Greta Bar — Restaurant in Calgary

My wife and I along with some friends visited Greta yesterday. For my wife’s birthday. We always loved this place and go there on weekends during summer. We were there for more than two hours all of us spent more than 200 dollars with games and drinks combined. The service inside by bartenders was friendly and excellent as usual. My friends and I went out to their designated smoking pit to grab a smoke. As we were entering back inside one of the bearded security guys said in a condescending tone that I didn’t see you get ID checked and we need to scan you again. The security guy at the door told the bearded guy with a cap that he did scan me in and I was trying to pull my game credit card out of my pocket as my ID was with my wife who was still inside. I told the bearded guy that I was here the whole evening but he didn’t seem to believe me and while the guy at the door gave me the thumbs up that come back in and you good. The bearded caucasian dude brought another white security dude and said “well you don’t need to be snarky about that. You could have said so.” I completely lost my calm and the entire conversation felt very racial as me and my other friends in the smoking pit were the only south asians there. I replied that “I wasn’t snarky at all. And I just replied to your comment.” Then the two security dude charged me again and insisted I was snarky and I replied firmly again that it is your perspective. The friendly security dude finally broke the heated conversation and pulled me inside the bar and apologized. I appreciated his gesture but Why some security guys are racist like that at Greta as I always loved this place. Just posting this for other non-caucasian regulars who love Greta, be careful with the security staff at the door it seemed like they want to start a racially charged argument out of thin air and is disheartening. But still love Greta and hopefully these racist security staffs...

It's sweaty inside to the point of having to step out every 20 minutes to breath the place is fun and the cards used for machines are fairly inexpensive as we loaded $30 onto one and played 7-8 games and felt it was good for the price, the food is hit and miss wish I had taken photos of both but out of respect for how crowded it was didn't want to upset others who were drinking we got the phó spring rolls which were absolutely garbage they were udon noodles inside a spring roll with 0 flavour on a bed of fried crunchy most likely 2 week old cracker/noodle things for like $13 felt absolutely ripped off on the other hand my s/o got the buldok ramen spicy mac and cheese with a $5 addition of half a chicken breast fried on-top and it was delicious again was $25 but expected from a bar like this but was very flavorful with nice mixing textures and the spice although buldok seasoning was between buldok and Sriracha (picture included) the atmosphere was good from about 8pm-10:30 then it reached the point of me a 6'4 man having the squeeze between people blocking ways and stairs and the music being so loud throughout you have to scream into another's ear for them to hear a whisper,

Also as a side not if you are a man needing to use the washroom with a toilet the upstairs washroom will trap you as the door opens inward right to the toilet bowl and the toilet paper is on the side you exit from effectively making you forced to stand and climb over the toilet while also opening the door in the space your leg was in the attempting to climb out of the stall like your trying to fit through a foot wide gap. Goodluck

Basement bathroom is for handicapped and has more room very ironically as there is only stairs to access the basement.

We won't be returning but it was okay for about the...

First time here (February 16th, 2019) and had a really good time. The staff were very nice everywhere, the security, bartenders, and servers.

I tried the Montreal hotdog and it was really good, the bun was the softest ever and the whole thing was pretty big, loaded with delicious toppings, the wiener itself was also delicious. I had the cookies and cream for dessert and it was quite a big dessert, I couldn’t finish it. It had chocolate gelato which was good and a chocolate chip cookie, however, the chocolate chip cookie was quite hard, probably made more hard by being laid atop the cold gelato. All in all the food was delicious and served pretty quick.

The music all throughout played great songs, lots of old hits such as Dynamite, Tik Tok, No Scrubs, and Wannabe by the Spice Girls which everyone, even the bartenders were mouthing along to having a good time.

A small dance floor was located downstairs and there was a bar upstairs and downstairs as well as washrooms both up and downstairs. There was no cover and an optional $3 coat check. Greta is located a short walk from the train station.

There was a variety of games to play, from air hockey to Mario Kart along with a variety of old time games from the 80s as well as newer games like a Jurassic Park shooting game. There were also more physical games such as shooting basketballs in a hoop.

The crowd was younger and the vibes all throughout the night were good, happy, and full of people having fun and smiling. At Greta I had a wonderful time, but most importantly felt safe. Thank you. Will...