Salon Badin is a basement cocktail jazz bar in Little Burgundy, entered from Rue Notre-Dame Ouest and run with the mood of a small hi-fi lounge. The setting is polished, but the music is not decorative. Vinyl DJs and jazz groups are part of the format.
The system is vinyl-only and includes McIntosh MC901 Dual Mono amplification. That puts serious headroom behind a room that could easily have settled for a polite background setup. Instead, the bar leans into lower light, seated drinks, and a sound-first pace.
It sits on the more polished end of Canada’s listening-bar map: cocktails, jazz, vinyl, and a room that suits staying late rather than moving through quickly.