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Meet-up options and other jazz
I'm finally back in Montreal  Man I missed this city...First thing I do after celebrating (the pagan Winter solstice holiday otherwise known as) Christmas with my family is get hammered and go out to Aria yesterday night with my crew  Great set by Mini!!!
Anyway, after I woke up from my drunken stupor, I decided to scout out the area next to the Bell Center for potential TA-meetup places since I don't remember exactly what was where and how far "what" was from the Bell Center. Here's a list of decent and potentially doable options in terms of meetup locations:
Cage aux Sports --- Sports Bar/Restaurant
Address: 1212 Rue de la Gauchetiere, Montreal (inside the Bell Center)
Telephone: (514) 925-2255
Map: Click here
Website: Click here
Walking distance from Bell Center: 0 minutes
The best sports bar/restaurant in Montreal. Never been to this particular one, although I've been to every other one in Montreal and it's always great It's inside the Bell Center so would be a great place to meet-up, have some drinks, eat and so forth and then head to the rave. The one thing that intrigues me and that I'm not too sure of is whether we could meetup there early enough to avoid waiting in line for Celebration or whether we need to access the Bell center from a different entry point to get into Celebration. Anyway, this is definitely my choice, especially if meeting up there means that we don't have to wait in line.
Note: There are many other restaurants and bars in the Bell Center (Click here) that I didn't have time to check out cause I couldn't feel my face at that point, so if you see anything you like, bring it up.
Baton Rouge --- Restaurant
Address: 1050 Rue de la Montagne, Montreal
Telephone: (514) 931-9969
Map: Click here
Website: Click here
Walking distance from Bell Center: 1 minute
This used to be the old Moe's Deli and Bar (one of favourite places). I've never been to this particular Baton Rouge, although I've been a couple of times to the one on St. Catherine and absolutely loved it. It's a very nice restaurant that is pretty inexpensive (15 to 20$ for a great meal) and that serves your typical BBQ chicken, ribs and so forth. If people want to meetup in a restaurant, I'd vote for this place...of course, we would need reservations and thus would have to know how many people are coming...
McLean's Pub --- Pub
Address: 1210 Peel, Montreal
Telephone: (514) 393-3132
Map: Click here
Website: Click here
Walking distance from Bell Center: 5-6 minutes
Great Irish Pub. Well known by Montreal peeps, and for good reason. Great atmosphere, good food and drink, pool tables, dart boards and so forth. This should definitely be at the top of our list in terms of meetups, although it might be packed for New Year's Eve and is a bit further than the other options we have available.
Hurley's Irish Pub --- Pub
Address: 1225 Crescent Street, Montreal
Telephone: (514) 861-4111
Map: Click here
Website: Click here
Walking distance from Bell Center: 5-6 minutes
Another great Irish pub also well known by the locals. Great atmosphere, good Irish music, always had a good time when I went there back in my undergrad days I'm almost certain though that on New Year's eve, we'll have to wait to get in...otherwise, would be another great place to consider, although it's also a little further than most other options. Here's a review that I found: Click here
Brasserie O'Blitz --- Bar
Address: 1189 de la Montagne, Montreal
Telephone: (514) 861-5031
Map: Click here
Website: none
Walking distance from the Bell Center: 2 minutes
Never been there, so I can't attest to it's quality or lack thereof. From the outside, looks small and not too classy. They had a sign that read 7.99$ for a pitcher of Labatt Blue (60 oz) between 19h and 22hr on Mondays to Saturdays, so I figured I'd include it in the list. I don't know how big it is, but I did find this "review", so check it out: Click here
Hat Trick --- Restaurant
Address: 1012 Rue de la Montagne, Montreal
Telephone: (514) 989-1119
Map: Click here
Website: none
Walking distance from Bell Center: 1 minute
Again, never been there. It markets itself as a high quality fast food restaurant, whatever that means. Didn't look too big from the outside, but looked clean and comfortable. I'm assuming it can't be too expensive, so I decided to include it on the list.
Alright, so if anyone has any other/more ideas, please share them. Otherwise, check out the options above, and let me/us know where you'd like to do the meetup. As soon as I get a descent amount of responses, I'll try to set-up something ASAP. I'll try giving these (and other) bars/pubs/restaurants a call to see whether they're open for sure on NYE, what their capacities are, whether we need reservations and so forth.
Also and unfortunately, my cell is on roaming here in Montreal, which bites, so to whoever was wondering how we could stay in touch, check this thread, and if needed, I could give out my phone number here in Monty although it's my house number and my parents and sisters are here...so you know, don't call too late blablabla 
At any rate, we need to get on top of this quickly, so let me know ASAP what you guys would like to do.
Last edited by Epicurus on Dec-30-2004 at 21:57
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