Bars to be open 24 hours?
The New York Post and the BBC are reporting that bars will be allowed to remain open 24 hours in Montreal.
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walkerp 10:41 on 2024-08-13 Permalink
Classic NY Post:
Headline reads “This popular weekend getaway from New York will soon allow bars to remain open 24 hours a day: ‘It’s like madness’
Then scroll down and read to the end:
“In Montreal, we close at 3 a.m. People are drunk at 1 a.m. — and they’re super-drunk at 3 a.m.,” one bar owner explained to the BBC.
“One of the problems we have is, at 3 a.m. it’s like madness. But if you expand the hours, there’s less problems, less demand for security,” L’ile Noire owner Michel Lavallée said.
DeWolf 11:25 on 2024-08-13 Permalink
Some people (probably the kind of people who read the NY Post and take it at face value) think that 24-hours means bars will actually be open all night. Maybe there will be one or two, but as the BBC article notes, this simply gives them the flexibility to close at a time that makes sense, rather than at some arbitrary hour.
There’s no last call in Hong Kong and Tokyo. All that means is you have a great variety of opening hours. There are some 24-hour places, some places that close at 5am, but the majority of bars and pubs actually close earlier than they do here. It depends on the clientele and what makes sense for the owners.
Kate 12:03 on 2024-08-13 Permalink
As reported in May, Sergio da Silva of Turbo Haüs: “By three in the morning, people have already done what they’re going to be doing. They’re either a little too high, or a little too drunk, and it’s just time to get everybody home and be done with it.”
thomas 13:12 on 2024-08-13 Permalink
If you would speak to someone from Stereo they would tell you that the headline dj doesn’t start until 3am and often continue for 12 or more hours.
DeWolf 08:33 on 2024-08-14 Permalink
Yeah, nothing against Sergio but maybe people don’t need a prescribed bedtime?
Kate 11:37 on 2024-08-14 Permalink
I don’t think Sergio was ordaining a bedtime, simply giving his observations as a longtime bar owner. Obviously there will be people just gearing up to dance beyond dawn at Stereo while he’s locking up for the night.
CE 11:43 on 2024-08-14 Permalink
Having no prescribed closing time will probably also have the effect of allowing some bars to feel like it’s ok to close at 1 or 2 where they might have stayed open until 3 just because that’s the “closing time” for bars.
Ian 11:28 on 2024-08-15 Permalink
“madness”? From the “city that never sleeps”? For shame.
To be fair even Manhattan is pretty quiet around 4 am these days, too.