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Cat and Fiddle

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Cat and Fiddle, bar in Coquitlam River, Port Coquitlam BC

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About Cat and Fiddle

Drinking room on 1979 Brown Street, neighbourhood-scaled and independently run.

Not every pub needs a story behind its name, but the Cat and Fiddle comes with one ready made, borrowed from the nursery rhyme most locals learned as children. The room sits at 1979 Brown Street in Port Coquitlam, running at neighbourhood scale and independently owned, the kind of establishment that measures its success in familiar faces rather than in head counts. Independent drinking rooms of this sort have long anchored the quieter corners of PoCo's commercial streets, and the sign out front becomes one of the small landmarks neighbours use for directions.

The role of a local pub is easy to underestimate until one closes. They are where coworkers drift after a shift, where a weekend afternoon can be spent over a glass and a long conversation, and where a big match on the screen draws a crowd that could just as easily have gathered in someone's living room. Railway towns have always kept room for a place where the day's work can be talked through, and PoCo is no exception. The independents bring their own character to the job: a house way of doing things, a bar staff that learns the regular orders, and a feel that no corporate template can copy. In a city that grew up around a railway roundhouse, a plain, well-run room fits the grain of the place.

Cat and Fiddle, bar in Coquitlam River, Port Coquitlam BC
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A phone number and a website are both listed for the Cat and Fiddle, which makes a first visit easy to plan. Phoning ahead is a sensible way to confirm hours, to ask what is on tap, and to find out whether the kitchen is serving or the room is pouring only. The website may also show upcoming events or specials worth timing a visit around. For anyone new to the street, an evening at the bar doubles as a low-key introduction to the people who live on it. First impressions form quickly at a bar, and a single friendly evening is usually enough to know whether the room suits the household.

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1979 Brown Street Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 1N1

In the Coquitlam River neighbourhood of Port Coquitlam.

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