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Downtown Drinks Guide
Marilena Cafe & Raw Bar
Seafood, a Japanese-style raw bar and steak frites on Douglas Street. The dinner menu includes both individual dishes and seafood towers.
1525 Douglas St.
Best Bars, Pubs & Cocktail Rooms in Victoria, BC.
The best bars in Victoria — natural-wine rooms, craft cocktails, and spots where the drinks are the whole point.
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Start with Marilena Cafe & Raw Bar, Tourist Wine Bar, and Rabbit Rabbit. The stories below have more detail; check the restaurant websites for current menus and hours.
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Best Bars, Pubs, Cocktail Bars & Wine Bars in Victoria, BC
Wine bars, cocktail bars, and places for oysters or small plates with your drinks.
- Cocktails, wine, beer or sake
- Bars and restaurants with drinks menus
- Downtown and neighbourhood locations
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Downtown Drinks Guide
Tourist Wine Bar
A small natural wine bar on Blanshard Street. Order oysters, charcuterie or a few plates to share with a glass.
1002 Blanshard St.
Walk-ins only; no reservations.
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Chinatown Drinks Guide
Rabbit Rabbit
A small wine bar on Herald Street in Chinatown, with a changing bottle list and plates to share.
658 Herald St.
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Bastion Square Drinks Guide
Wind Cries Mary
Dinner and cocktails in Bastion Square, with a courtyard patio. The kitchen uses whole-animal butchery in its changing menu.
45 Bastion Square
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Downtown Drinks Guide
Humboldt Bar
A downtown cocktail bar named for naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, with drinks inspired by the natural world.
722 Humboldt St.
Walk-ins only; no reservations.
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Downtown Drinks Guide
Citrus & Cane
The tropical cocktail bar reopened at 606 Trounce Alley, as reported in our August 2026 roundup. The new location has a kitchen for bar snacks and small plates.
606 Trounce Alley
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