text: Really do not get the hype around this place I would been once before in the early evening on a weeknight about a year ago and enjoyed it but my more recent experience there on a Friday night was horrible I am a native Montrealer who now lives in NYC and came here with a friend from New York we both enjoy the cocktail bars in New York Raines Law Room Little Branch Weather Upare some of my favorites and I thought this would be a good place to go and try to impress people with what Montreal has to offernnThere was so much wrong with the place this time that I do not even know where to start but I guess I have to somewherennFor a supposed cocktail bar the drink list and quality is severely lacking You need to offer something more interesting than a mojito or apple martini if you want to distinguish yourself from any crappy loungeclub on St Laurent Moreover the drinks should actually be good Ours were way too sweet and unbalancednnI also thought it was hilarious they could not make a Pimms Cup because they were out of Pimms How does a bar run out of the base for one of the few drinks it offers That is like KFC running out of chickennnNext it was way too crowded That would not be terrible but this place is aiming for a certain sophistication which it laughably misses Instead of letting every single person outside into the bar I would rather just be made to wait outside for a bit until it clears out inside It was not enjoyable having people pressed up against my back or waiting minutes to makeget a drink order because the staff were overwhelmednnThe crowd is amazingly douchey in a Jersey Shore way Tanktops basketball shorts WuTang tshirts name the douchey clothing item and some guy there was wearing it Absolutely classless really A little door policy would go a long way shit like that does not fly in NYC but clearly Baldwin Barmacie does not carennMusic was deafeningly loud and a bad blend of generic house and techno Again is this a club or a cocktail bar I am sorry but hipster staff in Cokebottle glasses and long spoons in drinks does not a cocktail bar makennFinally it is not even nice in here Sure from afar it seems cool But look closer or better yet just sit down The tables are dinky and tiny the chairs are dirty and the long bench against the wall is covered in some sort of cheap rubberpleathernnGoing back to the beginning the main problem is that the drinks suck They are not at all interesting they use cheap liquor plastic handlesalso soda guns on the nonalcoholic side instead of real stuff are weak and they do not taste good The bad crowd bad music and bad service do not help either but ultimately the drinks just sucknnReally wondering if I went to the same bar as everyone who gave this place and stars or if they just have no frame of reference Barmacie Baldwin should either stop halfassing the cocktail bar thing or give up and become just another bar in Montreal with crappy overpriced drinks let me get one thing clear I am perfectly happy spending bucks on a good drink but the ones here are not worth even and greasedup shavedhead dudes in beaters