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The best restaurant bathrooms in Montreal. Art deco restorations, a famous waterfall urinal, a taxidermied bison and basement kung-fu lounges. Here are the rooms worth a detour from the dining table.
Rosemont · 391 Rue Saint-Zotique Est, Montréal, QC H2S 1L8, Canada
A young Saint-Zotique rotisserie that runs the same wood-panelling and red-ochre palette from the dining room straight through to the washroom. Currently the most-talked-about restaurant bathroom in the city.
Downtown · 1440 Rue de la Montagne, Montréal, QC H3G 1Z5, Canada
The Four Seasons rooftop restaurant, designed throughout by Atelier Zébulon Perron. The washroom carries the same hospitality finish the firm built into every other room here.
Downtown · 1500 Blvd Robert-Bourassa #900, Montréal, QC H3A 3S8, Canada
The reborn Le 9e on top of the Eaton Centre. Architect Jacques Carlu's 1931 art deco room reopened after a long restoration, with the original detailing intact. The bathroom shares the dining-room view over downtown.
Sud-Ouest · 2491 R. Notre Dame O, Montréal, QC H3J 1N6, Canada
A taxidermied bison head shares the room with the toilet. It came in years ago as a one-time loan from a regular whose wife refused to let him bring it home, and never left.
Rosemont · 1335 Rue Beaubien E, Montréal, QC H2G 1K7, Canada
Three communal stalls in a basement done up like an 80s rec room. VHS Bruce Lee on a tube TV, vintage pulp magazines, Prince posters and orange paint. The bathroom is the second venue.
Mile End · 5800 Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2T 1T3, Canada
The men's room urinal is a two-metre wall of water, flowing constantly into a gutter drain. Designed by Gervais Fortin when the bar opened in 1989. Some patrons have come for the urinal alone.
Montreal restaurants take their bathrooms seriously. The city has a long tradition of treating the trip past the dining room as part of the experience, and operators have leaned into it with art deco restorations, communal kung-fu lounges, taxidermied bison and a literal waterfall to pee on. The six rooms below cover the spectrum, from polished five-star marble to a basement done up like an 80s rec room.