Bishop & Bagg

There’s finally a solid British style pub (think Burgundy Lion) on the plateau. Open 7 days a week till 3am, this place might become a go to!
This place delivers exactly what it promises: British favourites with a great bar selection in a casual pub-​style environment.
They offer both British style brunch and lunch/​dinner, and both are pretty good. At Brunch, I had the curried lentils, poached eggs, cheese curds & toast, while my husband had the full English. I have to say both were great! The coffee, not so much though, but hey that’s what you get for ordering a latte in a pub. Next time, perhaps I’ll try the Clamato-​vodka, which seems to be a crowd favourite here during brunch. I also highly suggest the crumpets, which were still warm from the oven.
They also have a decent lunch & dinner menu. We tried the lamb kebabs, which were just ok, and a green salad, which was nice.
Finally if you’re looking for a place to watch an English football game or even hockey, this is really a nice option.

Great pub in Montréal. We stopped here to take a break from the cold temperature outside and ended up staying for 3 hours. The snacks were delish and the beer selection was limited but what ever they had was wonderful. We ate before stopping here but wish we didn’t… Everything we saw on other peoples table looked and smelled amazing!!!

A very cool English style pub. The music is a bit load (for an English pub) but you have an nice selections of beers (and styles) for 8 – 9 $ a pint interesting cocktails for 10 – 13 $ and the food also looks nice.
The place looks perfect whether you are solo or if you are in a group. I liked the overall atmosphere and service, it was a bit expensive but will go into my «cool place in the neighborhood» list

Great Plateau pub, great food, friendly environment. I have had breakfast and dinner here and it is better than most pub food in the city. I like the vibe, especially on Saint Viateur

Yummy burgers, attentive service – I’d go back for sure! There’s space to sit outdoors, which is nice, music was 80s that night and maybe a bit painful at times but that’s okay. I have to go back for another burger because I was already stuffed that night and could tell it was delicious but could not properly appreciate it! Oh, and we didn’t have to order at the counter, yay!

Fantastic!
Situated on one of the busiest streets in The Mile End is this upscale pub. A previous Unilocaler had written great reviews on the brunch menu and my fiancé and I had to grab a bite before leaving Montréal back to Toronto. We drove all the way from old Montréal for this brunch.
WORTH IT!
The brunch menu was SMALL only 4 items but we had been eating eggs Benedict across Montréal so far so we figured why stop.
Delicious and the salad on the side was phenomenal!
Will 100% be back next time we are in Montréal, to try a burger — as this looked to be even more delicious.
My only advice if you’re visiting The Mile End area — is that local street parking is a tad confusing — make sure you read the signs carefully!

My boyfriend and I stumbled upon this place while walking around the area looking for breakfast that also took credit cards. We were SO impressed with the quality of food for the price.
They definitely had the best Benedict we’ve ever tasted. He ordered the special Benedict which had pork cheek, roasted tomato, cheese and a delicious pesto-​hollandaise. I ordered «the yank» which was the yummiest basic breakfast I’ve ever had. The eggs were cooked perfect, the sausages were savory and succulent and the potatoes were like hash browns but pressed into a triangle shaped nugget that made them way better than normal.
I really wish this place was closer to home because I would totally go to brunch here every weekend. It was that good! Please give this place a try if you are in the area. It is most definitely worth it :)
Thank you Bishop and Bagg for an amazing Saturday brunch!!!

Nice little pub with a healthy selection of gin. They even have a tasting menu of 3 gins a glass of beer! Nice and cozy; good for conversations.
Price is above average.

Sunday morning… Excellent brunch… the service is perfect. large variety of brunch. a nice place to go if you are around!!!

I have been there many times and I just like it more and more every time. Great food, super friendly service, and well decorated. Plus the neighborhood is fun to walk around. One of my favorite favorite neighborhood spots.

My friends and I really enjoyed is Mille End Plateau watering hole. It’s the type of place that is reminiscent of my youth in my 18 – 25 year old days of spending lots of time and money meeting friends for pints on the weekends. Tables surrounded the place and they were not jammed in like other places. The music they played was really good. Some vintage some funky and the atmosphere was really relaxed. A very solid beverage offering plus a kitchen serving food what else could you seriously ask for in a neighbourhood pub. Place wasn’t totally packed but enough to provide the feel that you weren’t drinking alone. No one likes to hang out in an empty pub. Something about feeling like you want to be where the action is at on a Friday or Saturday night.
One downside was that there are not two single washrooms. This could pose problem if is place is busy.
Service was adequate. It was semi busy so our server was running between tables. Nothing unbearable and we tipped her with each drink so she would keep coming back.
B&B is a good place if more relaxed meet ups with friends are your game-​plan. Not sure if this is a pickup bar as people seem to come in groups. If this is your conquest best of luck. We shall be back for drinks in the future.

What compelled me to write a review for Bishop and Bagg is their brunch. Not to say that their drinks aren’t worth writing about; it’s just that I know practically zilch about beers and cocktails. The first couple of times I was there, it was just for the company and I didn’t particularly enjoy myself because the place was packed (I hate crowds) and people were smoking in the patio (my problem, not theirs). The third time I went there, a Saturday afternoon, it was a lot quieter, there were just 4 or 5 tables of folks watching the hockey and soccer games, and as I was hungry, I went for their brunch «The Yank», which consisted of a choice of bacon (or sausages or ham), two eggs, potatoes and toast. Pretty standard sounding, right? Wrong! First of all, there’s none of the usual pathetic quarter of a tomato or slither of fruit cocktail garniture on the plate. Second of all, there’s something truly special about the potatoes. It was this big cube of mashed potato in a crispy coating that almost resembles a rosti. So good. As for the bacon, it was thick and crispy at the same time. So satisfying. No kidding, it was probably one of the best traditional (with a twist) brunch meals I have ever had.

I stopped off here with a small group on a hockey night and man this place was packed. Even though the bar was full it still didn’t take long to get drinks and food. As English style pubs go this one is A — OK, the beer choices were good and the menu had something that satisfied everyone in the group.

Sympathique Pub anglais. Je vous recommande de partager les assiettesbon choix de bières. N’oubliez pas les noix!

Ok, Wednesday night not a packed night but nobody came to see us for at least 10 minutes in… Not even water?
We got up & left and we’re sitting at Mile End grillade and they’re taking our order in less than 2minutes!
Sorry, but I’m maybe not chill enough for this place!
I may give it another chance some day, but for a new place it sucked that that happened!

Ok, I’m updating my review because I’ve been back twice since the first review and I have to admit there are more things to like here than I initially gave credit for. The food is quite great, working with local farms to change up the menu constantly and provide a range from meaty to vegetarian friendly that is quite delicious and espcially satisfying on a Monday when everything else is closed. I had the Ploughman’s Lunch — which is a pile of meats and pickled things and eggs and cheese and bread which is basically everything I love. I shared a salad the was huge and had crispy nuts and fiddleheads and other truly yummy light and filling flavours. I’d love to see more smaller Quebec breweries on the beer list but the wine and cocktails are quite good. I’ve also heard from the vintage shop next door that these guys are proving to be really caring and great neighbours and I love to hear that. So, up to 4 stars with gratitude and I’ll sees ya again soon!

I’ll expand on this after taking in a Sunday brunch. I popped in on a quiet afternoon and had biscuits, ribs and a pint. Right on the money. And do bow-​wow have a new destination for extended dog walks.
I like it. It has a cool intimate vibe.
The terrace will work but it’ll never get sun. :(
Definitely gets a follow-​up and brunch
Extended report to come

Nouveau petit pub qui vient diversifier l’offre nocturne dans le coin du Mile End. J’étais bien emballée à l’idée d’aller l’essayer, ce que j’ai fait un jeudi soir avant d’aller à un concert au Cabaret du Mile End.
C’est peut-​être parce que j’ai grandi parmi beaucoup de pubs anglais à Ottawa, mais j’ai trouvé que celui-​ci sonnait un peu… faux. Déjà, en rentrant, la première chose qu’on nous dit c’est qu’ils font le service à l’anglaise, c’est-à-dire qu’il faut commander au bar. C’est pas tant le fait qu’ils né faisaient pas le service aux tables qui m’a dérangé, mais surtout le ton pompeux que le serveur a pris. Mais bon, hein, c’est pas grave!
Deuxième point plus négatif: le prix de la pinte. Je veux dire, 8,5 $ pour une pinte de Newcastle, c’est vraiment trop, come on. Celui qui m’accompagnait était vraiment très heureux de pouvoir commander un Pimm’s cup, et c’est vrai qu’il était vraiment bon!
Troisièmement, la déco n’était pas pleinement assumée, et j’avais l’impression de me retrouver dans un décor de pub anglais plutôt que dans un vrai pub anglais. Ça faisait un peu étrange…
Mais bon, l’expérience en soit était pas négative, et peut-​être que j’y retournerais! Le menu avait l’air bien tentant.

**With apologies to Risa D., as I ended up going anyway after a friend wanted to check it out: p Still up for round 2 though!**
The Burgundy Lion guys opened a new pub even closer to my apartment. That’s pretty much all I needed to hear in order to run over and check out Bishop and Bagg. Located in Mile End on the corner of Clark and St-​Viateur where an Italian café used to be, this English pub is right along my regular spring/​summer bike path to and from the Market, so this could get very hairy for me as the warm weather rolls around. I was very excited to see in what ways this spot would differ from the Lion which continues to be my favourite pub in town.
Bishop and Bagg is a smaller, more intimate place when compared to the Burgundy Lion. Part of that is the smaller floor space so less people in the pub but also the overall vibe — there are no TVs and the music is more ambient compared to the Lion’s higher decibel count (which is the one thing that is starting to bother me about the Lion — now scratched off the possible date spot list as conversation is basically impossible). The use of dark burgundy colours, old framed pictures and the old school wood bar really give it an authentic British pub look — perhaps even more than the Lion itself.
The other interesting aspect of Bishop and Bagg is how they seek to mimic a true pub experience through the service — there are no waiters per se. Everything is done at the bar — you order all food and drinks through the barman via your table number and it is sent to you as ready. Each «round» is added to a table tab and then you divide up the damage later on. Definitely a different take for a pub and one that I am curious to see how well it works on busier nights (I will have to do my research…). Either way, it creates a more relaxed vibe that is enjoyable.
The drink menu will be familiar to anyone who frequents the Burgundy Lion — same varieties of beer with a few different cocktails showcased here. Pleasant surprise when I walked in — my favourite bartender from the Lion has made the move over it would appear, so I knew the cocktails would be on point. My multiple Boulevardiers (Bourbon, Campari and Sweet Vermouth) proved I wasn’t mistaken.
As for the food, it is certainly not what one would call classic pub cuisine but Bishop and Bagg doesn’t aim for that anyway. Their website states that this is a «pub with great food», one that isn’t traditionally British but what they call country pub inspired. All right then. First, we grabbed some small snacks — hickory styx and some spiced nuts with rosemary. Nice snacking options to go with some drinks — I was particularly enjoying the spiced nuts which had the right hint of rosemary on top of the other spices going on. The hickory styx were a nice alternative to basic chips.
As main dishes, we tried two different ones. First up, lamb kebabs served on pitas with some tzatziki sauce, lettuce and vegetables. Nice favours across the board here — the lamb was cooked properly, the sauce added nice creaminess without overpowering the rest of the dish and the vegetables were nice & fresh.
The second dish was porchetta with grilled escarole and white beans. Loved this dish — the fattiness of the porchetta, one of my favourite meat preparations, paired with the grilled escarole, the white beans, some parsley and a little onion as well. If you had told me this is what I would be eating at a pub, I would have probably laughed at you. This dish would seem much more at home in a different setting but it totally works. Well done all around.
Loved my initial visit to Bishop and Bagg. Great food, great drinks and an awesome atmosphere — I cannot wait to go back shortly, especially knowing terrasse weather is on its way and as such, that little terrasse will be open as will the garage door windows. I may not go to the Burgundy Lion as often this summer but no worries to the ownership group, I will still be a frequent customer… just elsewhere.
Cheers!

I love a good pub so when I heard so many positive things about Bishop and Bagg I couldn’t wait to try it out. It is owned by the same people who run the Burgundy Lion so you expect it to be a quality pub given how good their other spot is. Even though it is fairly new it’s already become a popular spot and once you have their food and drink you’ll see why.
They have a small cocktail list, good selection of beers on tap and a vast selection of scotches to taste. The cocktails are slightly on the expensive side for Montréal standards however they are strong so you do get your money’s worth. I wasn’t a fan of the Pimm’s Cup which was a little on the weak side but that was the one exception. The Sidecar and Planter’s Punch were both amazing and on the strong side. My friends who got the Bloody Caesar did say it was one of the better ones that they’ve had and that it was super spicy which is the way they liked it.
Foodwise they have a smallish menu but they are one of those places that like to focus on doing a few items well as opposed to being too diversified. Don’t expect food like burgers and wings. They take pub food up a notch. I ordered jerked cornish hen with plantain mash. Cornish hen can be very dry if not cooked properly but they got it just right and weren’t scared to play with spice either.
Take note that to order food and drink here they do it in the style of a proper English pub which means you go up to the bar to place your order which will then be brought to you. They don’t take reservations so if you’re going to be a group show up early. This place gets packed very quickly especially on weekends. Once you try it out though you’ll understand why it’s so popular. I’m definitely adding this pub to my list of preferred pubs and bars in Montréal.

Mile End may not of needed another British pub (The Sparrow is two streets away) however, Bishop & Bagg do things the traditional British way by ordering food and drinks at the bar and they bring it to your seat.
The inside is all dark wood with a great looking bar and a nice selection of scotch and whiskey. I drank their House Ale and it was mediocre BUT the food made up for it. I got the onion «soup» (not a soup) and it was delicious. I could of eaten three of them. My boyfriend had the quail with mash and he thought it was great. The only bummer is that we were both hungry after we left.
Although the food is good, this is more of a drinking pub by the looks of it. Not that many people were eating when we went. I’ve been to Burgundy Lion and they are not afraid of promoting alcoholism in St. Henri (as if you have to). So I don’t see how Bishop & Bagg won’t become the next Mile End (a more high end version at least) watering hole.
It’ll be a great spot in the summer when they open up that front window and I go to enjoy a pint.

Another great addition to the Montréal Pub scene by the folks that brought us The Burgundy Lion.
Great food, great drinks and great times, what more can you ask from your local Pub?