Modern Cafe

Historic restaurant, lounge and café on Commercial Street in downtown Nanaimo serving lunch, dinner, brunch and drinks.

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About

The Modern Cafe is a long-standing restaurant, lounge and café on Commercial Street in the heart of downtown Nanaimo. Its menus cover lunch, dinner, weekend brunch and drinks, and in good weather there is patio seating right on Commercial Street.

The restaurant also offers private catering, and tables can be booked through its reservations page.

It opens at 11 am Monday to Saturday and at 10 am on Sunday, staying open until 11 pm early in the week and on Sunday and until midnight Thursday to Saturday. It may close on some holidays.

For general questions call 250-754-5022; catering enquiries go to the catering email.

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