509 replies to this topic

[Darren14]

Anyone aware of a patio with TV's? I'm trying to take my father out Saturday to watch a EURO game, and still prefers the patio over inside 

[Victoria Watcher]

maybe if you get the right table at cactus club you can watch interior screens above the bar.

[Mike K.]

Rooftop at the Wicket maybe?

[gstc84]

Anyone aware of a patio with TV's? I'm trying to take my father out Saturday to watch a EURO game, and still prefers the patio over inside

Pretty sure Yates St Taphouse’s front patio has a bunch of TVs.

[Victoria Watcher]

Biggest sporting event in years. where you are watching tomorroW?

12 noon.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 July 2021 - 06:58 PM.

[Sparky]

^ The lake?

[Victoria Watcher]

2020:


The usual price for this gastronomic disaster is $67, a nod to 1967, the last year the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup.

But because managing partner Ken Whitaker is feeling good these days — his Montreal Canadiens remain in the playoffs while the Leafs have been chased to the golf course, just as God, or at least Guy Lafleur, intended — you can order this appropriately overpriced mess for half the usual cost.

https://www.timescol...-lesson-4683418





And then this week the menu item has “resurfaced”. Dozens of news outlets all across the country and beyond have it.

https://usasports.ne...disappointment/

https://www.stcathar...mmended_for_you

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 September 2022 - 07:14 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

This speakeasy in Victoria asks hopeful visitors to make a literary choice to enter

 

Artemis Whiskey Bar boasts a collection of 200 different whiskeys

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...y-bar-1.6583558

 

 

 

 

"Speakeasies are about having that unique element," Patel said.

 

Just like the book shelves by the entrance.

 

"Unless you pick the correct book, you're not allowed in," he said.

 

"There have been several instances where people [said] 'I don't wanna pick a book' and then they just leave and we let them leave because we are trying to create that secrecy and trying to create that experience where you've got to pick the right book. We are very unique.

 

"The business has its own personality."

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 September 2022 - 10:13 AM.

[Mike K.]

FFS.

 

I walked by this place the other day. I didn't know what the books were all about at the entrance, and the place looked closed. So we kept walking.

 

Sort of a #fail, I guess? Secrecy and history go well together.

[Redd42]

A big huge nope. Drinking at home is way easier. But I'm also way past hipster age.

[amor de cosmos]

^^^ it should be a legit bookstore that would convince the toughest liquor inspectors

sandwich shop fronting for a cocktail bar in shanghai





https://www.archdail...-alberto-caiola

Edited by amor de cosmos, 18 September 2022 - 07:02 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

I don’t know how they can have 200 whiskeys. Something doesn’t add up.

[FogPub]

The pick-a-book speakeasy sounds like a cool idea.  I'll have to check it out, though with my luck I'll guess the wrong book.

[Victoria Watcher]

An iconic Victoria cocktail bar known for its ability to match your tastes with the right drink is shutting down – but it wants you to drop by for “one last drink.”

Clarke & Co in the 1000 block of Blanshard made the announcement on Instagram, saying that it will be closing on April 9.

Customers were always dazzled with the staff’s ability to find out what you like and then build a cocktail to meet that.


https://www.vicnews....one-last-drink/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 March 2023 - 04:43 PM.

[Mike K.]

Isn’t it & Co. now? I met with someone the other day at the Discovery coffee across the street, and she remarked how that establishment never seemed to be open.

[Blair M.]

I think this was basically somebody's hobby and/or passion, with somewhat odd hours: closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, 8:00 to 1:00 on Sunday and Monday, and 6:00 to 1:00 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

 

I walk by quite frequently at night, and it seems to keep those hours. 

I've never seen it packed, but it always seems to have patrons in it.

[Victoria Watcher]

Pubs hopeful ban on boulevard patios won't be forever

Fifth Street Bar and Grill and Cook Street Village’s Beagle Pub have been told they must remove their boulevard patios by the end of May

https://www.timescol...forever-6880757

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 20 April 2023 - 07:27 AM.

[Nparker]

But a blind eye will continue to be turned towards boulevard camping.

[Victoria Watcher]

In tears’: Beloved Sidney waterfront pub and restaurant closing after 32 years

The Rumrunner Pub & Restaurant is shutting its doors for good Sunday

https://www.vicnews....after-32-years/


Singer doesn’t know what will happen at the site after he closes the pub, but he hopes it will be good for the community.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 April 2023 - 03:39 PM.

[AllseeingEye]

Great guy; Bill used to be head bartender at the "old" Oak Bay Hotel Snug Pub in the mid-80's. He was just awesome to our UVic gang back in the day, tolerating our shenanigans and often pouring 'singles' that were really doubles and doubles that were really....um.....whatever, lol.

 

Super interesting guy who I believe was born in Israel and back then would go back each year to perform his two weeks' military service. Damn wish I'd known he was the principal of Rumrunners, I'd have made the effort to get out there. Happy retirement Bill, you've earned it......