Sawmill Taphouse

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   Robert

   Vancouver

   1 review

   4.0

   1 review

   Dined on November 2, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   Good experience, good food, dead empty when I went at about 4pm
   

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   April and Mike

   Vancouver

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined on October 27, 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   We had so much fun. The food was amazing and the service was awesome ! We love it there .
   

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   Catharine

   Hawaii

   2 reviews

   4.0

   2 reviews

   Dined on October 23, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Always like going to the Sawmill but my last meal on my birthday was terrible. Had the beef cowboy burger and it was sooo hard and dry I couldn't eat it. Supposed to have blue cheese but barely tasted a trace. Very disappointed.
   

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   Robin

   Vancouver

   3 reviews

   5.0

   3 reviews

   Dined on October 16, 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Have been having lunch here for the past 7 or 8 years - food is consistently good. Service always excellent.
   

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   Joanne

   Vancouver

   2 reviews

   4.0

   2 reviews

   Dined on October 13, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 3

   Service is always good and the food was great. Music was not appropriate and too loud.
   

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   Lynda

   Vancouver

   11 reviews

   4.0

   11 reviews

   Dined on October 9, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   We both had two kinds of pizza with béchamel sauce and different toppings... (pear/pro) and "black & blue" and the crust in both was made to perfection. The toppings were just right and the smoked beef brisket on one was delicious. Very generous portions and despite it being very busy , the service was excellent.
   

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   Tony

   Vancouver

   1 review

   3.0

   1 review

   Dined on October 6, 2024

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 3

   The chairs are getting very worn out, they need to have the upholstery replaced, we received our meal and had to wait a minute or so for the cutlery. Overall not impressed. The server was quite attentive though.
   

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   Rory

   Vancouver

   10 reviews

   4.0

   10 reviews

   Dined on October 3, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 3

   The service was great, casual atmosphere The bar tender and watress were terrific. chicken bowl was fabulous. My friend had the fish and chips which were good but overwhelming amount of French fries. Cider thumbs down , Caesar was excellent. Used elevator to get upstairs but couldn’t get into the restaurant. The door out to the sidewalk wouldn’t open . Had to call the restaurant to get someone to come outside and move a very large planter for us to get in. ..
   

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   doug

   Vancouver

   22 reviews

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   4.0

   22 reviews

   Dined on September 27, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   We go here at least once a week, this time the pizza was under cooked and soggy on the bottom Not impressed, hopefully not the norm going forward
   

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    Tara

    Vancouver

    3 reviews

    1.0

    3 reviews

    Dined on September 21, 2024

    1. Overall 1
    2. Food 2
    3. Service 1
    4. Ambience 3

    Popped in here a few months back for lunch. Food and service were great. So we decided to give it another go. Looking online they had a completely open schedule for reservations, so we opted not to make one as it didn't seem necessary. We walked in to a mildly busy restaurant just before 7:00pm. 5-6 staff members looked directly at us and didn't acknowledge us at all. After about 10 minutes, someone finally came and asked us if we had a reso and when we said no, she told us it would be a 30 to 40 minute wait. This seemed silly as there were at least 6 tables open and staff seemed to be milling about. Annoying to wait so long for that info! Went back to the car and, out of curiosity, checked again for reservations available on OpentTable. They were open for every time slot, so we made one for 7:30pm, and walked directly back in. We waited another while for someone to acknowledge us and were sat immediately. The hostess explained that the kitchen was backed up so they weren't seating people. Interesting policy...why not give us a warning about delayed food and allow us to sit and have a drink at one of the empty tables or the bar? We had to flag down a waiter to get drink menus as we weren't given any. He was friendly and informative. He took our drink orders and told us our waitress would be by to take our food orders. However, it was him who came back to check on us and we never did see our waitress. We ordered drinks and the artichoke dip (great) which arrived very quickly (backed up kitchen?). At the same time we ordered mains; a burger & salad (meh), and the fish & chips (generous and cooked well, but flavourless). They came about 4 minutes after our appy arrived! Ordered a second drink when mains were delivered. It arrived almost 15 minutes later. It was so salty it was undrinkable. And empty plates sat on our table for 10 minutes while a waitress cleared vases from all the other tables. Only highlights were the dip and the friendly waiter.
    

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