What Malone's Taphouse Is
Malone's opened in 1998 at 608 West Pender Street and never moved. The Cambie Malones Group runs it now as a 240 seat taphouse split into a restaurant side and a pub side around a central bar.
The numbers tell you what it is: 38 craft taps, roughly 20 screens, two blocks from Granville station.
Downtown has flashier sports bars. None of them pour a BC craft list this deep, a point CAMRA Vancouver's listing makes plainly.
Reading the Room
Two rooms, one central run of taps. The pub side takes the noise on game nights; the restaurant side stays bookable.
Sightlines reach a screen from almost every seat in the house.
The Menu, Edited
Nothing on the menu aims past pub fare. That is the assignment, and it lands.
Who Shows Up, and When
Canucks games pack both sides; arrive an hour before puck drop.
UFC cards, themed trivia nights, and music bingo fill the calendar between fixtures, per the events page at malones.bc.ca.
Weekday after work tables arrive from the financial district at 5pm and clear by 8pm.
What Regulars Say
- One of the best happy hours in Vancouver, with reasonably priced drinks and food, per Tripadvisor reviewers.
- CAMRA Vancouver lists the tap wall among downtown's strongest BC craft selections.
- Google reviews average about 4.1. The recurring praise is service speed on busy nights; the recurring complaint is volume.
- BeerAdvocate's profile notes the rare pairing of sports bar format with a serious rotating tap list.
Who It Is For
- Game day groups who care what is in the glass.
- After work tables from the towers on Pender.
- Avoid if you want a quiet pint; this room is loud on purpose.
Before You Go
Walk in for anything under ten people; email [email protected] beyond that. Hoppy Hour pricing lands daily.
Granville station is two blocks east. On Canucks and UFC nights, treat seats as gone 30 minutes before start.
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