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  • Review from Beth C.

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    Victoria, BC

    4.0 star rating
    6/14/2009

    Hecklers is great for:

    -a night of playing pool, darts, pull-tabs, video games
    -a night of sitting around drinking beer, eating nachos & talking crap with your friends
    -watching the game or fight (they tend to show most major sporting things)
    -seeing live comedy

    Hecklers is outside the downtown core, which I love, because it usually means it's not jam-packed crowded and not full of douchebag clientele. I've been here a few times to play pool and drink and have fun with friends. Last night was UFC fight night, so my friend and I had a background of grown men squeezing the life out of each other, which was interesting - people sure are into that.

    Anyway, we grabbed the pool table and set up up there, ordered pitchers of beer. The waitress brought us a free basket of popcorn, weird but appreciated, and certainly made us drink more beer - a plot perhaps? Anyway, I was hungry, and realizing my day's food so far had consisted of peanut butter toast, a cheeseburger and a handful of tortilla chips, decided I needed some veggies. I scanned the menu, and there was mostly pub fare - wings, ribs, nachos, burgers etcetera, and a few salads. I decided on the shrimp salad. Warily. My date was skeptical: "you're going to have seafood HERE?"

    What I received was a generous portion of spring mix, topped with candied pecans, dried cranberries, some feta cheese, a very fresh, ripe, quartered tomato, and NINE prawns, perfectly cooked and delicious, with a side of balsamic vinaigrette. I ate every bite, and was really impressed. It was delicious. $11.00! So good I want to try to make it myself at home.

    The pool table costs a buck even, the pitchers were on for $14.25. It's a spacious place with a lot of people, and we still had great service. For really laidback, slightly divey fun, this place is pretty much perfect. I'll be back for sure.

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