Irish Times Pub (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)

Irish Times Pub, 1200 Government Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  www.irishtimespub.ca  This is an awesome pub, and located in beautiful downtown Victoria.  Victoria has been voted the most romantic city in Canada!  A little history on this building.  1843 the Bastion at the north east corner of  Fort Victoria a Hudson Bay trading post stood here. In 1895 The present building was designed and built for the Bank of Montreal.  In 2004 the Irish Times Pub was born.  In 1027 it was awarded Irish pub of of the year 2017 for North America by Irish Pubs Global awards.  It is absolutely beautiful inside.  The bar is basically a large rounded off rectangle with 12 seats (high back leather) on one end and 12 seats on the other end.  In the center is a beautiful back bar all in intricate dark wood.  There is a 2nd floor mezzanine that runs around half of the pub and over looking the pub.  Up on the mezzanine area is a small room that over looks the pub but is a big wrap around booth that seats probably 12 people.  Very cool!  Great place for beer as they have 42 different types of beer and 5 other things including cider all on tap.  The taps are located on one end of the bar.  They also have a good selection of wine!  There is a very good whiskey selection too!!  Through out the pub there are lots of tables from 2 to 6 people with a narrow table across from the bar that seats 12 with pillars on each side.  They have a great side walk patio in front and also down the side with wrought iron railings and nice thick wood top tables all with umbrellas.  There are a few TV's but that is a good thing in here. They have great live music that starts early in the late afternoon.  Happy hour runs 4-6 pm.  The first time there we didn't eat but the food coming out looked great.  The second time we had Cesar salad which was fresh and very good.  The soup was cream of mushroom and goat cheese and very yummy! Super clean washrooms too!!  We loved this place and I know you will too!!