The Lamplighter Public House

first trip to vancouver, b.c., and we picked the lamplighter for it’s vintage building… we began with a kronenburg german lager, and my partner had the guiness… we shared the cod tacos, greens, and portebello mushroom sandwich on whole wheat… great drink and food… the server was very friendly… fun place… thx

Came here from the states. Refused to recognize US prices on anything. Got over charged the whole time. Won’t be back

Came here after being away from home for five years, loved it! Had a blast! Lets start with the guy at the door, sooo sweet and friendly! The atmosphere was great! and the bartender really knows how to mix the drinks!!! Def. one of my favorite places in Vancouver now!

(Sorry for the caps in advance)
FOR THOSE WHO SUPPORT MANCHESTER UNITED, THIS IS THE OFFICIAL MANCHESTER UNITED SUPPORTERS CLUB OF VANCOUVER.
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This is one of the well known pubs in Gastown. You can find as many as 40 beers on taps with many specials on weekdays. Here is where they have trivia nights on tuesdays, bingo and bourbon nights on wednesdays. They will also have a new year’s eve party and many other events at the Lamplighter.
On most days, the food at the Lamplighter is very good to enjoy. Sometimes, you maybe the unlucky customer with the dry burger and such, but they do a fine job. The waiters and waitresses do pretty well most of the time. However, when it comes to busy times, then you might have to be patient, since this place is pretty decently sized.
There is a secret door inside the restaurant that leads you to the Clough Club, which is another business. (I originally thought it was the Lamplighter VIP Room to begin with)
This is one of the places if you want to have a great night out if you are single or you are out with your friends.
*Drops the mic*

FIVE STARS for Trivia Nights! Nice Guys Trivia Inc. put up some pretty challenging questions every Tuesday at 7pm for their pub trivia. Reservations are required to enter your team and it also guarantees you a table that night. This is a pretty popular event, we went there last night, and there were about 10 teams in total.
TWO stars for the food. Very meh, indeed. Tuesday is their burger and beer special for $ 16. I tried their House Signature burger (double patty, mushrooms, tomato). The patties were very dry and was missing out on flavour.
However, they have a good selection of beers on tap!

BUCK HUNTER. That is all. Came here on Saturday night with a group of friends. Hadn’t been in a while but overall the experience was pleasant and free from stress. The service staff are quick and efficient in taking drink orders and the coat check is very secure — this should a huge point for most people.
Great selection of beer and overall great place to hang out.

I was also here for a Unilocal event a few weeks back — just hanging out with the Unilocal crew is always a fun night! I had walked by this place many times, but never stopped in, until today! We had a big table, and the staff were friendly and able to accommodate all of us as new folks trickled in. I had a Rose All Day cocktail, and enjoyed a bunch of tasty apps (pizza and nachos! The nachos were particularly good). It’s your typical pub environment, and they get pretty busy in the after-​work crowd, but the staff are friendly and helpful. All in all, a good night out!

Stopped in for a few beers, so cannot comment on the food. Bartender was completely unattentive, spending more time chatting it up with another customer down the bar instead of asking me for another beer. Not a huge deal, but I tried to flag him down multiple times, but never worked out for me. After paying 7+ dollars for two different pilsner drinks, I left. The one large positive aspect was the amount of TV’s and sports game they had running that night, which made it easier to hang around for another round of beer. Sadly, the place was almost empty on a Saturday night, which may show how unpopular it really is.

This is always our first stop when we visit Gastown. We love the atmosphere as well as the great service we receive. Their drink specials (especially during Happy Hour) are pretty good considering how expensive most drinks are in this area. Great central location, large windows for people watching and a fabulous patio (opened seasonally). A great place to start your evening.

Wow! What a great sports bar. They literally have a Tv/​Projector in every square inch of this place. I would go to this bar for a great and lively experience — great place to meet new people and have a great time. The food is alright but definitely large quantities and always to leave you full.
P.S The beer flights are 4.75 CAD dollars! That is never heard of in SF and such a good deal!
I like the social atmosphere and lively mood of the staff.

The food was just all right. Not bad, not great. The pizza was thin crust, but the crust wasn’t chewy or crispy. It looked pretty but didn’t taste all that special. The nachos look huge and tasted alright.
The beer specials can be good deals. Even though it looks fairly big from the outside (at least to me), on the inside, there wasn’t as much seating as I would have expected. Those pinball machines take up a lot of space.
Service was good. I appreciated the kindness and speed. It’s probably much better as a pseudo-​club than as a pub.

Met up for a Unilocal event at the Lamplighter on a recent brisk evening.
Even at 5:30 the place was loud and a little too dark for my liking. Almost cinema dark! Not conducive for Unilocaling photos — apologies for the poor quality. I’m guessing this was on account of the Seahawks game already in progress.
Lots of TVs around, and also a couple projection screens showing the football as well. Never mind having to shout across the table — I had to pretty much shout to the person next to me to chat. They have some nice long tables and booths to sit in, but by the time we got there these sections were busy and wouldn’t accommodate our large group.
We ordered two pizzas to share — both Margherita with basil — simple but really good. Nachos were pretty good, and the salted pretzel bites were easily one of the highlights of the night. I stole a few yam fries which were also excellent.
I sampled the Rose All Day cocktail which had dodka, watermelon, mint, basil and lemon juice. It was sweet and although small in size packed quite the punch! I had the misfortune of ordering a Kronenbourg Blanc just before our party’s five minute warning which left me with more drink than I could handle. Thank you Karen for coming to my rescue! Next time I would try the Garden Gimlet which has Kronenbourg in it.
Service was good — waitress was around several times for food and drink orders and didn’t take long to deliver the goods. The place got busier while we were there — I just wish they didn’t substitute volume/​darkness for atmosphere!!! Perhaps a bar isn’t the ideal place to relax after work, though I wasn’t expecting dead quiet. I would go back but would make sure that there’s no football on.

Our table of 10 turned into 15 or 16 and yet somehow in a busy establishment our late comer peeps found waylaid chairs to belly up to our slowly expanding table. With an approach akin to organized chaos or perhaps just chaos, drink orders were sporadically caught while a few fantastic appies arrived and promptly were chowed upon. Yam fries sea salted and presented with a mayo based sauce (my mayo/​egg allergy = no sauce sampling on my part) which the yam (or sweet potatoes?) were a double fisted handful of deep fried heaven on a plate. Then there was the surprisingly tasty mountain of rosemary-​kissed regular almost shoestring cut fries and then the thin crust pizza that subtly fools you into a bland expectation yet still manages to tease your taste buds with wondrous cheese and basil. Oh hey and let’s not forget the 4 giant wrist thick pretzel breadsticks (?) and cajun chicken nachos. Had I been alone I wouldn’t have had to share… But share we did and it was even better to have enjoyed great food, a 18oz heffweisen beer and hanging out with tonight’s Unilocal pre-​movie elite. Fantastic time — thanks Ayla! Thank you everyone else! :)

Our hunt for poutine brought us here. It’s loud and dark and best for groups. We already had dinner so four of us split the POUTINE LYONNAISE. I’ve never had poutine before and this one came topped with bacon onion gravy, cheese curds and a soft poached egg. I don’t generally like my fries soaked with sauce, but these were surprisingly good!
I also had the BEER FLIGHT, which is a great deal at $ 4.75! You can choose any three beers and I decided on three local ones: Granville Island pale ale, Granville Island lager and Driftwood white bark. A great way to start off our trip!

Super loud! Friendly server but she forgot our water and it was a little slow in general. French dip was tasty but the meat was super fatty and gristly so I had to pick lots of bits out. Rosemary fries were mostly mushy, though the bacon mayo dip was delicious.
Bathroom was stinky and I sat on a wet seat. Eww.

Who: bf & I
What: flight sampler
When: Thursday night
Where: Gastown
Why (not): I can see how this place is fun if you have a big group that is out to party/​bar-​hop. Be forewarned though, it can get super loud in there. Bf and I didn’t get a chance to visit the breweries in Gastown, so we figured we’d stop by a bar to try some local beer. We were drawn in by the large menu, but when we ordered a flight sampler and asked for local beer, the bartender gave us some local beer as well as Fat Tire. Not the greatest service and again, super loud.

This place, despite the awesome renovations last year, needs another overhaul… along with a deep clean. It perpetually smells terrible and there is an ongoing issue with the women’s washroom.
Some days the servers are friendly, and some days you can tell they’d rather be ovulating at the beach. Joy.
The food is 20% overpriced. The drinks, particularly a whiskey sour, taste murky and terrible… 50% overpriced (shouldn’t be served at all, really).
The pinball machines are getting ridiculous and the weekend pinball tournaments attract a certain crowd that makes the atmosphere less desirable than this pub Pre-​Donnelly.

Der Penner hinter der Bar war ziemlich schraeg drauf, wollte mir nicht bei der Auswahl von 34 Bieren helfen, sagte mir es stehe alles auf der Tafel. Na das nenn ich mal Gastfreundlichkeit, dann ist er zudem einfach verschwunden. Nach ein paar Minuten bin ich das weitergezogen.
So nicht, der gehoert eigentlich gekuendigt!

Came here at 9:20 today (Friday) for some dinner with a group of friends. I was charged $ 8 cover. Asked why and the girl said «because there’s a DJ» and I asked where and she responded «he’s here at 10.» Okay, not the strongest argument but I have to eat. I told her «but I’m literally eating a burger and leaving» and she claims that everyone who eats here gets charged for cover??? Whatever. I pay, and join my friends on my patio and the server comes and asks me what I want to drink and I ask if I can order food and she tells me that the patio is closing in 20 minutes ??¿??¿so my friends settled and I paid for cover to use the washroom I guess. Heard this place is fun but getting charged cover to eat a sandwich in a nearly empty pub has left a pretty sour taste in my mouth.

Excellent beer variety, poor service, bad food, good sports bar environment.
We came by on a Sunday afternoon so there weren’t many bar options in the area. We stopped in here to catch a football game. Had beers all around and wings. The wings were tasteless and overcooked. The beers tasted like the tap lines were bad. The service was slow and inattentive where the waitress didn’t give us plates until we asked for them after we ordered wings. This place is huge and clean so we expected better. But the amount of screens and tables here sure made up for it.

A very loud pub situated in the heart of gastown. Very easily accessible and was close to my office building.
The broccolini pizza was pretty amazing while the French dip failed to impress. The fries tasted like the classic mcdonalds ones while the cheap $ 3 Granville island beer hit the spot! Most people were watching the basketball game while everybody else played the quiz since it was trivia night. Overall a good experienced!
Edit: I forgot to add that I came here for lunch the other day and their fish and chips were just okay. Only one piece of fish for $ 16 which is a bit pricey. I would give 3.5 stars if I could.