Victoria BC
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- brains0
You know what, I'm just going to sum everything up for the downtown area. For you, and for anyone else who actually ever visits.
COFFEE!
Habit Coffee & Culture on Pandora (pandora & government-ish)
Street Level Espresso on Fort Street (Fort & Douglas-ish)
Caffé Fantastico (Cook st. Village, Vic West or Quadra village)
Fol Epi (not coffee, but delicious bakery who makes their own flour, and has a big brick oven. Euro-style bakery. In the same building as the Vic West Fantastico.)BREAKFAST!!
Mo:lé (right beside habit)
ReBar Modern Food (in bastion square)
Lady Marmalade (Johnson & Goverment)
Floyd's (for greasy fry-ups Yates & Quadra)
Blue Fox (Huge, cheap, organic breakfasts. Fort street, around fort and quadra.)fancier dining, at reasonable prices include:
Brasserie L'ecole (on government by chinatown. Casual french dining, roughly $22 - $30 for a main)
Café Brio (on fort street, near Fort & Vancouver) they have a 3 course dinner special after 6, set menu.
Stage (in Fernwood village. Haven't been, heard it's good for wine / appy's.)
Bars
Lucky - Younger crowd, good live music, small place, cheap drinks, gets out of hand, but in a good way.Element - Depending on the night you either have jocks, or hipsters dancing to electro.
Plan B - Total douche bar, if you walk within 2 meters, you can smell testosterone.
Social Club - See above.
Red Jacket - Same deal as element.
Upstairs - "faux riche" crowd. Some people find it entertaining, I think it's lame. Dress code.
Darcy's Pub - Live music, loud atmosphere.
Pubs / Sit down bars / Microbreweries.
Canoe Club - good microbrew beer at a reasonable price, nice atmosphere.
Swans - good beer, mostly quite a bit of an older crowd, ie. 40 - 70 after 8pm.
Spinnakers - Haven't been, but I've had the beer. It's nice.
Garricks Head - Working man's pub. Cheap beer, always has sports and or loud classic rock going. Jukebox here.
Solomons - Small, new, fancy old classic style cocktails. They make their own maraschino cherries and cocktail onions. Definitely take care in their crafting of cocktails, try an old fashioned. Charcuterie plate is good, but I've not had the best experience with the rest of the menu.
Ferris' Upstairs - Above the bar & grill portion, has a different food menu, nice atmosphere. Good place to have a few oysters and a cocktail before heading out.
The Mint - Dark atmosphere, usually a DJ on weekends, mojitos are renowned, usually gets pretty busy around 11, as it's really the only place you can get food at that time.
Big Bad John's - Awesome atmosphere, dirty photos, bra's, fake id's adorn the walls. Staff that seemingly doesn't give a shit about you, or where you came from. You throw your peanut shells on the floor. A place for either hardened regulars, or younger people there for the novelty.
Smith's Pub - Chicken wings are pretty good, drink prices are ok. Loud atmosphere, but they play pretty good music. Brit-Pop, and a lot of 60's / 70's / 80's / 90's UK gems. Away from the core of downtown, so it's a nice escape.
Food on the cheap
-----Pig BBQ Joint (cheap, southern style BBQ, pulled pork, beef brisket etc.)
Hernande'z (mexican cuisine)
Pink Bicycle Burgers (on blanshard)
Red Fish Blue Fish (Fish taco's, fucking ace, in fishermans wharf.)
Ferris' Oyster Bar - Cheap food, good portions, always busy. A staple.
Fiamo Italian Kitchen - Good atmosphere, decent food, across from ferris', beside lucky bar.
The Joint Pizza - Post drunk food. Wholewheat crust, and all sorts of weird toppings, but done well.
Second Slice Pizza - Nicknamed "ghetto slice" the pizza tastes like cardboard with sauce and cheese. $1.25 a slice, if you're really drunk and wandering around, chances are this can hit the spot.
The Brickyard Pizza - Tends to be a little rowdy at night, they serve good pizza at $3.25 a slice, and good prices on beer. Also, they have hard bar now.
I think that sums a lot of downtown victoria up.
- I stopped caring about location, considering downtown is like, 6 square blocks.brains
- richardkark0
Wow. Thanks Brains. We are now equipped! My wife and I are heading over there tomorrow morning from Seattle and we'll be there till Monday afternoon.
- Nice, e-mail me if you have any questions about anything. I can help ya out.brains
- richardkark0
We don't have any huge plans. The main plan is to relax and just be somewhere different.
- richardkark0
Just arrived. Sunny, excited. Our hotel is rad.
- brains0
Where are you guys staying?
- ArsenicPants0
WAX MUSEUM!
- sherman0
wow victoria has evolved a lot in my 2 year absence.
- richardkark0
Hotel Grand Pacific. It's funny, I'm used to seeing photos of hotel rooms online and then feeling let down when I see the actual room, but this is awesome. Lots of room, clean, nice stuff, balcony, 7th floor.
If anyone wants to grab a drink with us at some point, give a shout.
- Nice, the pool there is chlorine free apparently.brains
- Also, might take you guys up on a drink. I'll send you an e-mail if that's the case.brains
- cool. I emailed you my real email address.richardkark
- horton0
there's a few vic bc qbn folk... let's see who speaks up.
- sherman0
Go check out the Mint restaurant on Douglas
- monNom0
how has nobody mentioned Miniature World? that place is kick-ass for all ages.
Wax museum - meh
- I tried to mention all the things that locals do for fun. Not the touristy stuff.brains
- as if locals don't hit up Miniature World once or twice a week... I don't buy it.monNom
- Hahaha. Oh, right, yeah. We do. All the time. And we buy t-shirts from there with moose on them. It's very fashionable.brains
- never been. is it still there?danthon
- yeah man.designer4rent
- I must check it out now after all the rave reviews. Anyone got some acid? 8Idanthon
- hahaha if your doing that ya gotta him up the wax museum to!designer4rent
- *hitdesigner4rent
- sherman0
A few great micro breweries.
Spinnakers
Swans
Canoe Club