Montreal Pool Room

Un classique qui existe depuis 1912. Hot dog, burgers, frites, etc… pour pas cher!

I’m not Canadian, but I’m from Buffalo whish is as close to Canada as you can get to Canada with out actually being in Canada. With that being said, I am no stranger to poutine. The poutine here was not good. My hotel was close and this place was open late. We were hungry so we took a walk over and got some food to go.
The inside is old and boring but, that’s to be expected from a late night food joint. The place was pretty clean though, cleaner then most. We each had a combo, burger, poutine, pop (soda for you Canadians). They were pretty fast but not the friendliest again to be expected. it was 2:30 in the am.
One we got back the room it was time to indulge. What a disappointment. wasn’t poutine invented in Montréal? It was not good. Mushy and flavorless. The burger was burnt and crispy. The plus was, they were open so late, but chances are I will not come back. Maybe I was not drunk enough.

Finest fries to be found anywhere.

Cash only! Not fancy, not dirty.
We went as a family of 4. It’s pretty much walk-​in, pay, and sit with your food. We ordered a poutine and an onion ring which we shared between the 4 of us (the baby is 11 months, so she mostly just chewed on fries).
Because our hotel was just a minute away (the Zero 1, on the corner of St Laurent and Rene-​Levesque), I couldn’t tell you about parking. But for walking distance, it’s great! It’s true what others say. This is located seconds away from strip clubs. But across the street there is another restaurant (deer garden) and not to far away is the Rolopan that we went to for our dessert. The location is fantastic if you want to walk around downtown.
I don’t really have much to say. I thought the food-​value was quite good. We purchased pop cans at 1.55 each. Essentially, one person can eat here quite well for under 15 $. That was the price we paid for everything that night. I could not have finished the onion rings and fries on my own. I actually quite liked the onion rings, they were crispy. Even my three year old liked cracking them open and slurping out the onions.
Hubby liked it so much he wanted to go back for more. Because of how quick and informal this place is, we will surely return.

Top-​Notch Authentic Montréal Steamies.
The Montréal Pool Room has been around for over 100 years for a reason: some of the best Montreal0-​style steam hot dogs in the city.
Sure, you can get all kinds of other things here (poutine, burgers, michigans), but the real reason to drop in is for a good ol’ fashion steamie. Simply put, there’s nothing quite like them anywhere else.

One of the best places to go for a snack.
This place has been open since 1912. They moved locations in 2010 across the street to allow for new developments. The Montréal Pool Room is known for being the first place to create the «steamie» in Montréal. (a steamed hotdog that is very popular here in MTL)
I would go everyday as the food is so great and the area is known for bring in some interesting people as it is in the heart of the red light district.
Highly recommend for anyone in the city who loves stemies’ and poutine

I was born and raised in Montréal. This place is the best place in Montréal for steamiest & poutine. I never, ever eat hotdogs or poutine except for when I come to my wonderful hometown of mine, Montréal. This place is amazing. Amazing food and great service!

What can I say, late night drunken munchies at its finest.
I took this place in over LA Belle Province at the suggestion of a friend and I was glad I did.
Grabbed a steamed hot dog (a late night Montréal staple) all dressed minus ketchup — who would want to eat that nuclear crap — to munch on for the walk back to my hotel, carting a small order of poutine. Topped with a cabbage mixture, it served its purpose, semi satisfying hunger pangs while I made my 10 minute walk.
Back in my hotel, I cracked open the poutine for some cheezy gooey goodness. The curds all melted into the fries and gravy. Just right. The secret to getting. It right is waiting IMO. Eating your poutine immediately you don’t give the curds the chance to melt.
Gravy was not overly salty, fries were just right. I was definitely a happy customer.
Must visit again on my next trip to Montréal

I was in Montréal on business and checked in at the hotel late. I went for a walk and found this place. I had not been to Montréal before and wanted to try some traditional Poutine. I really enjoyed my first Montréal Steamed Hot Dog and Poutine and what better place to have it than the Montréal Pool Room.

Montréal Pool Room is an institution. It’s been around forever, or least it looks like it. And just as the place looks like it has been suspended in time, so has the food.
The poutine. Refrigerated curds, a shocker to me considering how much they must go through in a day. Fries majorly uncooked, resulting in a very starchy taste. Gravy, just your traditional powdered stuff you can buy at the supermarket.
Don’t get me wrong. I like institutions. I like basic simple poutines. I enjoyed looking at the pictures that document our decades in Montréal, and I also enjoyed eavesdropping to the local patrons complaining about taxes and discussing the personal life rumours of Habs players.
But even when it comes to Montréal diners, there’s much better… so that there’s no reason for me to ever go back.

Had hotdog and poutine and chicken burger

Are you looking for Mecca de la curds
Look no further Montréal times are changing but some things have decided to stay the same. What joy but to find poutine is like an old friend that when months or years are spent apart, when you come together it’s like no time has passed conversation flows as easy as gravy. See what I did there? Service is always impecable however I am a firm believer that you get out what you put in servers are people too I would know i used to be one for more than half of my adult life. Those days are gone but life spears my heart to say not much has changed. A smile brings a smile no? Well ce la vie curds for everyone

What a dive! Had to stop in here for a late-​night snack. Poutine had delicious curds but the fries could’ve been crisper. Had some steamies all-​dressed (this may be the birthplace of the dish!), bun melted in my mouth, enjoyed the topping combo but found the slaw a bit too sugary. Cheap, fast, open late and worth the stop for the historical factor alone.

I was in Canada so I had to get some poutine. The last time I had poutine was in Toronto, at Poutini’s House of Poutine. It was amazing, with sour cream, bacon, and chives.
But this time I wanted to try something more traditional. Poutine with just gravy, mozzarella cheese curds, and fries. My siblings opted for the same except with chicken and with tomato sauce. The small sizes are quite large, and the large is a platter. We did not finish our food.
We noticed that the other patrons were actually just sharing the small size. No wonder the guy at the counter was surprised with our order.
Three stars, because it was good, but it came out to about $ 25 Canadian dollars, which is over $ 20 US dollars. Fries shouldn’t be that expensive, covered in cheese/​gravy or not.

Great for Poutine and some montreal-​style all-​dressed hotdogs. The place is apparently historical gem and it was very reminiscent of la belle province which is only across the street. Highly recommended for their scrumptious cheese curds and consistent flavours all day long — I recommend combo #4.

Was frolicking around Place d’arts and of course we were hungry so I pulled out my handy Unilocal app, saw the high ratings for this establishment, and decided to take a gamble. Don’t get me wrong, I love whole in the wall food, it’s the best kind, but this place was just less than mediocre.
The servers were less than happy, and weren’t very nice, the fries were okay, the burger was pretty simple, but slightly undercooked. We tried two different types of poutine and were less than thrilled, the quality was pretty low, and one person in our party didn’t feel good after eating the food. Not sure where all these high reviews are coming in, but if I were you, I would skip this place, and keep moving, unless you are maybe drunk, high or in some other altered state.
After looking at the reviews, maybe I should have tried a Steamie, or a hot dog, maybe I just did it all wrong, but my experience was less than satisfactory.
Plus side, it was fairly cheap for 4 of us to grab some quick food on our trek around town, and the place was grimey for a classy New Yorker, but alright for a cool hipster if you follow my thoughts. Overall gripe: just didn’t get a great vibe from the place, and the 4 star and 5 star reviews seem a bit excessive for this cheap fast food joint.

Un classique à Montréal. Le décor laisse à désirer mais on n’an pas envie qiu’il change. C’est la place à Montréal pour les meilleurs hot-​dogs.
On chuchote qu’Al Capone y allait souvent, et franchement, on le comprend

VIBE
It’s dirty. It’s divey. It’s steamies. What else do you expect? There is an impressive collection of Montréal maps on the wall. The servers look like they hate their jobs and everyone in the joint is drunk. There’s a huge communal table in the back. Heaven. I mean what more is there to love?
I ATE
Steamies. Duhh. La Traite was closed so we sauntered over here and wow, it did not disappoint! They put way too much onion/​chopped cabbage on the dog but for $ 1.35 what is there to complain about? Also, I’m curious as to the markup. If a pack of hot dogs is about $ 1.00 and they’re charging you $ 1.35 per dog how much profit are they making? Why does this feel like Grade 7 math?
PS they charge $ 1.95 at La Traite so what is the difference in profit margins there?
OBLIGATORY CATCHY REMARK
How did I never not know what a steamie was? Is this what I’ve been missing all of my life?

Experience the real life of Montréal! A seedy location, surrounded by everything not good in life and the food is not really good for you too but ohhh the taste… ohhh sooo good, simply the best in the world. I’m the third generation in my family to eat here and I am proud to carry on the tradition. Ask for two steamies all dressed and a bottle of spruce beer, a small fries and sit back and enjoy! Plenty of famous people and politicians have eaten here over the century including the Village People in their hay day. It is not a trip to Montréal without a stop here at least once. Be careful, you may become addicted.

Montréal has a few landmarks and must-​see dives and eateries, places which helped put the city on the map, places which defined the city back in the 60’s and 70’s. Many of them are now long gone (i.e Ben’s Deli) but a handful remain, like The Orange Julep, Schwartz’s Smoked Meat, and of course The Montréal Pool Room. This is the birthplace of the All-​Dressed Steamie. It has changed location, they were at their former digs for almost a hundred years!
Even then, it sits literally in the middle of Montréal’s red-​light district so if colorful characters are your thing, you’ve hit the jackpot here. If on the other hand, sketchy-​but harmless characters freak you out too much, don’t bother and go hang out at your local mall instead.
Former Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa used to come here all the time for his hot dogs (the Premier of Quebec’s office is in the Hydro Quebec building) which apparently Pierre Elliott Trudeau used to make fun of him for… until he started going there himself!
People usually come here after a night of clubbing or drinking since it’s not too far from the Gay Village and the staff here have always been super laid-​back and chill.

Despite wiki’s (
) claim there are no more pool tables in the Montréal Pool Room there are some in back.
The Montréal Pool Room is ground zero in Montréal’s steamé hot dog culture. You can get it all dressed (covered in onions, chopped cabbage, and mustard) or au Michigan (with meat sauce). The steamé is some cheap eats although a combo with drink and fries puts a couple dogs in the Harvey’s double burger combo range. The fries beat the ass off of Harvey’s, that’s for sure. They’re like Harvey’s fries before Harvey’s Inc. became real douche bags about their fries and tried to cut corners.
The joint is pretty minimal. Lots of floor space, few tables. I suspect the floor space might be there to simply handle lines for patrons who stumble in after closing hours (assuming Quebec has closing hours).
Service seems a little guarded. Probably owing to them sharing the street with some strip bars and other crèche de excitation nudity rub rubs.

One of the oldest fast food joints in the lower main. The only place for artists, workers anf somes times hickey players get there two hot dogs and fry! with a biere epinetre! A basic dirty old town space with a bit of class. one of my fav Montréal landmarks