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Meridian Arms Pub
About Meridian Arms Pub
Pub on Coast Meridian Road pouring draft beer, wine and classic pub fare in a casual room.
Pub rooms like this one earn their keep slowly, one regular at a time. The Meridian Arms Pub pours at 3261 Coast Meridian Road, on the Mary Hill side of Port Coquitlam, where the road carries both through traffic and locals heading home. Inside, the scale is the neighborhood kind: a bar, a handful of tables, televisions tuned to whatever the room agrees on, and a door that opens straight off the sidewalk. Rooms like this survive because they are useful. They host the team after a Sunday league game, the coworkers escaping an office day, the neighbors who have decided the kitchen is closed.
A local pub sits in a particular spot in a city like this one. Port Coquitlam is a railway town that grew up around the CPR roundhouse, and its drinking rooms have always been working rooms, places where the day gets unwound rather than performed. The Coquitlam River sits to the west, the Pitt River to the east, and on grey Pacific Northwest afternoons a warm room with the lights low is its own kind of civic infrastructure. Because national chains and franchises aren't part of the mix, an independent pub belongs here on its own terms. The selection behind the bar, the house rules, the feel of the place, all of it belongs to the people running it.
Before making a trip, it is worth checking what the room offers on any given night: kitchen service, a pool table, live sport on the screens. No phone number or website is included, so the reliable way to get those answers is at the door, or over the fence from someone who already has a stool. Coast Meridian Road is one of the main drags of the Mary Hill strip, and a stop here folds easily into an evening that started somewhere else. Ask what is fresh on tap; rooms like this usually keep one line that surprises.
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