Best for
- After-work Happy Hour with co-workers (Financial District is the obvious one)
- Weekend brunch with bottomless mimosas — book ahead
- Sports viewing on dozens of screens (Raptors / Leafs / Jays)
- Group bookings 6-20 — King West handles bigger parties more comfortably
- Date night on the King West patio in patio season
- A reliable pizza-and-beer end to a King West night out
Skip if
- You wanted independent or chef-driven dining
- You wanted no sports TVs (Financial District is wall-to-wall screens)
- You're a service stickler — both rooms get spotty at peak volume
- You wanted late-night past 1am at the Financial District location — go to King West (open until 2am Thu-Sat)
King Taps is the Fuller family's beer-and-pizza concept, the third leg of a Vancouver restaurant empire that also owns Earls, Cactus Club, and Joey. The original at 100 King West opened in 2017 as a two-storey Financial District room with 75 beer taps — now running 50+ on a weekly-rotating program — and the "King Taps" name is a tidy double-meaning: the address and the tap count. Locally sourced food, regional wines, famous pizzas, sticky chicken wings, burgers, a healthy-and-naughty brunch spread, and screens for whatever Toronto team is playing. It's been one of the most reliable downtown Happy Hours since it opened: $7 mimosas, $7 truffle fries, $8 gyoza, half-price wine bottles all day Tuesday.
The King West sister at 620 King W opened in early October 2024 — a 300+ seat sprawl under GM Asli Yigit, with a patio, weekend DJs, brunch at the same 10am-2pm window, and slightly later hours (until 2am Thu-Sat versus Financial District's 1am close). The two rooms run the same menu and the same Fuller-family operating standard. Bottom line: King Taps Financial District for after-work and Bay Street lunch, King Taps King West for date night, weekend brunch, group bookings, and patio season. Neither is going to surprise anyone who knows the Earls/Cactus playbook — it's the same operational discipline, repurposed for pizza and 50 drafts instead of premium-casual entrées and Margaritas.







