St. Augustine's Restaurant & Lounge - Commerical Dr, Vancouver

[islandgirl]

This place looks like it has a great line-up on brews on tap. Has anyone tried the food?
What sort of ambience does this place have?

[Stoxxman]

I have been there twice and honestly won't be going back again. The only thing the St. Augustine has going for it is a good beer selection. Everything else rates poorly. Service, ambiance, clientel, food and God almighty, renovate those horrid stinky bathrooms, they are grotesque to the point of nausea and beyond.

[vandan]

i've been there a few times as well and as mentioned appeciate the taps selection, the reason i go there is because they have Sun God my most favourite summer beer of all time, i agree the atmosphere ain't great inside but thats fine by me aslong as i can sit on the patio, people- watching and quaffing my Sun God i'm a pretty happy guy

[flowbee]

They carry Sun God Wheat at The Whip :) way better place to relax and hang out in...

Agreed about St. Augustine's atmosphere...bland, uncomfortable... Almost ruins whatever beer I might be having there.

[vandan]

another reason for going is that i am always down on the drive santa barbara etc.. so its convienient whereas the whip is somewhere i never go, or never in that area for that matter as its defo a destination pub

[Cancuk]

The only real difference between The End Cafe (previous name) and St. Augustines is the beer selection. The food, service, and ambience is still pretty terrible IMO.

Also, i've had a lot of old beer there. Which doesn't really surprise me as it's very rarely SUPER busy, a la Alibi Room. 40 Taps = 40 different beers. They're not all going to move.

Vandan: Sun God now in bottles. Check private liquor stores.

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Alibi Room
157 Alexander St, Vancouver, BC V6A1B8, CA

[vandan]

cool i called the brewery few months ago and they told me it was coming, i have called a few times lately and coudn't even get anybody on the phone nor even leave a message so i resorted to calling brewery creek a few times and they still didn't have it , so thanks so much thats great news

[vandan]

hmm just called brewery creek and they still don't have it in stock yet, have you actually seen it anywhere?

[fmed]

The beer selection is great (40 lines I believe...a few of them are cask conditioned). The food is mediocre (I like Alibi's better). The ambiance the two times I was there was actually quite bad - they had a top-40/rock radio station blaring on the sound system - commercials and all. Totally put me off the place. I'm willing to give it another go soon now that summer is here.