The staff was wonderful! The food was fabulous! I highly recommend the clam chowder it's amazing!!!…read moreI had the crab cake sliders, but for some reason didn't get the Cole slaw? The sliders were incredible! My wife had the burger, the beef was extremely flavorful!!! The bar had a great atmosphere! We highly recommend this restaurant for a nice meal!

Basically it's a diner upfront with a sports bar setup in back, with lots of TV screens…read more Surprisingly good food options for a sports bar though, I must say, and really good service -- there were like 4 servers checking on us, and our pizza/salad special proved to be super tasty, with gloriously melty cheese on a nice tomato sauce base and good crisp crust. Not quite divey-- the lighting is pretty good -- but also very casual.

Top drawer service from Lynette made this a very memorable luncheon, she was perfection in a…read moreserver. She clearly has a lot of experience in the dance that is exceptional customer service. The quality of our meal was also excellent. The Heritage green salad was monstrous and easily satiated the lovely K and I. It was fresh, nicely plated and had lots of all the goodies mentioned on the menu. The Celery soup of the day was also great. We make it at home, so trying a slightly different version gave us some ideas to try. The chicken wings were on special and were plump, very nicely cooked and absolutely delicious. The pub itself is nicely appointed inside with a wide choice of sitting arrangements which we like. The place also has a significant number of folks that were greeted by name, which in our mind is a very good indication of a top quality establishment. One final thing was the washrooms were spotless and smelled nice and clean, from being clean, no perfumed cover up here. All in all one of best experiences for lunch in a long while. We will most certainly be back the next time we are in the Victoria area. Thank you!

Classic neighborhood pub! My husband and I came here while visiting the island and it was decked…read moreout in Halloween spookiness - loved it. We sat within the bar area and the service was great! Really friendly! I ordered the chicken wings - blue moon flavour which is blue cheese and franks and omg they were so good and they gave me 13 wings! A proper pound! No one does that anymore. The wings had some good size to them too I took half home for lunch. Also great cold. They're really sauces wings so if you're not a sauce lover ask for it on the side! Some of the better wings I've had, my only feedback would be I wanted them to stay a touch crispier out of the fryer. My husband ordered the special Oktoberfest spatzle - it was super creamy and oniony just needed abit of salt. The beer here was served ice cold which we loved and my virgin cesar was a winner! So good! Would definitely come back and try more wing flavours!

So this place wasn't too busy tonight, but me and my girl decided we would give it a shot. And it's…read moreactually better than what I first thought. This one is a sports bar aswell (hooray) but it's a very mellow one. It's nothing spectacular, but it's nice enough for a drink or two. We had the house wine and it was very fruity and easy to drink. The happy hour options were pretty good aswell, and just as a whole this place is good. I can imagine it's more exciting when it's busier but it's good enough for me. I like to have a drink with good music and conversation, and this place was very good for that. - E

Took a friend here on a Friday night as we were visiting from Vancouver and honestly it was…read moreprobably the worst experience I've had in recent times. Not only is the music ridiculously loud and obnoxious but even the bartender appeared to be half drunk. You know it's bad when you have to scream at the top of your lungs to order a drink or talk to the person next to you. Also, because of the douchebaggery you frequently see in these places my friend nearly got into a fight with some 20 year old claiming to be some sugar daddy to two younger girls who claimed to be lesbians?! Go figure that one out. I guess slapping down a $100 bill on the bartop in this place makes you the big man on campus Fundamentally it's a bar for younger people later at night who are totally wasted and full of attitude. For a good time in Victoria there are plenty of other good alternatives

we booked ice skating for our family and the morning of skating a storm hit none stop rain and wind…read moreall day flooding - city of colwood cancelled their light up show due to the unsafe of wind and rain . yet city centre ice skating refused to let us switch our day due to unsafe weather ! they expected us to take our little kids out and skate in the storm ! manager refuses to call us back and made his employee call us and tell us they wouldn't let us reschedule ! such a coward. i do not recommend booking here during the winter due to the rediculous costumer service and uncertainty of weather ! they clearly care more about money then people's safety !

Made the mistake of ordering a Guinness. It was presented in a plastic glass and obviously a short…read morepour. Asked to have the pint topped up and was represented 30 seconds later with a short poured glass pint. Now any Guinness lover will know that 30 seconds is insufficient time for a pour: the beer was watery. Do not order the Guinness. Do order the deep fried pickles and yam fries; best around.

In my opinion, this place doesn't even deserve one star. I was a regular customer for over 10…read moreyears, but I'll never be back. The bartender, Lucy, repeatedly added money to the tip jar without asking, which left me feeling like my money was being taken without my consent. The food has also gone downhill, and the area around the bathrooms consistently smelled like urine. The biggest reason I won't return is the new security guard. Based on my own experience, he previously came into the bar when he didnt work there and frequently made young women uncomfortable by hitting on freshly 21-year-old customers and staring at people from the corner and makeing nasty comments . Now he's working security and using his phone while checking IDs, which did not make me feel comfortable. I know this man and im not letting him take photos of my id for his stash. The atmosphere has completely changed. What used to feel like a neighborhood bar now feels like an over-policed club. Security constantly follows customers around, making it impossible to relax and enjoy yourself. On top of that, the security guard regularly smokes in the entrance, blowing cigarette smoke toward customers as they walk in. It's unprofessional and creates a terrible first impression. From what I personally observed, many of the other employees seemed frustrated with the behavior of these two staff members as well. After more than a decade of being a loyal customer, I'm extremely disappointed in what this place has become. I can't recommend it to anyone. There are plenty of better bars that treat their customers with respect.

It's rare that we would return to a bar that misses the mark on nearly every thing we normally look…read morefor in adult drinkeries: They are not deliberately divey, but attract a divey clientele. Their tap list is weak. Their drink program is uncreative and unremarkable. The environment is smelly, dated, and uninteresting. They are primarily a sports bar. It's a place to watch tv. The food is not good. Greasy and generic. But the service is excellent, and they have decent pool tables... There you go.

We had lunch at The Lower Tavern right after getting off the ferry. We liked the atmosphere and…read morethe service. We got Buffalo chicken burger w/ coleslaw and Salmon burger w/ mushroom soup. We liked both our burgers, every ingredient was fresh and well made. The buffalo chicken was the standout item for me. Highly recommend.

Food was great. We ordered a burger and the swiss burger dip. Yum. We had looked at the other very…read morebusy restaurants in the area and decided to find a place without the hour wait! We did that and more. The place is clean, the staff happy and fun and the food filling and good tasting! After hiking all day , it was a perfect ending!

I would totally agree with a few other comments on here. I walked in there asking for karaoke and…read moregot a server telling me that they didn't do karaoke and they only do live music. I live across the street from the bar I I don't consider that loud music that appealing to listen to. It was a friendlier place to go to when it was the Upperdeck. When they became the Loft it literally lost all the reasons why people enjoyed it.

Your typical neighborhood dive bar. While the live music can be entertaining depending on the given…read morenight, the crowd that frequents this place are a bunch of old whinos and beer bums. Not the sort of people you'd see drinking in a more respectable place around town. It's also a mystery to me why these guys close as early as 10PM or maybe 11PM on the weekend if you're lucky. Seems to me that's when the party should be starting but I guess the locals are all liquored up by then with few others bothering to make the effort. All in all this isn't a bar on anyones radar and I personally stopped drinking in these kinds of establishments over a decade ago with good reason

Absolutely excellent experience! From the Manager Ben to the really good food. Offers vegetarian…read moreoptions!

Great locals sports bar and place to watch sports. Sports bar interior with a big menu and lots of…read morechoices. They are known for their barbecue. Staff were friendly and helpful with food and drink selections. Local brews on tap. With barbecue their go to I ordered the St. Louis half rack with shoestring fries. Of everything that was on my plate it was the pickle that stuck out for me. Their pickles are an old recipe and even sell them by the jar. If want traveling I would have picked up a masonry jar of pickles. Overall, I enjoyed my food and time at Extreme Sports Grill. Thank you.