Notre Dame des Quilles

Montréal


Does drinking improve your bowling game? That seems to be the eternal question at this hip outpost near Little Italy, where two free lanes have been set up with pint-sized pins. There’s a good mix of anglophones and francophones here, and there are fun kitsch-filled nights of karaoke, bingo and spinning DJs.


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