Wunderbar

Ambiance: a Very trendy and chic bar/​club. It’s a cute little gem secluded from the noisy regular bars and clubs you find on St. laurent or crescent street. I come here often with good company. I will do my review for my most recent trip at this bar (yesterday /​Wednesday night) hehe
Service: amazing and very personalized. The waiters and bartenders really pay close attention to you and your preferences. They even remembered me when I came back! The lady with red hair is a pure sweetheart. She came around our table every so often to fill up our thirsty taste buds. I love how we have the butler at our service! We wanted some cigarettes and we asked him to get us a pack. He got us whatever we asked within 5−10minutes. They are so cool and they deserve a HUGE shoutout :)
Drinks: We had lot’s of different drinks! I loved my piña colada even though we are in the middle of January at –10 degrees. I’m still up for a summer Mexican drink!
We had a bottle of grey goose, cranberry, orange and pineapple juice.
My friend had a Paloma which he said was really well mixed!
The music: not the best. It was pretty busy for a wednesday night but the music wasn’t that great!

3 Layers of door managers completely confused about how to accommodate guests on a Saturday night. Hardly anyone in the dance club, but they were more concerned about procedures for admitting guests. Our first time in Montréal, I just spent $ 400 on dinner with wife, we were dressed to the nines for a night club and ready to spend several $ 100s more for bottle service and dancing. Unfortunately, folks at the front door don’t know how to handle customers. I guess that’s why it was so easy to get in the door with no crowd. Pretty weak and I hope not representative of Montréal. Very disappointing as we’ve stayed at other W hotels in the US.

Nice place but more for Casual crowd with $$ to spend. Lots of very beautiful people all around.

Blows. Badly. Its like new jersey meets new jerseys ugly kid brother. Smh.

D’emblée, ce style de bar est loin du type d’endroit que je fréquente typiquement. Ça me semble toujours un lieu qui a été designé de manière trop tendance pour son époque et qui est resté là — en 2001. Mais, malgré moi, je fini par y aller quelques fois par année pour des événements…
S’ils pouvaient lâcher la musique de club de 2005 et leur bar plastique, je serai peut-​être plus portée à aimer les soirées que j’y passé. Donc, oui. Je suggère fortement un redesign de la place et, tant qu’à payer le prix, aussi bien d’aller prendre son verre en haut au Plateau Lounge. C’est moins quétaine.

Walked in on a Friday night and was told it would be packed by 1230am. By 1am it was empty, except for about 25 guys and about 7 girls. My waitress also seemed ok. I ordered a honey whiskey for my friend and asked for a bourbon Manhattan. The waitress asked what bourbon I would like, I mentioned to her Basil Hayden (it’s about $ 50 per bottle in liquor stores). At the end of the night (and 3 manhattan’s later) I received the bill. $ 25 per manhattan!!! I couldn’t believe it when the whiskey was only $ 9. When I inquired about the price discrepancy, the waitress informed me it «was basil Hayden.» No kidding, I ordered it! I can understand maybe $ 15 dollars but $ 25? Seriously? This is not stockholm and certainly not south beach. It’s a crappy second floor bar at a has-​been trendy hotel. Do not go, if you do, it will feel like you got kicked in the nuts and robbed.

I was a hotel guest and went on a Wednesday night with expectations of slightly overpriced drinks but great music to dance to. They said they were open for dancing, so why would I expect otherwise?
To begin, the door guy was an epic jerk. Zero smiles, only obligatory courtesy that was obviously forced. Didn’t smile. Pissed my husband off. I let it slide because I was still in a good mood at that point.
I was met with a drink menu that was inflated by $ 6 per drink just because it was past 10PM. Instantly pissed me off. It’s the same drink. Whatever. I ordered one, not to be a sourpuss. It was good, but certainly not great and not worth the $ 15 I was charged.
The music was house music. Great for a lounge. Totally not appropriate for something touted as a club. You simply can’t move to it. When I asked the DJ if he would be playing something a little more familiar with words to it, or something that’s on the radio with a remix or something, he gave me attitude. He said snottily: «I was hired because I don’t play that.» Oh — sorry bud, didn’t mean to step on your Pumas.
Would I go back? Nope. Do I think it’s a horrible place? No, and it’s entirely possible that on a Saturday the music is better. Our waitress told me that the music was different every day.
The service was very friendly though — I have to say. Our waitress was very sweet and all smiles. Also, when I went to the front desk of the hotel to ask about another venue that was a little more contemporary, the woman there couldn’t have been nicer. She pointed me to a place down the street. The lounge upstairs at the hotel was playing better music, but wasn’t quite «dance appropriate.»
My advice would be to skip a Wednesday if you actually want to dance or call ahead to find out what music is being played that night.

How hard is it to get a drink in this place?
15 Brits in Montréal elected to hold our James Bond Night meetup at the Wunderbar. For the décor, it was perfect. For the cocktail selection, it was pretty good (plenty of non-​sweet cocktails, even on the $ 5 list), though my margarita was not the best I ever had — more lime, less tequila… For the service, the two girls who served us were cute as buttons and sweet as can be, but that’s all I can say.
First I took the trouble to explain to the first server that we, as Brits, like to drink. Therefore, we’d appreciate it if she and her colleague did not remove an empty glass without offering to get us another drink, and preferably, they asked us before the glass was empty. I also explained that we drink quicker than an average Canadian, so we’d appreciate it if they were a little more attentive to our empty glass situation.
Then I had to explain it to a second server because the first one did not pass it on.
Between 7:15 and 11pm, I was able to consume 1 margarita and 4 whisky sours. I waited for the final one for a good 15 minutes. I could probably have spent quite a bit more money (given the price of the drinks), had the servers heeded my explanations…
To cap it all, when my bill came, I noticed something called «Service Admin» that worked out as 18% of the before-​tax total. I queried this with the manager, explaining the whole scenario (see above) and, instead of the apology I expected, I was told that the service admin was normal for a group. I hasten to add that we all had separate bills, and at no time were we told or was it pointed out by some other sign in the bar that this was the case. It turned out that some of my friends even paid a tip on top of the 18%. I refused and ended up paying less than 15%.
In short, I won’t be back, great décor or no. If you’re interested, it does indeed suddenly get busy from 11pm. Goodness knows how long those people have to wait to get a drink…

This place just feels like LA.
Depending on who you are, that could be a bad or a good thing.

Absolutely nothing happens here until 11pm. After 11 its a pretty cool spot to check out in the city. The drinks were strong, especially good since they are a mint. Staff was remarkable. I had a massive couch setup full of knuckleheads ordering drinks every two seconds and the lovely lady serving us handled everything perfectly.
Now, get ready to see some real hardos with tight ass affliction teeshirts and jeans with sparkles on them. Lotta delta bravos run this place past midnight. This might just be standard issue don’t let it bother you too much there are other good people here.
Overall solid. I’d return on my next trip.

this bar has an inflated sense of self. no flip flops or yellow jackets. but t-​shits are ok. the bar upstairs is much better.

Das ist wunderbach !!!
Fantastique en allemand !!!
Le bar porte parfaitement son nom. L’ambiance est féérique. Urbain, design et chic sont les maîtres mots pour décrire cet endroit.
C’est pour un afterwork que j’y suis allée.
Le staff aux petits soins et de très bon conseil pour les cocktails. Je né savais pas quoi prendre et l’on m’a demandé mes goûts et quelques uns de mes traits de caractère selon ces critères on m’a servi un martini à la rose. Dé-​li-​cieux !!! Un mélange de vodka, framboises fraiches, eau de rose et champagne. Vraiment magnifique !
L’endroit peut vraiment être comparé avec le bar du palace Plaza Athénée de Paris.
A né pas manquer !!!

Lights are the most dangerous thing.
At 3am they come on. Usually this is quite inopportune.
Illumination is like douchebag kryptonite.
It draws them out of this dark room. Their Affliction T-​shirts shining in the sparkly phosphorescence of the hotel lobby. Some sulk into the elevator alcove.
You’re not going to this bar because you’re at the cutting edge of cool, you’re here because you absolutely require the dark spaces and tourist intoxication that will allow you to practice your Douchy Arts.
You may be in the W, but you’re a total L.

such a wild crowd. bumping and grinding going on all over the place. Deffiantely a place I’d love to come back to and would want my children frequenting one day. Again OFF THE HOOK

A perfect launch pad for an early round of cocktails to get the blood moving and the evening started, Wunderbar is impressive, trendy bar that can hold its own even without guests or outside patrons.
It doesn’t stop there, returning from bar hopping in the city, the Wunderbar acts like a beacon for the dance and drink weary making their way back to the comforts of their room.
You arrive at the W Hotel’s entrance defaulting to the idea and intention that you’re taking the elevator straight to your room. You wanna call it a morning. But the music and energy resonating from the bar, triggers your curiosity and injects with another round of energy to go on, to check it out. And then, you finally succumb to the beat.
Drinks a little more expensive than other cosmo bars, but your mind and spirit isn’t interested in any form of discount, waiver or freebees once you’ve reached the festive pinnacle of the morning — or do you?

around 2ish making way back fom old montreal, i hit the W which had a connected bar that was bumping estelle…
hearing this i had to jump in and to my surprise, nobody was shaking their bootay? i grabbed a salty dog, took a few sluurps and got my groove on!!!
and im feeling like mike at his baddest,
like the pips at their gladdest,
and i know they love it,
so to hell with all that rubbish
after hearing a bunch of trance, house, and the obligatory celine dion dance remixes at various spots that night… i found a bit of om in this mug.
dope spot. will be back