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The Foundry Pub
2 reviews for The Foundry Pub
2 reviews in English
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Review from Peter W.
1/6/2012
Firstly I am not from Nanaimo and was just passing through when we needed a rest stop, it was the first place we saw, it looked friendly so why not!. I tried parking in the back car park but there were a few sketchy characters loitering in the evening rainy mist, so parked it up for $2 bucks across the street where we could see the car. NOT a great start!
When walking in, it were as if a funeral service had just finished. No Music, a few lonely drunks propping up the bar and a smell of urine. It felt more like a homeless shelter.
We took a table and waited for the waitress. There was only one tired waitress working and she finally took our drinks order after 15 minutes. I joked and said keep them coming.....she never returned to see if I wanted another drink once!
We got our food and the bread on my sandwich tasted like it had been stale, then frozen, then heated up in a microwave and covered with beef juice to hide the taste! The bread tasted like rubber! We all got stomach aches later that night!
The waitress did complain that our bags were getting in the way of her getting access to the table! what a joke, she only came over twice. I went looking for her a couple of times to get another drink, but just gave up. Then she magically appeared with the check as we got up to leave.
This was all around the Christmas break and it felt like I had been handed a reality check on life, I felt sad and miserable as I left the pub, Christmas felt ruined! -
Review from Nano H.
Vancouver, BC
6/14/2011
I am super stoked I get to write the first review for The Foundry, in Nanaimo, BC.
After abysmal service, nachos with no cheese on them and constant, abrasive swearing from the bartender (over a microphone, visibly upsetting older customers around us), we left. Standing outside, we are complaining in general about what a horrible experience trying to give this place our money was.
This is where this place gets AWESOME. The bald, minimum wage juice monkey follows us outside with his two friends to engage in a physical altercation with a customer, me. I mean, it's cool that he took a break from doing lines on the shit covered toilet seats in the washroom to help out with a little friendly customer service, right?
This is the kind of place you read about in the paper after the bouncer beat someone to death or a senior died from malaria because of the cheese sticks.
I am not looking for a follow up or a gift certificate. Enjoy your first review!
