The best permanent menu items at Smiths Pub, R.I.P.

Smith’s, often stylized as Smiths, R.I.P., was a beloved basement pub located at 777 Courtney Street, a short walk from the Greater Victoria Public Library’s downtown branch. On Thursday, April 11, 2023, the bar closed suddenly, posting just a simple print-out on the front door: Smiths is Closed It’s been a great run, a very great run, and we’re so appreciative to all our staff, friends, customers and everyone that supported us over 17 years We didn’t want to go out like this, but things happen –Smiths. Yeah, all things come to an end. The Old Bailey Pub, once in the same space, also came to an end. It had its own good, long run. Smiths kept their sign behind the bar as a kind of omen. Now, the Smiths sign lives in the beer garden at Boomtown, another downtown space whose days are very likely numbered. If you’d never been to Smiths, you might not know the serpent-shape it took in the hotel-building it resided in: the guts of the main floor, east of a pool and parkade, and then…