The Blarney Stone Pub. Best Vancouver bar to see a bar fight!
The Blarney Stone Pub in Gastown, Vancouver, has been around for over 30 years. With its cheap beer prices and college student crowd, its one of the best places to see a bar fight in Vancouver. The bouncers are untrained and uneducated, the management is generally clueless and because it is always packed over capacity so everyone is anxious.
There are some great sightlines throughout this old Irish Pub in Vancouver. If you stand anywhere near the railing on the balcony, you’ll see at least 2-3 scuffles every Friday and Saturday. My girlfriends and I went there last year and saw some nastiness. Even the Manager got in to the mix and ended up getting slashed in the head with a bottle, causing blood to go splashing everywhere.
The fake line-ups they have are very long so go early and get a good spot. The band is pretty decent and there are some good looking students that go there, along with quite a few skids. You’ll have plenty to look at until people get liquored up and the frustations start to boil over.
I’m not sure what makes people want to fight at the Blarney Stone. Could be the huge fake line-up they have. Could be the bouncers that treat people poorly. Could be the dancefloor being so overcrowded that people get angry. Or, could it be the student mentality? Who knows but I know that out of the 20 or so times I’ve been there, I’ve seen a fight at least 15 times.
I can’t lie. It kinda excites me!
So if you are someone that enjoys watching(or maybe starting) a good ol’ fashioned bar fight, I suggest you check out the Blarney Stone Pub in Gastown. You’ll have a blast!
Directions to The Blarney Stone, Irish Pub, Vancouver.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
I would never go to the Blarney Stone in Vancouver again after what I saw a few months ago. I watched the bartenders overserve this one girl until she was puking in the bathroom. Then I watched as one of the bouncers felt her up as he draged her outside and dropped her near the curb. It was disgusting.
I totally don’t feel safe there. It made me realize how much I miss kits pub.
May 11th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Blarney Stone sucks. Using a fake line-up to get people in, watered down drinks and draught beer that tastes like ass(Do they ever clean the lines there??).
There are way better options for bars in Gastown. Blarney Stone is for broke-ass college kids and foreign exchange students.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
That’s funny, I clean the beer lines at the Blarney Stone every two weeks. In fact, the company I work for put in a whole new beer system in there two years ago. I also go there quite bit and have never seen a fight. If there are always fights, why have you been there 20 times? Are you sure you are talking about the same Blarney Stone? What is a fake line-up anyway? Do you think they pay people to stand in line? Or they would rather have people outside than inside drinking? hmmmm. Everyone on this feed sounds a little suspicious!?!?!?!?!? Gotta a grudge? Get fired or something?
November 1st, 2008 at 9:27 am
Keith isn’t the brightest bulb in the box. The OP posted that they have been there 20 times because as he/she says,”I can’t lie, it excites me”
Maybe they like the “fight-club” atmosphere?
i don’t mind the Blarney personally but it just ain’t my thing. I’d rather go to a pub with people 25+ not 17+.
January 19th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Why would they hold a fake line-up? It doesn’t make the bar any money when the patrons are on the street – there’s a lineup because the bar is at capacity. And apparently you haven’t been to any of the Granville bars, or Modern for that matter (just down the street, where stabbings occur once a month, like clockwork). There are fights in every bar. Get a life and grow up buddy.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
How can they, or any bar for that matter be at capacity at 9pm? With ESL school enrollment down, who’s going there?
I can’t stand the place personally. Owners are dinks, bouncers are knobs and the band is old and the music is the exact same every week. Did I mention how fucking loud the music is?