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Best Bartender
1. Derek Kenny (Scotyz)
2. Kevin Shea (Irish Embassy)
3. Gern F. (Grumpy’s)
4. Ram Krishnan (Grumpy’s)
5. Dave Freedman (Jack Astor’s)
6. Melodie (Saphir)
7. Adam Vieira (B-Side)
8. Kim (Barfly)
9. Sophie (Blue Dog Motel)
10. Stacey Kennedy (Tokyo)
Honourable mentions: Danny Smiles (B-Side), Vic Lamontagne (Le Social), Garth Burnham (Grumpy’s), Roza (Cherry, Saphir)
Scotyz’s Derek Kenny must mix ’em just right, or strong anyway, because he’s shot out of nowhere to top the list this year, knocking Kevin Shea (formerly of Ye Olde Orchard, now an Irish ambassador) down to second place and Gern F. of Grumpy’s (and top-ranking country/folk act United Steelworkers of Montreal) down to third. Gern’s colleague Ram retains his fourth-place position from last year.
Best Waiter/Waitress
1. Dave Freedman (Jack Astor’s)
2. Vito Ciocca (B-Side)
3. Jenna (Irish Embassy)
4. Felicity Hamer (Brutopia)
5. Susan Moss (Biftek)
6. Marie-Claude (Copacabana)
7. Melodie (Saphir)
8. Tiffany Magee (Irish Embassy)
9. Lisa (Bifteck)
10. Lisa Nortagiovani (Scotyz)
Honourable mentions: Sheila (Comedyworks), Helena Pate (McLean’s), Jackie (Irish Embassy), Jess Cadot (Rouge), Kim (B-Side), Pascal Audate (Cherry)
Jack Astor’s Dave Freedman, not even present last year, seems to do his best work on the floor, because while he grabbed a respectable fifth-place spot on the Best Bartender list, he aced the top slot in the Waiter/Waitress category, knocking Brutopia’s Felicity Hamer down from #1 to #4 this year. B-Side’s Vito clambers up to second place from last year’s sixth.
Best Watering Hole
1. Bifteck
2. Grumpy’s
3. Brutopia
4. Irish Embassy
5. Cock ’n’ Bull
6. Ye OIde Orchard
7. Barfly
8. Burgundy Lion
9. McKibbin’s
10. Copacabana
Honourable mentions: Hurley’s, Peel Pub, PJ’s, Honey Martin, Scotyz, Else’s, Blue Dog Motel, Blizzarts, Distillerie, Madhatter, Miami, Dieu De Ciel, Casa del Popolo, Foufounes Électriques, McLean’s, Korova, B-Side, Benelux, Reservoir, Bily Kun
Best Sleazy Dive
1. Bifteck
2. Barfly
3. Miami
4. Cock ‘n’ Bull
5. Madhatters
6. Copacabana
7. Foufounes Électriques
8. Bar Diana
9. Grumpy’s
10. PJ’s
Honourable mentions: Maz, Thursday’s, Black Jack, Reggie’s, Andrew’s, Peel Pub, Korova, Cleopatra, Bar des Pins, Katacombes, Blizzarts
Says something about a town when our favourite sleazy dive is also our top watering hole—as it did last year, that mainstay of the Main, Bifteck, again wins top honours in both categories. A newcomer to the Watering Hole category is Little Burgundy’s classy yet welcoming Burgundy Lion, with its pronounced Anglophile vibe.
Best 5 à 7
1. Irish Embassy
2. Thursday’s
3. Brutopia
4. Sky
5. Annie’s
6. Baldwin
7. Suite 701
8. Foufounes Electriques
9. Bifteck
10. Confessional
Honourable mentions: McKibbin’s, Winnie’s, Bily Kun, 3 Brasseurs, Distillerie, Pub Ste-Élisabeth, Trinity, Else’s, Carlos & Pepes
Must be those Lucky Charms—Irish Embassy shoots up from last year’s ninth place to take the #1 position for the well-deserved after-work workout this time around, while Thursday’s steps up from last years’s third-place ranking to second. Suite 701 and Baldwin tumble some, down from second and fourth, respectively.
BEST BARTENDER #1:
Derek Kenny at Scotyz
Best Pick-up Spot
1. Thursday’s
2. Foufounes Électriques
3. Tokyo
4. Winnie’s
5. Porte Rouge
6. Korova
7. Saphir
8. Go Go Lounge
9. Salon Officiel
10. Vinyl
Honourable mentions: Parking, Bifteck, Blizzarts, B-Side, Cagibi, Moomba, Opera, Wunderbar, Baldwin
Again the #1 place to find some action, as it was last year and in 2007 as well—the place gets more people laid than Craigslist. Foufounes, meanwhile, climbs up from last year’s fifth-place spot to second—who says facial piercings are a turn-off?—while Tokyo holds steady at third place again.
BEST DRAG QUEEN/KING #1, BEST
GAY BAR #4, TACKIEST
PERSONALITY #5, BEST DRESSED
MONTREALER #7: Mado Lamotte
Best-looking Clientele
1. Buena Note
2. Opera
3. Saphir
4. Cagibi
5. Blue Dog Motel
6. Thursday’s
7. Moomba
8. Wunderbar
9. Globe
10. Blizzarts
Honourable mentions: Unity, Baldwin, Rouge, Tokyo, Salon Officiel, Foufounes Électriques, Time Supperclub
You look maaaah-velous! Opera may have aced the Best Dance Club category again, but it’s surrendered last year’s top ranking in the Best-Looking Clientele department to previous winners Buena Note. Dark ’n’ spiky Saphir and Mile-End hipster magnet Cagibi, meanwhile, climb substantially from sixth and tenth place last year.
Best Terrasse
1. Saint Sulpice
2. Pub Ste-Élisabeth
3. Tokyo
4. Sky
5. Hôtel de la Montagne
6. Irish Embassy
7. Winnie’s
9. 737
9. Santropol
10. Annie’s
Honourable mentions: Kokino, Casa del Popolo, Foufounes Électriques, Suite 701, Thursday’s, Unity, Hurley’s, B-Side, Saphir, Drugstore
Two fine spots in the UQAM/Cégep du Vieux area repeat their first-and second-place rankings of last year. Saint Sulpice, with its sprawling back lot, and the Ste-Liz with its cozy, boxed-in back area (caked in gorgeous creeping vines) are once again neck and neck for top terrasse honours, with Saint Sulpice taking it by only a handful of votes.
Best Live Venue
1. Metropolis
2. La Sala Rossa
3. Club Soda
4. Divan Orange
5. Le National
6. Bell Centre
7. Clint’s
8. Il Motore
9. Casa del Popolo
10. Café Campus
Honourable mentions: Les Saints, Cabaret Juste pour rire, Katacombes, Barfly, le Medley, la Tulipe, Foufounes Électriques, Green Room, Kola Note, l’Escogriffe, Zoobizarre
It’s worth noting that the now-demolished Spectrum, such a standby for so many years, still
garnered a handsome vote tally. Montreal will miss it.
Best Jazz Bar
1. Upstairs
2. House of Jazz
3. Diese Onze
4. Jello Bar
5. Biddle’s
6. Blanc
7. Grumpy’s
8. Bistro a Jojo
9. Bily Kun
10. Griffintown
Honourable mentions: Modavie, Snack’n’Blues, Barfly, Diable à Quatre, la Sala Rossa
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Best Dance Club
1. Opera
2. Tokyo
3. Parking
4. Saphir
5. Moomba
6. Unity
7. Rouge
8. Blue Dog Motel
9. Coda
10. B-Side
Honourable mentions: Stereo, Korova, Club 1234, Salon Daomé, Karma, Tonic, Cherry, Café Campus Hyperclub, Tribe, Light Ultra Club, Orchid, Foufounes Électriques
Opera does it again, making all the right moves to take the top of the list in the Best Dance Club category again this year. Tokyo gets its mojo back, climbing up from last year’s fifth place to a healthy second in 2009, followed by last year’s sixth-place winner, Parking. Saphir holds the fourth-place position down again this year, while Laval’s Moomba makes the Top 10 list this year, no doubt thanks in part to DJ Stevie V, who snagged the #1 spot for Best Club DJ.
Best Club Night
1. Faggity Ass Fridays (Playhouse)
2. Overdose (Parking)
3. Sextape Fridays (Blue Dog Motel)
4. Beat Me Up (Saphir)
5. Teenwolf Tuesdays (Blizzarts)
6. Cruise Control (les Passages)
7. Spank Saturdays (Blue Dog Motel)
8. Wednesdays (Tokyo)
9. CTRL + FRK (Saphir)
10. Dark Wave Nights (Saphir)
Honourable mentions: Sundays (Tokyo), Freedembass (Blizzarts), Lost & Sound (Panthère Noire), Banana Split Sundaes (Blue Dog Motel), Droppin’ Knowledge (Vinyl)
Best Afterhours
1. Circus
2. Stereo
3. Red Lite
4. Pound
5. Millennium
Honourable mentions: Sona and Aria (both RIP), Banquise and Alto’s (all-night restaurants), assorted variations on my house, your loft, somebody’s apartment
BEST WATERING HOLE #1, BEST SLEAZY DIVE #1, BEST POOL HALL #8,
BEST 5 À 7 #9: Bifteck
Best Promoter
1. Blue Skies Turn Black
2. Neon
3. Peer Pressure
4. Global NTT
5. Blended
6. Greenland
7. Hello Darlin’
8. Jason Tull
9. Jesse Walker
10. Scott Lancaster
Honourable mentions: Monde Osé, Bête Rouge, Escape Entertainment, GEG, Urban Handed Works, Noah Bick, Pop Montreal, Saintwoods, Booty Shots, Droppin’ Knowledge Society, Keith ‘n Karyn, Miriam Ginestier, Pirates of the Lachine Canal, Rubin Fogel
The skies remain blue for BSTB, Montreal’s favourite promoters this year and last. Neon climbs up to second place from last year’s eighth, knocking their young pals Peer Pressure down a notch. Global NTT stand firm at fouth place again this year.
Best Strip Club
1. Wanda’s
2. Chez Paré
3. Kamasutra
4. Super Sexe
5. Amazones
6. 281
7. Solid Gold
8. Downtown
9. Gentlemen’s Choice
10. Stock
Honourable mentions: Café Cleopatre, Déeses, Campus, Kingdom, Vegas, Calèche du Sexe, Taboo
Best Gay Bar
1. Parking
2. Sky
3. Unity
4. Cabaret Mado
5. Stud
6. Mystique
7. Cagibi
8. Stereo
9. Club Date
10. Le Stud
Honourable mentions: Adonis, Aigle Noir, Campus
Best Lesbian Bar
1. Drugstore
2. Sky
3. Cagibi
4. Unity
5. Parking
6. Meow Mix
7. Cabaret Mado
8. Sisters
9. Cocktail
10. Saphir
Honourable mentions: Faggity Ass Fridays and Cruise Control nights
Best Drag Queen/King
1. Mado Lamotte
2. Plastik Patrik
3. Miss Gina the Drag Piper
4. Nat King Pole
5. Sheena Hershey
6. Cary Tauben
7. Kiki
8. Dream
9. V.nus
10. Dukes of Drag
Honourable mentions: Miss Butterfly, Jae Aviance, Nana, Cleopatra, Michel Dorion, Alex Myers, Alexis O’Hara
No big surprises tucked away here—Mado takes it by a mile again, while Plastik Patrik and Miss Gina maintain their second- and third-place rankings. Last year’s sole drag king to rank, Nat King Pole, rises from sixth to fourth, joined by the troupe Dukes of Drag (formerly King Size).
Best Pool Hall
1. Sharx
2. Skratch
3. Boule Noire
4. Fat’s
5. Drugstore
6. Montreal Pool Room
7. Frappé
8. Bifteck
9. Sharky’s
10. Barfly
Honourable mentions: Scoop, El Jumanji, Istorie, Maz, Miami
Best Comedy Bar
1. Comedy Nest
2. Comedyworks
3. Grumpy’s
4. Jimbo’s
5. Saint-Ciboire
6. Mainline Theatre
7. Théâtre Sainte-Catherine
8. Yuk Yuk’s
9. Cabaret Mado
10. El Jumanji
Honourable mention: Bourbon Street West
Best Stand-up Comedian
1. Peter Radomski
2. Joey Elias
3. Sugar Sammy
4. DeAnne Smith
5. Andrew Searles
6. Mike Ward
7. Louis-José Houde
8. Ali Hassan
9. Mike Paterson
10. Martin Matte
Honourable mentions: Eman El Hussein, John Hastings, Lydia Lockett, Steve Patterson, Christophe Davidson, Jon Lajoie, Andrea Stanford, Derek Seguin, Franco Taddeo
Seriously, folks—Radomski, Elias, Sugar Sammy and Deanne Smith maintain their precise positions of last year, indicating that their material hasn’t gotten stale, while Andrew Searles and Ali Hassan both climb a few notches and Mike Paterson—funnyman, lip-synch wizard and son-of-a-wrestler—gets on the Top 10 list.
Best Drug
1. Marijuana
2. Ecstasy
3. Alcohol
4. Cocaine
5. Caffeine
6. Mushrooms
7. Hash
8. LSD
9. Amphetamines
10. Ketamine
Honourable mentions: Tylenol, nicotine, Viagra, GBH, crack
Once again, pot is the top… hey, “pot” spelled backwards is “top”… dude, that’s pretty heavy! It’s like it was planned that way! By the government. Or aliens. Or maybe the government IS aliens! Who smoke pot! Yeah, shit, that’s it! Hey, “shit” rhymes with “it”! That’s pretty heavy! (Repeat process until last metro, Colbert Report or all the cookies in the bag are eaten.) |
SEXIEST FRENCH
awareness and inclusion for the night. It’s a damn good plan, not to mention an important niche marketing strategy, given the 2005 abolishment of sex education in Quebec’s public school system. FAF donates its proceeds to youth-services non-profit Head & Hands, and in particular the Sense project, which gives sex education workshops in local schools. 
money. But this functions a little bit like the money that a grant brings in. You have a consistent source of income that you can use to support projects.”