Bottlescrew Bill's Pub and Buzzards Restaurant & Bar Reviews

Such a great spot! Had the bison burger with fries and it was amazing, and our server was lovely.

Great beer selection, and staff is super friendly, but kind of small.

Most of the popular Filipino branded beers are available in here. I can taste a bit of home, atleast.

Always a fun time, great service with very knowledgeable and friendly staff, and awesome events

Love going here! Beautiful patio for summer and winter! Great drinks and food :)

Really expansive and good selection of beers. There s a huge variety of bottles from around the world and usually a fairly diverse selection of beers on tap. I really appreciate their passport promotion - they give you a passport in which to track the beers you ve had from different breweries around the world. The goal for the first passport is to drink 80 beers from around the world within a year - which is pretty doable and is a fun reminder to get together with your bros regularly to hang out and drink new beers. At the end, you will have got prizes including a hoodie, a mug, and a plaque with your name on it on the wall. Would recommend. The second passport includes a lot of 750ml bottles, though, so it s a lot harder to finish. As you can tell, I have been to Bottlescrew s a lot, so take that for what you will.

Anyway: typically good service, food is pretty good, premises are okay. This rating is mostly about the beer, which was good, and the times with friends, which were also good.

I had it on my list as venue with huge selection of beer. That was the case, but nothing impressive on that menu and quite pricey!

Great food at a reasonable price and not overly busy when you want to sit and chat.

Love this pub
Good deal with good beer

Average pub but central location. Somewhat expensive drinks and fish and chips were brought out w soggy uncooked batter

Great atmosphere, variety of different type of liquor...no hassel , nice crowd from different age groups...mostly mature.

Amazing selection of beer and great prices for Canada Day. The food is good, and the waitress we had was the funniest and best bar food service worker I've ever had.

Awesome Selection of beers, come here often. Wait staff is very nice and always remembers you

Great pub, food and service is always good. I have been going regularly for over 4 years and will continue!

Bottlescrew Bill's Pub is separated into two sections. The actual pub and the restaurant at the front of house. There is a huge beer selection that would appease any beer snob with a Cask selection every Wednesday. Staff are knowledgeable, quite friendly and make the attempt to remember your name. There is also an opportunity to partake in a "trip around the world" were you will pay to get a passport, and then drink beers off one of 3 lists (at time of writing) to experience different regions beer. There is rewards based on how many you knock off the list, rewarded at 20, 40, 60 and 80 beers consumed. Upon completing the passport you will have the opportunity to get your name put on a plaque on the wall in the designated passports color. This is a great place to take friends and converse over a bevereage.

My go to place. Great selection, rotating tap and LATE NIGHT FOOD.
The different rooms provide a different experience each time. My favorite is the middle room with the fireplace on a cold day :)
Staff are always kind and considerate.
There is a lot of events for different things like Flames night or Bingo.
The Passport is a pretty cool challenge (to drink 80 beers from around the world in 1 year). Once complete you get your name on a plack in the middle room!
If you want an authentic Calgary local pub, here yeah be.

Wings are SOOOO GOOD!! Sweet Weekly deals, friendly staff, excellent beer selection menu! A must visit when in Calgary!

If I lived closer to here I would make it my official pub of choice.

Drinks are ok if its happy hour . Else have whats on special. Food is basic pub food

Great atmosphere in a cool corner spot of downtown Calgary. Loved the craft beer selection and classic feel; a favourite for locals looking for a beverage downtown.

Excellent ambience. Fantastic beer menu. The biggest reason I miss living in Calgary. Around the world in 80 beers!

Very nice and friendly, 3$ beers at 3pm 4$beers at 4pm 5$ beers at 5pm, nice sweat and tasty.

food was typical pub fair, pretty good. Lots of Beer selection and decent service. Decor/setting/cleanliness was average

Was here for a Stampede function. Food was ok. Beer selection was great. Service was very good as well

Great service! Staff are very knowable about the different beers (:

The only spot in town to try the kind of beer you'll have to special order any other place.

Awesome pub, great selection of beers. Go around the world!

Great spot for a large selection of beers. $5 happy hour with local beers all day Sunday.
Food was great. Good value too.

Good, fun place. Great servers. Great selection of beer of course and a great selection of food as well!

Genuinely amazing staff here.

They make you feel welcome no matter the time of day, with excellent service to boot!

The food is consistently incredible, with delicious meals and great deals.

Server Venessa, always makes the experience feel personal, warm and unique.

Bartender Johnny always has good suggestions of beers to try - something new & interesting.

Manager Rob is a joy to have around, and will always treat you like a superstar.

This is my new regular pub & hope that the service level stays consistent - something rare to find in Calgary right now!

Lots of fun and a wide variety of beers to choose from.

The staff there are super friendly and knowledgeable!

Every time I go here the staff are super chill and friendly. Once the bartender even juggled for us. Great beer selection.

Good atmosphere...amazing beer selection! Food was good too!

Great pub.
Haven't tried the food yet.
Server was fast and knew when to come around.
Comfortable seats.
Will be back.

Our favorite pre Flames game destination. Excellent selection of beer! I stick to cider though.

Friendly staff, quick service and a very wide selection of beers from all over the world!

Great pub with an awesome selection of beer. It's been downtown longer than all the new "craft beer" places that have recently popped up. Proper old school pub feel. And a huge patio.

Great time here best nachos in calgary and my friends and I have tried many places, this is our how I met your mother bar we always go to. Added bonus trying out their beer selection from all over is also great I have gone through all of them yet but I plan on it.

-B

Went tonight and both Daniel sand the girl working (missed her name) we re both very attentive, knowledgeable and strongly supported the local beer scene. HUGE variety of beers, reasonable prices and great atmosphere. Definitely coming back again!

I had chicken fingers and there poutine.the best gravy yet. My server was amazing.

Review update: Geoff had reached out to see if the restaurant could provide a better impression than the lackluster experience that we had experienced on our first visit. We took him up on his generous offer and made a return visit last night during a Flames game, and I'm glad we did.
There were several food and drink specials going on, and we decided on the buzzard burger special that's available during every Flames game.
The burger itself was very good, especially given the special price, and was definitely worth it. We also had a few of the cask beers they had on special, which were as tasty as last time. Our waitress gave us a rundown on what the difference is between the cask beer and the regular tap beer from other bars and restaurants, which we didn't know about and was pretty neat.
Geoff came over to our table to introduce himself, which was very much appreciated. And our overall experience was a very good one, and I can definitely see myself returning regularly. Next time I'll probably ask about the beer passport, it seems like a pretty neat thing.

First time at this place, and I'm still undecided if I'd come back again. The positives being that the food special and beer for that night were quite affordable, and the beer was quite tasty.
However the service was kinda lacking, and our table had 4 different waitresses throughout our visit. We waited a pretty significant length between our two rounds of beers, and for our order of fish and chips. When we received our food we were asked if we wanted vinegar, to which we said yes. 10 minutes later we realized that vinegar wasn't going to be coming.
Maybe the place was significantly busier than it appeared, because our initial waitress seemed really frazzled when we had to ask for our bills.
All in all, there are other places in the area with comparable atmosphere, food menu, and prices. If we ever do make a return, maybe it will be when the place seems more empty.

Beer passport is a cool idea. Good place to have a few beers with friends

Huge beer list, friendly staff and amazing wings (would like a few more flavours though).

Great place with probably the best beer selection in town! Excellent service as well.

The beer passport is a great idea and a lot of fun with a group of friends!

Came here for drinks during stampede. Place was loud and we couldn't really carry a conversation. Drinks were good and cheap. I would've preferred glass to plastic cups. The place was dark and felt more like a bar than a pub.

Enjoyed my visit. Friendly staff and a great selection of brews. Menu looked appealing and will return to have a bite.

Had a few apps and beers before the flames game. Food was delicious, beers were great and majority of the staff was awesome.. really awesome. We would 100% return.

(our server wasn't very good, wasn't even busy enough to turn a blind eye, always hanging at the computer "looking busy" and complaining within earshot to anyone who would listen. The rest of the staff picked up his slack.)

Great atmosphere bar, highly recommend checking this place out. The servers are great and nice.

A great selection of bottled beers, naturally. Service is mediocre.

Good service, really cheap drinks, and the food is amazing

Hit up there patio on a beautiful Monday after work. The happy hour specials are great with lots of options and the Monday Butter Chicken was delicious.
Service was exactly what it needed to be too.
The patio views could have been a bit better but I don't want to judge them on that as they have the best they can do.

I'm a fan of this place. Haven't tried the food, but the selection of beers is wild. Amazing happy hour deals from 3-6. Pretty dark inside, so not somewhere I'd take a date. They have Last Best Tokyo Drift on tap, which is something hard to find outside of the Last Best brewery itself.