Bar Waverly

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.

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 !

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!

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.

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.

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.

our gin tonics were good and the price is ok. Maybe too loud, it was very hard to did a conversation.

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

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!

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!

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,

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.

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.

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.

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 :)

Bar sympa avec belle ambiance, musique décontract et jolies demoiselles !

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ! :-)