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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

The basement bar of a 1960s motor hotel became Vancouver's indie living room. The Biltmore Cabaret at 395 Kingsway opened more than fifty years ago as the resident pub of the Biltmore Hotel at the awkward junction of Kingsway and 12th in Mount Pleasant, and spent decades cycling through aliases and reputations - by the 2000s it was a genuinely rough room where police lined up outside on weekends. In 2007 Zak Pashak, the Calgary promoter behind Broken City and the Sled Island festival, took it ov...