The Best Boozy Brunches in Montreal
Montreal’s culinary scene is creative, diverse and always ready to reinvent the classics. On weekends, brunch becomes far more than just a meal: it’s an excuse to slow down, gather with friends or family, and make the most of everything the city has to offer.
We’ve already shared our list of the best brunches in Montreal, spots to brunch with your kids and places to brunch every day of the week. Because some mornings deserve to stretch gently into the afternoon, a number of Montreal restaurants have dreamed up formulas where gourmand plates sit alongside mimosas, Caesars, Espresso Martinis and other cocktails perfectly suited to easing into the day. People come to celebrate a birthday, reunite with a group of friends, mark good news, or simply enjoy a Sunday without watching the clock. The menus range from comforting classics to bolder creations, while the atmosphere shifts between lively buvette, elegant wine bar and warm neighbourhood restaurant.
When you have the time for it, there’s a particular pleasure in stretching brunch out, letting it spill a little into lunch, and allowing the meal to turn into a proper outing. Any occasion is a good one to sit down, share a few plates and toast to the weekend.
For bons vivants and boozy brunch lovers alike, here’s our selection of the best spots in Montreal to enjoy a generous brunch in a festive atmosphere, a mimosa — or two — in hand.
Lundis au soleil
Three friends with a soft spot for European wine bars built Lundis au Soleil, and it shows in the details. The kitchen moves with the seasons, and the cellar leans on private imports you won’t find just anywhere. The dish that keeps regulars coming back, though, is the pancakes — thick, comforting and generous enough to make a decision feel dangerous. Pull up a seat, order a glass, and settle into the neighbourhood.
Montréal
Buvette Pastek
Tucked inside a boutique hotel since 2021, Buvette Pastek plays brunch as something light, gourmand and a little festive. The menu shifts with the season toward shareable small plates and luxe little snacks, all built to pass around the table. Natural wine is the throughline here, poured in a room that’s deliberately relaxed and easy to settle into. It’s the kind of place where “one more glass” quietly becomes the plan for the afternoon.
Montréal
Régine Café
Régine sets the tone before you’ve even ordered, with a complimentary shot of fresh-pressed juice that tells you exactly how much care goes into the rest. The breakfast plates are creative and precisely executed, served in a room that runs warm and welcoming. Everything, from the first pour to the last bite, is considered. If you like a brunch where nothing is left to chance, this Rosemont address earns its long-standing reputation.
Montréal
Monk Café
Monk Café wears a lot of hats — coffee counter in the morning, wine bar by apéro — and does all of them without fuss. Weekend brunch means generous plates in a room that’s polished but never precious. It’s a Sud-Ouest gathering spot, the sort of neighbourhood address where you settle in with a good plate and a well-chosen drink and lose track of the hour. Come for the coffee, stay for the pour.
Montréal
BarBara
On Notre-Dame West, BarBara is a wine bar first, and the list reflects that — thoughtful, quality-driven, worth exploring. The kitchen keeps pace with generous plates made for sharing, equally at home at brunch or apéro. It’s built for the long visit: a plate, a glass, then a bottle, then whatever comes after. This is leisurely Saint-Henri dining, exactly as it should be.
Montréal
Foiegwa
Foiegwa reimagines the French diner with a distinctly Montreal sense of indulgence, and weekend brunch is where it goes all in. The plates are knowingly decadent — some of the most gloriously excessive brunching in the city — and they all but demand a mimosa alongside. If your weekend calls for a little richness and no apologies, this Saint-Henri room delivers, glass after glass.
Montréal
Le Passé Composé (Plateau Mont-Royal)
After winning over Vieux-Montréal, Le Passé Composé brought its gourmand brunch to the Plateau. Breakfast classics get reworked with contemporary French technique, and the plates arrive with real generosity. The clincher is the house breakfast-cocktail menu — a list built specifically for morning drinking — which turns brunch into a proper occasion. Few spots make the case for a boozy brunch quite so directly.
Montréal
Tsak-Tsak Beaubien
For a brunch that steps off the well-worn path, Tsak-Tsak is your table. This warm, family-run Petite-Italie spot serves generous Malagasy cooking with obvious care, and its weekend menu trades the usual eggs-and-toast script for something more distinctive and full of flavour. Add a cocktail and you’ve got a brunch that surprises — an easy pick when you’re after character over convention.
Montréal
Bistrot La Fabrique
Bistrot La Fabrique is a Plateau fixture, and it earns that status with careful, generous brunch cooking in a room that hums. The kitchen updates the classics with a measured hand — creative, but never at the expense of comfort — and the service keeps the whole thing feeling effortless. The atmosphere is lively enough that a second drink feels like the natural next move, which makes it a fine choice for a social, unhurried boozy brunch.
Montréal
larrys
Built as a European café, larrys glides from morning espresso to afternoon wine without ever changing gears. Brunch, lunch, dinner and a bit of grazing in between all happen in the same relaxed room. That flexibility is the whole appeal: linger over brunch, then let it drift into cocktails or a shared bottle with friends. In the Mile-End, it’s about as easygoing as a weekend gets.
Montréal
Le Bar Darling
Le Bar Darling is worth a visit for the room alone — the design is a genuine talking point — but it also happens to be both an excellent café and a sharp little bar. Days are for working and slow coffees; evenings turn toward refined drinks and very good small plates. Whatever the hour, it’s built for lingering and good company, which makes it an easy stop on a brunch-into-cocktails afternoon.
Montréal
EVA's - St. Henri
The warmer sibling to Bucky Rooster’s, EVA’s pairs an elegant room with a genuinely welcoming feel. The brunch menu travels the globe, a nod to the many cultures that shape how Montreal eats, and the shared-plate format practically invites a round of cocktails to go with it. It’s brunch as a proper social occasion — the kind you happily let run well past its natural end.
Montréal
Pub Bishop & Bagg
If your ideal boozy brunch has a British accent, head to Bishop & Bagg in the Mile-End. The weekend menu is a pub-food greatest hits: curried lentils with poached eggs, eggs Benedict done several ways, eggs in purgatory, strawberry French toast, a breakfast banh mì, a fried-chicken Monte Cristo and a proper Full English. The bar backs it up with everything you’d want — mimosas, a Breakfast Negroni, Caesars and gin drinks — inside a room that’s loud in the best way.
Montréal
SHAY
Right in the heart of Griffintown, SHAY brings Lebanese hospitality to the weekend, with generous plates served in a big, festive room or out on the seasonal terrace. The cooking draws on Mediterranean and Middle Eastern traditions, and it’s meant to be shared. The signature move is the baklava espresso martini — indulgent, a little over-the-top, and exactly the sort of drink a boozy brunch was invented for.
Montréal
SAE LOW
SAE LOW is chef Minh Phat Tu’s Villeray café-buvette, and its brunch reflects a precise, culturally blended point of view. Breakfast staples get inventive, Asian-leaning treatments and thoughtful plating that pull them out of the ordinary. Cocktails and a well-chosen wine list round things out. If you like a brunch that takes a few creative risks, this is your table.
Montréal
Arthurs Nosh Bar
Few Montreal brunches are as beloved as Arthurs, a Saint-Henri institution that reworks Jewish deli classics with a creative, generous hand. The room is lively, the service quick, and the design as considered as the food. Order a peach Bellini, a classic mimosa or the signature Arthur’s Caesar, and you’ll understand why the wait is part of the ritual here.
Montréal
Dandy
Dandy is a Vieux-Montréal essential, all comforting plates and enveloping design in a room made for settling in from morning well into the afternoon. The boozy part comes easily: a well-chosen cocktail turns a straightforward brunch into something festive. It’s an effortless place to gather, order another round, and let the day take its time.
Montréal
