{"id":598,"date":"2009-03-06T21:35:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T05:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/?p=598"},"modified":"2009-03-07T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T08:01:57","slug":"speakeasy-on-granville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/speakeasy-on-granville","title":{"rendered":"Speakeasy on Granville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Speakeasy on Granville<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=921+Granville+Street,+Vancouver,+BC&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=49.282182,-123.121762&amp;spn=0.004829,0.013368&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=r0\">map<\/a>, 921 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, phone: 604-685-5531) is a pub located on the downtown Granville strip between Smithe and Nelson (closer to Smithe).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speakeasy\">Digging up on Wikipedia<\/a> reveals a bit about the history of the Speakeasy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A speakeasy was an establishment which illegally sold alcoholic beverages during the period of United States history known as Prohibition (1920\u20131932, longer in some states).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Darien<\/em>, a writer from Vancouver, comments on yelp.ca (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.ca\/biz\/speakeasy-on-granville-vancouver\">click here to read review<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The drink prices are downtown average and the place is deceptively large.  I often come to this spot when I want to get a drink late on a Friday or Saturday night. Due to the size of the room, one tends to be able to sit down most times during the evening.  This is certainly not a destination, but true to the name is a relaxed place to unwind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pictured below are the nachos and beer that I ordered with my friends. The food tasted great, and was around $10.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gpeters\/3286632269\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Nachos from the Speakeasy on Granville (pub in downtown Vancouver).\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/speakeasy-nachos-01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nachos from the Speakeasy on Granville (pub in downtown Vancouver).\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nachos from the Speakeasy on Granville (pub in downtown Vancouver).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/14\/181691\/restaurant\/Downtown\/Speakeasy-on-Granville-Vancouver\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Speakeasy on Granville on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/logo\/181691\/minilogo.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:104px;height:15px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Speakeasy on Granville (map, 921 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, phone: 604-685-5531) is a pub located on the downtown Granville strip between Smithe and Nelson (closer to Smithe). Digging up on Wikipedia reveals a bit about the history of the Speakeasy: A speakeasy was an establishment which illegally sold alcoholic beverages during the period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,129,227,80,10,224,229,22,13,47,81,212,170,138,112,9,26,14,228,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable","category-american","category-beer","category-burgers","category-casual","category-cheese","category-cocktails","category-downtown","category-food-photos","category-granville-street","category-hamburgers","category-licensed","category-nachos","category-open-late","category-people-watching","category-pub","category-reasonably-priced","category-restaurant","category-tvs","category-vancouver","category-vancouver-restaurants"],"views":24757,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}