18+ · Live tables and a 32-seat dining room
Poker Nights
Eight tables of live hold'em and Omaha in the main room, a dining room one low half-wall away, and a chalk board beside the host desk that tells you where the night stands. The call-ahead list opens one hour before the posted start.
HARBOUR POKER NIGHT
The night begins at the host desk, not at the table. The evening's list is written in chalk on the board beside it and rubbed out as seats open, and a second chalkboard by the door carries the night's games, the live list and the name of the dealer currently on break. A greeter in the entrance vestibule checks ID under the venue's 18+ access policy, and a brass tag goes with the seat for one of forty numbered lockers lining the corridor to the washrooms.
Past the desk, eight tables fill the main room, each with charcoal cloth and a single birch-green betting line. Dealers give their first name at every table change and post the current blind level on a small wooden sign; cards are pitched by hand, and a fresh setup goes on each table after four hours of play. Chips are 10-gram ceramics in denominations of 1, 5, 25, 100 and 500, kept in birch-fronted racks behind the desk, and every table carries a wooden caddy with a cut card, a spare setup and a laminated copy of the house rules.
The lounge half of the evening sits one low half-wall away, where 32 seats on birch plywood banquettes face a short kitchen menu and six Canadian craft beers on tap. A self-serve still water and drip coffee station sits at the end of the host desk, so a player between hands can fill a cup without leaving the room, and the pace of the night stays low rather than rushed.
BIRCH TABLE EVENING
Some nights narrow to one of the eight tables: one dealer, the four house rules on a card, and the same faces across the charcoal cloth until the chalk list beside the host desk is rubbed out. Book the dining room—32 seats on birch plywood banquettes behind a low half-wall—for the other half of the evening, and the two rooms run on one clock.
POKER & DINING NIGHT
Dining and the tables share the same hours — the kitchen takes its last order 30 minutes before closing, so an early seat or a late one can still eat. Food is served in the restaurant or carried to the rail; it never reaches the felt.
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Dinner before the first hand
The 32-seat dining room takes bookings up to 60 days ahead, by phone or through the form on this site, and a table is held for 30 minutes past the booked time. Parties of 12 or more are asked for a deposit, taken off the bill. Walk-ins are seated when a table is free.
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Plates carried to the rail
A runner carries food from the kitchen to the tables between hands, and no plate is ever set on the felt. Order from your seat or on the break; each wooden caddy holds the cut card, spare setup and laminated house rules, leaving the felt clear for cards.
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The kitchen's short list
Six plates and two desserts run from the pass, among them a rotisserie chicken for two at C$68, a barley-and-mushroom plate at C$26 and a smoked trout salad at C$24. The average bill runs C$40–C$55 per guest without drinks.
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Beer poured behind the half-wall
Six Canadian craft beers sit on tap behind the dining room bar and are poured into 16-ounce glasses, with a house lager at C$8 and a Birch Spritz at C$6. Drip coffee and a pot of loose-leaf tea stay on the same side of the wall.