Charbar - Calgary, Alberta

We were just heading back from a nearby dog park when we saw the place and decided to stop in for a drink. The patio is dog friendly, and has a great atmosphere on a warm, sunny day like this one. Our server almost instantly offered to get a bowl of water ... for our puppy. Great gesture. Thanks! Always pleased to see a menu with non alcoholic options that have actually had a bit of thought put into them. The margins are incredible so any place that is still late to this party is missing out. They have a few good ones on this menu and we both went with the Pineapple Guava mule. Excellent drink! We were there long enough that we decided to try some food. We went with a pizza. It seems the crust is in collaboration with Connie & John’s pizza and done Fugazza style (pizza al molde). Pretty solid crust. Traditionally, ham is a stable ingredient on this style in Argentina. The pizza we received had ham as a topping. The menu listed it as prosciutto cotto for some reason. Italian words look great on a menu I suppose. Call it Prosciutto Cotto Cubetti if you want to be really fancy haha. At that price point, I think a sprinkle of a fresh herb rather than some dried oregano could elevate the dish considerably. A lot more photogenic as well. Overall more than pleased with this place. Will have to go back and try dinner there sometime. Thanks, team! Read more

Awesome atmosphere and amazing service! Was disappointed about not cooking 2 of our steaks properly. Regardless they took it off the bill and gave us a round of drinks and dessert on the house. Would definitely come back and try their other dishes. Their fried calamari was nice as well ... at the lamb pastrami. The passionfruit guava mule was amazing as well as their selection of fruity/sour beers. Read more

I think if you look at the pictures they speak for themselves…but let’s speak nevertheless…. We had two pork chop dishes at our table and they both came at completely different temperatures ( as you can see one is clearly medium and one is well well done)….the steak which ordered ... medium came with an extra piece of well done leather as you can see in the picture…finally the burger which looked pretty great if you ask me was also extremely well done and dry and though I had high hopes for the beef fat fries, they simply tasted like your run of the mill grocery store brand. Read more

I have tried Ultra-aged stake and burger here both were very delicious and juicy. We had asked for older stakes and we got 140 days. Highly recommended the Burger if you’re a fan of traditional burger.

The cocktails were excellent and overall the food was pretty good with the standout dish being the blistered provoleta cheese with chimichurri. My wife really enjoyed her steak as it was cooked perfectly rare for her. My pork steak was just okay. The fires were super fresh and seasoned well. We ... had an unfortunate misunderstanding with our server that really threw a wrench in the enjoyment but the restaurant cleared up the confusion afterwards. I will also add that the chair I sat in was easily the most uncomfortable chair I have experienced at any restaurant. Overall a decent experience but not a destination I would purposefully seek out in the future. Read more