Red Star Pub

I hadn’t been here in quite a while when I stopped here with some friends to talk. The alcohol menu is somewhat limited but the food menu looked good and we were served right away. I liked the fact that it’s a pub style place and the fact that while it was noisy it was never so noisy that we couldn’t be heard. It seems like a good place to stop into a traditional bar atmosphere with some hipster style thrown in.

This place is the worst. Who is reviewing it? Yuppies? There were some suits. One was a douche bag lawyer.
Anyhow, here are the deets: I went here because it was close to my girlfriend’s work. We wanted a quick dinner. Don’t go for the food. The menu sucks. Well maybe it’s great. We didn’t get to try because the service was so poor. We got drinks and waited half an hour for the server to ask us if we wanted food. She just never came, even though there were about five other people there. Two of which I think worked there.
So because of the wait and the fact that my girlfriend had an appointment we figured we’d just get some olives and call it a day. Oh whoops. Apparently olives take another half hour to get into a bowl. I dunno, maybe they hand pick them from the olive field they have in the back?
Oh well. At least the music wasn’t so bad. My girl hated it but I felt relaxed listening to their weird chilled out hip hop-​ish but not too scary for white people tunes. I decided to call it Urban Lounge music.
Anyhow these olives suck and it’s too expensive. I should have just went to the pita pit upstairs.

Well I can’t really write much about this place.
Not sure if we went at the wrong time but this place was not a pub, it was a coffee and cookie/​muffin shop. there were two people in it when we went in to get some lunch.
We walked in thinking it was a pub like it advertises, but it isn’t/wasnt when we went in. we walked right back out again and will not be returning!

Always great food and vibes and consistently good service. I love being able to start the night here and then stumble over to The Bower afterwards for drinks and dancing.

My production crew was in town for 5 days. We ended up closing this bar down every night. Great drink slection, service was world class. Best bartender/​waitress anywhere. Ever. I think my friend truly fell in love. Friday night sht show out front window is a must see.

Good service, good selection of booze, more than competant barkeeps. Try their rice bowls! 8D

I live right on jasper ave so Red Star is very convenient.
Every time my friend and I have went here, we have received great service, great food and cold beer. What more could a girl ask for? Other than a little less sketchy people bumming smokes outside, though the doormen do a mostly good job of keeping them away.
I’d definitely recommend the pork crustini, yum!
It can get a bit noisy but the crowd is original, I suppose. You get a little bit of everything from what I’ve seen. A bit of the cool kids, the hipsters, the business men and women wanting to wet their whistles after work and even some older couples. I personally like a pub like that, I enjoy variety.
I will say though that it is a bit dark and dreary looking though I’m sure it does attract people, you never know. I’ve noticed that The Common has a very similar atmosphere.
I enjoy myself here and will return.

If I lived downtown, Red Star would be my neighbourhood pub. It’s my default place whenever I’m meeting someone for drinks downtown. I like the super chill vibe and they always play excellent, chill music. It’s too bad there’s not really any dance floor to speak of because I’d be on it! It gets a bit too loud for talking on the weekend after about 9pm, but I’d still rather stay there than try to find somewhere else to go. I’ve never had to wait in line or pay cover — bonus!
Decent beer list with some interesting choices at reasonable prices — not cheap but not out of this world expensive. Prices for highballs are also standard $ 5.25-$ 6whatever range. I’ve had a few items from the food menu and have always been impressed. The pasta is quite delicious.
Servers are not always the friendliest (if they’re cooler than you), but I’ve noticed some turnover and some improvement in this area for sure. One thing that annoys me is that it is apparently impossible for them to split bills. I know, it’s something with their machine and not their refusal to do it, but I still find it weird and inconvenient at times when I’m with a large group.

Red Star is great for late night drinks with friends if you want to hang around and chat. The only problem is that it gets really loud and the drinks are slightly expensive.
Despite this, it has a good vibe and reasonably good service.

I came by Red Star on a Thursday evening with a few friends to grab a couple of pints. If you’re looking for a chill evening out on a weeknight in a bar with ten times more atmosphere and a much cooler crowd than The Pint, Hudsons and On The Rocks combined, venture below MRKT to this smaller space.
A huge beer selection, and I’m sure other drinks as well, although we stuck to beer. A low-​key soundtrack to add to the ambiance but it doesn’t get in the way. Our waitress was really friendly and always promptly refilled our empty pints.
If you want to come by on the weekends, it’s less of a find-​a-​table-​and-​drink-​away-​with-​friend place and more of a standing-​room-​only-​this-​place-​is-​bumpin’ kind of bar, but I still enjoy it. It was the last stop on a late night self-​directed downtown bar crawl with two other girlfriends, and we ended up chatting with some very odd fellows here on the Saturday night we went out.
Worth it for the drinks and the funny crowd it attracts. Don’t expect the same level of service on Fridays and Saturdays.

My main complaint with Edmonton is the lack of a reasonably hip, not too young, not too old crowd. Moving from Chicago a few years back made this striking that Edmonton didn’t have a cool 30 somethings bar scene. Except for Red Star and Sugarbowl. The beer selection at Red Star is great, or at least as good as it gets in Edmonton. And the food is quite good. They used to have a mint and pea bruschetta that was really fantastic, but it has been dropped from the menu. There is a chef connection with Corso 32, which is definitely the best restaurant in Edmonton. So my review has become less about Red Star and more about the state of things in Edmonton, but nonetheless try it out. You’ll like it.

How have I forgotten about Red Star? It’s one of my favorite Jasper Ave stops that I rarely get to go to. The menu here is amazing. I remember getting sliders here once and I’ve never had anything compare. If you’re looking to find some new fashion ideas, you should probably come here and people watch. If you’re looking to have loud conversation over great music, you should probably come here too. That’s the only thing that knocks a star off for Red Star. The music is almost always too loud when there aren’t many people in the bar. Regardless, Red Star has a pretty good beer menu and their dim gastropubby feel is not to be missed.

I came here for #YEGTwestival and was expecting more of a pub than a gastro-​bar, with a great beer list and great food. It had a comfortable vibe, good servers, and really excellent food. The menu isn’t big, but it’s got lots of things that I like on it. There were three of us who showed up after 10, and they were happy to serve us. We just ordered all the first 6 items on the menu, and everything was excellent. They even split a nice truffle oil salad into three bowls for us. Very helpful.

The most surprising thing about Red Star is their incredible menu. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but the Beef Carpaccio is unbelievable, and I haven’t had pasta outside of Italy that was better. Really good pricing on both food and drinks.
Their new beer selection doesn’t really have a match in the downtown area either. Chief complaint: WAY too loud! I’ve talked to the owners about this several times, and they will turn down the music if you complain, but the problem never gets fixed permanently.

Red Star is one of my favourite places to have a tasty snack and a nice drink. My friends and I die for their crostini with roasted tomato, buffalo mozzarella, basil and pine nuts. Actually, everything is pretty amazing there. Huge variety of beer. Though I’m not a beer person, my boyfriend dies over it, so we all go to Red Star.

It’s LOUD. Seriously. As long as you’re comfortable using your outside voice inside, you’ll be perfectly happy here.
Probably one of the best vibes you’re going to find in an Edmonton pub — the owners, cooks and staff are all great people. It really feels like everyone’s there to have a good time.
On our most recent trip, we had the mini burgers and the truffle salad. The salad took a few minutes longer than the mini-​burgers, so I was left to suffer through the overwhelmingly delicious aroma of the burgers until her salad arrived. The burgers are perfectly cooked, on fresh buns with the most amazing apple-​relish that you’ll probably spend most of your time scraping off your plate (doesn’t stay on the burger very well) — but trust me, worth the effort. The truffle salad is yet another amazing use of truffle oil we hadn’t considered, and it’s beautifully done. Complimented by a sprinkling of hazelnuts, the salad is as good as it is light.
The quality of the two dishes makes me pretty confident that everything on the menu is going to taste amazing.
It’s not «pub cheap» ($ 12−17/entrée), but you won’t feel like you’re getting ripped off.

A nice little Jasper Ave. institution. The first Wednesday of every month they have Jamaican food and bottles of Red Stripe on special. By Jamaican food I mean delicious jerk chicken and a couple of different types of roti.
I typically hit it after work, around 5 when it opens, and it is usually not very busy.
The menu is definitely a step above your usual pub far. The crostinis are super tasty. Something to keep in mind, there is only one chef and if he’s busy, you’re going to have to wait.

Red Star gets surprisingly packed at night. I thought this would just be a place people hit up for some drinks before they head to some other destination but the place was as packed as any club.
It is a dimly lit lounge with one big bar and tons of tables. The cool thing is that it is located right next to Halo, a chic club, and you see people going back and fourth between the 2. If you want to dance you can head next door and then head back for some chilling and drinking.
When I was at Red Star I kept thinking this is where you come with a group of friends to enjoy each others company and have tons of laughs. It really is the perfect atmosphere for that.

The Red Star is a chill place to grab a couple pints or a glass of wine away from the business of Whyte Ave. It’s always dimly lit here, and has a deep, dark wood bar and tables like an English pub, without the stained glass. The Red Star is chic, in it’s own underground kinda way. It is a venue for budding d.j.s, it is a watering hole for the city’s fashion, beauty and restaurant industry workers, and spill-​over for Halo Club next door, which is an ultra-​cool lounge for drinking, dancing, socializing, grooving to tunes and blowing off steam after the work week. They’ve got a great selection of beers and wines and the prices are reasonable. I’ve never eaten here, but they probably have some swank appies on the menu. I consider this the pub equivalent of Suede lounge — Glamour Barbie comes here in black cashmere and blue jeans.

Red Star’s probably my #2 choice for bar I actually enjoy going to downtown. It’s got kind of a modern English pub atmosphere, with lots of highly-​polished wood, sleek bar that curves around in kind of a semicircle, and a wall of really interesting personal-​type snapshots to pore over while waiting for the super-​slow ATM. If you’re headed here on a Thursday or over the weekend, expect to find Edmonton’s ultra-​hip fashion crowd packing the place. Saturday DJ’s play good reggae and hip-​hop.