Ocean Island Victoria Guide

If you like loud dance music and you like electronics, this is the place for you. You’ll find sultry girls, funky dudes, some nice pool action, back lit with dramatic red lights, and tons and tons of techno, house, and best of all, wicked cool drum n bass. It is the next best thing to [...]

Near the corner of Blanshard and View, you can enjoy Jazz music in this well established pub-style restaurant. This local favourite presents Dixieland Jazz, Big Band music with dancing, the Esquimalt Jazz band, the Tom Vickery Trio and many other live bands. It’s the place to see fantastic live jazz in Victoria.

Formerly Evolution nightclub. This place is famous for its cheap drinks and has no cover charge before 10 pm. Each night of the week has a different theme: Heavy metal, Retro, etc. Definitely a good place to dance it up or see some local bands. It’s oh so loud and attracts an alternative crowd. Warning: [...]

This is a bangin’ top 40 bar. If you’re looking to pick up or get picked up, dance the night away and bliss right out to ecstatic top 40 anthems, this may be too much fun for your health. This place also ends up hosting one major international band after another. Sloan was here. Vanilla [...]

The Sticky Wicket’s rooftop patio with volleyball court is a favourite in the summer. The pub/restaurant is massive: you could throw a party here and accommodate everybody staying at Ocean Island! If that’s not enough there’s also a Top 40 style nightclub in the basement.

This heritage house converted into a brew pub makes some of the best beer, and their patio is hard to beat on a warm summer afternoon. All their food is made from fresh, sustainable, local ingredients. Not to mention, they sell gourmet chocolates (the pepper chocolate is amazing) out of the little shop attached to [...]

Whether you want to be entertained, or want to do a little entertaining yourself, Sopranos is the place to be! They’ve got friendly staff, a great karaoke system with thousands of songs to choose from, great sports with big screen TV and lots of monitors, great pub food with huge portions, great contests, prizes and [...]