The Secret Entrance to The Artemis Whiskey Bar 🥃 No reservations

No reservations!!

Meet inside the book store!

Imagine, if you will: descending down a staircase in a dishevelled bookstore, past walls coated in amateurish graffiti.

At the bottom, you come to a jumble of shelves bearing more worn-looking paperbacks. Pull the right book off a shelf, and – like magic – a door swings open.

Like the Pevensie kids into the wardrobe, you duck into a secret and mystical place. Unlike Narnia, though, this wonderland happens to be stocked with 300 bottles of rare whiskey.

Welcome to Artemis, a whiskey and cocktail bar designed to be unlike any other watering hole in Victoria.

Hidden in a secret locale in the city’s downtown core, the speakeasy-style bar is a whiskey lover’s paradise but aims to appeal to anyone who loves a good cocktail (and a good story).

“We want to create a super-crazy experience — you’ll be talking about the cocktails, talking about the experience you had for months at a time,” says Patel Vaibhav, an engineer and professor by day who opened the bar as a passion project.

Before settling in Victoria, Patel globe-hopped extensively, developing a taste for whiskey and garnering inspiration for what would become Artemis.