Joe Fortes Seafood & Chop House

Happy-hour oysters at a Robson Street seafood institution

⚠ Happy hour 3-5pm

Hours: Daily 11am-11pm; happy hour daily 3-5pm (official site)
Budget: Happy hour $40-60 a head
Address: 777 Thurlow St (at Robson Street)

A seafood and steak house on the Robson Street shopping strip since 1985. Oysters are split into West Coast (BC) and East Coast lists and ordered by the piece; plenty of first-timers say they converted here. Daily happy hour from 3 to 5pm drops oyster prices hard, so most people book for 3. It's not oysters-only either: calamari, seafood stew and steaks keep a mixed group happy.