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Avant-Garde Bar and Gift Shop

Bars & PubsSandy Hill

In Compliance

Avant-Garde Bar and Gift Shop is a bar or pub at 135 Besserer Street in Sandy Hill, Ottawa. Its own website lists Soviet Posters and Soviet postcards among its products. Its most recent City of Ottawa public health inspection, on May 7, 2025, recorded it as In Compliance.

135 Besserer Street
Ottawa, ON, K1N 6A7

Facts about Avant-Garde Bar and Gift Shop

Overview

Nearest O-Train station
Rideau, 140 m in a straight line
Cuisine
Russian
Payment
American Express, Discover, Visa
In business since
2004

Services

Products

  • Soviet Posters
  • Soviet postcards

On the menu

  • Avant-Garde Soup
  • Siberian Pelmeni
  • Scandinavian Open-Faced Baked Sandwich
  • Wasilly Kasha
  • Food Stamp Nachos
  • Bourgeois Fish Plate
  • Commissar Pickle Plate
  • Engels Meat Plate
  • Exiled Green Salad
  • Far-East Carrot Salad
  • Marx Cheese Plate
  • NEP Butterbrot

Specialties

  • Russian cuisine
  • Italian coffee-based drinks

Opening hours

Monday
Hours not listed
TuesdayToday
17:30–02:00
Wednesday
17:30–02:00
Thursday
17:30–02:00
Friday
17:30–02:00
Saturday
17:30–02:00
Sunday
Hours not listed

In our guides

Avant-Garde Bar and Gift Shop is named in 1 guide written by ViaOttawa.

Public health inspection

In Compliance, inspected

Source: City of Ottawa food premises inspections. See Ottawa Public Health for the full report.

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