The Pub 340 Treefort

News, Event Information and Photos from Gastown's Friendliest Pub Open 7 Days A Week 340 Cambie St (@ Hastings) Vancouver, BC 602.604.0644

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Pub 340 is excited to announce MONTHLY PINBALL TOURNAMENTS!

Beginning 7:30PM on September 3, your entry fee of $5 (plus coin drop) gets you in the competition with CASH PRIZES to the top three finishers. as well as other great swag. Sponsored by our friends at Pacific Western Brewing, we'll also be featuring tallboy cans of Cariboo Lager for just $3.75 during each tournament. 100% of your entry fee goes to cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, and every tournament with over 6 participants will also have an extra $40 (courtesy of the host) in their winnings pot! Please contact [email protected] for further contest details. New tournaments coming each month... time get your pinball wizard cape back from the cleaners!

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A rare early photograph of our building - known then as the Commercial Hotel - taken c.1898, before our neighbours arrived. (The foreground building is the old courthouse, where Victory Square cenotaph is now.) [Vancouver Archives reference code: AM54-S4: Str P67, Bailey Bros/Major Matthews Collection] Click here for larger version.

Read more about our history, as well as the latest events, contests and comfort food specials from our kitchen at the new Pub340.ca!

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Parade, Hastings west of Cambie, 1900

Source: City of Vancouver Archives #371-429 (cropped)

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That looks like it might be our corner... in which case, put on some shoes, young fella!

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Our kitchen will be open for Flip-Fest!

See you this Saturday for Flip-Fest, our next pinball tournament. We'll have our regular menu of tasty pub food, sandwiches and juicy burgers available from 1pm to 7pm.

Our kitchen is also now open for Sunday brunch starting at 10am every week, and serves our full menu until 6pm.

This holiday weekend, don't miss our Sunday Easter Dinner special, Ham and Scalloped Potatoes, which you'll enjoy as you listen to fantastic local musicians gathering for our Sunday Afternoon Jam under the genial guidance of host Steve Stone. 

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How great are these new posters for our next pinball tournament? Visit www.bangback.ca/flipfest for all the rules.

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This Saturday, Subspec presents a special engagement with German techno scene veteran and founder of the esteemed Micro.fon imprint, DJ Emerson. Groove and bounce to one of Europe's top talents and enjoy cheap drink specials all night! Cover begins at 10pm. 

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We're so honoured to have our TreeFort Arcade chosen to host the exclusive Western Canadian launch of Stern Pinball's latest machine, AVENGERS PRO, we're hosting a no cover party... and our first ever pinball tournament! Join us at Pub 340 between 5:30 and 10 PM on February 22 for all the fun. 

Full tournament details here, via the Nitro Amusements website.

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Commercial Hotel, 1966

Source: Photo by Fred Herzog, via Equinox Gallery

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Hey, that's us! Rumour has it those old pinwheels are still under the cover-up on the front of our current marquee. 

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By popular demand, our TreeFort Arcade has added a two-player, sit-down machine featuring 7 retro 8-bit games, including Mario and Pool. Longtime regulars will remember a machine like this sat in our main bar back in the old days, so it's pretty cool to have one here to play again, decades later.

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Pub 340's got great live music from local rockers The Remedy, party favours at midnight and cheap drinks all night long... and NO COVER! Ask your bartender about VIP entry privileges for regulars.

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A few photos from an amazing day of friends coming together to help their neighbours ... Thanks to all who contributed to make our Christmas charity hampers possible! Join us at our holiday party December 22nd starting at 2pm, and we'll distribute some of them to needy people in our community and keep the good cheer going!

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Today's project: assembling these Xmas charity hampers for the DTES! Thx everyone who donated. Look at this bounty!

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Haven't made New Year's Eve plans yet? Pub 340's got it covered... with a NO COVER party December 31st, featuring great live music from The Remedy. Dance, enjoy cheap drink specials, terrific staff and ring in 2013 with good friends! And did we mention NO COVER??

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Click the link above for event details about our Christmas party to thank our valued regular customers for another great year. Hope you can make it!

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Can you crush the Demolition Man, the newest pinball machine in our TreeFort Arcade?

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We love our new holiday window (painted by the lovely & talented Alisha) and hope it brings you a smile as well!

Don't forget, we're accepting donations for our Downtown Eastside Charity Drive from now right up until 11 am on December 15th, so please bring your unwrapped gifts, toiletries and winter essentials to us at 340 Cambie Street (between 9 am and closing) and we'll wrap and distribute them to homeless and hurting members of our community who are struggling to get through the season without the benefit of family, friends or a warm hearth to hang their stockings. Every little bit you can give (monetary donations included) helps make things brighter for those most in need.

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As you may have noticed, our charming barman Lennon's upper lip has been doing its part for Movember this whole month, and at this week's ThreeFortyoke Tuesday, we'll be accepting your generous donations to help fight against all those pernicious men's cancers. Lennon will be behind the bar serving you in style - as he does each Tuesday night - and may even be convinced to sing a moustache-related karaoke song for a donation to this most worthy of causes. Can't make it that night but want to support him anyway? Click here and donate directly to Movember right now.