Hip places or areas for ex-goths traveling to Montreal?

Question

My husband and I are going to be celebrating our 1 year wedding anniversary at the beginning of August and are considering Montreal. We are in our mid 20's-ex goth/industrial kids with a taste for fine food, good beer/smoke and noise/dance music. We have only been to Montreal once a few years ago to see Coil and LOVED it. Any suggestions about places or areas to see, shop, eat, drink stay would be helpful, thanks!

Answer 1

St. Catherine St. is pretty rowdy, lots of bars and dance halls. Fine food you'll find in the old section. There are MANY good restaurants there. There are some very nice shops on Sherbrooke St. and there is the Underground City for shopping.

Answer 2

I have no idea what ayyoub is speaking approximately! First of all Laval and Longueuil are unique towns; one around the river (River des Prairies, which turns into the Ottawa) to the north and the opposite around the St. Lawrence to the south. And they're each just about suburbs, besides for the historical old side of Longueuil - an field of a few exceptional eating places, incidentally. Laval honestly appears like suburban Los Angeles, with identical unpleasant sprawl. Neither is prime crime. Nor is the Cotes des Neiges, an field of exceptional city power and incredibly combined demographics - you would examine it to a miniature facsimile of Queens, NY - squeezed in among 2 of metro Montréal's wealthiest groups (Westmount and Town of Mount Royal). In reality there rather is not any vicinity in Montréal that's peculiarly prime crime in comparison to others the way in which towns have within the States, neither is there any slums - even within the poorest locations homes are maintained and structure is stunning and there are shops and men and women don't seem to be afraid to be at the streets. This does now not imply to mention that there is not any crime in any respect, simplest that it's low and - instead of houses of geared up crime individuals, might be - now not focused. Frankly, if I had been concerned approximately getting accosted, the field I could avert could be the close west part of downtown, a little south of McGill, frequently English talking on weekend nights due to the fact that that's the field invaded via American 18-21 yr olds to get inebriated, get laid and lift hell. It may be the district filled with resorts wherein such a lot Americans keep and it's sadly real that we've got our percentage of natives which are attracted via American license plates for infrequent vandalism instruction and thievery.

Answer 3

The beer in Montréal is good -- Labatt or Molson. Smoking is illegal in restaurants or bars (it is okay to smoke in the sidewalk cafes or terraces).

Suggest you go for the Montréal Jazz Festival in the summer. There is plenty to interest any taste in music.

There are a lot of neat bars and clubs on the Boulevard St-Laurent in the Plateau arrondissement.

The only people I remember wearing all black clothing were tango dancers in the tango bars of Montréal.

We particularly liked the restaurants along Prince Arthur Street (pedestrian area goes from Boulevard St-Laurent to the Parc St-Louis.