Best of Montreal 2000

>> Nightlife

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Best dance club

1. Stereo

2. Sona

3. Unity

4. Jingxi

5. Kokino

6. Foufounes Électriques

7. Jai

8. Cream

Honourable mentions: 737 * Angel's * Baloo's * Bar St-Laurent 1 & 2 * Bifteck * Café Campus * Cybertek * Le Dome * Electric Avenue * Groove Society * Go-Go Lounge * Kachette * Medley * Le Sugar * Limelight * Le Living * Loft * Millennium * Peel Pub * Polly Esther's * Six-49 * Sizmos * Sky * The Loft * Thursday's * Tokyo * Vertigo



Best club night

1. Bounce (Tuesdays at Tokyo)

2. Brass Knuckles Crew

(Friday at Blizzarts)

3. Dub Lounge (Wednesday at Blizzarts)

4. Back to Business (Thursdays at China)

Honourable mentions: '80s night at Polly Esther's * '80s night at Sphinx * Back to Business on Thursdays * Bombay nights at Stereo * Fetish Night at Cream Club * Friday at Stereo with DJ XL * Fridays at Sona * PVC at Cybertek



Best live venue

1. Spectrum

2. Metropolis

3. Cabaret/Club Soda

4. Jailhouse Rock Café

Honourable mentions: Barfly * Club Soda * ComedyWorks * Le Diable Vert * Medley * Le Swimming * Maurice Richard Arena * Molson Centre * Kola Note * Oscar Peterson Hall * Rainbow-ites * Rock Quest * Salle de L'X * Sizmos * Tazz Mahal * Upstairs * Yellow Door * Zone



Best watering hole

1. Bifteck

2. Peel Pub

3. Brutopia

4. Mad Hatter's

5. Bar St-Laurent 1

Honourable mentions: Annie's * Baloo's * Bar des Pins * Barfly * Basement * Bily Kun * Blizzarts * Café de Nuit * Café Loft * Cheers * Clyde's * Clyde's Pointe Claire * Cock & Bull * Copacabana * Dominion Pub * Drugstore * Else's * ETS bar * Foufounes * Frappé * Frat parties * Gert's * Hurley's * Jimbo's * Kaizen Blue Note Lounge * La Kachette * La Movida * Magellan * Magnan's * Maz * McKibbin's * Miami * Nantha's Cuisine * O'Blitz * Passport * Place des Arts * Quartier Latin Pub * Ronnie's * Sir Winston's * Spectrum * St-Sulpice * Taverne Laperriere * The Celtic * Thursdays * Wally's



Best pool hall

1. Sharx

2. Le Swimming

3. Le Skratch

4. Bacci

Honourable mentions: Bifteck * Billiard International * Bogey's * Club de Billiard Québec * Frappé * L'Anjeu * Q-Stix * Ronnie's * Sherlock's * Shooters * Somerled



Best happy hour

1. Peel Pub

2. Bifteck

3. Foufounes Électriques

4. Thursday's

5. Copacabana

Honourable mentions: Bacci's * Airport Inn * Backstreet Boys concert * Baker Street * Bily Kun * Brutopia * Cabaret Amazones * Café de Nuit * Cafeteria * Carlos & Pepe's * Cheers * Chez Plume * Cleopatra's * Clydes * Cock & Bull * Copacabana * Foufounes * Hard Rock * I prefer not to drink before sunset * La Cabane * Le Boudoir * Mad Hatter's * McKibbins * McLeans * Moevenpick * O'Blitz * Pub St. Paul * Quality Inn * Ronnie's * Sherlocks * Shooters * Sofa * St-Suplice * Three Amigos * Topaze * Typhoon * Winnie's * Woody's



Best pickup spot

1. Crescent

2. Bifteck

3. St-Laurent/Ste-Catherine

4. Angel's

Honourable mentions: Any cheap pizza joint late at night * Aux 4 Mains * Belmont * Bourbon Street North * Brutopia * Chapters * Chatrooms * Cheers * Club Crescent * Dome * Global's newsroom * Globe * Jingxi * Mad Hatter's * McKibbins * Second Cup * Sherlocks * Softimage X-mas party * Sona * Stereo * St-Sulpice * Stud * Tam tams * Bus stops * The Loft * Thursday's * Tokyo * Unity * Village des Valeurs



Best strip club

1. Chez Parée

2. Wanda's

3. Amazones

4. 281

5. Supersexe

Honourable mentions: Aquarium de Sexe * Cleopatra's * Club Stock * Gentleman's Choice * Grand Prix * Le Salon Bleu * Solid Gold * Sona * Source du Sexe * Teazers * The Adonis



Best gay bar

1. Unity

2. Sky

3. Drugstore

4. Thursdays at China

Honourable mentions: Club Sandwich * Cousin Brucie's * Entrepeau * Exotica * Slaight's * Stud



Best lesbian bar

1. Sisters

2. Dietrich's

3. Unity

4. Sky

Honourable mentions: Chez Lori & Silvia * Chez Parée * Drugstore * Jessica's



Best rave/party

1. Black & Blue

2. Cream

3. Arrival

4. Connected

5. Bamboo Butterfly

Honourable mentions: Aquarium * Bal en Blanc * BBCM's parties * Brass Knuckles New Years at Blizzarts * Circo de Bakuza * Cloud 2 * Celebration 2000 * David Morales at Stereo * Karine Chartrand's * Lipstick * None--it's over folks, go back to Laval * SION * Sona on Saturdays * Swirl * Thursdays at Sphinx * Wet & Wild



Best jazz bar

1. Biddles

2. Upstairs

3. Jello

4. Air du Temps

Honourable mentions: Bistro à Jojo * Boomers * Café Campus Blues Nights * Café Sarajevo * Kaizen Blue Note Lounge



Best lounge

1. Blizzarts

2. Luba Lounge

3. Sofa/Wax Lounge

4. Jello

5. Liquid

6. Typhoon Lounge

Honourable mentions: 737 * Any hotel lounge * Aqua * Biddles * Casino * Delta Montreal * DiSalvio's * Go-Go Lounge * Groove * Kaizen Blue Note Lounge * Le Lounge * Omni Mont-Royal Hotel * Polly Esther's Playboy Lounge * Quality Inn bar * Chinatown Holiday Inn * Tokyo * Wax



Best loft

1. Hotel 2 Tango

2. Automatic Vaudeville

3. Noah Kole's loft

Honourable mentions: Café Loft * Centre de Multi-Média * Charlevoix * Cote-St-Paul * C-Pig * Dave G's * Doom's loft * Ghettotech Central * Heavyweight * Studio Orange * The Loft



Best drink

1. Beer

2. Long Island Iced Tea

3. Sex on the Beach

4. Cranberry-Vodka

5. Gin & Tonic/Vodka-Guru-Lime

Honourable mentions: Alabama Slammer * Amaretto & Coke * Any one, keep them coming * Anything local and red * Bailey's & coffee * Black Russian * Blackberry daiquiri * Blue Lagoon * Blue Typhoon * Calimocho * Cosmopolitan * Cum 'n' Rum * Evian * Flaming Sambuca * Frozen strawberry daiquiri * GHB * Ginger Schnapps * Gin-Juice * Guru * Hoegaarden * Jack Daniel's * Jagermeister * Jamaican Tea * Juicy Pussy * Kamikaze * Killer Kool-Aid * Kumanwanalaia * Liquid Cocaine * Love Potion #9 * Martini with double olives * Moo Zoo * Nutty Russian * Paralyzer * Pina Colada * Pink Armadillo's Rectum Suck * Porto * Prunini: prune juice w/gin & vodka * Red wine * Rum & Coke * Sambuca * Sangria * Shirley Temple * Singapore sling * Snake Bite * Southern Comfort & Coke * St-Ambroise Cream Ale * Tequila Sunrise * The Nibbler * Vodka on Ice * Water * White Russian * Wild Cherry Pepsi * Zombie



Best hangover remedy

1. Water & aspirin/Midol/Tylenol/Advil

2. Have sex

4. Sleep

5. Have another drink

Honourable mentions: 222 * Two lines of mesc, one line of coke & one joint w/ a glass of Cherry Pepsi * Alternately scalding & freezing showers * Angostura Bitters & Soda * Being whipped in a dungeon * Big joint * Blood transfusion * Buffet Maharajah * Call in sick * Cold soup & vodka * Cosmos * Golden shower * H20 and Vitamin B * Mashed potatoes * McDonald's hashbrowns * Nagging by your mother * Perrier * Phat-ass joint * Pork * Premium Plus crackers * Puke!! * Raw eggs w/mustard * Stand in the rain naked * The couch * Tomato juice & vinegar * Tonquinoise soup * V8 * Valium * Waking up beside someone and knowing their name * Warm grapefruit and guava juice * Water & Teletubbies



Best bartender

1. Nancy at Bifteck

2. Mathieu at Sona and Jai

3. Little Diana at Bifteck

4. Amy German at Cybertek and Zone

5. Eve at Jai/Bill at Foufounes

Honourable mentions: Any who give free doubles * Casey at Bifteck * Alexis at Else's * Girl at Angel's with sun tattoo on stomach * Jesse at DeNiro's * Jimmy at Sir Winston's * Jimmy Papadopoulos at Amazones * Johanna at L'Ile Noire * Johnny at Thursday's * Laurence Olivier at Celestial Club * Lisa at Wally's * Marjo at Thursday's * Maryse Castonguay at the Delta Hotel * Patrick the shooter guy at Unity * Scott Saxon at Bar des Deux Pierrots * Shannon at Thompson House * Short guy at McKibbin's * Stephanie Getty at Mad Hatter's * The one with the big boobies



Best pickup line

* Are you a fork or a spoon kinda guy?
* Are your feet tired? You have been running through my mind all night
* Betcha I can stick my tongue down your shirt from here
* Can I buy you a spatula?
* Can you give me a lift?
* Do you want me to even bother?
* For a fat girl, you're kinda pretty
* Hi, I'm Bobby from the Gruesomes
* Holy Shit you're hot!
* How much for another lap dance?
* I am an Arab prince
* I am in the Kingpins, you know
* I feel like chicken tonight
* I like dyke
* If we were squirrels could I bust a nut in you
* I'm a lesbian, wanna kiss me?
* I'm friends with Jason Priestley
* I'm pregnant with a baby elephant, wanna see?
* I'm the DJ, wanna go?
* Is that beer in your pants? Cause I wanna tap that ass!
* My girlfriend just dumped me, do you want to keep me company?
* Nice bum, where ya from?
* Please! I need some!
* Silence is golden
* This place sucks. Do you?
* This whole Elian thing hurts me
* Wanna go halfsies on a baby?
* Wanna see a grown man cry like a baby?
* Want to discover your future tonight?
* What are you comprised of?
* What turns you on more, country music or news, because I can do them both
* Why would you want to have sex with me?
* Will that explode upon contact?
* Yo bitch, come over here an' lemme slap that big white ass of yours!
* You are one sexy bitch
* You must be from Mexico because you're so hot and spicy
* Your arse, my place



Sexiest French pickup line

* À poil!
* Salut ma pishnoote
* Allo, t'es sexy, esti!
* Bonjour, j'ai des écureuils dans ma bibliothèque
* Bonjour, veux-tu manger ma tete?
* C'est de la folie!
* Combien?
* Est-ce qu'un pistolet dans votre poche, ou etes vous ravi de me voir?
* Est-ce que vous parlez the English?
* Excuse-moi, voulez-vous fucker?
* Fuckez-moi!
* Je désire lécher tes bottines
* Je désire le privilège d'etre ton esclave
* Je désire un repas, est-ce que tu es pret pour moi de te manger?
* Je suis un maudit bloke, déclares ta souveraineté sur mon territoire
* Je suis une pamplemousse
* Je veux te faire l'amour
* J'veux manger ta quiche
* Man, t'es trop beau pour d'etre tout seul
* Mange ma crotte, esti
* Moi, toi, elle--ménage-à-trois?
* My English not so good, but I french well
* Pardonnez-moi, j'ai besoin de l'aide avec mon zipper
* Sexy tits, toi!
* Si tu viens chez nous, je vais te preter ma brosse à dents secrète
* Sur quatre pieds, ma chienne!
* Ta cul et moi, j'espère vont bien ensemble
* Ton T-shirt est vraiment lumineuse, mon amour
* Tu ne comprends rien de c'que j'te dis, hein?
* Tu veux faire du sofa?
* Tu ressembles à une princesse
* Veux-tu sucer mon rooster?
* Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
* Voulez-vous du beurre?