Billy Miner
July 5th, 2010
A caesar at the Billy Miner Neighbourhood Pub in Maple Ridge.
Mihwa and I found ourselves in Maple Ridge on Sunday. We stumbled across the Billy Miner pub as we were driving around soaking up suburbia. It looked like a quaint little place and being hungry, we decided to go in and grab a bite to eat. The yocals stopped and looked at us like we had ‘city folk’ written across our foreheads.
They actually stopped drinking, turned and looked at us. Deciding that we were harmless, they returned to their Buds. The food was actually pretty good but we had to change tables to get away from the party.
I won’t get into some of the conversations we overhead but it was like being in 1977… Overall, it was a cool way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Looks delicious. Dad and I ran into same thing when we stopped for coffee in our old “small town” – the regulars were totally looking us over – we were looking, too and glad to get out:)
As a MapleRidgian yes, we can smell you city folk a mile away. The miner is a great place though, quaint and out of the way, but good atmosphere and friendly people. Unless you’re one of them city slickers though…