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    Bottlescrew Bill's Pub / Buzzards Restaurant & Bar

    3.5 (74 reviews)
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    What's the vibe?
    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Happy hour specials
    Dogs allowed

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    Buffalo chicken wrap with fries
    Karen B.

    Food was so good. We had the special, green Thai curry which was out of this world good! We also shared the Buffalo wrap. It was great and the fries were so freakin' hot and delicious! Our server Madison was excellent, made great recommendations, timely and keep the drinks covered!

    Wings, spicy and hot!
    Karmen N.

    Beautiful plating and yummy flavours! Bonus points for being a dog friendly patio! Perogies were filling, bison steak was a bit overcooked but flavourful and had great service. The berry pie was a little mini indivudual pie (not a slice) with the smallest dollop of ice cream on the side. Tasted great but it was a small serving!

    a glass of beer
    Thomas M.

    Popped in here to watch the Stanley cup and was not disappointed. I got the wings with some famous terryiaki hot sauce, and it was great. I also had their own beer which I was told by Johnny rando next to me that they just started brewing, and that was surprisingly good. They have a huge list of local and Canadian beers so if you're looking for a wide menu of beer, stop no further. As the side note the bartender has a dragon ball z sleeve, so you really can't go wrong.

    Steve L.

    Get the wings. Honey garlic with ranch. They're amazing. The beer is good too. This place was alright, not a bad spot for a beer and some pub food. The staff sort of ignored me for the first ten minutes but they were pleasant and served my food quickly.

    Chi C.

    Flew into Calgary mid-morning and after checking into the hotel, was starving. The concierge recommended Vintage Chop House & Tavern. Unfortunately when we arrived, it was too early as I didn't know it only opened for dinner. On the way back to the hotel, ran into this place and sat down for lunch. The service was good but the food was average. Ordered the steak - came out kinda dry. And also the steak salad - again, came out dry as well. Not overly impressed as I ended up using hot sauce to add some spice.

    Mostly drank Big Rock IPA
    Myke R.

    Very pleasant atmosphere outside on the patio on a Sunday evening in July. The menu was a little unique with variations of common meals. We had Korean BBQ tacos and Szechuan stir-fry. Both were good meals. Taylor, our waitress, was a gem. She was helpful with our drink selections and made a good recommendation to have our sauce in the side of the tacos. Thanks!

    Chicken Caesar Salad
    Wendy P.

    Why do I have to have principles? It's messing with my Yelp reviews. Bill's remains a solid 4 (and probably 5 once I'm done my beer passport) establishment. The service is awesome, the food rocks, and there's more beers than you can shake a stick at. I can excuse the fact that they only have free Shaw wifi and no free wifi for the rest of us. It's a pub, not a coffee shop. And the age of hangin' out in the pub with a brewski instead of the cool local caffeine corner isn't really prevalent enough to call it a trend yet. So on that point, I understand. But where we run into a problem is that you don't take debit. Instead you have one of those devil ATM machines that costs me $2 to take out money just to pay my bill. If you can accept credit, you can totally take a moment to accept my debit card as well. Heck, keep the cash machine if you want... just let me pay with my debit card. I'm buying enough beer and food from you. I like you. I like your servers. I like your food (ate the bison burger today with caesar salad. Yum!) Do you really need to make another buck off me on a transaction cost?

    Tiffany N.

    *** WARNING *** Do not read if you plan on eating. And if you do plan on eating, don't eat here. *** I've been to Bottlescrew Bill's a few times over the years. I've never ordered food, since the menu isn't particularly veg-friendly. But, I've always been down to grab a pint or a hi-ball here at the beginning of an evening. I think at some point, I even got one of their passports for their "Around The World in 80 Beers" challenge. (I'm more vodkally-inclined, so I only got 4 stamps in my passport.) So, for the reasons above, I continued to drop in at least once a year, and in my eyes; Bottlescrew Bill's was a solid three stars. And, it was why I had no problem accompanying a friend here last night for a couple of drinks, while we caught up and tried to decide what else to do that evening. After scanning the menu briefly, I opted for marshmallow sodas and an order of yam fries; asking for hot sauce and ketchup, rather than the chipotle mayo sauce as I usually do, since mayo isn't vegan. The waitress never bothered to mention to me that a serving of Frank's Red Hot (which is what the hot sauce tasted like) was going to cost extra, and I assumed that only shady restaurants that enjoy nickle-and-diming applied that sort of practice, so I never asked. When the fries arrived; I got no napkins, enough Frank's Red Hot to last me a week and no ketchup. She assured me it was coming. Ten minutes later, the ketchup bottle arrived, and attempts to actually extract any from the bottle without utensils or anywhere to actually dispense it in to were pretty thorny. After finally getting a microscopic amount out of the bottle and in to a small sea of Frank's, the fries were lukewarm. The fries also probably had enough grease to wring out in to the gas tank and make the twenty-minute drive home. This is probably due to the fact that rather than drain the fries prior to plating, the cook just dumped them straight in to the bowl. Still, I hate wasting food, so I managed to put a quarter of the bowl's contents away before that sick-feeling from too much oil started making me feel queasy. I excused myself to the bathroom, and patted my face down with an oil-blotting sheet so that I could stop feeling like I needed to scrub my face down with acne wash and a loofah. After I came back, and the waitress asked how we were doing, my friend mentioned to her that the fries were ridiculously greasy and would it be possible to get a fresh batch. I was already feeling pretty sick at that point, so I talked him out of it. The waitress offered some sort of discount on the fries as an apology, since even if we were to get a fresh batch of fries - apparently the cook was refusing to drain them and we would get the same thing anyway - so, we agreed just so we could get out of there. When she came back, the fries had indeed been discounted at 20% off, which saved us $1.60. But then there was a $1 surcharge on the hot sauce for the fries, which I thought to be absolutely ridiculous. My friend didn't see what the problem was, because he thought that the waitress had been nice. And I agree, she was nice to talk to. But from a service point of view, she was pretty lack-luster. She was nowhere to be seen, when a drunk customer sitting at a nearby table fell out of her chair with her feet pointing toward the ceiling. She served us the Exxon Valdez of Fries and didn't bother to get us napkins, and then she tacked on a $1 surcharge for hot sauce. I'm sorry, is there an old Grandma in the back, lovingly stirring a vat full of an old family recipe handed down from generation to generation, after being carried here on the back of a donkey from the weeping hills of Sicily by a blind man? No, you just dumped a week's worth of Frank's in a disposable dipping container. If the surcharge had been the only issue of the evening, I would have probably maintained that this was still a three star establishment (since you can't rate someone 2.25 stars). But then, later on that night, the fries started to make their second appearance. At a public bathroom. If I was a disgusting sort, I would have taken a picture of them in the toilet, because after puking up fries and bile; you know what was sitting on top of the vomit? A LAYER OF OIL. Those fries haunted me three more times that evening.

    Lunch fish and chips
    Jenn N.

    We decided on BSB for dinner before the Flames game, our friends wanted to try somewhere we haven't been yet and my beer enthusiast boyfriend was up for it. My girlfriend and I arrived first, and were a bit confused - do we seat ourselves? It's a pub but there was a hostess stand (but no one was there). We asked a passing waitress and she said we could seat ourselves, so we settled ourselves into a booth near the door. Our waitress approached right away, food and drink menus in hand and told us the specials. My boyfriend and my girlfriend's hubby arrived shortly after, and our waitress was quick to get their drink orders and our food orders once everyone had a chance to look over the menus. The guys ordered the Buzzard's burger, I went with the Bill's style wings and my girlfriend got the Apple & Brie chicken sandwich. All the food arrived pretty quick, and it all looked delish. The burgers came on a pretzel bun, and I had a bite and the ground prime rib patty was moist and flavored really well. My wings were breaded and baked, but crispy as if they were deep fried! They were meaty and the sauce was savory - a unique teriyaki with a kick. I didn't get a chance to try the Apple & Brie chicken, but my girlfriend finished it off so I'm guess it was pretty good! This was a great first experience, there were some things on the menu I definitely want to try (bison burger and bacon wrapped meatloaf) so we'll be back. The only downside - they don't take debit for payment, there's a ATM but . . . that'll just cost ya

    Kate B.

    So, you want me to drink 80 different kinds of beer in a year. Turns out Bottlescrew Bills is the place to gett'er done. I won't reiterate the concept (check Lisa P. & other reviews for a good rundown). But all I will say is this place had me at beer passport - so clever! The service is stellar at this place - really, it is. There were a few of us out together, we sort of arrived over time and our server didn't bat an eye over regurgitating the beer passport spiel to each person that showed up. She was great - awesome banter and always right there as soon as our drinks were near empty. I didn't have eats here but checked a few beers off my list instead. Great place for socializing! The beer passport is the kicker - what a neat twist, I love it! I'm hooked, it's official. This passport will keep me coming back, and back...and if I make it through all 80 beers - maybe you'll get an update outta me!

    The wall of "Around the World in 80 Beers" champions. One of many at @bottlescrewbill
    Dale E.

    Feel free to polish up your thick rimmed glasses, Bottlescrew Bill's, because you were the craft beer pub before craft beer pubs were cool! Today, with the craft beer scene exploding around the city, Bottlescrew Bill's hasn't had to change one bit. You know when people tell you about their hobbies and you can spot the difference a mile away between someone who honestly loves something, and someone who loves it because they think it's popular. Bottlescrew Bill's is without a doubt that first person. They honestly just loves serving good beer and they've got nothing to prove to you about it. It's a great place to meet up with friends for conversation over or inspired by beer. They've got a fair number of TV's around and if the game is on they'll kill the music so you can focus on the hockey! The food is delicious and as down to earth as the rest of the pub. Nothing overly fancy or unusual, just just good quality pub fare. I always order steak sandwiches rare, because more often than not, pubs will serve you a thin piece of steak that is going to wind up well-done, regardless of how long it's on the grill. Well that 'more often than not' does not apply here! Check out that steak! It's thick and it's actually rare! Thanks for that, Bottlescrew Bill's! They don't have 1.613 million beers on tap like some of Calgary's newer Beer Halls, but if it comes in a bottle, you can bet they'll have it.

    Lamb korma, bison burger on pretzel bun.
    Paul G.

    First off, this is the restaurant half of a brewpub, so depending on how you approach it, if you see a sign for Bottlescrew Bill's, you're in the right place. While the bulk of the fare is pub classics like steak and burgers, the menu shows some aspiration to be more gastropub-like, which is all the rage these days. Signs of this are putting the bison burger on a pretzel bun, having a boar meatloaf with dried cherries, and throwing in a few Indian favorites such as korma and butter chicken. Mercifully, these additions are few enough that the kitchen could actually pull it off (as opposed to places with 100 item menus, which almost always disappoint). Unfortunately, they were out of boar (at 4:30pm), while both the burger and korma were prepared without any particular care or flare, white geometric plates notwithstanding. The food isn't bad, it's just at the level you'd expect from a pub, so despite the loftier intentions of the menu, Buzzard's gets three stars for execution.

    dinah g.

    What a fantastic solo lunch I had today, I thought I had entered some saloon in Dawson city. This place is so garish you can spot it blocks away because it sits on the corner of 1st and 10 Avenue SW and it has a 10 foot wooden Royal Mounted Police statue guarding its entrance. There is the appropriate picnic tables set up on its patio and if you feel like getting your shoe shined there is an enclosed building just for that which I assume functions in the summer time. The menu is awesome, check out the Raspberry Berry Bison sandwich or Triple AAA Steak Sirloin Sandwich with onion rings garnish. The Buzzard BBQ ribs are braised in beer and they even have more exotic menu items like Coconut Curry Chicken, Seared Yellow Fin Tuna Steak, and Butter Chicken Masala. I dove into the Saskatoon Berry Burger with a delicious chutney sauce and Swiss cheese. My waitress was on the ball, serving over 8 tables and always one step ahead of me. The interior could be considered tacky but upon closer look-see I saw what they were trying to do, wagon wheel chandeliers, a sandy desert motif on walls with bull skulls on walls, oil lanterns, and horse shoe coat hangers. The entrance of the adjacent bar had hand towels over the door with different beer labels, and an assortment of beer pulling tabs. The service was excellent and so was my food, definitely a hot lunch spot downtown for those of you who work in the area.

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