THE LOCAL

1205 Wharf St, Victoria - V8W 1T8
164 reviews
Burgers Beer Bar
(250) 385-1999

Nice outdoor patio, fast service. Watered down drinks. Dont mind paying 13.00 a drink, but for ice, thats just crazy. Food was only ok. Buffalo chicken wrap was so hot, it should have read extra spicy hot buffalo wrap on the menu, and the flatbread chicken was just ok. Not very big portions for the price paid. Service was the only thing that was good.

Hello City of Victoria, Island Health, and Food Safety Department.Please check the (un) sanitary practices of this Local location.Thank you.

Great food, large portions and they don’t skimp on the expensive ingredients. Try the local lemonade, it’s delicious!Servers were friendly, and my hangry toddlers meal came out very quickly- as requested.We spoke with one of the owners briefly, he seems like a kind and genuine human being.

I had the tuna tacos. They were raw ahi tuna so good and flavourful. One of the best I have had. Drinks were fast and cold. Went with a couple of buddie one had the cheeseburger and he said it was excellent. Would return.

If you order Nachos make sure you have some one to share. It would be enough for 4 people if your not hungry guys. Pimms coctail was great, lemonade coctail was mediocre.

So hungry and looking for a late night snack in downtown we came across this restaurant, the food was good , but the music and decor where pretty cool, filled with pretty people and nice staff. The prices weren’t bad either

Two stars for the beer and sunny patio. Zero stars for the food!Having been a vegetarian for 30 years I’m used to not having much choice but yesterday’s trip took me on a 1990’s time warp of poor choices! The only literal vegetarian thing was a tofu wrap or fries. They could take meat out of stuff and charge me the same but I had to ask for that option. In a diverse city like Victoria in 2022 it seemed odd. I’ve seen red neck rural pubs with more options. Aside from that the food was ridiculously expensive ($29 for nachos!), and not good. I had $12 fries that were probably the worst fries I’ve had and my friend had a wrap that was so soaked in mustard it was inedible. The server was ok but rushed. The nachos looked small and burnt and not worth the cost. It’s a nice spot with a patio on the water and the beer was good but the food menu and quality needs to be better. I don’t usually review but this was shockingly bad.

This is a MUST experience eatery when you're in Victoria. The staff is incredibly friendly and professional. The outdoor patio was fantastic and the food was over the top. Atmosphere of your local pub with fine dining quality food and portions that are robust. Do NOT miss this stop on your travels. We're from Ontario and the service that we received from this establishment along with what they did for us, can not be found here at home. Should we find ourselves in Victoria again, this will be our first stop. Thank you for an absolutely perfect visit.

Came to Victoria for an amazing day trip, had about 1 hour before needing to head to the ferry. We figured 1 hour to grab 1 drink was plenty of time.There was one party ahead of us that needed their vaccines checked so we figured, cool we're next, shouldn't take long. By the time we sat down at a table it was easily between 10 - 15 min after we got to the place. My cousin needed to run to the restroom so I was going to order her drink for her. 10 min later a server had still not been around, so by this point, the 1 hour we had was now 35 minutes. We said forget it and went to Darcy's next door and got very fast and friendly service over there.I've been a server/bartender for 12+ years so this isn't some random ignorant opinion. If we got to the door and someone informed us that it would likely take 25 - 30 min before getting any service we wouldn't have wasted half of our last hour on the island at this place. (We also would have been confused because the patio was half empty).

Me and my wife went there and were greeted by gentleman who was very polite and offered us great seats to sit on the patio. However, after sitting there for over 15mins, we unfortunately had to leave as none of the servers came to us to take our order. We could see them reaching out to other tables besides us, they didn’t even make any eye contact with us. We were really disappointed with their services and the way they treated us. I really hope this wasn’t a case of being the only brown people in the facility. Wouldn’t recommend anyone!