Bagheera

4 of Canada’s 50 Best Bars of 2024 are in Vancouver

And 8 overall are in British Columbia!

The Skeleton Kiss cocktail at The Keefer Bar, which ranked 8th in Canada’s 50 Best Bars for 2024. Juno Kim photo

Time to raise a toast to the top cocktail spots across the nation, with the announcement of the 2024 edition of Canada’s 50 Best Bars rankings.

A secret bar is opening behind a Chinatown ‘betting shop’

January 21, 2023 No Comments

There’s a new speakeasy in town!

The team behind Laowai is opening another hidden bar in Chinatown, Bagheera. Supplied photo

Getting inside Vancouver’s newest bar involves placing a wager on “King Louie.”

The team behind the hidden Chinatown bar Laowai is opening another underground watering hole, this time inside the (faux) Happy Valley Turf Club off-track betting shop (518 Main St).

Bagheera is an homage to India and the cultural crossroads of Three Kingdoms Hospitality co-founders Lewis Hart and Brij Rathi. While Laowai is modelled after Prohibition-era Shanghai, Bagheera is named for the black panther in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book and was inspired by India at the turn of the 20th century.