Drinks: Overpriced. And beer served at a BREW PUB should not be served in glasses smaller than a pint!

Food: Overpriced. Green tea creme brulee came out warm and the top was burnt

Service: Slow & untrained. Host seemed annoyed having to seat a large group. Server came by three times, but didn't bring us water; got our drink orders mixed up, brought food without proper accompanying utensils.

Granted, the patio was great on a hot summer evening, but everything else was just utterly uninspiring.

So today my girlfriend and I decided to give the Yaletown Brewing Co. a try. It was a bit windy but the sun was out. We decided on lunch in the restaurant section. It wasn't very busy, as most of the customers were on the bar side watching Hockey. I love the location and the feel of the restaurant. The decor is awesome with lots of exposed brick, very Yaletown like. Our server was Chris a long haired guy. He took our drink orders fairly quickly (hefeweizen) The beer came and was great, but with not that many tables it took forever for him to come back and take our food order. We ordered a bbq pulled beef rib pizza and the same type of sandwich with Walla Walla onion rings for an extra $3. We also ordered some water with the food. The waiter didn't write any of this down and we joked he'd probably forget something. Sure enough after several passes we had to ask for our water again and finally it came. He was very polite and seemed nice, just didn't seem to pay much attention to his customers or their needs. Another table was seated shortly after us and he didn't pick up it was windy and we all had our jackets on as a sign to trim closed the big patio doors that were open as wide as they could be. As far as the food went. The bbq sandwich I loved, my girlfriend hated it, because when it says bbq and it's then bbq as well as Currey, you'd think they'd mention that on the menu! The pizza was thin crust with almost no toppings. I've had better pizza frozen from Safeway. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ORDERING PIZZA HERE! The onion rings were HUGE and some of the best I have ever had. The price was average and that's pretty much my take on this place.

My dad took a group of us here last December when he was in town for a belated birthday dinner for me. Arrived around 7pm with reservations and were seated promptly, I had to use the bathroom after the walk from the skytrain so I disappeared before I had a chance to order my drink while everyone else was. Came back and the server was setting down everybody's drink, looked at me and as I was about to order walked away! She then busied herself re-arranging cutlery at the table beside us almost like she was punishing me for not being ready when everyone else ordered. Finally she came back for my drink and we ordered appetizers. After a couple rounds of drinks and appetizers our server came back to tell us we had to leave as the hostess should have told us we could only stay for an hour. We said we were planning on ordering dinner still and she told us we could move to a different table if we wanted, which seemed strange as it was NOT busy and the party that came in was no bigger than ours and could have easily taken the open table we were moved to. I ordered some sort of tofu and eggplant stirfry and they completely left out the tofu! A different server ended up bringing it to me in a bowl, and everyone agreed that the food was pretty decent but the service was absolutely terrible. And my brother ended up not being able to finish his meal as the server shot a canon full of confetti all over the birthday table next to us and it got all over his food and in our drinks.... Overall not impressed, we ended up feeling so rushed and neglected that we left to carry on our evening elsewhere when we could have easily spent a lot more time and money there.

I had been to the pub a number of times but never actually eaten there before. The new extension/renovation on the patio has definitely improved the ambiance of the place. We arrived at around 10pm and while there was hardly anyone in the restaurant we still had to wait around 15 minutes for a table as they were yet to clean the tables from previous guests. We sat in the bar while we waited for a table (too busy and noisy to eat in pub). The servers were two of the best I have come across, they were amusing, professional and knew exactly how to respond to our friend who has a sense of humour not all servers can respond to with such a good sense of humour.
I just had an appertiser as I had already eaten but the prawns were really tasty and everyone enjoyed their meal. It isn't somewhere to go for a special occassion but definitely worth eating there if you're in the area and fancy a casual place with good food and drinks.

I came here with my partner and a couple of friends to try their menu for Taste of Yaletown, $25 for a 3-course meal. In hindsight. since we came on a Sunday, they had pizzas on sale for $8, which judging from 80% of the restaurant having it, looked very good. Nevertheless, we agreed to have the Dine Out menu...

Food: The curry soup and salad were both very average. The soup was like rice drenched in curry sauce. The salad was plain, but the veggies were nice and fresh. The main course was either a flatiron steak, or salmon. Both were tasty and comparable to more expensive restaurants. The desert was your standard raspberry or coffee cake, which I found overly sweet.

Service: Nothing to complain about. Water refilled all the time, plates cleaned. Pretty competent overall compared to other sports bar style restaurants.

Value: For $25, it's a bit steep, especially when compared to the $8 pizzas we could have eaten.

Ambiance: I like casual dining environments, and Yaletown is no different. Nice HD TV screen broadcast all games, EXCEPT the canucks game that night for some strange reason :( Otherwise, I felt comfortable.

I would definitely return on Sunday just to try the pizzas...

This place is totally unpredictable. I stay downtown late on Fridays and try to enjoy a beer on their patio (get there by 5 pm if you want a spot on a sunny day). I have come there with friends many times. I have some friends who swear they will never return because of the horrible attitude of the servers. I understand why, I have had good service there and then I have had really, really bad attitude and bad service too. There's one server that I have finally after 5 visits have actually got her to look me in the eye and smile! Then there's other people there that are really great. The food is pub food, the tables in the pub a really sticky, but the beer is really, really good and cheaper than any place else around the immediate area.

My thoughts. BS flows down hill and the attitude problem with the staff is a MANAGEMENT ISSUE. They recruit and train badly. Fix the attitude and the crappy service guys. Earls is coming.

After reading the reviews for the Yaletown, i was reluctant to go, bad food and poor service- not the best recommendations. The experience started off very badly, the hostess insisted we were past the 15 minute grace period and therefore late (we were told of the grace period during the reservation process and were, in fact about 8 minutes past our reservation time but not the 15 minute period). Several times she told me she had just about given up our reservations (waiting for me to grovel). As it turns out, her terminal did read later than the time on all of our watches, and minutes had accrued as we waited in line to get to her, so perhaps perhaps her condescending manner was unwarranted. She curtly told us, "she was very busy". However, she still did have our table. Once in the restaurant everything was very solid. Our server could not have been nicer and the food was all great. Everyone else we came in touch with, and the dinner, dessert, and drinks, were all better than our expectations. Walking in expecting bad, made me look for it, luckily we had a good experience and would go back.

I've had dreadful service in a few places in town, the Yaletown is up there with the very worst of them. Rude, slow, unsmiling, tiphungry, ignorant and lazy is how I'd describe the best of them.

I've had nothing but garbage food there, it's one step up from MacD's. The pizza barely has any cheese, but it's still the only thing on the menu worth eating. As with all the MJ pubs it's basically a youth club run for and by the staff.

Music - great if you like Sweet Home Alabama and other golden oldies. It's your basic wedding soundtrack - not my idea of a night out.

The seating is uncomfortable - and sometimes dangerous... like the garden furniture they bring in from time to time with nail and screws sticking out.

It's a decent party place though, good place to pick up and the beer is good brew pub quality - if you can get served at the bar by the gorillas.

I know some people swear by this place - but they clearly aren't choosey about food music or service.

...and a great place to watch a game. We enjoy hanging out on the bar side opposed to the restaurant side. We've enjoyed many Friday evenings watching hockey and baseball on the many television sets. The beer is great, in particular the cask conditioned IPA. The calamari and edamame are our favorite snacks. The pizzas are very good as well.

Went there for a late weekday lunch. The place was pretty empty but somehow the food still takes a long time to come out. No wonder people are complaining about the poor service.

I ordered the ginger beef. It's quite good but nothing exceptional. The rice tasted like those microwaveable or old reheated rice. Whoever made the rice was very sloppy.

I would have to give a decent rating for the service as the food takes a while to come out.

Ambience is okay, nothing really special. Price is quite steep for pub food though. I ended up paying $15 for my lunch. Ouch.