The Pint Public House — Restaurant in Vancouver

Even though service can be a bit sketchy sometimes, I will always come back to the Pint, week after week, because their happy hour special is pretty much the best in the city. Free wings with your beer, and 40 flavours to choose from?!? No other place comes anywhere CLOSE to being that awesome. Pretty much everywhere else I've been has 5 flavours tops. And you're not allowed to complain about the service with a deal like that, especially because it makes it really easy for cheap assholes to leave crappy tips ($8 for beer and wings deserves AT LEAST a 20% tip, because come on. That's a teensy price to have to tip on!).

Which isn't to say there aren't some stellar folks working there! The gorgeous brunette who works bar with the amazing ringlets has gone out of her way to help me with stupid trivial s* on the busiest of afternoons; there are a couple of girls who work the afternoon shift who go out of their way to make sure you've got everything you need (including water... who does that?!? Kudos!!), and our favorite by far is the girl who runs food, almost singlehandedly, EVERY time we're there, who totally knows us and even calls it when the server accidentally rings in the wrong wing order, and comes speedily back with the right one. YOU ROCK! ...and I'm sorry I can't name any of you (I'm terrible with names...), but you know who you are =)

Even when service is slow because of understaffing, wings always come out quick and super hot, and my only complaint (otherwise this would be a five star review) is that sometime in the last year whilst we were living in Australia, the kitchen switched from serving naked wings to putting a crispy flour dusting on them, and I personally like my wings straight up naked with seasoning on them, sad face.

Otherwise, keep being awesome, you guys! I'll continue to come in and bring friends in when I can muster them up (fiancé works evenings now so I lost my wing man, haha), but you can rely on me dragging my ass in there at least once every week, as long as I'm in the city. Guiltily, sometimes more than once a week. I admittedly have a huge problem with my wing...

Just the absolute worst experience. We grabbed an upstairs table shortly after 6pm tonight for wing Wednesday - it was busy but we expected that considering the Canucks were playing. We waited until 6:30 just to get menus and our waitress immediately disappeared. We had to flag someone else down someone to order - waitress # 1 (blond) was extremely unpleasant and seemed to hate us, The Pint and generally being alive. We ordered 2 beers, fries and wings with her but Waitress #2 (brunette and by far the best server of the evening) only had a ticket for 1 beer and we had to wait another 15 mins for another beer. Waitress #3 (bleach blond with dark roots) proactively came by to introduce herself at the beginning of her shift but when we asked her to bring our bill later, she rudely told us she wasn't our server and walked away. Honestly, I'm fairly sure she was drunk. Our food didn't arrive until ~7:45pm and it was mostly cold and not very good - except the fries. They were hot, well cooked and nicely seasoned.

Service wise, the highlight of the evening was the bald guy in the Canucks jersey who bussed our table - he was was super nice and friendly.

But the worst of all was "Cole", the bartender, who interjected himself into the situation while we were paying. He told me to "stop yelling" (while we're in a very loud sports bar where you can't hear anything otherwise) and alternated between calling me "ma'am" when he was being rude to me and "miss" when he was trying to suck up - overall, he came off as a misogynistic jerk with no sense of professionalism or decorum. Absolutely atrocious behaviour. We finally paid and were able to leave at just after 8pm. Two hours for one round of food and beer.

I will never go back, except to see a manager to make a formal...

I have been biting my tongue regarding this situation, but I think that something has to be said. I went to this awful pub last week because my friend had a pre-concert reservation. My God, it was a nightmare. Never mind that the food was awful, and never mind that the bar lacked some drinks. What disturbed me was being seated at a table across from the toilets, both of which had their doors wide open. I was seated across from the women’s one, so I was able to see a woman enter, go into the cubical, and then she sat on the loo as her legs showed from the bottom. I found this disgusting, a violation of privacy, and unacceptable. Those doors should be closed at all times, especially when situated across from a table. What made me the most angry was our waitress. She was so scatter-brained at taking orders to begin with, so I shouldn’t have been surprised at her reply after I complained and emphasised that this is a violation of people’s privacy. She said that they’ll “consider” my suggestion, and she smirked as she replied. This made me angry. As they say in my father’s language, it poisoned my bones. I can understand a child laughing about the idea of someone in the toilet in front of our table, but not a mature and employed woman. I was so infuriated at her disrespect that I could have called her a few lovely swear words, but I kept calm because there is no point in throwing pearl before swine. Instead, I made sure not to tip, and then I left as soon as I was able to. I was very uncomfortable with this shameful experience, especially seeing the woman sit on the loo, and was told that they’ll “consider” closing the door. Absolute nonsense. I am never going back to this...