In this day and age when many of our favourite restaurants seem to have their service and quality of food getting worse and worse, its great to have a place that consistantley has great food and great service to go with it. Thank you Crow...and Gate.More
Lovely place. Good quality roast. Jasmine is worth a special mention, professional, warm and friendly - Made the experience all the more enjoyable.
The pub has been made to look like a British pub and as a visiting Brit, I can tell you that the end result is a stereotypical conglomeration of all sorts of pubs from Irish to old country and old town but it works well...enough. The food too follows a similar trend but is “tweaked” to suit local tastes. That works well too and is well presented and of good quality. The staff are friendly, helpful and efficient. They do it really well and its popularity is proof positive. Well done guys.More
A first time visit to Victoria and this pub made the trip worthwhile! We ordered a beef snadwich - it was huge and delicious! Ordered local brew - not sure of the name anymore but had a few!! Awesome! Service was above average. Thank you!...Would love to come back!More
Unique British Pub. Beautiful setting and great food. Well worth the visit. Will go back next time on the island so we can enjoy the grounds and outside eating area.
The building and pub are very traditional. The food was good but the service was fairly slow. It is worth a look especially for the garden area.
My wife and I had a late lunch here. This is the nicest looking pub that I know of on Vancouver Island. We had to wait for a table. The food however is not up to the same standards. There is no fish and chips....I have never been to an English pub that doesn't serve fish and chips before. The steak and mushroom pie that we both had was somewhat of a disappointment. It was ok but not as tasty as other pubs. I would recommend trying this restaurant but don't expect too much.More
We were looking for a lunch stop on the way from Campbell river to Victoria and stopped in here based on Tripadvisor search. It is a bit out of the way but well worth the trip. We ended up with a relaxing lunch in the...garden and spent two hours. Food was amazing and staff excellent. We would come again!More
All the staff were friendly and very polite the food was good and there was a good feel about the place. Would recommend
Great food, impeccable service and the grounds surrounding the pub are spectacular, so take some time to walk around and enjoy. Took me back to the pubs in Ireland and England! Highly recommend
We visited Nanaimo from Ontario at the end of 2021 and again in Feb to April 2022. We were thrilled to find such a great restaurant with great staff and wonderful food. We love it so much that when our friends visited from Ontario we...took them twice during their 10 day stay. I love seafood - particularly shrimp and on every single visit except two I ordered the Caesar salad with shrimp. I was therefore very surprised to see the negative review stating that the reviewer had "food poisoning" after eating shrimp. I have had food poisoning after a dodgy seafood lasagna in Ontario and it was almost immediate- not the endof the next day! If your body is trying to get rid of something, it doesn't wait a day or more to do it!!!! Go and eat at the Crow and Gate - it is a great restaurant with lovely staff and a fantastic location. If it was so bad there wouldn't be a lineup to get in!More
I can" believe these guys are listed under "Best fish and chips in Nanaimo" yet don't list it on the menu ? And Probably the ONLY "British style pub " that doesn't ! These guys need to wake up and smell the Cod !
I would never give an establishment this bad rating except under these extraordinary circumstances. This was the first time I had ever been to this restaurant. First, let me say I still would not do this if I were not 100% certain I got sick...from the food there. To be clear, this was not a little upset stomach case but violent illness for 18 hours and total dehydration, the result of being unable even hold down water. Let me explain. On Friday, June 17th, 2022, my walking group did a nearby hike and decided to have lunch afterwards at this restaurant. There were 9 of us (seniors) in total. We all ordered lunch and two of us ordered shrimp sandwiches. It was a lovely day, nice setting, very nice staff and the food did not taste “off”. Everything was fine until Saturday evening at about midnight when I started to feel quite sick and became violently ill by about 1:00 a.m. I was sick every 20 minutes for the next 5 hours and it continued all day Sunday if I tried to sit up or take a sip of water. By that evening I was on Gravol and electrolytes and feeling slightly better. I was able to check emails at that time and saw a message from the other person who ate a shrimp sandwich on Friday asking me if I was okay as she was really sick overnight and was wondering If it could have been the shrimp, since only the two of us had consumed shrimp. I was stunned as I never would have put this together myself. I’ve never had food poisoning in my life before nor have I ever been so sick. No one else in the group was sick. We checked with the others who had potato salad with their lunch, which we had also eaten, but everyone was fine so it was unequivocally the shrimp and/or mayonnaise. To protect other patrons, this incident was reported by my “co-walker” to the restaurant and a message was left for the manager to contact her. The manager never called back to enquire after our health or otherwise. The incident was also reported to the Vancouver Island Health Unit Inspector on Monday. The inspector did investigate on Tuesday but found nothing conclusive, and as it was already 4 days later now, any contaminated foods were likely gone or destroyed following my co-walker’s call to the restaurant. I know other patrons were likely sick from this as well, but perhaps just could not put it together if they were the only one in their party who ate the shrimp. I know if we had not both eaten the same thing at the same time and became so sick, at the almost the identical time on Saturday, I would not have figured it out. I had hoped the restaurant would at least acknowledge the suffering we both went through even if they did not want to admit fault. We were not looking for anything from the phone call except that and to warn management of the issue so they could mitigate further patrons becoming so ill. If you choose to eat at this restaurant, be selective in what you order. I know I will never be able to eat there again. One and done, as they say!More
As an elderly ex-Brit living in Canada, I have visited scores of pseudo English pubs across the country for longer than I like to remember. Many are forgettable, but not this one. We managed to snag the last table at lunchtime. Friendly efficient staff, a...lovely garden, well poured Guinness, a cup of superb oyster stew and a perfect steak and mushroom pie. The next time I take the ferry to Nanaimo I’m coming back!More
Really good English style pub The food was great and very large portions. Servic was excellent. If you can reserve I would as at even 11.30am it was very busy.
