Ed Spot #2: The Billiard Club
"Live, lounge and play" at one of Whyte's most relaxed highlights BY EMIL TIEDEMANN In the heart of the heart of Edmonton--the marvellously concentrated Whyte Ave.--is The Billiard Club , a lounge-slash-pool hall-slash-cafè situated on the second floor of Old Strathcona 's historic (& retired) Post Office building (est. 1912). You can't miss it...it's the only clock tower on the legendary avenue. When you first walk into the doors of the 97-year-old structure you have the choice of continuing into Chianti's (Italian) Cafè & Restaurant, or detouring upstairs into our feature spot, which has been operating there for more than a decade now. Darkened hardwood floors and unpolished brick walls welcome you into the spacious quarters, which is actually separated (by curtains) into two areas, and topped off with a back-view patio. A friend and I each ordered a highball ($5.50) at the double back-to-back bar before making our way to one of the tables near ...