Santos Tapas Bar
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Santos Tapas Bar
Opens Today at 5 pm
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 5 pm - 3 am |
| Wednesday | 5 pm - 3 am |
| Thursday | 5 pm - 3 am |
| Friday | 5 pm - 3 am |
| Saturday | 5 pm - 3 am |
| Sunday | 5 pm - Midnight |
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Born in may 2007, Santos is the quintessential old Montreal tapas bar experience. Open from tuesday to saturday, it specializes in traditional Spanish food and offers a large an original selection of spirits, cocktails, wines, sangrias and mojitos. Live DJs every night and many special events. Santos is ideal for your 5 to 7s, late night dinners, corporate bookings and live musical events.
ORIGINS OF SANTOS
All the streets in Old Montreal are named after saints. Located on the corner of Saint Paul and Saint François Xavier and given that the food served is Spanish, it was only natural to name place "Saints" in Spanish.
OUR MISSION
"Feed & Amuse", that's our promise because we strive every day to feed your imagination, soul and appetite. As for amusing, we do it through our fun staff, cool events, self reinventing décor and the music, always the music.
ORIGINS OF SANTOS
All the streets in Old Montreal are named after saints. Located on the corner of Saint Paul and Saint François Xavier and given that the food served is Spanish, it was only natural to name place "Saints" in Spanish.
OUR MISSION
"Feed & Amuse", that's our promise because we strive every day to feed your imagination, soul and appetite. As for amusing, we do it through our fun staff, cool events, self reinventing décor and the music, always the music.
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via LibroUsually love this place but our server was very unfriendly & made us seem like a both or annoying. Other than that I really do like this place
via LibroUnfortunately did get a very bad service leading to a bad experience. I hope the higher authorities of Santos do take these things into account.
via Libro
Décevant. Le 5 a 7 est venté sur le site. Toutefois, presque personne présent sur place. De plus, l'assiette de pieuvre plutôt ordinaire en terme de quantité. Plus facile de trouver les patates que la pieuvre.
Pour moi c'est un 5/10. Très beau site toutefois & bon service de ma serveuse
Mathias_HOU
1 Review
D'abord, le service reçu était très médiocre. Air bête de la serveuse tout le long de la soirée, délais entre les assiettes très longs, non respect envers les clients. Ensuite, la nourriture coûte les yeux de la tête pour absolument rien dans l'assiette. C'est à peine si l'on a plus de 2 bouchées au prix du double d'une assiette normale. Complètement insensé comme restaurant!
JessicaBrig-3633
1 Review
Non mais sérieusement qui a dit restaurant? même à la garderie de mes enfants les portions sont plus grosses pis en plus on me pousse en bas de ma chaise à peine fini de manger en me disant que des plus gros clients allaient acheter des bouteilles. En plus le menu de groupe pour 4 on donne 3 boulette Ou 2 tacos Drôle de façon de partager!! Le service quoi dire vraiment mais médiocre. Finalement des prix exorbitants & services nourriture de schenouttee
SimonL
1 Review
Service incroyablement mauvais. Je n'ai jamais été dans un resto aussi insouciant de sa clientèle. De plus, la nourriture est ultra décevante. À peine 1 bouchée par assiette à des prix monstres. Je déconseille fortement à tout le monde d'y aller. Vous serez prévenu...
AlyssaCheb-1977
1 Review
Le pire restau club de Montréal. On a payé 60$ par personne pour un service médiocre, trois chips & un fond de quacamole en entrée, des minis beignets de calmar à partager pour 8, une paella cramé qu'il était indécent de servir. On est arrivé à 19h30 & à 21h30 on attendait encore d'avoir le plat. Les serveurs sont hautains & en particulier le « gérant » . On est considé comme dés numéros qui crache de l'argent. On nous a carrément dit qu'il y avait de plus gros client qui payent plus que nous alors on peut calisser notre camps si on est pas content. Ils parlent mal aux clients & te force à payer des bouteilles de fort pour entrer. Un scandale !!! Si vous lisez ce commentaire, ne faite pas comme moi, n'allez pas la bas. Vous allez épargner vos sous , votre temps & votre self respect.
ParadisBern-6989
1 Review
Les prix sont tout simplement Indécent pour une expérience médiocre! Obliger les gens à acheter des bouteilles même après avoir payé un souper à la con à 60$ par tête pour 10 personnes avec 5-6 bouteilles de vin/cocktails? Les faire sentir comme si ils devaient mériter d'être sur place? Il devrait exister des règles pour ce genre d'escroqueries. Il y a des milliers d'adresses de qualité à visiter à Montréal. Des endroits ou on se sent bienvenus & accueilli comme il se doit. J'espère qu'après avoir lu les centaines de mauvais avis, vous ne ferai pas comme nous en y allant quand même. Allez dépenser votre fric ailleurs. Vous méritez mieux. Très sincèrement.
SamuelPesa-7370
1 Review
Prix extrêmements trop chers. Portions beaucoup trop petites. 4 heures pour 3 services avec 2 bouchées par assiette. Je quitte le restaurant le ventre vide avec une facture exorbitante. Ah, & je me fait retirer ma chaise juste avant de payer!
via LibroOn devrait pouvoir arriver chacun à notre temps lorsqu'on a fait une réservation & que des personnes du groupe sont déjà à la table réservé
via LibroTERRIBLE STAFF, forced me to tip her 18% when she was rude & had aggressive mannerisms (almost slamming the plates on the table). Proceeded to yell at me to draw attention & embarrass me because I'm not giving her the minimum tip when I was going to give her 15% because it wasn't the best service. I was left disappointed because it was embarrassing that she yelled at me.
via LibroMerci à l'équipe du santos bar super bonne nourriture comme toujours super bon service à la clientèle super bonne musique je retournerai souvent
via Libro
Was really excited to go there last night with my friend, we had heard good things about this place.
A challenge finding parking on a saturday night in old port (to be expected).
Once we got there at 7, staff asked us if we had reservations, got asked for the vaxcode + id, & ushered to our table which was good.
We got sat on the mezzanine, first table looking down into the place, I love the decor!
Wooden chairs are small & low! Couldn't cross my legs under the table & I'm a female 5'7.
We got the tartare au saumon, the pieuvre & the calmars fris. The portions were disappointingly small for the price. Like I get that it's higher end, but not even a handful of calmaris for 18, 3 tiny pieces of pieuvre for over 20... tiny chips next to the onion & cucomber filled tartare... Maybe the plates were oversized so the portions looked small? Idk.
The higher price paid was definately not because the product is of great quality. Santos is making a huge margin on it & could/should increase their portions or quality because it feels like a ripoff.
By the time our food got here, the music got really loud, not great for conversation! We were yelling at the top of our lungs almost the whole evening... But at least the music was good! Good job DJ!
We also got drinks!
The pitcher slim was way to syrupy & sugary for our taste, good thing we only got them as a 1 drink & not a whole pitcher. We also got the Henny spritz & the bourbon lemonade. The spritz was fine.
I enjoyed my bourbon lemonade so much I got it twice!
Toilets were fine, the taps in the female restroom are chrome, so all the dirt shows on them.. not a cute look. Please make sure to clean the sinks well, at least have someone making them look tidyier.
Last thing was the paying experience. We asked the addition welll in advance, because we know sometimes it takes forever. & it did! We waited a while to get our addition (long enough for us to chat, go to the bathroom each individually & come back + 5-10 mins give or take).
The machine is set to 18%, 20% or 22%.
I know you can go back & change the tip manually & put in 15%, but who is really doing so after a couple of drinks?
This is shady business practices in my opinion.
I feel like Santos is getting inflated tips on the back of their clients because the paying experience is already unpleasant & the waiter is just standing there waiting for you (which is normal), but you kind of feel bad taking your time to change the tips to 15% (which is fair considering your bill & the good service). I felt cheated on when I pressed 18%, I guess its the price you pay for being convenient & wanting things to go efficiently.
If your client came in to have a good time, get drinks & have fun, don't ruin the experience by over changing them on already over changed dishes & drinks.
It really ruined the experience for me.
Enough to write this review.
Fix your machines, at kampai too.
Thanks!
via LibroWent here with my friends for my 20th birthday & it was so fun! My birthday was on Tuesday so girls drink free & they had an awesome DJ! Would recommend
via LibroMy husband, daughter & I visited Montreal for 4 nights & had our last night's meal at Santos. We had a great table right by the window, the food & drinks were amazing as was the service & the music. We would recommend this as a for sure to go to in Old Montreal.
via LibroJe ne vous recommandé pas la place pour la nourriture sans goût & des plats minuscules que même la serveuse était gênée des portions. Ambiance ok mais vraiment déçue avec la nourriture.