Vessels and Barrels
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Reviewed by ecoboy from Rhode Island
3.33/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 3 | quality: 2.5 | service: 4 | selection: 3.5 | food: 4
3.33/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 3 | quality: 2.5 | service: 4 | selection: 3.5 | food: 4
The things I will take away from my visit and remember forever about Vessels and Barrels: you cannot trust websites 100% of the time and you can never have too many sausages.
I'm in Montreal for the 'spos and the nightlife from time to time, and my impression of the city's brewpubs usually involves dark stormy faces when my broken French results in the inevitable switch to English. This was not the case at the sunshiney Vessels and Barrels. The suburban mall location results in an "anybody is welcome" vibe: kids, sports fans, cigar lovers, beer lovers, English speakers. Now this vibe will result in less of an old pub atmosphere and a little more of a chain feeling.
Website comment reasoning: I was on a Montreal brewpub website that listed "closest " subway stop. So my companion and I left our car at the hotel and rode the subway to the "closest" stop. It just happened to be two towns away. Completely unwalkable. Not in fact, in Montreal, at all. Hmmm, better research in future.
I was there for lunch and one thing caught my eye on the menu that looms large. Really large. They serve sausage on platters. Huge platters. Huge colon-blocking platters (I believe the largest had 22 sausages on it.) They come with fries. Had to order one!
The beers are hit and miss. There was evidence of souring in one, but the Hefeweizen was fine.
If you happen to be spinning down the "route Transcanadienne," stop in, order a sampler to find out which beers are in the best shape, and hurt yourself on a sausage platter. If you're in downtown Montreal without a car, you needn't necessarily bother.
May 30, 2003I'm in Montreal for the 'spos and the nightlife from time to time, and my impression of the city's brewpubs usually involves dark stormy faces when my broken French results in the inevitable switch to English. This was not the case at the sunshiney Vessels and Barrels. The suburban mall location results in an "anybody is welcome" vibe: kids, sports fans, cigar lovers, beer lovers, English speakers. Now this vibe will result in less of an old pub atmosphere and a little more of a chain feeling.
Website comment reasoning: I was on a Montreal brewpub website that listed "closest " subway stop. So my companion and I left our car at the hotel and rode the subway to the "closest" stop. It just happened to be two towns away. Completely unwalkable. Not in fact, in Montreal, at all. Hmmm, better research in future.
I was there for lunch and one thing caught my eye on the menu that looms large. Really large. They serve sausage on platters. Huge platters. Huge colon-blocking platters (I believe the largest had 22 sausages on it.) They come with fries. Had to order one!
The beers are hit and miss. There was evidence of souring in one, but the Hefeweizen was fine.
If you happen to be spinning down the "route Transcanadienne," stop in, order a sampler to find out which beers are in the best shape, and hurt yourself on a sausage platter. If you're in downtown Montreal without a car, you needn't necessarily bother.
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