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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

The bar with Vancouver's best tagline - "Don't be a dick" - holds down the corner where Mount Pleasant meets Strathcona. The American at 926 Main Street opened in 2016 in the voluminous room that spent 2011 to 2015 as the live venue The Electric Owl, revived after a year dormant by Ezra Kish, Patryk Drozd and Simon Fallick, the team behind the Cobalt across the street. The concept is a full-service neighborhood public house wearing several hats at once: lively bar, arcade, live music venue and ...