Bars & Pubs
The restaurant and lounge at the Radisson on Cambie Road, serving West Coast plates and casual Italian. The lounge side is the useful part: a quiet place for a drink near YVR, with parking and hours running from breakfast to late evening.
Anyone meeting someone near the airport with an hour to fill has fewer options in this part of Richmond than they expect. Mozza is the restaurant and lounge at the Radisson on Cambie Road, serving West Coast plates and casual Italian, and the lounge side is the useful half. A quiet drink that is not a food court and not a casino floor turns out to be a specific thing to want and a hard thing to find out here.
Cambie Road between No. 3 and the highway is hotels, offices and light industrial, built for cars, with almost no street-level social life within walking distance. West Cambie has changed a great deal further west, where the towers along Capstan Way have gone up and ground-floor retail arrived with them, but the stretch by the hotels still reads as airport hinterland. Hotel dining rooms end up doing more work in a city like this than they would elsewhere, because the alternatives thin out fast once the malls close.
Richmond is genuinely short of pubs for a city its size, which is the background condition worth understanding before judging a hotel lounge harshly. The people using this one are mostly working around a flight, a meeting or a layover rather than choosing a night out. For something to eat before a morning departure or a drink after landing, the location does most of the arguing on its own.
In the West Cambie neighbourhood of Richmond.
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A whisky lounge inside Club Versante with a large by-the-glass list and izakaya-style plates off a robata grill. There is a glassed-in vault dining room, live entertainment several nights a week, and two small private rooms. Dressier than a pub.
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A restaurant and bar on Minoru Boulevard serving Pacific Northwest cooking from breakfast through dinner, with cocktails, BC wine and local beer. Live music on Thursdays and free parking. Handy to Richmond Centre, Minoru Park and the hospital.
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A Westminster Highway bar and grill named after a regular who has eaten there daily for over thirty-five years. Big local wine, craft beer and spirits list, screens throughout and a patio. Opens early for takeout and runs through the evening.
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A casual bar and brunch room in the Executive Hotel on Alderbridge Way. Oysters, tavern burgers and smoked salmon, plus a well-priced happy hour with mimosas and fried chicken sliders. Airport and hotel traffic keeps the hours long.
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A waterfront bar and grill beside Milltown Marina with three patios: one facing the North Shore mountains, another looking out at the Fraser and the airport's main runway. Pub food, Sunday prime rib and a genuinely rare view.
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