Vancouver Travel Forum

I love Vancouver & visit often. I love the nightlife there & going to night clubs but feel uncomfortable being over 50 in a room full of kids in their 20s. Where can I find the crowd my age?

The Yale at Granville and Drake downtown has live Blues. Mosquito Creek Bar and Grill at the Westview Mall in North Vancouver has live bands. Rossini's on Yew Street in Kitsilano has Jazz on Friday nights and a big crowd Saturdays at 4pm. Lulu's Lounge at The River Rock Casino in Richmond has live music.

All have dancing except Rossinis

I'm 38 and I feel the same as you. Lousy liquor licensing laws make Vancouver an impossible place to open a small themed bar, and earn a profit, as you would find anywhere else in the world. Most bars are owned by "Restaurant Corporations" and have large seating capacity and take the unimaginative rout of playing loud pop music to pack in the youth, so they can turn a profit. Despite what the youth may think, Vancouver has a crappy night life scene because of this.

Try the Cellar (cellarjazz.com) and O'douls (odoulsrestaurant.com)

... and Gerard's Lounge in the Sutton place hotel, as well as the Wedgewood Hotel.
These two are a block apart and O'douls is very close together so you can bar hop.

"...as well as the Wedgewood Hotel. "

That should be Bacchus Lounge at the Wedgewood.

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