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In Good Spirits Creativity rules in Vancouver’s top-listed bars 文 / Lauren Kramer
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ancouver has a diverse bar scene with lots of choices, but if you’re looking for creativity, colour and innovation, you have to know where to go.
“Vancouver was a leader in the craft cocktail renaissance, and the city continues to hold its ground,” says Alexandra Gill, editor of Canada’s Best Bars. The definitive ranking of cocktail lounges, wine bars and craft beer destinations from coast to coast, Canada’s Best Bars is judged by libation experts across the country. This year, the experts named Vancouver’s Prohibition, The Cocktail Bar and The Cocktail Lab, among a few select
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others, to the top 50 list for 2019. Noteworthy for their creative cocktails, spectacular presentation and overall injection of innovation in environments that are comfortable and convivial, these establishments are the cream of the BC crop. Located in the Rosewood Hotel Georgia, PROHIBITION opened in 2015 with décor reminiscent of the opulent 1920s speakeasies in its fixtures, lamps and seating. The 197-seat, dark, elegant room won architectural design awards and remains a popular, sophisticated place that’s frequently bursting at the seams — so much so that after 10:30 pm the seats are pulled out to create more standing room.
