The Crown Bar and Grill

Never packed, not great food, lame atmosphere. Patio is unsupervised, very very relaxed atmosphere not very lively usually dead. Service is okay not great.

There aren’t too many bars in the area and they have raptors and leaf game nights which are cheap pitchers. I enjoyed the service and the live music on Friday night was pretty good. The crowd was a little older with some cougars and some older men who might have made questionable choices in their lives due to their behaviour, intoxication level and appearance.
This review didn’t knock this place from the crowd but from the fish n chips. The fish are basa fillets from a Chinese supermarket (T&T across the street?). These basa fillets are $ 2 for 2 huge pieces in a bag from T&T. The batter was so thin and soft after being prepared. The fish has so much water content from being flash frozen I wonder if they fry it from a frozen state. The coleslaw was bland as well.
The only positive is that the fries were real chip wagon chips and there was Granville Island on tap.

2.5 Star: Soft Opening review as it was just open the day before our visit
This used to be The Crown and Phoenix before it underwent extensive renovation/​makeover plus change of management and becomes The Crown Bar and Grill.
The new owners which used to be the employees of the old establishment did a wonderful job in renovating the place from a dark/​divey pub into modern and chic looking bar!
A bunch of us dropped by on the 2^nd day of their Grand Opening with no expectation as we were just looking for a place for some beers. They do have $ 12 pitcher specials during Leaf games on Canadian and Coor Lights which are not my fave but at this price. we all agreed to share a couple of pitchers!
Service was excellent and our server was really nice and sweet.
The Crown Bar is not a bad choice if you just want to have some cheap drinks and not too picky.
Hopefully they will be making more changes to make them different than better than all these pubs up along this area. Maybe just getting One local crafted beer in would be a nice start?