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The 2nd Floor Gastown is what happens when a 40 year old restaurant decides Vancouver needs a supper club: a renovated room above Water St. Cafe with a small stage, window seats over the steam clock, and a sherry nook hidden behind a bookcase. The Georgia Straight covered the launch, and the Vancouver International Jazz Festival now uses it as a club venue, which is the credential that matters.
The format is ticketed two hour seatings booked through Tock, with covers around $25 and a $12 charge to linger past your slot. One Google reviewer itemized $90 before tip for tapas and three happy hour cocktails plus tickets for two. That is the honest cost of a night here, and against dinner and a show downtown it is fair.
Where The Diamond a block away sells Gastown atmosphere by the glass, the 2nd Floor sells it by the set. Decide which transaction you want before you book.
The Menu, Edited
Reading the Room
The room renovated in 2019 into proper supper club form: white tablecloth adjacent, bar seats along the windows, the steam clock below, and a stage close enough that the band can hear your order. The bookcase sherry nook is the seat to request if you book early.
The crowd runs older and date heavy, with tourists folded in on weekends. Summer 2026 brings the venue's 101 Days of Live Music program, May 29 through September 7, with free patio sets downstairs daily from 3pm to 6pm. Friday and Saturday shows sell out; Thursday rarely does.
One measured Google review gave it 3 stars and called the $25 cover fair while finding food and cocktails passable. The majority view is warmer, but the lesson holds: come for the music first.
What Regulars Say
- Amazing jazz performers and a view of the steam clock from the window seats.Google Maps reviewers
- Covered as Water St. Cafe's new live music venue above the original restaurant.Georgia Straight
- Fair $25 cover, passable food and cocktails. Book for the band, not the kitchen.Google Maps reviewers, dissenting
Who It Is For
- A jazz date that needs more polish than a basement club
- Visiting parents who want one Gastown evening done right
- Avoid if a seating clock on your table ruins the mood
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