Homer Street Cafe & Bar

When we arrived 10min early for our 6:45 reservation the hostess greeted us with the comment, “You need to be aware your table needs to be turned over for another reservation by 9:30.”
How is this our responsibility?
I acknowledged this rude greeting by stating we would not linger over our dinner.
Wouldn’t the time constraint be the responsibility of the wait staff?
Should not the waiter be attentive to service and facilitate the customer leaving before the next reservation?

Great place to celebrate our anniversary. It was delicious, great service and hip vibe. Will be back.

Danielle was a great waitress and gave good recommendations.
Food was first class. Really good location and ambience.

Food was good but lower level is too cold. They need a better ventilation system other than just leaving the door open. Cold & rainy night! Had to keep my coat on.

What a treat it was to have brunch at the Homer Street Café. The Hollandaise sauce was verging on the miraculous!

The appetizers were delicious, the burger was ok. That said overall tasty food! I like there.

Homer Street was excellent! The food was amazing, the service was great, and generally we felt very happy with our meal.

Was a nice place, was a good atmosphere, and fairly busy, would have preferred to have been at the back of the restaurant if I went again, food was tasty and chicken well cooked!

Overall a very pleasant dining experience with friends. Service, food and atmosphere were ideal

I had a great time. Ran into a friend and met another Patron. I partook of a few more items from the menu to taste. I might've enjoyed this particular visit more than the previous ones...which were excellent themselves!!

This venue is so rich in diversity in tastes as well as seating choices to make every time you dine here a unique experience. Today I sat at a patio table. Delicious brunch. New (to me) drinks that were so tasty and my server was great and charming.

I love how the different spaces at this venue gives a unique vibe. I've sat in all sections and the patio is still my fav despite some tables are just tad too close. We both enjoyed our entrées and the ability to make a reservation here for good brunch makes my day. The pork chop was made perfectly and was still tender which is a tough feat esp when fried. I couldn't fault a thing as everything from the brunch to the drinks, food and service was spot on. I look forward to my next visit.

Fantastic food - I had the trout and my husband had chicken and both were amazing! The chocolate pudding was unreal! Really great service too! We were celebrating our anniversary, so the server brought out 2 glasses of (complimentary) champagne when we sat down. The inside of the restaurant is beautiful with a relaxed vibe. We will definitely go back!

The only slight downfall was I felt that the portions were quite modest for the price. Having said that, the quality of food and flavour was outstanding.

Came here on Saturday for my girlfriend's birthday dinner. She ordered the trout and I had the steak. Both were delicious and perfectly cooked. I will definitely be back!

Loved the food, staff were great! Will go back again.

Enjoyed our meal, would have liked to see more vegetables on the plate with the excellent roasted lamb.

Best service I have done in a long time! Great spot for our anniversary!

I've been a number of times because usually all is good. This time, however, we got stuffed into a small space in the back, and were pretty much ignored by our server. I don't blame him, the poor guy was totally overworked, but since when does it take 15 minutes to get in a drink order? Seeing he was under the gun, we ordered appetizers at the same time as drinks. They arrived, and we'd eaten them before the drinks arrived. Then the main courses took forever. Again, not really his fault - he was polite, efficient and friendly, but he needed a lot more back of house support. We were there a good hour longer than we planned, or needed to be. Not exactly chafing at the bit to come back.

Always a great meal and great ambience! Love this restaurant.

5/5 as always. Super nice staff good price and yummy food. Best part is the menu is made easy to order, I just get the roast of the day!

Great retro atmosphere. Service was attentive and not overbearing. Food is solid - a bit meat heavy. Don't go if you are a vegan or vegetarian, a few good seafood options. Desserts are nice

Smoke triggers smoke detector and fire alarm went off. Kitchen triggered it as they had burnt something. Didn’t get turned off for more than half the time we were there.

Food was good as per usual. Service could be a bit more attentive at the bottom section of the restaurant. Was hard to flag someone down or even try to make eye contact with them.

Great spot for after the game. Service was well balanced, friendly but not intrusive. Lot's of noise, lots of fun, very good food. I can recommend this to all my friends or at least those that know how to use cutlery.

We had a fabulous time! Hillary was a tremendous host, as were all of the other service staff. The wine list is creative and reasonable, food delicious with unique offerings, and service attentive and friendly. We will be back as soon as we can!

Fun evening and wonderful chicken as always. Service was mostly good but I had to ask for water several times (each time I wanted water) which was a little frustrating should be more automatic I would think. However, overall a good experience.

This place is 5 min from my house and looks stunning, so I invited my friends to come over for a nice dinner. I've come here before for brunch and had a great experience, so I was shocked by the service last night. The chicken we ordered came with a side of coleslaw with green onions mixed in, which I can't eat. I let a roaming wait staff know, and he disappeared. Then I let our server know, and she blurted out, "Oh. Well that's too bad."
We kinda stared at her, dumbfounded, because this is a 30 dollar entree and I literally told her I have a dietary restriction that prevents me from eating part of the dish. She continued to say things like, "I'm sorry to hear that. That's unfortunate," while shrugging.
It's not something I could have prevented because the ingredient was not mentioned in the menu and is not typically included in this food otherwise. Fast food establishments have better protocol for dealing with dietary restrictions than the way that Homer St Cafe did last night. We had no idea what to say.
In the end she said apprehensively, "Well then, do you want something else? Like a different side?"
I was like, yes...anything is fine as long as it doesn't have green onions...
And then she disappeared, after which the other roaming wait staff who had disappeared came back and said, "Do you want a side salad? Would that be something you want?"
And I was like, sure.....and they came back in about 20 min with a cup of lettuce in vinegar for me. Which is great! If they had showed an accommodating and understanding attitude when I let them know of my dietary restriction before that, the evening would have been a good experience for us.
I'm weirded out by the fact that the server was basically like, "too bad for you" when I told her of a dietary restriction in downtown Vancouver no less, where people tend to have diverse food requirements and can expect to find a lot of options. In any case, I won't feel welcome to return to Homer St Cafe again.

Beautiful place .5 Stars.It feels like in Europe,or NY. very classy.

Wonderful service and fantastic food! I had the chicken and others in my party had pork chop, lamb, chicken pasta. All truly delicious! I usually can’t tolerate noisy restaurants but the ambience was fun and contributed to an energetic atmosphere. Really enjoyed every bit of this restaurant.

Always enjoy dining here. We love the ambience, the service and the food. Paying three times the liquor store price for wine is a bit much.

Delicious food, friendly/ helpful staff and a very accommodating kitchen for allergies.

Excellent food and very good service! I like how different areas of the restaurant have a slightly different feel (all nice!).

Best restaurant in Vancouver! We love this place! We visit from Northern California every year and come to Homer Street at least 2 or 3 times the week we visit!

Fantastic food. The roast of the day was awesome. Will be going back in the near future. Would recommend this restaurant to friends and family

Always a good choice!

Previously I have had the lamb and the pork and they were delicious. This time it was beef and it was disappointing. It was chewy and tough to cut. Not enjoyable.

Very well-run establishment.

is a great place to get together, food and service is awesome!!

Food was great! Service was extremely spotty, we were approached by staff but too a long time for them to take our order and get cocktails. Had to ask for stuff we ordered often and they just forgot...several times. Food was delicious, the chicken should not be missed. Great location and the patio is lovely.

Excellent as usual. We came for an early dinner before a show. I brought 4 friends. They will all come back.