The Keefer Bar is a bar in Chinatown, Vancouver.
The Keefer Bar on Keefer Street in Chinatown since 2009 is Vancouver's reference cocktail bar, an apothecary-style room, Canada's 50 Best Bars perennial.
Food program: Chinese-leaning small plates
Tip: Walk-in only Monday to Thursday; weekend bookings open at the door from 17:00.
Address: 135 Keefer Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 1X3
Juniper Kitchen & Bar on Keefer Place since 2017 is the city's reference gin and botanical-cocktail bar, plus a Pacific Northwest small-plates kitchen.
Signature drink: Botanical gin and tonic flight
Food: Pacific Northwest small plates
Tip: The gin flight pairs four house pours with tonics; the bar walks in earlier in the evening.
Botanist Bar at the Fairmont Pacific Rim is the hotel's stand-alone cocktail room since 2017, World's 50 Best Bars top 30 and head bartender Jeff Savage.
Signature drink: Garden cocktail with house botanicals
Food: Botanist-kitchen snacks
Tip: Walk-ins from 16:00; the bar's tasting flight pairs four miniature cocktails for the cocktail-tour bookings.
Prohibition at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia is a speakeasy-style basement bar since 2012, classic cocktails and live jazz on Wednesday through Saturday.
Signature drink: Sazerac, classic build
Food: Snacks and small plates
Tip: Walk in from the side entrance on Howe Street; tables turn at 21:00 for the second seating.
The Diamond on Powell in Gastown is an upstairs cocktail bar with Maple Leaf Square views since 2009, a Hong Kong-inflected small-plate menu and a classic.
Signature drink: Diamond Sour with house grenadine
Food: Hong Kong-leaning small plates
Tip: Walk-ins only; the upstairs bar window seats fill first. Tuesday evening is the calmer seat.
Pourhouse on Water Street in Gastown is a heritage-room cocktail bar since 2009 with a long wood counter, classic builds and a modern American kitchen.
Signature drink: Old fashioned, three styles
Food: Modern American small plates
Tip: Bar walks in; the dining room books on OpenTable for the late-evening service.
Juniper Kitchen & Bar on Keefer Place since 2017 is the city's reference gin and botanical-cocktail bar, plus a Pacific Northwest small-plates kitchen.
Signature drink: Botanical gin and tonic flight
Food: Pacific Northwest small plates
Tip: The gin flight pairs four house pours with tonics; the bar walks in earlier in the evening.
Gerard Lounge at the Sutton Place Hotel on Burrard since 1986 is Vancouver's longest-running hotel cocktail lounge, the Hollywood-North celebrity bar.
Signature drink: Classic Sutton martini
Food: Bar bites and afternoon tea
Tip: Live piano from Wednesday to Saturday after 18:30; the fireside seats are the calmer pour.
