

After Dark
Yaletown's dim, industrial-cool cocktail bar with an after-10pm charcuterie menu and a 1am close Thursday through Saturday.
Bartholomew has been a Yaletown cornerstone long enough to know exactly what a good late date needs, and the answer is cozy booths, dim lighting, a creative cocktail list with a bartender who'll talk you toward the most interesting thing on it, and food that arrives when you need it to. Starting at 10pm, a proper after-hours menu of charcuterie and snacks appears, which means the drinking can continue with structural support. There's also an $11 happy-hour window earlier in the evening, for the budget-conscious or the prudent. It stays open to 1am on Thursdays through Saturdays. Take a booth, build a board, and watch 'one quick drink' gradually, pleasantly, become the whole evening while you maintain full plausible deniability about how long you've actually been sitting there.