NextDoor Pub & Grill

Sports Pub NDG $$

NextDoor Pub & Grill sits at 5175A Sherbrooke St W, on NDG's main drag, and it makes no secret of what it is. This is the neighbourhood sports pub: wings, cold beer, screens with the game on, and a bar that runs to 3am when the rest of the block has gone dark. NDG has fancier rooms, but this is the one people mean when they say they are watching the game in the west end.

NextDoor pitches itself plainly as NDG's pub for legendary wings, cold beer and live sports, per the pub's own site. That is the whole offer, and the room delivers it without trying to be anything fancier. The kitchen runs late, the apps push past midnight, and the bar holds until 3am, which makes it one of the more dependable late rooms on Sherbrooke.

The room is a straight-ahead sports pub: screens worked into the sightlines, a long bar, and the kind of seating that handles a wings-and-pitcher crowd. The mix is pure NDG, a neighbourhood of students, families and west-end regulars who treat it as the local. On a Habs night or a big soccer fixture the screens go on and the room turns into a game crowd without ceremony.

What to order is the wings, which the pub leans on by name, plus a cold pint off the list and the pub-grub standards built for a long night. The kitchen running late is the real draw here: you can land after a game elsewhere and still get fed. Pricing holds at $$, neighbourhood-honest for the food and the hours.

Who it is for: the NDG regular, the late-night crowd that needs wings after midnight, and the fan who wants the game without a downtown trek. It is a sports pub first and a late kitchen second, which is a rare and useful combination. For the wider field, our ranked guide to the best sports bars in Montreal places NextDoor among the west end's most reliable game-night rooms.

Best time to go is a Canadiens night or a weekend soccer fixture, when the screens are full, or late on any night when you want wings and a pint after the rest of the strip has closed. It sits on the Sherbrooke bus line, deep in NDG. For the Monkland Village end of the neighbourhood, Ye Olde Orchard covers the Celtic-pub register, and our guide to Montreal's best after-work bars maps the rest.

What keeps NextDoor on the NDG shortlist is that it nails the unglamorous things a neighbourhood sports pub lives on: the wings are good, the beer is cold, the game is on, and the kitchen is still going when you need it. For a west-end fan who just wants somewhere local to watch and eat late, that is the whole job. Our full Montreal guide and the national sports bars index round it out.

The pub leans hard into the late hours that define it, with the bar open to 3am every night and the kitchen pushing apps past midnight when the post-game crowd rolls in. Big match nights and playoff runs fill the room early, and the wings move by the platter. The late kitchen is the detail that sets it apart from the rest of the strip, since few NDG rooms will still cook you wings well past midnight. It is the unpretentious local NDG keeps coming back to, the one a neighbourhood names first when the question is simply where the game is on, and the one that earns its regulars by getting the basics right night after night.

Sources: NextDoor Pub & Grill (official) · Instagram · RestoMontreal (NDG sports on TV)

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