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Brooklyn Tap & Grill
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Music:
- DJ, Juke Box
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Has TV:
- Yes
5 reviews for Brooklyn Tap & Grill
5 reviews in English
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Review from David S.
New Westminster, BC
4/18/2012 1 Check-in Here
food is ok typical pub fare. Service was awesome , Interesting long narrow patio over looking the river, Not very busy for Canucks game night.
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Review from Nicole F.
1/22/2011 2 Check-ins Here
I've been to Brooklyn Tap & Grill twice. Last night a good friend decided to have her birthday gathering here.
The first time I came, it was pretty dead and I was just having a beer with two friends and it was decent.
This time was kind of lame. It was pretty busy because it was Friday and I was being completely ignored by all the servers. I gave up and went over to the bar for a drink after about 30 minutes.
I wanted a Long Island Iced Tea and it turns out they just use that sickeningly sweet pre-mixed stuff with coke. It also cost 6 freaking dollars and I didn't even have a double. AND they put it in the tiniest glass I've ever seen with so much ice that it was piled over the top of the rim. Way to be cheap, guys.
The bartender also gave me all toonies and bills in my change... so I couldn't even leave anything in the tip jar and I looked like a dick. Sorry, but a single overpriced drink isn't getting $2 outta me.
On a positive note, a friend in our group asked the DJ to play Ace of Spades because he does a killer Lemmy on karaoke. I should mention that there was no karaoke happening, but when the song came on, he got up and danced and sang really loud for the entire bar. It was pretty impressive. I think I ruined my makeup because I laughed so hard I was practically sobbing. The entire bar clapped and cheered when he was done. -
Review from Christine R.
New Westminster, BC
8/31/2008 1 photo
When I was at Douglas College, I came here all the time with my classmates. We put on a few pub night fundraisers here - they're quite good about that - but on a normal after-school drinking session, I always left sort of disappointed.
The atmosphere is nice, the food is decent, and the drinks are good, but unfortunately, the service is completely unpredictable from one visit to the next. Sometimes, you practically have to lay leg hold traps to get another drink, and going to the bar is no help either, as often no one is behind the bar. I don't blame the servers because they seem like nice girls trying to do the best they can. It seems like the managers and owners are trying to save money by paying fewer people to be out on the floor and economizing by combining the server/bartender functions.
However, the Brooklyn does get a couple of points for it's view, location, and patio. It's perched on the edge of Columbia Street, on a precipice looking down, way down, on the CN Rail tracks and the Fraser River. They have a narrow patio out back, and in the summer, they turn their impossible-to-actually-park-in side lot into another large patio festooned with Molson Canadian banners, with lots of space for groups.
I'm still foggy on why it's actually called the Brooklyn, unless that's some oblique reference to the Pattullo Bridge nearby. "Hey, they're both bridges, let's call it that!" The Brooklyn is a mystery to me. Why do I keep going back there? -
Review from Catherine W.
New Westminster, BC
4/27/2010
The best part about this bar is patio with the view of the river. If you are looking for a bunch of guys with air lats then this is the place for you lol. I do have fun when I go here but it's not somewhere i would go all of the time.
Listed in: Places I Will Probably Never…, Worst Washrooms, Libation Station
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Review from Nina c.
Vancouver, BC
12/20/2009
I went to this bar one night to watch a ufc pay-per view event, just for a change from my regular bar, and i learned a good lesson. Stick to what you know and like (when it comes to New West bars). We sat down at one of the tables and a waitress was immediately there (which i thought was a good sign) but when we said we needed a min before we ordered our drinks she said, with a huff "Well you're just gunna have to go up to the bar then," I was a little surprised by this because there were only about six other people in the bar at the time and there were other waitresses, so it wasn't like she was busy or anything.
Then when it was time for the fight to start at 7pm, the intelligent people who work there couldn't it to play on the TVs. We moved to a bigger table since the bar was practically empty, they couldn't even get the fight on TV yet and we wanted food. As soon as we sat down another waitress hurried over (cuz they are all doing a whole buncha nuthin) to ask us if we were expecting more people. i said no and she said "can u move then, because this is a table for six and there's three of you and this is fight night so a lot of people are coming,' i said "even though there's no one in here and its almost 730 and you don't even have the fight on yet, you want us to move?' I got quite a rude yes back. We payed for the one drink we each had, left right after, and went to a much better bar up the hill.
i don't like you Brooklyn's pub. i hope you slide into the nasty greenish-brown river that your hurtin patio over looks.
