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Olympic pavilion wrap-up

   

Jay Schreiber

4, arts editor

ow that the Olympics have
ended, with glowing hearts
and gold medals around

our necks, the saddest thing of all

is the giant exodus of all the cool

crap that was going on around our
city. In the grand scheme of the
Olympics, the Pavilions set up by each
visiting nation were one of the major
highlights of the ongoing craziness
that happened last February. Here now
are the gold, silver and bronze medal
winners for the best place to hang out
and drink beer.

    

Gold medal — Canadian pavilions
Duh, who else would know how to
party best?

Located in between BC Place and
Science World, the Canadian pavilions
were definitely the place to be. The
Maison Du Quebec had decent food,
ample sitting room, and an okay stage
set up, which was sadly overshadowed
by the fact that it cost $10 per
Franco beer. Granted, the succulent
and smooth taste made the French-
Canadian experience that much better
accompanied by the tasty poutine.

 

Saskatchewan House gets an
honourable mention for having the
best set up stage and drinking area,
but loses points for serving Molson
products exclusively. Onterrible House
had a good atmosphere and the best
drinkables at only $6 per pint of Steam
Whistle. Not a bad place to hang out
for a brew, but you had to get there
early; the maximum capacity of 350
people made fighting over the 20
chairs that much more difficult.

Silver medal — Deutsches Pavilion
The German House is a close second
for a few well-engineered reasons.
The location was perfect, seated right
next to Waterfront SkyTrain Station
and only a few short blocks from
everything else by the water. Lineups
were usually not a problem and the
bratwurst was to die for when covered
in sauerkraut.

Beer was around $9 but well
worth the expense once your taste
buds found out about it. Seating was
ample with long tables stretched
throughout the structure and they had
the biggest screen to watch the games
on of all the pavilions. The stage
had some good performers, and the

Quebec and Saskatchewan Pavilions

Bronze medal — Scandinavian House
Coming in third is the quiet and
easy-to-get-along-with Scandinavian
watering hole. No points for location,
the Scandinavian centre was located
in Burnaby, close to 8 Rinks, away
from the hoopla of downtown.

 

fill your belly. Finns, Swedes, Danes
and Norwegians were all present
and made a good-natured effort to
support their respective countries.
The place does get exciting if there’s
a hockey game on, but mostly, it’s
just a relaxed hangout for really cool

h willy ch Drinks were slashed in price, with accents.
PIRATES. WOE BEY FRCCEY. pitchers of Carlsberg available for Hmm, that almost sounds
only $18 and inexpensive food to Canadian...

 

 

 

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