Apart from admiring the city’s natural beauty, you can also explore the vibrant and exciting nightlife in Vancouver. Whether you wish to have a laid-back evening in a quite bar, or relax over a few drinks in a sophisticated lounge, or just crash in a street gastropub, the city won’t let you down. Visit Cactus Club Cafe if you want to taste the famous Caesar cocktail or head out to Libra Room for the best wines from British Columbia. The ultra-chic George Ultra Lounge serves some terrific cocktails and Six Acres is the ideal spot for beer lovers. For party animals, Joe's Apartment and Post Modern are the perfect nightspots to enjoy some live music. This vibrant city has a bar or a nightclub for every palette and budget. Mentioned in this guide are some of the best bars in Vancouver that you can visit while touring the city.
The best bars and nightclubs in Vancouver
The Keefer Bar
One of Vancouver's favourite cocktail bars, Keefer Bar offers unique drinks based on ancient Chinese medicine. Not so much cocktails as alcoholic prescriptions, many ingredients are sourced from neighboring Chinatown mar...more
The Alibi Room
On the edge of Gastown, Alibi markets itself as a 'modern tavern', by which it really means 'pub for grown-ups'. It has changed hands a few times through the years, and today it's an airy, contemporary space with large t...more
Guilt & Co
Tucked in an exposed-brick underground bunker-style space in Gastown, Guilt and Co. is a great little Prohibition-esque diversion from Vancouver's craft beer-swilling emporiums. Candle-lit, with a rotating entertainment ...more
Cactus Club Cafe
This slick restaurant/bar franchise has seen several branches spring up around Vancouver during the past few years, but this is the biggest and best location. It may be a yuppie hangout, but it's also a great place to ge...more
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