Montréal Recommendation?

You must let everyone know what you think of the Yakima.

 

Check out St Bock. A little bit of a walk, buy well worth it. Lots of beers fresh and on tap, mostly their own, with some other great locals as well. Biermarket(there are 2 locations downtown),Benelux and Dieu Du Ciel are also worth stopping in for.

 

Reviving this thread. I have plans to go to many of the places recommended above when I am in Montreal, but does any one have any good beer/food recommendations by the Botanical Garden/Olympic Stadium? I will likely be spending most of the day around there and would like a short bike/walk to a nice place.

 

You'll be very close to L'espace publique (a brewpub) and La bièrolgue (a bottleshop). I couldn't really say as far as food goes, sorry.

 

From the Olympic Stadium, you could bike to Péluso (best bottle shop in town) in probably 10 minutes. Then head north and you could go check out MaBrasserie! Don't know when you'll be in town, but they're planning on opening a tap room with 48 lines of local beer. It's already mostly-built, I expect it'll be up and running within a month or so.

Around the stadium is a pretty bad neighbourhood for food, though. I work around there and the restaurant choices are really lackluster. There's Station F on Rachel that's supposed to be good, but I've never been myself. If you make it as far as the promenade Masson (between Iberville and St-Michel) you can find some decent options, but normally when I want a good restaurant I look farther west.

 

Planning on hitting up Péluso already. MaBrasserie! looks like a good option and is about a kilometer from where I will be staying, so we could hit that up on the way back. I'll be there in early June so looks like it'll be open by then.

 

OP, you could hit up La succursale, get a poutine at Frites alors! and check out Frigo de bacchus while there.

 

You'll have a great time. Not only are you coming at a great time of year, and not only are you willing to use bikes, but you will be in one of the best general areas for beer on the whole island. Usually people that visit are downtown the whole time and are cut off from pretty much any options whatsoever in the good local beer department as a result.
Have fun!