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The Blues Can
Categories: Arts & Entertainment Jazz & Blues Nightlife Jazz & Blues Nightlife Bars Jazz & Blues, Bars [Edit]
1429 9 Avenue SoutheastCalgary, AB T2G 0T4
(403) 262-2666
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- Live
- Best Nights:
- Wed, Thu, Sat
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Good For Dancing:
- Yes
- Ambience:
- Casual
4 reviews for The Blues Can
4 reviews in English
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Review from Jen G.
Calgary, AB
3/31/2012
Blues Can is just down the street from my place and it always looked a little questionable at best when driving by. Probably for no other reason than the unpolished smokers huddled around the door.
My dad was the one who asked me to go there with me, so I took him up on the offer to check out what it was like inside.
Very simple and relaxed interior. No frills here, making it a great hangout spot any night of the week.
The Blues Can just re-did their menu bringing in MORE Cajun deliciousness including an improved rib recipe, batter for deep fried pickles and in-house made corn bread that is to DIE for. Prices are fair because the food is so delicious.
On April 2nd, they are opening for both lunch and take out, adding a steak sandwich for under $10. This I gotta try!
Bar and wait staff are so incredibly real: friendly, sarcastic, helpful, and all around great people, which is one of the reasons that brings me back time and time again.
The music is great. I have no complaints about the cover charge to see live music in this city. Sometimes you have to give and take, and Blues Can is completely worth it. -
Review from Kali R.
Calgary, AB
2/3/2012 1 Check-in Here
I went for a beer with a friend last night and had a riot. The music was decent, though I wish it was more...bluesy. The bartenders were AWESOME, really friendly and fun but not sleazy.
I ordered the Mac & Cheese and WOW. If you love cheese, you're gonna love this. It's a really big portion though - fit to share a bowl for 2 people. Very yummy! But you know, I did order Mac & Cheese...so my expectations were low. I also tried their fried pickles, which were very good. Food was very fresh.
I was told that The Blues Can was a bit divey, but as a dive connaisseur, I didn't find it very divey at all! Casual, yes, but not divey.
The drinks were good and my night was inexpensive, so more points for them.Fair warning: if you want to start a tab, they hang onto your card. I don't mind in the least, but some of you might.
I left off one star because the cook was a little...aggressive...at flirting with me and sometimes it seemed like a "pick up" place, which I'm not into. Also, I happened to go on a beer launch night so I want to go back and see what it's like on a regular evening.
I'll absolutely be back soon, though! -
Review from Cory R.
Calgary, AB
11/14/2011
The Blues Can is a real neat "idea" but the execution may be less than awesome. Since the closure of The Eddy, there has been a void of a purely blues venue in Calgary. The Blues Can claims to fill the void, but only partially delivers.
The Blues Can makes some of the same old mistakes that countless lame Calgary bars / wanna be music venues make. Overcharging for drinks after happy hour is one. Juuuuust bloody well have at least one thing every night thats $3.50 or $4.00. Maybe become famous for $4 cans of Canadian all the time or something.
Also, an exorbitant cover charge gets boring. Charge $5 and book local acts who dont demand high guarantees but sound the same or better as the "well known" stuff, which is often generic crap anyway (Bill Dowey for example). Then..... once in a while charge $12 or $15 for someone whos ACTUALLY well known? DO you know what you could have charged for tickets if YOU had Johnny WInter when he came thru town last month?? A fortune if you had your act together man! :)
On one of my visits to the Blues Can, I nearly cried because there were no blues at all! Instead some kind of semi-basement-wannaa-be-pro "HEavy Metal Jam Night". Hahahah! There was no one there except the members of the "bands" LOL. Do some research, and you will find that pretty much every jam night thing in town is a fail, including this one :)
There ARE good things about The BLues Can though. The chef / cook is AWESOME and scratch makes some wicked grub. The menu is overpriced, especially for a blues bar. When the hell did a blues bar become a cartoon mockery of itself catering to suit and tie people instead of the depressed working class !!??
SO to summarise, I am on the fence about The Blues Can. I HOPE it fixes itself and becomes a success, calgary needs a blues venue! -
Review from glenn d.
Calgary, AB
5/11/2011 ROTD 5/25/2011
A group of us (20+) went to The Blues Can in Inglewood on April 21 to see One Eyed Cat; just a great sounding fun band of three playing hard and dazzling the place all night.
A summary of our feelings:
Hey, that seemed to turn out well.
The Blues Can had a nice set of table front & center for us and and an amazing server (Thanks, Diane --you busted your tail for us!) .
The band was very good, and kept people dancing from the middle of the first set on.
A hardy 3 of us made it to the middle of the 4th set when we had to go (at a quarter to one).
Cross Eyed Cat are back on May 26. See you then!
