The Coolest Cocktail Bars In Vancouver
Canada’s dynamic city of Vancouver is home to a vast number of bars and restaurants that have embraced the growing trend towards cocktail culture. The city’s bartenders utilize centuries-old cocktail recipes and techniques combined with new ideas and the finest ingredients. Read our guide below to discover to coolest places to get a truly amazing cocktail in Vancouver.
1. Long Table Distillery
Long Table Distillery
Vancouver’s first micro-distillery, Long Table Distillery, is a family owned and operated business with a strong passion for creating West Coast-inspired gins, vodkas, and a changing variety of seasonal spirits. Each bottle of spirits is handcrafted in small batches, distilled from Long Table’s 300-liter copper pot still. Every small batch Long Table distills tells a story through its subtle taste characteristics derived from a selection of unique botanicals, 100% Canadian sourced base inputs, traditional distilling practices, and skillfully crafted proprietary recipes. The organic and natural ingredients they use in their spirits are carefully chosen for freshness, often obtained locally or from globally sourced, fairly traded growers. Even the water they use is from BC’s pristine Coast Mountain Range. Guests can purchase spirits along with a wide range of cocktail-related items, bitters, and Long Table branded items from the retail store and tasting room at the distillery. Every Friday evening, Long Table serves up gin and tonics, as well as cocktails, with one of Vancouver’s top food trucks right out front. They also serve craft cocktails on Saturdays in the distillery’s Cocktail Laboratory, also with one of the city’s famous food trucks outside.
Long Table Distillery, 1451 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1W8, Canada, +1 604 266 0177
2. Odd Society Spirits
Odd Society Spirits
Located on Powell Street in East Vancouver’s Port District, Odd Society Spirits is dedicated to combining Old World distilling traditions with New World ingredients and ingenuity to create a family of spirits that entice and intrigue, including whiskey, vodka, and gin. Founder and Distiller Gordon Glanz holds an MSc in brewing and distilling from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he experimented with distilling whiskey using raw grains and commercial enzymes before studying under the masters at Springbank distillery in Campbeltown. Now back in his hometown, Gordon is applying his penchant for experimentation and knowledge of tradition within the Odd Society, which he operates alongside his wife and partner, Miriam Karp, as well as his good friend Joshua Beach. Odd Society’s name comes from an interest in using their spirits and distillery as a way of bringing together a diverse collection of creative and unique people, embracing change, and celebrating individual and collective oddities. The tasting room offers an impressive selection of skillfully made cocktails that are as much of a delight to watch being made as they are to drink. The seating area is classy and clean with trendy decor, and many guests are treated to a view of the immaculate back room where the spirits are made.
Old Society Spirits, 1725 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 3Y9, Canada, +1 604 767 8070
3. Pourhouse Restaurant
Bar, Restaurant, Cocktails, Coffee
4. The Shameful Tiki Room
Bar, Restaurant, Polynesian, Cocktails, Beer, Wine
5. The Acorn
Bar, Restaurant, Vegetarian, Cocktails, Vegan, Wine, Beer
Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in.
Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special.
Increasingly we believe the world needs more meaningful, real-life connections between curious travellers keen to explore the world in a more responsible way. That is why we have intensively curated a collection of premium small-group trips as an invitation to meet and connect with new, like-minded people for once-in-a-lifetime experiences in three categories: Culture Trips, Rail Trips and Private Trips. Our Trips are suitable for both solo travelers, couples and friends who want to explore the world together.
Culture Trips are deeply immersive 5 to 16 days itineraries, that combine authentic local experiences, exciting activities and 4-5* accommodation to look forward to at the end of each day. Our Rail Trips are our most planet-friendly itineraries that invite you to take the scenic route, relax whilst getting under the skin of a destination. Our Private Trips are fully tailored itineraries, curated by our Travel Experts specifically for you, your friends or your family.
We know that many of you worry about the environmental impact of travel and are looking for ways of expanding horizons in ways that do minimal harm - and may even bring benefits. We are committed to go as far as possible in curating our trips with care for the planet. That is why all of our trips are flightless in destination, fully carbon offset - and we have ambitious plans to be net zero in the very near future.