loud, was varied and just good overall background music. The ceiling is beautiful, covered in wooden slats arranged in a geometric pattern, so if you visit, be sure to look up!
I didn’t experience high prices like other reviewers have mentioned. Granted, we went on a Sunday evening (special specials perhaps?), but the special of pint of Boreal for $ 5.25 is quite reasonable to me, for such a nice location. Perhaps the other drinks are more costly? They didn’t have a price list or menu, so I didn’t see what other drinks cost. Or perhaps I’ve come to accept that drinks at a bar can get pricey. If I want to drink cheaply, I drink at home :)
Place rating: 4
Montréal, Canada
Bar sympa avec belle ambiance, musique décontract et jolies demoiselles !
Place rating: 3
Montreal, Canada
hovering between 3 and 2 stars. Great look to this place, but, as many others have said the drinks are bit pricey.
I found the servers pretty abrupt as well.
Place rating: 3
Montréal, Canada
Endroit cool et cozy.
Possibilité de réserver une section privée derrière le bar pour les groupes. C’est ultra crowdé par contre les vendredis et samedi, il faut arriver tôt !
Les drinks sont bons mais assez chers. (12 $ un Tom Collins avec Hendricks)
Le crowd est hipster/​indie 20 – 30 ans
La musique est enlevante, dj sur place.
Place rating: 3
Montreal, Canada
OK bar with decent beer on tap. A significant improvement from what it was before. If you avoid the 5a7 crowd with Ubisoft across the street its actually not that bad. But they really need to clean their taps. The beer tastes dirty.
Place rating: 4
Sydney, Australie
Je né sais pas si c’est parce que mes goûts musicaux sont différents, ou bien parce qu’ils ont changé leur playlist depuis l’avis de Corinne P, mais quand j’y suis allée, la musique était pas mal bonne. Et le monde, toujours aussi beaux! J’ai adoré le décor et l’ambiance. Puisque j’y étais assez tôt en journée (les risques du métier!), ça n’était pas trop bondé et le service était très bien. C’est un endroit parfait pour une réunion de fin de journée et je le recommanderais aussi pour une première rencontre de style «blind date», une jasette entre filles après une longue semaine de travail, ou bien un premier verre pour une grosse soirée entre gars. Les drinks étaient bons et ils ont un peu de tout donc les groupes aux goûts variés seront comblés.
Place rating: 4
Montreal, Canada
It’s amazing how this dive-​bar location was re-​invented into a swank kind of speakeasy. A great place for a date (especially a first one).
Drinks are a little pricey, though, so you wouldn’t want to run a tab all night long (if you know what I mean). But the bartenders at least know how to mix them properly.
Place rating: 4
Philadelphia, PA
An attempt to find a place called the Green Room failed and so, to prevent the risk of hypothermia on a brutally cold Friday night, we ducked into this unassuming corner bar nearby. It reminds me of a local dive from where I live, chock full of young urbanites and college students. Music plays, people dance in random areas of the bar, and I still don’t know how much I spent. It’s the kind of place where my friend from Philadelphia hooks up with a random local, only to have her boyfriend come back from ordering drinks, unaware, and they lock faces. A place where these three foreigners stay until close and stumble about into a strange yet familiar setting.
Place rating: 4
Montreal, Canada
Waverly is in a former brothel, former karaōke bar/​rock venue, resurrected from Montréal’s notoriously loud and sexy past. Now it’s looking modern, clean, bright and comfortable — the best change to the space is the wide open floor-​to-​ceiling windows making the whole bar feel more spacious and connected to the happy action on this loveable corner of the Mile End. The pints are a little overpriced for the area, but not for comparable joints in other cities.
Place rating: 3
Montréal, Canada
Cet endroit ce veut le nouvel endroit hip du Mile-​End.
Les PLUS :
— Le staff est cool ;
— Le monde est beau (mais pas trop !) et easy-​going ;
— On y sert du cidre (yé !).
Les MOINS :
— La musique n’est pas au rendez-​vous; les morceaux n’accrochent pas et le mix est décousu ;
— L’espace, quoique très beau lorsque vide, est selon moins peu fonctionnel lorsque le bar est plein — mal aménagé et perte d’espace (sorry, Zébulon Perron).
Ceci dit, j’aime bien le Waverly… s’agit juste d’arriver un peu avant qu’il y ait foule pour avoir le choix de l’espace où le groupe passera la soirée. Quant à la musique, je croise mes doigts que les proprios jettent un coup d’oeil sur leur page Unilocal ! :-)