Set the Scene
Vancouver isn’t a late-night city. You’re more likely to find Vancouverites jogging along the waterfront Seawall pathway at 7 a.m. than nursing a cocktail after midnight. But at June on Cambie, which opened in 2025 in the Cambie Village neighborhood south of downtown, the merrymaking continues into the wee hours.
Designed like a stylish supper club, with copper tables, moody coppery lighting, and a long bar highlighting its extensive spirit list, June is a cocktail bar first, humming with conversation and music night after night. Co-owners Cam Watt and Keenan Hood have earned their lounge life chops, running The Keefer Bar in Vancouver’s Chinatown for more than a decade. But at June, with small bites like fresh oysters or truffle eggs and heartier plates like steak frites, the French-inspired brasserie-style cuisine stands up to the creative drinks.
Downstairs, in the 35-seat subterranean cocktail bar, dubbed Lala, rotating DJs spin vinyl nightly, and you can order from an edited snack-centered menu. In both the main dining room and at Lala, happy hour is a late-night offering, starting at 10 p.m. weekdays and at 11 on weekends.
What’s the Food Like
Head chef Connor Sperling and his team have created a menu that offers the comfort of French classics with a substantial scoop of invention, starting with sharing plates like hamachi crudo with elderflower ponzu sauce, crab dip paired with spiced madeleines, or the B.C. uni toast – briny fresh sea urchin layered with brown butter bacon and puréed egg yolk, served on crunchy grilled bread.
Among the larger dishes, sweet-tart lemon brightens the roasted Hokkaido scallops, while carnivores can dig into the June Burger or choose from several steaks. Chef Sperling created his signature dish, “Pasta for Rachel,” for his wife; this sheet of fresh pasta is filled with locally sourced potatoes and aged Comté cheese, served uncut, its rich sauce a blend of Pinot Gris and beurre d’Isigny, a butter from Normandy.
Let’s Talk About the Drinks
Bar manager Satoshi Yonemori infuses his cocktails with flavors of his Japanese heritage. The Soba Spritz blends buckwheat Aperol, sparkling wine, and soda; the Genmaicha Clover Club, a sweet-tart gin cocktail, is balanced with grappa and roasted green tea; and the Noisette Manhattan, made with brown-butter Suntory Toki Whiskey, is garnished with a chewy champagne “gomme.” There’s a lengthy list of spirits from around the world, including more than two dozen Japanese whiskeys and even more varieties of tequila, rum, gin, and Scotch. If you’ve been wanting to try Yellow Crane Baijiu, Larusee Pastis, or Bunnahabhain 18, June can make your boozy wishes come true.
Final Thoughts
You don’t have to stay up late to enjoy the food and drink at June. A tough reservation, the tables are often filled from the time the doors open at 5 p.m. Yet if you do enjoy dining out well past sunset, grazing, sipping, and chatting with your crew, June and Lala may be your new BFFs.
Location: Cambie Village, Vancouver, British Columbia
Cuisine: West Coast meets France
Pricing: $$ (small plates CAD$12-30/US$9-22, larger plates CAD$26-68/US$19-50)
Takes Reservations: Yes – Resy, available 14 days in advance.
Our Favorite Dishes on the Menu: BC uni toast with bacon. Roasted Hokkaido scallops.
Hours: June is open from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, till 2 a.m. Friday & Saturday, with dinner till 9:30 p.m. and a smaller late-night menu available between 10 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. Lala is open from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Thursday through Sunday, till 2 a.m. Friday & Saturday.
Vancouver, Canada
